Day: June 4, 2013

Google

Google Glass’s first porn app pulled hours after release

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As reported on The Verge. By Jeff Blagdon   Glass got its very first porn app today, but just a few hours after its launch, the service has already been pulled from Google’s Glassware hub. The app is called Tits and Glass, and had been highly anticipated since news of its development hit last month. But Friday’s quiet revisions to Google’s Platform Developer Policies banning explicit material meant that the app, produced by adult publisher MiKandi, wasn’t long for the…

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Article

After Your Job Is Gone

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JON EVANS Do you have a job? Do you like having a job? Then I have some bad news for you. The Guardian is worried “today’s technologies are going to remove people from economic activity completely.” Techonomy says “America’s real worker crisis is not immigration, it is jobs.” Om Malik asks: “People talk about robot-helpers and an army of drones, but…what is going to happen to millions of people who will be replaced by those drones and…

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Microsoft

Microsoft, Stop Trying To Make Windows RT Happen

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As reported on TechCrunch. by MATT BURNS Bloomberg is reporting this morning that Microsoft is cutting the price of Windows RT for small tablets in a seemingly desperate bid to spur sales. It’s a rather predictable move and a touch sad. Tablets based on Windows RT, an operating system that’s pure garbage, are not selling, because, referring to my first point, Windows RT is trash. And since they’re not selling, Microsoft is making concessions and that means cutting…

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Google

Julian Assange Unmasks Eric Schmidt’s Evil Plans To Enslave The World

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN The following is my fictionalized story based on a stranger-than-fiction, real life op-ed by Julian Assange, wherein he accuses Google of conspiring with the State Department to dominate the world.  Assange’s quotes are real. “General Schmidt, Julian is on to us,” said President Obama, as he sauntered through the steel doors of the Google Bunker, Secret Service in tow. The President wore his mandatory “I’m A Googler” t-shirt over his dress…

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Business Hardware Dev

Dell unveils Haswell-powered laptops and desktops for professionals (video)

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As reported on Engadget. By Daniel Cooper Between Computex and the launch of Intel’s fourth generation Core Haswellprocessors, June’s shaping up to be a big month for the PC industry. Fresh from letting us play with its new folding hybrid, Dell is whipping out new OptiPlex 9020 and XE2 desktops, an OptiPlex All-In-One and the Latitude E6540 business laptop. Given that they’re Dell machines, customization options will be limitless when they arrive in the forthcoming weeks, backed by all of…

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