If you sketchily poked on over to the Pirate Bay to do a little downloading of a legal, quasi-legal, or outright illegal nature recently, you may have noticed you can’t get through. No, your ISP hasn’t started blocking it; it’s down for everyone, everywhere . Proxies too. More »
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The Pirate Bay Is Down Across the Globe
Here’s a rare sight: four out of the ten Nimitz-class aircraft carriers—the largest warships ever built—plus an Enterprise-class carrier docked together. They are resting at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, which coincidentally is the largest naval base in the world. Look at all that engineering and firepower. And it’s only half of the Nimitz fleet! More »
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This Is Why the US Navy Is the Most Formidable Naval Force In the World
An anonymous reader writes with reports that TSMC is preparing to do a first test run of Apple’s A6X chipset currently manufactured by Samsung. The TSMC manufactured chips will feature a process shrink from 32nm to 28nm, and there’s a good chance Apple will grant them the contract for the next generation A7 chip. From SlashGear: “The test will kick off in Q1 2013, The China Times reports, with TSMC producing a new, 28nm version of the existing 32nm A6X that Samsung has been producing for the full-sized iPad 4th-gen; the smaller chip, which will likely be more power efficient as well, will debut in a new iPad 5th-gen and iPad mini 2.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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TSMC Preparing To Manufacturer A6X Chip As Apple Looks to Ditch Samsung
Apple must have heaved a great sigh of relief when it heard its Christmas wish had been answered—Installous, the jailbroken iOS app pirating app from the Hackulous community, was finally dead . But not so fast, Apple. Now anyone can install pirated apps, and without having to jailbreak too. More »
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You Can Now Pirate Apps On Your iPhone Without Jailbreaking
The Lost Treasures of Infocom collection is now available for iPad and iPhone, boasting 27 classic adventure games and more than 350 hours of gameplay for a mere $10. More »
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Twenty-Seven Classic Infocom Text Adventures All At Once, All For iOS
iOS: Apps abound for quickly sharing videos from your phone, but YouTube finally has an official offering with instant sharing and some handy features. More »
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YouTube Capture Films Videos from Your iPhone, Shares Them Instantly
Consumer weblog “Which?” tested the most popular 7- and 10-inch tablets to compare battery life, and found quite a bit of variation. If you’re looking for a new tablet, here are some things to watch out for. More »
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Tablets Go Head-to-Head on Battery Life, iPad Comes Out On Top
Photoshop Touch —Adobe’s mobile image editor—just got a pretty stellar update . It’s now sensitive to styluses on the iPad. More »
MojoKid writes “iOS 6, by all appearances, has a streaming problem. This is separate from the network issues that led Verizon to state that it wouldn’t bill people for overages that were caused by spotty Wi-Fi connectivity. The issue has been detailed at PRX.org with information on how the team saw a huge spike in bandwidth usage after the release of iOS 6, and then carefully tested the behavior of devices and its own app to narrow the possible cause. In one case, the playback of a single 30MB episode caused the transfer of over 100MB of data. It is believed that the issue was solved with the release of iOS 6.0.1, but anecdotal evidence from readers points to continued incidents of high data usage, even after updating. If you own an iPhone 5 or upgraded to iOS 6 on an older device, it is strongly recommend to check your usage over the past two months, update to iOS 6.0.1, and plan for a lengthy discussion with your carrier if it turns out your data use went through the roof.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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iOS 6 Streaming Bug Sends Data Usage Skyrocketing
Welcome to the new new iPad, same as the old new iPad . Well, mostly, anyway. It was less than eight months ago that Apple grafted a Retina display onto its world-conquering tablet, giving every other slate on the market resolution envy, while enchanting gadget lovers with world-class performance and battery life. Now, it’s obsolete. Put out to pasture just as it was hitting its stride and replaced by this, the fourth-generation iPad — still just called “new iPad.” Other than a Lightning connector on the bottom it’s visually indistinguishable from its predecessor. Even its starting MSRP of $499 stays the same. But, on the inside where it counts, is the new, fire-breathing A6X processor. Could this be possibly worth buying a second new iPad in just one year, or could this perhaps be the one you’ve been waiting for? Hold on to your wallets and click on through to find out. Gallery: Apple iPad 4th-generation hands-on, and comparison to 3rd-generation iPad Continue reading iPad review (late 2012) Filed under: Tablets , Apple iPad review (late 2012) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | | Email this | Comments
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