Note: Video is after the jump because even I peed a little and I’m exposed this this sort of thing everyday. Autonomous drones that can assemble themselves into a flying mothership. Crap.
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Uh-Oh: Autonomous Drone Bots Can Assemble Themselves Into A Hovering Death Copter
We’d heard a somewhat sketchy report from the New York Post yesterday that the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission were considering launching an antitrust inquiry into Apple and its various iPhone-related practices, and now it’s being confirmed by Reuters and the Wall Street Journal , who say the inquiry was triggered by complaints from Apple’s competitors and app developers — specifically Adobe, according to Bloomberg . The DOJ and FTC are currently deciding which agency will take the lead in any inquiry, but if and when it gets underway there are a few issues at play: the first is obviously Apple’s decision to block Flash and other middleware from app development, and the second is Apple’s new iAd platform, which comes with its own changes to the iPhone developer agreement that could potentially lock out third-party ad and analytics services like AdMob — itself under regulatory scrutiny due to the Google acquisition — and Flurry.
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Apple under preliminary antitrust investigation over iPhone, triggered by complaint from Adobe
It’d be pretty difficult for you to reach Engadget without having seen the EnergyStar logo on something along your way here.
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EnergyStar program certifies ‘gasoline-powered alarm,’ other imaginary abominations
Jonathan Trappe went and attached 55 industrial strength helium balloons to an office chair and took to the skies above North Carolina .
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Pfft, I Would’ve Gone Higher: Man Soars To 15,000ft In Balloon-Rigged Office Chair
Google’s plans to buy mobile phone marketing company Admob are looked at by the Federal Trade Commission.
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Google’s Admob plans scrutinised
The micro-blogging website Twitter says it is buying location tracking start-up Mixer Labs for an undisclosed sum.
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Twitter buys start-up Mixer Labs
Ten privacy groups in the US have filed a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission about Facebook’s new settings.
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