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How To

Fix the Internet’s Biggest Annoyances This Weekend

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Adam Dachis The internet is full of knowledge, but also full of annoyances. Nevertheless, with some clever tricks and helpful tools you can eliminate most of the bad stuff and retain the good. Get your internet experience in top form this weekend. Block or Ignore Ads While you can’t always block ads with one of our favorite browser extensions AdBlock Pluswithout causing issues on certain sites, you can find a number of…

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Apple Tablet Tech

Five Best iPad Keyboards

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Alan Henry The iPad is a great tablet for many things, but not all of us consider it a solid productivity tool. Nothing is further from the truth: you can get some real work done with the right tools, and a decent wireless keyboard or keyboard case can help. This week, we’re going to take a look at five of the best iPad keyboards, based on your nominations. Earlier in the week, we…

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Legal

Yahoo, Like Google, Demands Warrants for User E-Mail

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As reported on Wired. BY DAVID KRAVETS Photo: Courtesy of Yahoo   Yahoo demands probable-cause, court-issued warrants to divulge the content of messages inside its popular consumer e-mail brands — Yahoo and Ymail, the web giant said Friday. The Sunnyvale, California-based internet concern’s exclusive comments came two days after Google revealed to Wired that it demands probable-cause warrants to turn over consumer content stored in its popular Gmail and cloud-storage Google Drive services — despite the…

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Military

Not Even the Pentagon Bomb Squad Knows How Fast Insurgent IEDs Degrade

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As reported on Wired. BY SPENCER ACKERMAN Sailors react to a simulated improvised explosive device detonation during a San Diego training session, Oct. 28, 2011. Photo: Flickr/U.S. Navy   Like all wars, the war in Afghanistan must someday end. But the end of its signature weapon may not arrive on the same schedule. Insurgents’ homemade bombs, known as improvised explosive devices, look increasingly like a lasting fixture on the early-21st century battlefield. The Pentagon’s bomb squad warns…

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Entertainment

Exclusive Look: Amazing Movie Posters From Mondo’s New Gallery Show

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As reported on Wired. BY HUGH HART The Dark Knight Rises by Jock E.T. poster by Daa McCarthy Tron poster by Eric Tan Tron: Legacy poster by Eric Tan The Iron Giant poster by Evan Tong Evil Dead poster by Olly Moss Star Trek by Olly Moss Lord of the Rings poster by Mike Sutfin Lord of the Rings poster by Paolo Rivera Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan by We Buy Your Kids The Empire Strikes Back by Tyler Stout Close Encounters of the Third Kind by…

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Entertainment

Daft Punk reportedly signs with Columbia Records, new album expected this spring

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As reported on The Verge. By T.C. Sottek NME reports that French electronic music duo Daft Punk has left Virgin / EMI to sign with Sony’s Columbia Records, and that the group will release a new studio album this spring. Daft Punk’s last album, the soundtrack for Tron: Legacy, was released in 2010 — the new album slated for this year will be the group’s fourth studio album since its debut album Homework was released in 1997, and its first official release…

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Entertainment

A compilation of pictures hidden in music

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As reported on The Verge. By Adi Robertson Using programs and tutorials online, it’s not difficult to mathematically translate images into audio. When clever listeners use a spectrograph program or tool on the sound, it’ll then reappear as a monochrome image. So what do you do with that audio file? Mix it into a song, of course. Twisted Sifter has made a reasonably exhaustive collection of spectrograms that appear in songs, most famously the Aphex Twin track known as…

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Apple Business

Apple has a porn problem, and it’s about to get worse

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As reported on The Verge. By Joshua Topolsky Adult content in Vine and Twitter apps raises questions only Cupertino can answer On Sunday, a number of news outlets ran stories covering the rise of easily-accessible pornography on the new video sharing app Vine, causing a firestorm of debate online. The New York Times’ Nick Bilton tweeted that pornographic material was discoverable thanks to simple hashtags such as #porn.   VINE DOESN’T HAVE A PORN PROBLEM — APPLE HAS A POLICY PROBLEM But the truth…

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Mobile

Backed Or Whacked: Smartphones That Light Up Your Life

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ROSS RUBIN Editor’s note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive. Each column will look at crowdfunded products that have either met or missed their funding goals. Follow him on Twitter @rossrubin. Last week’s Backed or Whacked focused on devices that can remotely provide input to smartphones; this week, we venture beyond the bounds of simple information retrieval and toward illuminated products that can actually be controlled by one’s pocket companion, particularly in the…

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Article

Marc Andreessen On The Future Of Enterprise

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEXIA TSOTSIS In doing research for a post on “The Enterprise Cool Kids” at the tail end of last year, I interviewed Silicon Valley veteran Marc Andreessen about where he thought the enterprise was headed. While excerpts of that interview made it into the post, the transcript of the entire interview was so good it deserved to be published in its entirety. ************************ Alexia Tsotsis: Since people like me (millennials) are putting pressure on our…

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