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Politics

These Photos Show Just How Massive The Protests In Egypt Have Become

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by PAUL SZOLDRA AND MICHAEL KELLEY Massive protests have swept across Egypt once more, and this time they are even larger than the Arab Spring protests that ousted Hosni Mubarak in 2011. A military source told AFP that “millions” of protesters took to the streets. “It is the biggest protest in Egypt’s history.” Their anger is now directed at President Mohamed Morsi, whom many believe has lost his legitimacy after becoming the country’s first democratically elected president. There are also…

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NSA spies on Germany as much as it does China and Saudi Arabia: Der Spiegel

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As reported on The Verge. By Jeff Blagdon Since details of the NSA’s massive phone and internet spying programs first came to light, America’s allies in the EU have been demanding for Washington to explain what it’s doing with Europeans’ data. Now, a new report from German news weekly Der Spiegel provides some more insight into the size of Washington’s telecommunications dragnet, claiming that US intelligence compiles metadata on half a billion German data connections (including phone calls, emails,…

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From Independence Day to Parks and Rec: The Best Patriotic Picks for the 4th of July

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As reported on Wired. BY WIRED STAFF With the Fourth of July right around the corner, we’ve has been pondering our favorite patriotic media. Not just the movies that offer the most jingoism or flag-waving, mind you, but the movies, TV shows, comics and books that best celebrate, critique or embody the issue of American identity. If you’re looking for something to read or watch over the upcoming holiday, we offer these humble suggestions for exploring,…

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Mobile

ZTE Open, the first Firefox OS phone for consumers, launches tomorrow for $90

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As reported on Engadget. By Stefan Constantinescu When Mozilla said devices running Firefox OS would be cheap, we didn’t know they’d be this cheap. Telefónica has just tweeted that the ZTE Open will be launching in Spain tomorrow for €69, which translates to around $90 and is a good $30 less than the cheapest developer unit we’d seen until now. And here’s where it gets pretty wild: that price includes €30 ($39) of airtime for prepaid customers. When we played with the…

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Mobile

Samsung Galaxy S4 Active review: a top-tier phone in a water-resistant package

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As reported on Engadget. By Sarah Silbert After Samsung’s latest product push in London, we have nothing short of a Galaxy S 4 franchise on our hands. While the company unveiled its expected Mini version along with a photography-focused variant, it also took a step in the rugged-device direction by announcing the Galaxy S4 Active. With IP67 water and dust protection, the phone promises to see you through 30 minutes of aquatic activity at a time. Ruggedness aside, though, this…

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Google

Google’s Quantum Computer Proven To Be Real Thing (Almost)

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As reported on Wired. BY CADE METZ The D-Wave computer housed at the USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center in Marina del Rey, California.Photo: Mae Ryan/Wired   Google bought one. So did Lockheed Martin, one of the world’s largest defense contractors. But we still can’t agree on what it is they bought. D-Wave, the company that built the thing, calls it the world’s first quantum computer, a seminal creation that foretells the future of mathematical calculation. But many of…

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LinkedIn Gets A Little More Watchful, Now Tells You Who’s Viewed Your Updates, And Where You’ve Been Looking

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As reported on TechCrunch. by INGRID LUNDEN LinkedIn, the social network used by people for job hunting and making other business connections, is adding two more enhancements to its homepage that highlight one of its more unnerving, but occasionally useful, elements: how it tracks what people visit on the site and then reports on that activity. From today, it will start showing users who has viewed not just their overall profiles, but also their updates on…

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BB10 fails to turn a profit for BlackBerry in first full quarter of availability

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As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris After two quarters of meager profits, BlackBerry has posted its Q1 2014 results (for the three-month period ending June 1st 2013), revealing an $84 million loss from $3.1 billion revenue. Compared to last quarter, when the Canadian manufacturer made $94 million from $2.7 billion, the revenue results are fairly positive, although Wall Street hoped to see $3.3 billion.   With smartphone shipments, BlackBerry’s position strengthened for the first time in a…

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Mobile

Android 4.3 spotted on Samsung Galaxy S 4, available to test now

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As reported on Engadget. By Mat Smith A new version of Android (4.3, and still called Jelly Bean) is already doing the testing rounds on Samsung’s Galaxy S 4 and thanks to some porting work from SAMMobile, it’s apparently working on both the Google Play and original iterations. We’ve caught a glance of Android 4.3 on LG’s Nexus 4 already, but we’re now getting a second look at a refreshed camera interface, some minor design tweaks (like more…

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Microsoft

Windows 8.1 RT looks just like regular Windows 8.1, performance hasn’t changed

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As reported on Engadget. By Dana Wollman When we got hands-on with the Windows 8.1 preview earlier this week, it was on aSurface Pro — i.e., an x86 system running full Windows. Until today, though, we hadn’t had a chance to try the software on a device running Windows RT. Well, fortunately for us, Microsoft has a row full of freshly updated Surface RT units on display here at Build, so we took the opportunity poke around a little. As…

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