Day: January 14, 2013

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Ex-Microsoft Execs Explain Why They’re Using iPhones Now

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Megan Rose Dickey In light of the news that former Windows head Steven Sinofsky uses an iPhone, Spark Capital partner Bijan Sabet wrote a post asking why former Microsoft employees end up using products from other companies.  Sabet noted how some might say Sinofsky is using the iPhone to evaluate the competition. Well, that’s exactly the case, Sinofsky wrote in the comments. “I have owned every iphone released (and every ipad and galaxy and kindle),” Sinofsky writes. “It is far…

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Story Travel Trends

Plan Some Travel on the Cheap This Weekend

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Adam Dachis It’s a new year for making new travel plans, but preferably without spending an arm and a leg. We’ve looked at numerous ways to save on travel costs. Set aside some time this weekend, review a few tips, and put together a great trip on the cheap. Save on Airfare and Lodging   Full size There are many ways to save on traveling,organizing a travel group to volunteering to sibuying your ticket…

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Art Entertainment

Broken Skateboards Become Stunning Wooden Sculptures

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As reported on Wired. BY MIKE SENESE View as gallery   Self-taught sculpture artist Haroshi uses the discarded leftovers of broken skateboards to create striking wooden creations. The 35-year-old Tokyo resident, who prefers to not use his full name, began skating at age 15 in Kanagawa, amassing a growing stack of broken decks and parts. Ten years later, his collection overflowing, a friend suggested he find a way to do something with them. Cutting into one…

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Government Hacking

The FBI Needs Hackers, Not Backdoors

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As reported on Wired. BY MATT BLAZE AND SUSAN LANDAU Photo: dustball / Flickr   Just imagine if all the applications and services you saw or heard about at CES last week had to be designed to be “wiretap ready” before they could be offered on the market. Before regular people like you or me could use them. Yet that’s a real possibility. For the last few years, the FBI’s been warning that its surveillance capabilities are “going dark,” because internet…

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How a 40-Year-Old Skater Is Bringing the Punk Credo to Digital Music

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As reported on Wired. BY BRIAN RAFTERY Forty-year-old skater Ian Rogers has a message for the record labels: Get the fuck out of the way. Photo: Eric Ray Davidson It’s a cool, early spring night in Santa Monica, California, and Ian Rogers is sitting cross-legged on the floor of his house, a glass of red wine at his side, a Minor Threat record on the stereo. The lean-framed Rogers, a few months shy of 40, is dressed…

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In the Coming Age of the Connected Home, Your Phone Will Be a Magic Wand

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As reported on Wired. BY CHRISTINA BONNINGTON Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired   LAS VEGAS — Your smartphone is going domestic. In the age of the connected home, your mobile devices are becoming the central command, the brains, if you will, of the entire smarthome experience. It makes sense. Rather than remote controls with menus to memorize and knobs, dials and switches to manipulate, your smartphone or tablet becomes one remote to rule them all. You’ve always got…

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CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS DECLASSIFIED REVIEW: DISHONORABLE DISCHARGE

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As reported on Polygon. By Russ Frushtick Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified is the lowest point in the series’ history. A lot of elements work in Declassified‘s favor. More powerful hardware, solid online support and the inclusion of dual analog sticks should provide the opportunity for an easier transition to the portable space. But something has gone wrong in the process. Developed by the former Nihilistic Software (now rechristened nStigate), Black Ops Declassified attempts to fill in the blanks…

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America’s first bookless public library will look ‘like an Apple Store’

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As reported on The Verge. By Laura June Bexar County, Texas says that it will open the first 100 percent digital public library system in the country, unveiling plans for its first location this past week. The plan has been in the works for a while, headed up by Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, who says he was inspired to create a digitally native library while reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. “If you want to get…

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Local News

New York senator blames newspaper’s gun map for local burglary

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As reported on The Verge. By Amar Toor A Republican state senator from New York is blaming a controversial handgun map for the recent burglary of a gun owner’s residence in White Plains. According to Newsday, at least two burglars broke into the home on Saturday evening, as part of an effort to rob the owner’s gun safe. Local police say the were unable to open the safe, and that one of the suspects has already been taken into custody.…

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Microsoft’s partners fly the Windows 8 flag, but the future is Surface

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As reported on The Verge. By Tom Warren How long can the old guard shoulder the weight? Microsoft might not have been at CES this year, but its partners and OEMs were out in full force. A quiet showing from Redmond at a time when the company is trying to push Windows 8 to the world could be seen as an unusual move, but looking around the show this week it made a lot of sense.…

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