| Porn Is Now Banned on Google Glass | | Soon after the first pornographic app appeared for Google Glass, Google has quietly changed its Glass Platform Developer Policies, prohibiting apps that contain sexually explicit content. The first paragraph of the "Content policies" section now reads: "We don't allow Glassware content that contains nudity, graphic sex acts, or sexually explicit material.
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| Rickroll Breaks Vine by Breaching 6-Second Limit With Full Music Video | | A 16-year-old web developer managed to rickroll Vine, breaching the social-video app's six-second upload limit in the process. Cleveland resident Will Smidlein posted a Vine on Monday that included the more than three-minute-long music video, "Never Gonna Give You Up." The 1987 pop hit from singer Rick Astley (which we have embedded, above, for your viewing pleasure) has since become an online meme and form of bait-and-switch trolling.
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| Controversial Iris-Scanning Program Could Keep Kids Safe | | Tests of iris-scanning technology were derailed in a central Florida school district recently after parents expressed outrage that they weren't told about the program before their kids' eyes were scanned. However, iris scanning could provide essential information to parents of bus-riding kids who don't arrive home at the expected time. The mobile devices could also identify the kids as they rush up the steps to board the buses.
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| Is This the World's Smartest Watch? | | Wearable electronics — specifically smart watches — have been dominating headlines over the past year. Pebble took Kickstarter by storm and raised almost $8 million to build its e-ink smart watch, Italian company I’m Watch launched the second version of its Android-powered timepiece, and rumors of an Apple-branded smart watch trickle in and out of the news almost on a weekly basis.
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| Franky Gehry to Design Facebook's New NYC Office | | Facebook confirmed last week's reports that it has signed a 10-year lease for just under 100,000 square feet of office space at 770 Broadway in lower Manhattan. The company will be moving all of its teams from its current office near Grand Central to two floors at the new office, the interior of which architect Frank Gehry has agreed to design. Gehry is already leading the expansion of Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.
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| Birchbox Embarks on Global Rebranding | | After having made over the faces of thousands of women (and groomed more than a few men), Birchbox, a subscription-based beauty sampling service operating in the U.S. and western Europe, is getting a makeover of its own. The three-year-old company is launching a global rebranding, extending to its packaging, website and to its European business.
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| Microsoft Launches Crowdfunding Method to Help Students Buy PCs | | 12:00:59 AM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Microsoft launched a new way for college students to pay for Windows PC purchases on Tuesday — a Kickstarter-style crowdfunding program. The tech giant's new "Chip In" program lets friends and family crowdsource donations toward purchasing a Windows PC for a college student.
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| 20 Funniest Twitter Reactions to 'Game of Thrones' | | Monday, June 03, 2013 11:28 PM | Annie Colbert |
| WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD. Game of Thrones, how dare you rip out our hearts and gobble them up like a Dothraki bride? The gruesome climax to the so-called "Red Wedding" left GoT viewers shocked, saddened and craving some bloody revenge on House Lannister. Fans rushed to Twitter to express their anger, and console each other in 140 characters of Stark-loving devotion.
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| Twitter and Traditional Media: Rivals or Lovers? | | Monday, June 03, 2013 10:59 PM | Adam Popescu |
| Not long ago, the media looked at the web as if it was an awkward, unwanted stepchild. Today, the reverse is arguably true, with debate growing over whether social networks such as Twitter will overtake beacons of journalism like The New York Times. At last month's Milken Institute Global Conference, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel said he thinks Twitter will outlast The Times.
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| This Malicious Charger Can Hack Your iPhone | | Monday, June 03, 2013 10:29 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Imagine if a phone charger could serve malicious code and charge your iPhone. It would be a hacker's dream — one that might already be a reality. A group of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology claim they created an iPhone charger than can surreptitiously install malware on the Apple phone, allowing potential attackers to hack in, as first reported by Forbes.
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| HTC One Is Heading to Verizon | | Monday, June 03, 2013 10:00 PM | Emily Price |
| The HTC One is heading to Verizon, the carrier confirmed in a tweet Monday. The flagship Android smartphone is expected to arrive at Big Red later this summer.
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| Windows Phone Sales Rising Despite Android's Dominance: Report | | Monday, June 03, 2013 8:58 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Although Android remains the leader among smartphone operating systems in the United States, new sales of iOS and Windows devices actually grew more in the last year, according to new data. The data, from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, said the share of sales for Windows devices grew 1.8 percentage points and that iOS grew 2.3 percentage points year on year.
