Day: February 6, 2014

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Steve Wozniak: Apple Should Make an Android Phone

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As reported on Wired. BY MAT HONAN Steve Wozniak. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/WIRED   At the Apps World North America conference in San Francisco, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak gave WIRED a wide-ranging interview, touching on everything from his preferred iPhone 5s color (he has all three) to the fictional operating system in the movie Her. But his most interesting comment by far was a heretical recommendation for his former company: Apple, he thinks, should release an Android handset. “There’s nothing…

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History

Tunnel vision: how an obsessed explorer found and lost the world’s oldest subway

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As reported on The Verge. By Adrianne Jeffries New York City has sealed up a 169-year-old landmark, but the man who discovered it wants back inside The old tunnel, that used to lie there under ground, a passage of Acheron-like solemnity and darkness, now all closed and filled up, and soon to be utterly forgotten, with all its reminiscences. — Walt Whitman, writing about the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel in 1861     Bob Diamond had been…

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DevArt: Google’s ambitious project to program a new generation of artists

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As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris You could be the star of a major new exhibition Your work could be at the heart of one of the largest digital art exhibitions the world has ever seen, thanks to a collaboration between London’s Barbican Centre and Google. The exhibition is called Digital Revolution, and from July 3rd to September 14th it will explore the impact of technology on art over the past 40 years. It will…

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Automotive

Your car’s computer system can be hacked with off-the-shelf parts

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As reported on Engadget. BY SEAN BUCKLEY You probably don’t spend much time thinking about the computer in your car, but a pair of Spanish security researchers sure do. In preparation for next month’s Black HatAsia security conference in Singapore, Javier Vazquez-Vidal and Alberto Garcia Illera have assembled a small electronic device that can leave a vehicle’s computer system open to attack. “It can take five minutes or less to hook up and then walk away,” Vidal…

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Sony sells its VAIO PC business, is splitting TV arm into a separate company

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As reported on Engadget. BY MAT SMITH Sony said it was “addressing various options” as recently as yesterday when it came to its VAIO PC and laptop arm, and while announcing its financial results for Q3 2013, it’s apparently come to a decision. Amid reforming its TV arm (and splitting it into a standalone entity by June 2014), it’s going to sell its PC business and VAIO brand to Japan Industrial Partners (JIP), with the final…

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