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Valentine's Day tech for your sweetie

You don't need to be a geek to appreciate these Valentine's Day tech gifts. Whether it's a USB-powered blanket to keep your loved one warm, headphones for sharing music as a couple, or a blingy new watch, each one says "I love you" in its own special way.

6 Feb 2012 at 4:29am

Watch OK Go let a car drive its latest viral hit

OK Go's latest calculated viral success is so neato-mosquito, you can easily forget you're being sold something, not just the band but a car.

6 Feb 2012 at 11:27am

Verizon to set up streaming service with Redbox Phone company Verizon Communications will challenge Netflix and start a video streaming service this year with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks.

6 Feb 2012 at 4:44pm

Windows 8 may bid farewell to the 'Start' button?

The next version of Microsoft?s PC operating system will be a radical change for people who pick it up for the first time, with a primary screen based on tiles similar to the Windows Phone interface ? relegating the old-fashioned-yet-familiar Windows desktop to a secondary status.

6 Feb 2012 at 11:18am

Love gone wrong? Go digital to get over an ex You thought you found your one true love online, but now you've been dumped by text or defriended on Facebook without a peep of explanation. Hours of bad TV in your bathrobe haven't helped. Your friends are tired of your whining.

6 Feb 2012 at 10:59am

Don't think pink when it comes to 'girl tech'

Some women like pink, but many don't care for that color when it comes to their personal gadgets, says a new study.

6 Feb 2012 at 10:34am

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Facebook takes a toll on your mental health By Stephanie PappasLiveScience Facebook's initial public offering of stock is likely to make a lot of developers and designers of the site very wealthy.

6 Feb 2012 at 3:39pm

Super Bowl breaks Twitter record (Sorry, Tebow!)

Poor Tim Tebow. The starting quarterback for the Denver Broncos set a a Twitter record in the beginning of January and it's already defeated ? by the Super Bowl. According to Twitter, Super Bowl XLVI is the most tweeted sporting event ever.

6 Feb 2012 at 6:37am

Pre-caffeine: Super hangovers, Internet crackdowns!

Infinite "viral videos"(aka commercials) crappin? up your Facebook walls this morning reveal Super Bowl?s true winner: Capitalism! USA! USA! Meanwhile, , Super Bowl XLVI is the most tweeted sporting event ever.

6 Feb 2012 at 8:21am

TechWeb

Action Abounds in Amazing Spider-Man Sneak Preview

by Hugh Hart
6 Feb 2012 at 4:26pm

Decipher Specs When Buying a Computer It's not hard to get tangled in technical jargon when buying a new PC, especially if it's your first. This guide was made to help you identify what you want without having to drag your token nerd friend along.

by How-To Wiki
6 Feb 2012 at 3:55pm

Best Buy Explains Its Leaked Apple HDTV Survey A digital survey put out by Best Buy and leaked to The Verge this weekend asked customers to rate their interest in a $1,499, 42-inch, iOS-laden Apple HDTV. Best Buy's motivation? It was conducting a "routine offer effectiveness survey."

by Nathan Hurst
6 Feb 2012 at 3:50pm

Employee or Employer: Who Owns the Twitter Followers? A blogger may be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars in economic damages after allegedly hijacking his former employer's Twitter followers. A lawsuit brought by South Carolina-based PhoneDog Media, a mobile-phone review site, raises a novel legal issue asking the simple question: Who owns an account's Twitter followers, the employee or employer? For the moment, it looks like the employer does.

by David Kravets
6 Feb 2012 at 3:36pm

Torrent Search Engine BTJunkie Voluntarily Shuts Down

by Mark Brown
6 Feb 2012 at 2:09pm

Audio: 165-Million-Year-Old Cricket Song Comes Back to Life A song last heard 165 million years ago has been played again, making it the world's oldest known piece of music.

by Brandon Keim
6 Feb 2012 at 12:00pm

Defendant Ordered to Decrypt Laptop May Have Forgotten Password A Colorado woman ordered to decrypt her laptop so prosecutors may use the files against her in a criminal case might have forgotten the password, the defendant?s attorney said Monday.

by David Kravets
6 Feb 2012 at 11:55am

How NASA Makes Those Incredible High-Res Images of Earth In recent weeks, a pair of high-resolution images of the Earth has captivated the Internet. Taken by the Suomi NPP satellite, these pictures portray our planet's incredible beauty with a whopping 8,000 by 8,000 pixel and 11,500 by 11,500 pixel detail.

