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| U.S. Military Wants 'Mission Impossible' Self-Destructing Devices | | Self-destructing tapes from the "Mission Impossible" TV series and films served fictional spies well during the Cold War. Today, the U.S. military wants a modern version of vanishing electronics that are able to disappear upon command in the environment or a human body. The U.S.
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| Is This the iPad 5? | | New images have surfaced of what may be our first look at the iPad 5. Obtained by 9to5Mac from a accessories maker in China, the photos show the rear-panel of a 9.7-inch iPad, with a similar look and feel to Apple’s recently released iPad mini. The panel is all black, with an iridescent black apple in its center, and looks to be almost as thin as its pint-sized counterpart.
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| Ask Siri To Buy Your Next Movie Tickets | | Monday, January 28, 2013 11:21 PM | Emily Price |
| Now you can ask Siri to handle picking up tickets to the latest blockbuster. Apple rolled out iOS 6.1 Monday, adding Siri support for Fandango in the process. After the update iOS users can ask their favorite digital assistant to find movie times for them, ultimately launching the Fandango app on their iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch where they can complete a purchase for tickets.
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| Turn Vine Videos Into GIFs With This Mac App | | Monday, January 28, 2013 6:50 PM | Christina Warren |
| Want to turn your Vine video clips into an animated GIF? A new Mac app makes it a snap. Over the weekend, Twitter engineer Esten Hurtle created VineGifR, a simple Mac app that turns a Vine URL into an animated GIF file. The app — which is still in its early stages — is incredibly easy to use. Just open it up, paste in a Vine URL and select the file name and where you want to save your GIF.
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| App Crash Reporter Crashlytics Joins Twitter | | Monday, January 28, 2013 6:13 PM | Emily Price |
| App crash-reporting service Crashlytics announced Monday that it will be joining the flock at Twitter. Launched a little over a year ago, the company helps developers determine what specific line of code is causing their app to crash so that they can more quickly correct the problem. Twitter is an existing customer of the service, as are a number of other high-profile apps including Waze, TaskRabbit, Yelp, and Kayak.
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| 4 Reasons Your UX Investment Isn’t Paying Off | | Monday, January 28, 2013 5:42 PM | UX Magazine |
| We all know the business case for doing user experience (UX) work: Investing upfront in making products easy to use really pays off. It reduces project risk, cost, and time while improving, efficiency, effectiveness, and end user satisfaction. (Don’t know the business case? Read this or this. Or this.) But what if you’re investing in UX and not getting results? There can be many factors behind an under-performing user experience effort.
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| Apple's Rumored Cheaper iPhone Looks Like iPhone 5, iPods Combined | | Monday, January 28, 2013 5:39 PM | Anita Li |
| More details about Apple's rumored cheaper iPhone have emerged online, providing a concrete idea of how the smartphone looks. In a nutshell, it will be a cross between the iPhone 5, the latest iPod touch and the iPod classic, according to an unconfirmed report by iLounge. The budget version will have a 4-inch screen like the iPhone 5, a bottom like the fifth-generation iPod touch and a shape similar to the iPod classic.
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| Apple, Android Capture 92 Percent of Smartphone Shipments | | Monday, January 28, 2013 3:58 PM | Anita Li |
| Apple and Android are dominating the smartphone market in a big way, grabbing a record 92% of global shipments, according to new research. Android took the top spot with 70%, or 152 million units, followed by Apple, which shipped 22% (48 million units), according to a report released by research firm Strategy Analytics. Other smartphone makers captured the remaining 8% (17 million units).
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| Microsoft Office 2013 Launches Tomorrow: What You Need to Know | | Monday, January 28, 2013 12:36 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Microsoft appears to be on the verge of launching the latest version of Office, according to a tweet the official Office Twitter account posted over the weekend. The tweet includes a picture of what Microsoft is setting up in New York City's Bryant Park for launch day, specifying Jan. 29 as the day of the event. The new version of Office, Office 2013, represents a rethink of the productivity software.
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| 4 Easy Ways to Speed Up Your Mac | | Monday, January 28, 2013 11:16 AM | Aubre Andrus |
| Nobody likes the spinning pinwheel, the rainbow wheel or the Beach Ball of Death. Whatever you call it, you know it’s not a good sign. Luckily there are simple steps you can take to speed up old reliable, regardless of his age — and most are built right into your Mac. 1. Clear Your Hard Drive Your device needs breathing room to function properly.
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| International iPhone Sales Slowing Down | | Monday, January 28, 2013 11:14 AM | AppAdvice |
| Analysts say the rise in international iPhone sales is likely to slip to 15% during the first three quarters of 2013.
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| Iran Claims to Have Launched This Monkey Into Space | | Monday, January 28, 2013 10:43 AM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Iran is claiming to have successfully launched a monkey into space and brought it back alive, according to Iranian state television. Iranian television says the craft carrying the monkey reached 72 miles above the Earth before safely returning, as reported by Time. Here's a picture of the monkey, via Mahir Zeynalov: The Iranian astronaut monkey.
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