On April Fools Day 2004, Google launched Gmail, and it wasn’t long before @gmail.com email addresses usurped the kingdom of Hotmail. Google just posted a nice visualization of the service’s evolution from a humble beta to a Google Goliath. More »
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The Evolution of Gmail, Visualized
The fact that Apple relies upon Samsung, its arch-rival , for a healthy amount of its components, is one of the biggest paradoxes in the tech industry. Still, if The Korea Times is to be believed, the unhappy marriage between the two could rapidly be heading towards a divorce. While Apple has previously splashed out several billion per year on Samsung components, the newspaper is suggesting that Cupertino will turn to TSMC to produce its next generation of mobile CPUs — a rumor that’s been making the rounds recently. It’s source, and executive at one of Samsung’s partners, claims the manufacturer has been cut out of development of the A7 CPU, adding a little bit more credence to those claims. What’s more, the same source reports that TSMC is gearing up its 20-nanometer production line to crank out the hardware ready for 2014. Comments Via: The Next Web Source: Korea Times
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Apple said to be ditching Samsung in favor of TSMC for A7 CPU
kodiaktau writes “The ACLU has issued a FOIA request to determine whether the IRS gets warrants before reading taxpayers’ email. The request is based on the antiquated Electronic Communication Protection Act — federal agencies can and do request and read email that is over 180 days old. The IRS response can be found at the ACLU’s website. The IRS asserts that it can and will continue to make warrantless requests to ISPs to track down tax evasion. Quoting: ‘The documents the ACLU obtained make clear that, before Warshak, it was the policy of the IRS to read people’s email without getting a warrant. Not only that, but the IRS believed that the Fourth Amendment did not apply to email at all. A 2009 “Search Warrant Handbook” from the IRS Criminal Tax Division’s Office of Chief Counsel baldly asserts that “the Fourth Amendment does not protect communications held in electronic storage, such as email messages stored on a server, because internet users do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in such communications.” Again in 2010, a presentation by the IRS Office of Chief Counsel asserts that the “4th Amendment Does Not Protect Emails Stored on Server” and there is “No Privacy Expectation” in those emails.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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IRS Can Read Your Email Without Warrant
Have you ever been clicking along a particularly stunning stretch of road in Google Street View and thought: damn, how awesome it would be if you could stitch all these individual images together and turn them into a video? Well… sit down. Clear your schedule. There’s something you need to see. Read more…
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Teehan+Lax releases easy-to-use hyperlapse tool, blows everyone’s goddamn mind
University of Oxford chemists custom-built a 3D printer that fabricates “synthetic tissue,” or rather structures with tissue-like functions. Eventually, the technology could be used to crank out replacement tissue that could replace damaged human tissue or be used in new drug delivery systems. The material consist of a network of water droplets encapsulated in lipids, or fat molecules. “The droplets… form pathways through the network that mimic nerves and are able to transmit electrical signals from one side of a network to the other,” says Oxford University chemistry professor Hagan Bayley. Amazingly, the material can be chemically “programmed” to fold into various shapes as water is transferred around in the network. (Video above.) ” 3D printer can build synthetic tissues ” (Univ of Oxford, via Science News ) ” A Tissue-like Printed Material ” (Science)
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3D printed synthetic tissue folds itself into shapes
Today, at an event in New York, GE announced that it will open up “thousands” of patents from its library of some 20,000 to inventors using Quirky’s crowdsourced product development platform. That means that if you’re bright enough, you can use a GE patent to invent something. GE will still collect royalties on your brain power, but they promise not to sue you. More »
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wiredmikey writes “An official investigation into a major cyber attack on South Korean banks and broadcasters last month has determined that North Korea’s military intelligence agency was responsible. An investigation into access records and the malware used in the attack pointed to the North’s military Reconnaissance General Bureau as the source, the Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA) said on Wednesday. To spread the malware, the attackers went through 49 different places in 10 countries including South Korea, the investigation found. The attacks used malware that can wipe the contents of a computer’s hard disk (including Linux machines) and damaged 48,700 machines including PCs, ATMs, and servers.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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S. Korea Says Cyber Attack From North Wiped 48,700 Machines
Mac: When Mountain Lion was released last summer it dropped support for older generation Macs from 2006-2008. There were workaround to get it to work, but they were far from user-friendly. MLPostFactor is a utility that makes the process of getting Mountain Lion installed on an older Mac a bit simpler. More »
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MLPostFactor Installs Mountain Lion on Older Macs
There’s been plenty of murmuring that Apple is working on a retooled fifth-generation iPad that’s sporting the same design language as the iPad Mini and iPhone 5 . The folks over at nowhereelse think that they’ve snagged a picture of the white facia for the latest iteration of the slate — and the site does have prior form in this department . The biggest difference compared to the third and fourth generation devices is the narrower bezel that runs down the sides and those chamfered shiny edges, Word of the Day fans. Filed under: Tablets , Apple Comments Source: Nowhereelse.fr (Translated)
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Is this the front of Apple’s next-generation iPad?
SchrodingerZ writes “The Blue Angels squadron, known for their intricate and death-defying aerial demonstrations, has canceled all scheduled air shows for the rest of the year. The United States Navy, which controls the Blue Angels, has reported that the grounding comes from the massive rollbacks in spending, due to the 85 billion dollar sequestration given by the federal government. In a statement from the office of the Commander Naval Air Forces in San Diego, the Navy said, ‘Recognizing budget realities, current Defense policy states that outreach events can only be supported with local assets at no cost to the governmen.’ Currently, the cost of an air show is above $100,000. This story came just a week after the announcement by the Air Force that their Thunderbird shows will also be canceled.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Sequester Grounds Blue Angels