by Adam Mann
6 Feb 2012 at 11:46am

What An Autopsy Looks Like — and Why You Need One Autopsies are crucial for doctor training, progress in medical research and closure for families -- and yet the events are on the decline. Neuron Culture blogger David Dobbs revisits an autopsy he once attended to showcase the value of these ultimate medical audits.

by David Dobbs
6 Feb 2012 at 11:21am

Netscape Founder Battles Cisco With Stealth Startup Software-defined networking. Network Virtualization Platform. Oh no, new acronyms to remember, right? But this one is much bigger than that: The cloud is now coming after the high-end networking gear that links up most data centers.

by Mike Barton
6 Feb 2012 at 11:14am

MacWorld News

Remains of the Day: Look around you Google looks outside the company to hire some integrity, Best Buy looks outside to consumers for mythical product research, and spammers look to Steve Jobs for inspiration. The remainders for Monday, February 6, 2012 are looking sharp.

by Dan Moren
6 Feb 2012 at 4:30pm

Bookle brings ePub reading to the Mac While reading ebooks on your iOS devices is fairly pleasant, thanks to Apple's iBooks app, the company has yet to release any such program for the Mac. To fill this void, Tidbits Publishing and Stairways Software have collaborated to create Bookle, a DRM-free ePub reader.

by Serenity Caldwell
6 Feb 2012 at 3:30pm

Apple snares top smartphone sales spot Apple was the top seller of smartphones worldwide and in the U.S. last quarter, analysts said Monday.

by Gregg Keizer
6 Feb 2012 at 12:00pm

Hands on with Intel's new Cherryville 520 SSD Intel today started shipping its fastest solid-state drive to date, the 520 Series SSD.

by Lucas Mearian
6 Feb 2012 at 11:01am

Redbox, Verizon team on streaming service The Netflix rival is expected to launch this year, but the partners are disclosing few details.

by Jared Newman
6 Feb 2012 at 10:15am

Who really was behind the SOPA protests? Participation in last month's protests against the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act was driven by a combination of independent decisions by websites, behind-the-scenes organization by a number of groups, and grassroots response to the blackout and other online efforts.

by Grant Gross
6 Feb 2012 at 5:45am

U.S. viewers can watch Super Bowl on Mac, iOS U.S. viewers can watch Sunday's Super Bowl on either their Macs or their iPad.

by Jason Snell
5 Feb 2012 at 12:20pm

Weekly Wrap: Lion bugs, iBooks Author, Final Cut Pro X Once a week, we gather together to recap the best stories published on Macworld over the past seven days. This week, those include software updates from Apple--and the problems that go along with them--tips on using your Mac more efficiently, and plenty more.

by Lex Friedman
4 Feb 2012 at 12:55pm

The Week in iPhone Cases: iLove It's nearly Valentine's Day, and what better way to show you care than by helping to protect a beloved iPhone?

by Marco Tabini
4 Feb 2012 at 11:00am

Remains of the Day: Undercover boss John Browett masqueraded as an ordinary salesman, The Daily reveals its subscriber numbers, and a former Apple product manager unveils the not-so-secret secrets of the iPhone's development.

by Dan Moren
3 Feb 2012 at 4:30pm

Mac Rumors

Rogers and BCE Already Have the Apple iTV in Their Labs, Controlled with Voic... The Globe and Mail reports that Apple is actively seeking launch partnerships with Canada's Rogers Communications and BCE Inc. to offer their upcoming Apple TV. ?They?re not closed to doing it with one [company] or doing it with two,? said one source who is familiar with the talks. ?They?re looking for a partner. They?re looking for someone with wireless and broadband capabilities.?According to the newspaper, these companies already have the Apple iTV in their labs.

Siri voice control is reportedly integrated into Apple's new television to help viewers make programming choices. Viewers can then control the TV with voice or hand ges...
by Arnold Kim
6 Feb 2012 at 5:49pm

Apple Warns Developers Not to Manipulate App Store Rankings
Yesterday, a TouchArcade thread was posted that warned about fraudulent App promotion services that guarantee Top 25 rankings for a modest fee. According to the poster, these services utilize automated scripts or bots to artificially boost free app rankings into the Top charts. At least one company denied the claims in the thread.

