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Building Digital Literacy: JobScout Brings Its Online Learning Platform To iOS To Teach You How To Find A Job

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As reported on TechCrunch. by RIP EMPSON It’s easy to get lost in the Silicon Valley and Bay Area tech bubbles, where it seems that everyone carries five phones, owns three laptops and just had lunch with a sentient robot. But, the reality is outside of the bubble is a little different. Digital literacy is a privilege, and more the exception than the rule. Not everyone owns a computer or is employed at a startup that…

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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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9to5Mac: Apple preparing another 4th gen iPad SKU, signs point to 128GB model

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As reported on Engadget. By Sean Buckley Still waiting for a 128GB iPad? One could come sooner than you think. According to9to5Mac, Cupertino is preparing to add a new SKU to its fourth-generation tablet line up, slotting next to the existing 16GB, 32GB and 64GB configurations as a premium model. A source at a well known US retailer shared the devices’ SKU information with the outlet, marked up with internal Apple terminology that described both WiFi-only and cellular-capable slates…

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Lenovo debunks RIM deal rumors, says CFO was just chatting Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Jamie Rigg Lenovo turned a few heads last week when its CFO mentioned RIM as a possible acquisition target or partner, and with many eyes peering in its direction, the company’s felt the need to clarify its relationship with the BlackBerry maker. An English-language statement — courtesy of The Next Web — says Wong Wai Ming was “speaking broadly about M&A strategy,” and only included RIM in this comment as the interviewer asked about Lenovo’s…

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Cellphone Chips Will Remake the Server World. Period.

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As reported on Wired. BY CADE METZ Facebook’s Frank Frankovsky. Photo: Wired/Bryan Frank   Facebook recently ran an experiment. Inside a test lab, somewhere behind the scenes at the world’s most popular network, engineers sidled up to a computer server loaded with software that typically drives the Facebook website and started messing with the CPU. Every processor includes something called a cache — a place to temporarily store data without sending it all the way back to…

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Microsoft posts $21.46 billion revenue for Q2 2013, Windows division up despite PC decline

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As reported on The Verge. By Tom Warren Microsoft’s Q2 2013 earnings report is in, and the company is announcing revenue of $21.46 billion — just a 2.7 percent increase from the same period last year. Earnings per share for the quarter were $0.76 and Microsoft recorded $6.38 billion net income. While PC sales are slowing down, Microsoft’s Windows division posted revenue of $5.88 billion, a 24 percent increase from the prior year thanks to the…

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Another Potential Suitor For RIM As Lenovo Ponders An Acquisition

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As reported on TechCrunch. by CATHERINE SHU Research In Motion is once again the target of a rumored acquisition. Lenovo’s CFO Wang Wai Ming said in an interview with Bloomberg at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos that the Beijing company is eying the BlackBerry maker as a potential acquisition target or strategic alliance partner. The news comes less than a week after RIM CEO Thorsten Heins told German newspaper Die Welt that RIM is still undergoing a strategic…

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“League Of Legends,” The Most-Played PC Game In The World, Runs On The Same Open Hardware As Facebook

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILLIAMS League of Legends is the most-played, multi-player PC game in the world, with gamers logging nearly 1.3 billion hours of play time. The Riot Games title has more hours logged than World of Warcraft and Minecraft. With that kind of scale, Riot Games faced some challenges that any company experiences when they have that kind of load in its data center. Electricity costs, server capacity and a host of other issues emerged. Riot Games saw in…

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Amazon’s Cloud Drive Photos for Android gets auto-save feature, additional functionality Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Edgar Alvarez Despite being a little too busy scooping up companies and striking new streaming deals, Amazon hasn’t exactly been overlooking its set of mobile and desktop applications. Most recently, the online retail behemoth announced a refresh was on hand for Cloud Drive Photos on Android, providing users of said app with an auto-save option that, as you likely guessed, allows pics to be automatically uploaded to ones cloud account — this, according to Amazon, was “the most…

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THQ dissolved, studios sold off, CEO announces in letter to staff

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As reported on Polygon. By BRIAN CRECENTE THQ will be broken apart, its games sold off to at least five different publishers, according to a letter sent to employees today from Brian Farrell, THQ CEO, and Jason Rubin, the company’s president. In a hearing in open court today, lawyers for those involved presented the seven sales to five publishers to U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Mary F. Walrath. The hearing ending without a final decision, but it…

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