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Kia plans to enter US EV market with battery-powered Soul in 2014
Engadget - 3 Oct 2013 05:20
The electric vehicle space is one that Kia isn't new to exploring. Here in the US, however, the South Korean auto manufacturer has yet to get its foot in the door. But if all goes according to plan, Kia will soon debut i...
Unsealed docs show what really happened with Lavabit
ZDNet - 3 Oct 2013 11:05
Now that the court documents have been unsealed, there's no need to guess whether Lavabit shut down because of Edward Snowden.
New DNA Discoveries Advance MS Research
MedicineNet - 3 Oct 2013 09:00
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Yahoo Sued For Keyword Scanning In Emails
Ubergizmo - 3 Oct 2013 23:46
Yahoo has been hit with a new class-action privacy lawsuit which claims that the company is effectively intercepting and reading emails of users as it scans incoming emails for keywords in order to deliver more targeted ...
Key cellular auto-cleaning mechanism mediates formation of plaques in Alzheimer's brain
Science Daily - 3 Oct 2013 18:12
Autophagy, a key cellular auto-cleaning mechanism, mediates the formation of amyloid beta plaques, one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease. It might be a potential drug target for the treatment of the disease, conclu...
Enterprise and Consumer Tech Are Not Converging
TechPinions - 3 Oct 2013 16:32
In an important Stratechery post titled “Overstating the Consumerization of IT,” Ben Thompson argued there is a critical difference in how consumers and enterprises (or more broadly, business) approach technology. Co...
Bosses respond to the dancing YouTube quitter
CNET - 3 Oct 2013 01:58
Staff at the former company of Marina Shifrin, the woman who danced her resignation, respond on YouTube (by dancing and taking their pants off). Were they all told to dance or else?
6-Year-Old Twins Charge $1600 Worth Of Apple Apps To Parents' Account On Their iPad
The Huffington Post - 3 Oct 2013 21:10M1 fined record S$1.5M for January network outage
ZDNet - 3 Oct 2013 19:31
Singapore's telecoms regulator says M1's 3-day service disruption caused by a power fault was due to poor electrical installation practices which set off a water sprinkler, and inadequate risk assessment practices.
Researchers unravel part of the mystery of sound's source
Medical News Today - 3 Oct 2013 10:00
As Baby Boomers age, many experience difficulty in hearing and understanding conversations in noisy environments such as restaurants. People who are hearing-impaired and who wear hearing aids or cochlear implants are eve...
Breast cancer incidence rates converging among white and African-American women
Medical News Today - 3 Oct 2013 09:00
Breast cancer incidence rates increased slightly among African American women from 2006 to 2010, bringing those rates closer to the historically higher rates among white women, according to a new analysis by American Can...
Google acquiring gesture recognition tech startup Flutter
ZDNet - 3 Oct 2013 08:30
Naturally, Google's new purchase has everyone buzzing about whether or not the new tech is going into everything from the Nexus 5 to Glass.
US federal agents shut down Silk Road website
ZDNet - 3 Oct 2013 08:28
American authorities say they have busted an online black market for drugs, hitmen, hacker tools, and more, arresting the suspected mastermind of a nefarious bazaar called Silk Road.
IBM research stakes its future on cognitive computing
ZDNet - 3 Oct 2013 03:06
IBM Senior Vice President John E. Kelly says the company has entered a new era in computing, and announces the company's plans for future partnerships.
Iran's cyberwarfare czar is allegedly assassinated
CNET - 3 Oct 2013 02:31
As the Middle East country beefs up its cyberforces, Mojtaba Ahmadi, the head of its Cyber War Headquarters, is said to be found with two bullet wounds near his heart.
Dell May Have A Winner With Its Windows-Powered Venue 8 Pro
TechCrunch - 3 Oct 2013 23:58
The most pleasant surprise to come out of Dell's press conference the other day wasn't its line of new laptops or the silly Android tablets it's trying to foist on weary consumers. To my utter shock it was the Venue 8 Pr...
The Tesla fire and the perception problem
GigaOM - 3 Oct 2013 23:54
The viral video showing one of Tesla's cars on fire, might not be a major safety problem for the car maker. But it could be a significant issue for the company's brand.
What It's Like to Be a Professional BASE Jumper (Hint: Super Awesome)
Gizmodo - 3 Oct 2013 23:38
Just a few years ago, BASE jumping (Buildings, Antennas, Spans, Earth) existed on the very fringes of action sports. Wingsuits were only worn by a handful of brass-balled sky divers the world over. But times have changed...
WibiData's open source HBase project now supports real-time predictions
GigaOM - 3 Oct 2013 23:36
Hadoop startup WibiData has updated Kiji, its open source project that aims to make HBase a better (or easier) database for serving real-time applications. Among the updates in its latest SDK is an improved version of th...
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Gizmodo - 3 Oct 2013 23:27
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Photoshop Contest: What Else Is Hiding in This Cryptic Lincoln Pic?
Gizmodo - 3 Oct 2013 23:20
As you may or may not have heard, a University of North Carolina professor claims to have found a major mistake in Lincoln history. Some blurry, sepia-skinned dude in the photo who we'd believed was Lincoln was actually ...