PocketGamer picked up on the story based on the forum thread:For $5,000, said company will allegedly utilise bots that will download a developer's app over and over again until it has broken into the top 25 charts. At this point, the developer's app will have received sufficient customer exposure to attra...
by Arnold Kim
6 Feb 2012 at 5:35pm

Apple Adds High-DPI Versions of Pointers in OS X 10.7.3
Screenshot from FinerThingsIn.com
DaringFireball notes several changes in some of the icons found in OS X 10.7.3. Several of our readers had also noticed the small changes in pointer icons in the latest version. It seems the changes run a bit deeper than on first glance. The new icons apparently come in high DPI versions that allow them to scale at high resolutions. Have you noticed that Safari?s hovering-over-a-link pointing-finger cursor looks a little different in Mac OS X 10.7.3? It?s not just that the finger is at a slightly different angle ? it?s a new UI resource that scales gracefully to larger sizes. That?s not the only new...
by Arnold Kim
6 Feb 2012 at 4:57pm

Apple Compensates Victim of iMessage Bug for Breach of Privacy In December, an apparent bug appeared in Apple's iMessage service that allowed iMessages to be sent to a stolen iPhone. The messages can, apparently, continue to be sent and received from the stolen phone after a remote wipe and a SIM card deactivation. This is obviously an unintended action, and though Apple explains the solution to be "toggle iMessage on and off" in the Settings app, that is an impossible act to perform remotely on a stolen phone.

The Next Web today reports of the case of an anonymous Apple customer who had her iPhone stolen and the lengthy discussions she had with Apple afterwards.

After her iPhone was stolen,...
by Jordan Golson
6 Feb 2012 at 1:30pm

Apple's 'Macroscalar' Trademark Application Sparks Speculation on Processor A... Patently Apple reports that Apple last week filed a curious new trademark application for the term "macroscalar". The company has typically quietly registered trademarks in countries such as Trinidad & Tobago, only to later apply for the marks in the United States and other major markets once the new products and features have been announced. While an application for "macroscalar" was indeed filed in Trinidad & Tobago last August, the new U.S. application and a similar one in Hong Kong are sparking speculation that Apple may have jumped the gun in announcing some new processor technology.Apple's "Macroscalar" isn't just a new marketing l...
by Eric Slivka
6 Feb 2012 at 1:15pm

Audience's 'earSmart' Technology Explains Siri's iPhone 4S Exclusivity CNET reports on a new research note from analyst Linley Gwennap, who believes that custom circuitry in Apple's A5 system-on-a-chip including "earSmart" noise cancellation technology from Audience is the reason why Siri is currently an iPhone 4S-only feature. Gwennap cites Audience's S-1 filing made with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last month in advance of the company's initial public offering in backing up his analysis.Audience revealed details of its Apple partnership in January, when it filed paperwork for an initial public offering (IPO) of stock. Teardown work from iFixit and Chipworks revealed a dedicated Audience chi...
by Eric Slivka
6 Feb 2012 at 10:45am

Apple's Grand Central Neighbor Seeing 7% Increase In Sales New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)'s sweetheart deal for Apple's just-opened Grand Central Terminal retail store seems to be paying dividends for the MTA and neighboring stores. One restaurant is reporting a 7 percent increase in sales since the store opened in December.

Michael Jordan's The Steak House is located across the terminal from the new Apple Store, Grand Central and co-owner Peter Glazier says the restaurant has seen a 7 percent jump in sales in the seven weeks that the Apple Store has been open, reports Crains New York. Glazier also says the rise isn't because Apple replaced another restaurant, Met...
by Jordan Golson
6 Feb 2012 at 9:05am

Best Buy Dreams Up a $1499 42-Inch 'Apple HDTV' for Customer Feedback The Verge reports that Best Buy has been surveying some of its customers on proposed products and services, with the company including a description of a 42-inch "Apple HDTV" priced at $1499. The listing is undoubtedly simply a concept dreamed up by Best Buy to help gauge interest in such an offering, but provides an interesting perspective on what the major electronics retailer might be hoping for and what it thinks its customers would want in an Apple television set.Be one of the first to get the all new 42" Apple HDTV at Best Buy for $1499. Apple finally reinvents what a TV can do:

- 42" 1080p LED flat panel display
- Incorporates ...
by Eric Slivka
6 Feb 2012 at 7:01am

Samsung Continues to Poke Fun at Apple Fans in Super Bowl Ad Samsung aired another of its series of Apple-mocking commercials during the 2012 Super Bowl tonight. In this ad, Samsung is pushing the new Samsung Galaxy Note.

