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| Former Thief Invents Theft-Proof ATMs From His Cell | | Who knows security better than a thief? Romanian computer expert Valentin Boanta used to supply thieves with the skimmers they used to gather information to create fake bank cards and then steal cash from ATMs. Boanta, 33, was caught in 2009. And now, six months into his five-year sentence, the former thief has developed a technology that would safeguard ATMs from the very attacks in which he used to participate.
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| Can Yahoo Ignore Tumblr's Dark Side? | | Monday, May 20, 2013 10:11 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| When my daughter begged me a few years ago to go on Tumblr so she could engage with Harry Potter fandom, I said no. I was worried about what else she might encounter on the vast blogging service. You know what I’m talking about. I feared she’d stumble onto porn. Tumblr, which Yahoo is buying for $1.1 Billion is not a porn site, far from it.
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| The New Flickr: What it Means for Flickr Pro Users | | Monday, May 20, 2013 9:23 PM | Christina Warren |
| Yahoo unveiled some big changes to Flickr on Monday, both in terms of features and overall design. One of those changes is that free users are no longer limited to a certain number of photos; instead, everyone gets 1TB of space for their full-resolution photos. With that change comes an end to what used to be the biggest difference between free Flickr accounts and Flickr Pro.
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| A Michael Jackson Hologram? Will.I.Am Wants to Rock With Virtual MJ | | Monday, May 20, 2013 4:43 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Jaws dropped at the Coachella music festival in 2012 when rapper Tupac Shakur arrived on stage to perform. After all, he died in 1996 from multiple gunshot wounds. Modern technology brought him back from the dead as a life-sized hologram to spit verses alongside his old friends Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre.
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| Super Skinny iPad 5 May Hit Stores This Fall | | Monday, May 20, 2013 3:14 PM | TabTimes |
| Apple’s fifth-generation iPad will hit mass production in July and launch "as early as September," according to supply chain sources. Digitimes reports that the next iPad will still have a 9.7-inch 2048 x 1536 resolution display, albeit one which is built on a glass substrate thinner than its predecessor (0.2mm versus 0.25mm on the fourth-generation iPad).
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| Top 25 Free iPhone Apps of All Time | | Monday, May 20, 2013 10:08 AM | Emily Price |
| Apple’s App Store recently hit its 50 billionth download. Since its launch in July 2008, the store has been the go-to place for mobile apps. To this day, mobile developers often choose to release their apps here first. Popular from the start, just seven months after the App Store’s launch, the store surpassed one million third party apps, many of those free.
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| Why Yahoo's Tumblr Acquisition Is So Surprising | | Monday, May 20, 2013 9:18 AM | Matt Petronzio |
| After several reports over the weekend, an official press release Monday morning confirmed that Yahoo has acquired Tumblr for $1.1 billion — all in cash. SEE ALSO: More Comics on Mashable The news is surprising, leaving many Tumblr users anxious about how the acquisition will affect them (Marissa Mayer promises that Yahoo won't "screw it up").
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| Samsung's New 13-Inch Display Has a Crazy 3,200 x 1,800 Pixel Resolution | | Monday, May 20, 2013 7:45 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Samsung will be displaying some of its latest and greatest notebook and tablet screens at the Society for Information Display's Display Week 2013. Among them, one stands out: a 13.3-inch notebook display with a 3,200x1,800 (WQXGA+) pixel resolution. For those keeping count, that's quite a bit better than Apple's 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, which has a maximum 2,560x1,600 pixel resolution.
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