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Burning Man Founder Is Cool With Capitalism, And Silicon Valley Billionaires

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN “We’re not building a Marxist society,” jokes Burning Man Founder Larry Harvey in response to a series of recent stories detailing the annual festival’s multi-million-dollar balance sheet and its buddy-buddy relationship with Silicon Valley billionaires. More seriously, he says, “you can make a lot of money and do good with it. Elon Musk has made a lot of money.” Musk and his elite brethren have become part of the changing face of the week-long…

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Alleged iPad 5 Case Parts Leak In Video, Show Much Smaller Device Footprint Vs. Current Retina iPad

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON Apple’s supposed next-generation iPad case components are on display in a new high-definition video from Unbox Therapy, showing a design that is clearly inspired by the iPad mini. This agrees with what we’ve heard and seen from previous leaks, but until now it’s been hard to get a solid grasp on just how dramatic the difference is between the current iPad and the one that’s said to be arriving in October…

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HDMI 2.0 officially announced: 18Gbps bandwidth, 60fps 4K, 32 channel audio

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As reported on Engadget. By Richard Lawler Only just after it leaked out, the folks at HDMI Licensing are announcing HDMI 2.0 officially. Arriving just in time for the wide rollout of a new generation of Ultra HDTVs, it adds a few key capabilities to the connection standard. With a bandwidth capacity of up to 18Gbps, it has enough room to carry 3,840 x 2,160 resolution video at up to 60fps. It also has support for up to 32…

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Business Mobile

Panasonic officially quits the consumer smartphone business, president says mobile performance was ‘unacceptable’

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As reported on Engadget. By Mat Smith As reported in the Nikkei, Panasonic will today pull out of smartphone market in Japan, and change to outsourced production (offering its brand to other manufacturers) in emerging markets like India. Company president, Kazuhiro Tsuga, has set strict guidelines to turnaround the company, threatening any division that missed a 5 percent operating margin goal within three years. The mobile arm is forecast to lose more than 1.1 billion yen ($11 million)…

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Awe-Inspiring Photos of Swirling Superstorms Belie Their Destructive Power

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As reported on Wired. BY JAKOB SCHILLER Kansas, 2009 South Dakota, 2010 Wyoming, 2010 Oklahoma, 2009 North Dakota, 2011 Wyoming, 2009 New Mexico, 2010 Wyoming, 2009 Texas, 2009 South Dakota, 2011 Minnesota, 2010 Colorado, 2010 View as gallery   Supercell thunderstorms are characterized by a cycling, cylindrical vortex of air that moves upward off the ground, which is also known as a mesocyclone. Not only does it sound badass, but it produces some of the most…

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Research, no motion: How the BlackBerry CEOs lost an empire

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As reported on The Verge. By Jesse Hicks Research In Motion, whose BlackBerry phones pioneered wireless email, no longer holds the commanding heights in the smartphone market. With Android, iOS, and even Windows Phone gaining market share, the Waterloo, Ontario, company finds itself in a battle for relevancy. The past year has been especially hard on the once-innovative RIM, but it may be at a turning point. Or the beginning of the end. Last April, Mike…

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Microsoft

You Can Bet On Who Will Be Microsoft’s Next CEO (Marissa Mayer Pays Out 33 To 1)

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILHELM A betting service has compiled a list of potential candidates for Microsoft’s soon-to-be-vacant CEO role that you can wager on. It’s a partially serious, partially silly list. Microsoft COO Kevin Turner as CEO? Perhaps. Apple CEO Tim Cook as the new Microsoft boss? Probably not. But Turner pays out but 6 to 1 while Cook is a 100 to 1 longshot, so place your bets accordingly. In the thinking of betting…

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Hands On With The Seven Best Fantasy Football Sites And Apps

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As reported on TechCrunch. by BILLY GALLAGHER With the NFL season just a week away, fans are poring over stats, trash talking their friends, and gearing up for the real season: fantasy football. The national phenomenon has spawned five seasons of a TV show, The League, has NFL teams refitting their stadiums so that fans can track their teams more closely, and costs businesses billions of dollars a year due to distracted employees. So, easily distracted employees, here…

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Pressy: the one-button Android controller so cool it was Kickstarted in under a day

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As reported on Engadget. By Timothy J. Seppala If Kickstarter had a 24-hour funders club, Pebble and the Bolex Camera would be welcoming Pressy today. In under a day, the multifunction Android controller has more than doubled its $40,000 goal (raising $108,435 from 4,889 backers as of this writing) and with 45 days left to go, the numbers keep climbing. Perhaps its simplicity is what’s making it such a hit. Pressy plugs into any Android device’s headphone port (Gingerbread and above), and…

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Incredible paintings of sci-fi suburbia will make you wish you were Swedish

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As reported on The Verge. By Dante D’Orazio Welcome to rural Sweden, sometime in the late ’80s. Citizens go about their mundane lives and children explore the countryside. But something isn’t quite right. Robots and hovercrafts are commonplace, and decaying science facilities sprout from the harsh Scandinavian landscape. There’s even a rumor circulating that dinosaurs have returned from the dead after some failed experiment. This is the world that exists in artist Simon Stålenhag’s mind, and…

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