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| Soviet Union's Old Web Domain Now a Hotbed for Hackers | | Monday, June 03, 2013 6:54 PM | The Daily Dot |
| The Soviet Union may be a thing of the past, but its domain isn’t. Think of it as a clubhouse for the new Russian kleptocracy. .SU, assigned to the then-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) in 1990, a year before its dissolution, is now a refuge for criminal hackers, according to the AP’s Raphael Satter.
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| Is Twitter Testing a New Look for Threaded Conversations? | | Monday, June 03, 2013 6:39 PM | Christina Warren |
| It looks like Twitter is testing a new look for messages and replies on Twitter.com. Twitter has offered users the ability to see previous tweets and replies for some time, but now it appears the service will make the thread of those conversations more visible in the general timeline.
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| The 20 Angriest Reactions to Last Night's Shocking 'Game of Thrones' | | Monday, June 03, 2013 6:24 PM | Nora Grenfell |
| WARNING: Do not read any further if you have not seen Sunday night's episode of Game of Thrones, "The Rains of Castamere." In fact, don't go on the Internet at all. And maybe avoid contact with every other human. Image via MemeGenerator Last night, the tragedy that many Game of Thrones fans knew was coming — either from books or from a serious barrage of online spoilers — finally took place.
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| Film Crew Tries to Unearth Atari's 'E.T.' Game Graveyard | | Monday, June 03, 2013 6:07 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| Atari released a video game in 1982 that was such a commercial flop that the company buried the evidence in a New Mexican desert. But, since the past can never remain buried, a film crew now wants to dig up a stash of those ET The Extra-Terrestrial games, in an attempt to uncover gaming history.
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| Watch 'Game of Thrones' Fans Freak Out Over the 'Red Wedding' | | Monday, June 03, 2013 5:43 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Game of Thrones viewers had their minds blown during Sunday's "The Rains of Castamere" episode, which many people online are referring to as the "Red Wedding" episode. Across social media, fans quickly expressed their disbelief in what transpired on the show. Celebrities chimed in, too, garnering thousands of retweets on Twitter.
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| NBA Star Slammed With $75,000 Fine After Homophobic Comment | | Monday, June 03, 2013 5:17 PM | Sam Laird |
| Roy Hibbert is known as one of the NBA's good guys, but caused a stir over the weekend thanks to a post-game press conference in which he referred to reporters as "y'all motherf—ers" and used the phrase "no homo." Hibbert's comments followed the Indiana Pacers' game 6 win over the Miami Heat in the NBA semifinal series.
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| 'Mars Rat' Taking Internet by Storm | | Monday, June 03, 2013 4:53 PM | Space.com |
| A Mars rock that bears a passing resemblance to a rodent is scuttling across the Internet with gusto, even inspiring some fans to set up a Twitter account in its name. UFO buffs spotted the purported "Mars rat" in a panoramic photo snapped in September 2012 by NASA's Curiosity rover. Zooming in on a portion of the image reveals what appears to be a rodent crouching between two rocks, its nose to the ground.
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| Apple Accused of Conspiring With E-Book Publishers | | Monday, June 03, 2013 4:42 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| On Monday, a United States government lawyer formally accused Apple of conspiring with publishers to artificially boost e-book prices. The trial against Apple comes a year after the Justice Department first accused Apple of working with five publishers — Penguin, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette and Macmillan — to boost prices and spite e-book market leader Amazon.
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| Twitter Experiencing Technical Issues | | Monday, June 03, 2013 4:31 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| Twitter users are currently having difficulties accessing the website, citing lagged updates and the inability to post anything.
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| Why Apple Is Getting Into the Music Streaming Business | | Monday, June 03, 2013 4:14 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Steve Jobs was perhaps the loudest critic of streaming music in the late 2000s. While companies like Pandora and Rhapsody gradually gained traction, the late Apple co-founder and CEO repeatedly denounced these services and resisted invitations to create a similar subscription option for music. "Never say never, but customers don't seem interested in it.
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| Anonymous Joins Istanbul Protests, Attacks Government Websites | | Monday, June 03, 2013 4:05 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| As clashes in Turkey continue, the hacker collective Anonymous has decided to join the protests. Yesterday, on Anonymous' "official" Twitter account YourAnonNews, the hacktivists announced #OpTurkey. The group also set up a website, Operation Turkey, to boasts their online exploits.
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| Zynga Lays Off 18% of Its Workforce | | Monday, June 03, 2013 3:26 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| As a part of a major effort to trim costs, Zynga is reportedly laying off 520 staffers -- equivalent of 18% of its workforce.
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