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Application Story

The App Is Not Enough: Why We Might See More Companies Try Mobile Land Grabs After Facebook Home

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON An app on a smartphone is a limited vessel, one that can provide content and information for your audience, but within bounds set out by the operating system. People still have to navigate to your app, and therefore there’s a time when they’re “in” your product or service, and a time when they’re “out” of said product or service. Facebook clearly demonstrated last week that it wants to own that…

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The Power And Weakness That Come With Being The Default

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DREW OLANOFF Facebook had its big coming-out party for mobile on Wednesday, and its Home launcher will soon start shipping exclusively on an HTC device. This is the social network’s first crack at being the default experience on any device. Until now, using Facebook has been a completely optional and background experience, meaning you’d have to visit its website or download one of its apps. After nine years, that approach worked rather well, to…

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Culture Economy Story Trends

The Other Silicon Valley That The Tech Industry Is Leaving Behind [Video]

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As reported on TechCrunch. by COLLEEN TAYLOR On Friday, veteran journalist Bill Moyers did a segment on Silicon Valley that gives a very different perspective than we get from most mainstream media coverage of the world-renowned tech industry hub, and it’s been fueling some good conversations this weekend. Called “Homeless in High Tech’s Shadow,” it’s a very interesting look at the growing homeless problem in the South Bay of San Francisco that’s happening in stark contrast to the growing wealth in…

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Politics Story

‘Russian Banksy’ Pasha P183 Dies Aged 29

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by The Telegraph AP A graffiti with a sign reading “Give to get a ticket home” made by Russian street artist Pasha P183 in a street in Moscow, Russia A prominent Russian graffiti artist who hid his identity behind the tag Pasha P183 and has been compared to Britain’s Banksy has died aged just 29.  The Teatralnoye Delo theatrical production company, which recently commissioned him to create scenery for the musical Todd,…

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Entertainment Military Story

Inside the War Machine: New Documentary Maps an Epic Photo Career

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As reported on Wired. BY JAKOB SCHILLER Tim Hetherington. Photo: Courtesy of HBO   Tim Hetherington is trying to explain why he documents war. He launches into a cliché about violence and the “human experience” but quickly stops, laughs and says, “No, that sounds too fucking bullshit.” It’s the opening scene from HBO’s new documentary about Hetherington called Which Way Is the Front Line From Here? The Life and Times of Tim Hetherington. The film, which airs April…

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Apple Story Trends

Apple Ramping Up Production For Next iPhone Beginning In Q2, WSJ Reports

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON Apple is looking to start production of a new iPhone of “similar” design to the current one during the second quarter of 2013, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. The production ramp-up is designed to set the stage for a summer launch of a new flagship iPhone, the report claims, which agrees with information we’ve heard from our own sources recently. John reported last Thursday that Apple’s…

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Cloud Hardware Dev Story Tech

IBM Roadrunner retires from the supercomputer race

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas For all the money and effort poured into supercomputers, their lifespans can be brutally short. See IBM’s Roadrunner as a textbook example: the 116,640-core cluster was smashing records just five years ago, and yet it’s already considered so behind the times that Los Alamos National Laboratory is taking it out of action today. Don’t mourn too much for the one-time legend, however. The blend of Opteron andCell processors proved instrumental to understanding energy flow in weapons while…

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Scary Video Shows American Fans Getting Pelted With Projectiles At The USA-Mexico Soccer Game

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Tony Manfred The US tied Mexico 0-0 at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City last night. It was only the second time the US team won a point in the notoriously hostile Azteca, and Mexico was rightfully upset about it. Some brave (crazy?) American fans trekked to Mexico City to watch the game. They sat in a section guarded by riot police, but that didn’t stop Mexican fans from lobbing beer…

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Microsoft Story Tech

Windows Blue: a video preview of what’s next for Windows 8

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As reported on The Verge. By Tom Warren Windows Blue made an early appearance on the internet over the weekend and we’ve had a chance to experience some of its new features. The upgrade to Windows 8 looks like it’s going to bring a host of improvements, fixes, and some new built-in apps too, but the biggest changes are on the UI side. Microsoft now supports smaller Live Tiles and the company is changing the way you arrange…

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Military Politics Story

I Tried to Make the Intelligence Behind the Iraq War Less Bogus

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As reported on Wired. BY NADA BAKOS U.S. Army 1st Sgt. Shane Chapman yells for a medic after a car bomb explodes in Mosul, Iraq, March 2008. Photo: U.S. Army   Ten years ago this week, the U.S. invaded Iraq, citing intelligence that turned out to be bogus. I had to work on some of it — and I also had to work on keeping the really, really terrible versions of it out of our analysis. Specifically, I…

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