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		<title>What Happened to the Mid-Range Chromebook?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/18/what-happened-to-the-mid-range-chromebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chromebooks are about to get a boost in exposure, with Walmart and Staples adding the cheap laptops to their stores. But the expanded availability has left me wondering what happened to the best Chromebook of all, Samsung&#8217;s $450 Series 5 550. Walmart is only selling a single Chromebook, a $200 Acer model with 16 GB of solid state storage. Staples will sell a range of Chromebooks from Acer, HP and Samsung starting this weekend, but the lineup only includes the $550 3G version of Samsung&#8217;s Series 5 550, not the cheaper Wi-Fi model. Best Buy, which has sold Chromebooks since last year, used to sell the Series 5 550, but I&#8217;ve only seen Samsung&#8217;s $250 model and Acer&#8217;s $200 C7 Chromebook in my last several visits. The only place to get the Series 5 550 Wi-Fi model is on Amazon&#8217;s website. Even there, it&#8217;s only available through third-party merchants at inflated prices. (The cheapest seller, CircuitCity, has the Wi-Fi model for $518.) The Series 5 550 is the mid-range sedan of Chromebooks. When reviewing it last year, I was impressed by the solid build quality, thin and light frame, extra-large trackpad and surprisingly good speakers. While you might find a Windows laptop with comparable tech specs for $450, you won&#8217;t find one that actually feels as good to use. In fact, I was so enamored with this laptop that I bought one for myself last year, and have recommended it to other people who are interested in Chromebooks. (I&#8217;ve written about the appeal of Chromebooks several times, though I understand some folks will always despise the idea.) I reached out to Google PR on Tuesday morning, trying to find out whether the Series 5 550 has been discontinued. So far I haven&#8217;t gotten an answer. Google&#8217;s website still lists the Series 5 550, but the &#8220;Buy now&#8221; button only links to Amazon&#8217;s general Chromebook landing page. I can venture a guess as to what&#8217;s happened: $450 Chromebooks aren&#8217;t nearly as popular as ones that cost $200 to $250, so Samsung isn&#8217;t bothering to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164980&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NYC to Offer Free Phone-Charging Stations in Parks</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/18/nyc-to-offer-free-phone-charging-stations-in-parks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Bethan McKernan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; It&#8217;s a sight that can trigger dread: the low-battery message on your cellphone when there&#8217;s no charger around. But New Yorkers needing a little extra juice will have some new options this summer. The city is teaming up with AT&#38;T to install 25 solar-powered charging stations in parks across the five boroughs. The charges will provide a free boost to dying phones and other mobile devices. The solar technology in the &#8220;Street Charge&#8221; stations can fully charge up to 30 phones before it needs its own recharge &#8211; even with cloud cover and during the night. The idea came about after Superstorm Sandy. The storm left New Yorkers desperately searching for power to contact friends and loved ones.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164977&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Smartphones</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/gadgets/smartphones/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Texas Passes Strict New Email Privacy Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Fox Van Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The state of Texas is taking a bold step towards protecting online privacy. Governor Rick Perry has signed HB 2268, a first-in-the-nation law that requires state and local law enforcement agents to seek a search warrant before accessing and reading Texans’ private email communications. The new law takes effect immediately. According to current federal law, prosecutors only need a warrant to read your email if they’re looking at unread communications sent less than 180 days ago. This standard was set by the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), a bill written when most Americans – senators and congressmen included – had no real access to email or desire to ever use it. Because HB 2268 is a state law, only Texans are protected from having their emails searched – and again, they’re only protected against local and state searches. Still, progress is being made on a national version of the law. In April, the United States Senate Judiciary Committee passed an amendment to the ECPA that would close the email loophole. A companion bill was introduced in the House of Representatives by a bipartisan group of congressmen, suggesting that Washington may finally be serious about protecting our privacy online. This article was written by Fox Van Allen and originally appeared on Techlicious. More from Techlicious: Court Rules Google Must Obey FBI&#8217;s Warrantless Search Requests Change to Yahoo Mail Reduces Your Privacy What You Need to Know about the Goverment Spying on You<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164975&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mind-Blowing: How to Fold a Shirt in Less Than Two Seconds</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/18/mind-blowing-how-to-fold-a-shirt-in-under-two-seconds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This man. This man in the above video. He is a witch from the future. Watch as he shows us all how to fold a short-sleeve shirt in less than two seconds. Any short-sleeve shirt. He is a witch from the future. &#8220;But Doug, this does not belong on a tech news site!