Like the previous ads in the series, Samsung depicts iPhone fans standing in line for the new iPhone, while promoting their own products as the "next big thing".

Samsung's head of marketing has acknowledged she is directly targeting Apple and shooting to reach a more emotional connection with their consumers. ?Especially in U.S., people are obsessed with Apple,? Lee said, in a lengthy interview at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month. ?It?s time to change peopl...
by Arnold Kim
5 Feb 2012 at 7:31pm

ARM-Based MacBook Air Unlikely Based on Analyst Talk with Tim Cook There had been some interesting claims last year that Apple had been actively testing an ARM (A5) based MacBook Air. The ARM processor is the same one that is used in the iPhone and iPad. An ARM-based MacBook Air, however, would raise a number of questions about what kind of device it might actually be. Would it run OS X, or iOS? Would it be closer to a Mac or an iOS device? One of the main advantages of using an ARM processor would be a reduction in power-requirements, but with a corresponding drop in computing power. Using ARM, however, would abandon binary compatibility with existing Mac OS X applications.

CNet reports o...
by Arnold Kim
4 Feb 2012 at 3:24pm

Seattle Times Tech News

Strong corporate profits aren't entirely what they seem Almost all the profit growth comes from two companies, one of them among America's most favorite, the other among its most hated ? Apple and the bailed-out insurance company AIG.
6 Feb 2012 at 7:26pm

Chase reaches settlement, to pay $110 million in overdraft-fee case JPMorgan Chase has reached an agreement to pay $110 million to settle litigation saying it gouged customers on overdraft fees for checking accounts, court records show.
6 Feb 2012 at 7:24pm

Vietnam gives condolences for AP war correspondent Vietnam has extended its condolences for late Associated Press correspondent George Esper, who covered both war and peace in the country he came to love.
6 Feb 2012 at 6:57pm

Key states move closer to foreclosure-abuse deal California and New York, the key holdouts in a long-awaited settlement over foreclosure abuses, moved closer Monday to backing a deal that would force the five largest mortgage lenders to reduce loans for about 1 million households. More than 40 U.S. states have agreed to a nationwide settlement.
6 Feb 2012 at 6:41pm

Asia stocks muted as Greek debt talks drag on Asian stock markets were muted Tuesday as talks dragged on to resolve a massive debt mess in Greece before it explodes into a wider financial crisis.
6 Feb 2012 at 6:28pm

More than 40 states agree to foreclosure deal More than 40 U.S. states have agreed to a nationwide settlement over foreclosure abuses.
6 Feb 2012 at 6:27pm

King County home prices drop again; median at $315,000 House prices in King County hit another new post-boom low in January, according to statistics released Monday by the Northwest Multiple Listing Service.
6 Feb 2012 at 6:12pm

China to publish sensitive wealth gap data Chinese state media say the government plans to conduct a nationwide income survey to help it calculate a politically sensitive measure of wealth inequality.
6 Feb 2012 at 6:12pm

Lee Enterprises seeks OK for reverse stock split Newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises Inc. is seeking shareholder approval for a reverse stock split that would combine as many as five shares into one.
6 Feb 2012 at 7:16pm

Dendreon shares climb sharply on critical review for rival Amgen Shares of biotech drugmaker Dendreon surged Monday after federal health regulators published a critical review of rival Amgen's drug for prostate cancer.
6 Feb 2012 at 6:00pm

Slashdot

Little Ice Age: It Was Not the Sun

vikingpower writes "The Little Ice Age, lasting from the end of the Middle Age into the 17th century, may very likely have been caused by the combined effects of four major volcanic eruptions and increased sunlight reflection by increasing sea ice, the so-called Albedo effect. ... The University of Boulder has a press release with maps and photographs. Bette Otto-Bliesner, one of the scientists behind the 'volcano + sea ice' thesis, fields an earnest warning against drawing conclusions too quickly from this research: 'I think people might look at the Little Ice Age and think that all we need to save us from rising temperatures are some vo...
by Unknown Lamer
6 Feb 2012 at 7:10pm

Hacking the NES With Lisp

Andy Hefner has a detailed blog post covering his quest to program an NES with the assistance of Common Lisp. He developed a new 6502 assembler, a mini-language for composing musical sequences, and a neat demo (rom image).

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