You may remember JailbreakMe as the one-tap solution to jailbreaking your iPhone that only lasted until Apple patched a PDF exploit in iOS. Now it’s back, letting you easily perform the process and install Cydia (the jailbreak app store) on your iDevice. Here are the devices and iOS versions it currently supports: More
Facebook has scheduled a Wednesday news conference to announce the launch of what it termed “something awesome.”
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the next iPhone is going to be thinner and lighter than the iPhone 4, which isn’t exactly unexpected. But apparently, being thinner and lighter is making the next iPhone a pain to make. More
wiredmikey writes “Domain name registrar and Web hosting provider GoDaddy, announced it has agreed to receive a strategic investment from private equity firms KKR, Silver Lake and Technology Crossover Ventures. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but the Wall Street Journal reported people familiar with the deal saying it could be worth approximately $2.25 billion. The Scottsdale, Arizona based company which has built its marketing around scantly-clad women, manages more than 48 million domain names.”
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An anonymous reader writes “Over the weekend, Hulu rolled out Facebook Connect integration. Almost immediately after launch, Hulu had to pull the feature as the company discovered a technical issue affecting a limited number of users. More specifically, some users weren’t seeing their own Hulu account information upon login, but someone else’s.”
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countertrolling writes with news that Microsoft has struck an agreement with Baidu.com, the most popular search engine in mainland China, to provide results for English-language queries. From the NY Times:
“Baidu, which dominates Chinese-language search services here with about 83 percent of the market, has been trying for years to improve its English-language search services because English searches on its site are as many as 10 million a day, the company said. Now it has a powerful partner. 'More and more people here are searching for English terms,' Kaiser Kuo, the company’s spokesman, said Monday. 'But Baidu hasn’t done a good job. So here’s a way for us to do it.' Baidu and Microsoft did not disclose terms of the agreement. But the new English-language search results will undoubtedly be censored, since Beijing maintains strict controls over Internet companies and requires those operating on the mainland to censor results the government deems dangerous or troublesome, including references to human rights issues and dissidents.”
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redwolfe7707 writes “Computers today move electrons, using lots of energy in the process. A new report out of UC Berkely shows that doing computing with nano magnetic domains could reduce the energy consumption by a factor of a million.”
As usual, the factor of a million would be in the ideal case and is close to the minimum permitted by the universe.
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BoxRec writes “Scientists in England have developed a 3D chocolate printer that prints layers of chocolate instead of ink or plastic. ‘Now we have an opportunity to combine chocolate with digital technology, including the design, digital manufacturing and social networking. Chocolate has a lot of social purpose, so our intention is to develop a community and share the designs, ideas and experience about it,’ says lead scientist Dr Liang Hao.”
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