Day: July 17, 2013

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Great White Sharks Feast at the Seal Buffet Before Heading Out to Sea

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As reported on Wired. BY JOE HANSON Juvenile great white shark on exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Credit: Monterey Bay Aquarium/Randy Wilder   Before hitting the road for a long drive, it’s a good idea to fill up the gas tank. Before great white sharks set out on their great migrations, they do the same. Only instead of unleaded, they fuel up on fat, young seals. Using satellite data from tagged great white sharks, scientists determined…

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Microsoft Asks Attorney General To Release Gag Order On NSA Spying

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN Microsoft is tired of getting pummeled in the press over reports that it hands over emails and Skype conversations to the National Security Agency. Unfortunately, the federal gag order related to the NSA is so strict that companies can’t even talk about the existence of the program. Today, Microsoft begged issued a strongly worded letter to Attorney General Eric Holder to release the gag order so that that they can dispel rumors. “I’m…

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Google Opens The New Google Maps For Web To Everyone

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREG KUMPARAK Remember that shiny new Maps web interface that Google started showing off at I/O back in May? It’s here! Technically, the new Maps interface has actually been here for a while… assuming you signed up for an invite shortly after it was announced and were able to make it through Google’s invite queue before they opened the floodgates today. (I signed up a few hours after the announcement and just…

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Apple patent hints at possibility of Liquidmetal iPhone and iPad

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As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr For all its tough chemical properties and unusual capacity for intricate molding,Liquidmetal apparently still can’t be turned into anything much bigger than Apple’sSIM ejector tool or, perhaps, the chess pieces rendered above (for illustrative purposes only!). Attempts to use so-called “metallic glass” to manufacture larger objects, like the bodies of phones or tablets, have been hampered by difficulties in creating large sheets of controllable thickness, because stretching and other traditional techniques…

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Google Maps 2.0 for iOS starts rolling out with iPad support, indoor maps (update: offline maps too) Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas The revamped Google Maps design reached Android last week; now, it’s iOS’ turn. Google Maps 2.0 is gradually rolling out worldwide for Apple’s platform, and it’s bringing the Android version’s discovery and exploration components as well as some new-to-iOS features. Long-anticipated iPad support is the highlight, although there’s also indoor navigation, live traffic updates and incident reports. Maps 2.0 hasn’t hit the US just yet, although it should be available shortly. Update: It looks like it’s…

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