&#8221; you bellow, your face flush with internet nerd rage. But I ask you: Have you ever met someone who&#8217;s really into technology? Not one of us has ever worn a neatly folded shirt. I hang my short-sleeve shirts on hooks, for cracked ice. See? Doug Aamoth / TIME.com I hang my shirts from hooks. It&#8217;s all hooks, my closet. This man. He is a witch from the future. How to Fold a Shirt in Under 2 Seconds [YouTube user DaveHax via OhGizmo!]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164966&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shigeru Miyamoto Apologizes for Wii U Game Delays, Says the Best Is Nearly Here</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/18/shigeru-miyamoto-apologizes-for-wii-u-game-delays-says-the-best-is-nearly-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[E3 2013 is over, leaving Nintendo the summer and probably most of the fall before the competition moves in with its shock and awe campaign. Nintendo&#8217;s challenge: prove to gamers that the Wii U is interesting enough, cheap enough and offers the kinds of games they&#8217;ll want to play (and keep playing) through 2013 and beyond. Without the games, what do you have, really? Below-expectation console sales, for starters, a problem Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata agrees has to do with the system&#8217;s lackluster software lineup. But that&#8217;s also a solvable problem, argues games luminary Shigeru Miyamoto (Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda, Pikmin), who told me the best is nearly here, with games like Super Mario 3D World, Pikmin 3, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze and Zelda: The Wind Waker HD arriving by year&#8217;s end. With Wii U, Nintendo has kept online access optional. What&#8217;s your reaction to the idea of a game device that requires constant Internet access? What do you think, as a player, of the idea that you might be watched or scrutinized by a company? Nintendo’s stance is that we realize not everyone in the world is connected over the Internet, and because of that we’re very much in support of providing offline experiences for those players who don’t have an Internet connection. That said, we also realize the time has come when most people do have an Internet connection, so we’ve created a system that is designed to take advantage of an Internet connection in a way that benefits the consumer. We haven’t provided this as a means for us to really benefit from it, per se, but more as a service to our customers, so they can enjoy our games beyond what we’ve already created, and I say that from the stance of using a network connection to be able to provide patches that will add additional functionality post-launch or, you know, potentially if we have any bugs that need to be fixed we can do that. And so, really, it’s more from a position of providing a service to our consumers<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164935&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trust Us, We&#8217;re From Silicon Valley: Tech Giants Race to Bolster Public Image</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/06/18/tech-titans-jockey-to-be-the-most-transparent-of-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[America’s largest Internet companies are tripping over themselves to bolster their public image following blockbuster disclosures about their role in the U.S. government’s controversial data-gathering program. via NSA Scandal: Tech Titans Jockey to Be the Most Transparent of All &#124; TIME.com.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164955&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Bungie&#8217;s Destiny Became the Poster Child for Next-Gen, Always-Online Gaming</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/18/how-bungies-destiny-became-the-poster-child-for-next-gen-always-online-gaming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Always online. Deeply social. Companion mobile experience. These video game industry buzz phrases are like poison to the hard-bitten gamer. But if you&#8217;re talking about Destiny, the next big game from the creators of Halo, they become a lot easier to swallow. Bungie, which is developing Destiny under a 10-year publishing deal with Activision, has designed its next game to be constantly connected to the Internet. It will not work offline, and players will routinely cross paths with other players, even if they prefer to fight alone. A companion smartphone app will keep players connected to Destiny&#8216;s world. Yet you won&#8217;t find much grousing about Destiny in gaming forums&#8211;at least not anything like what Microsoft has endured for pushing the Xbox One as an Internet-based game console. That&#8217;s because Destiny, and its connected, social brand of shooting and looting, actually sounds like a lot of fun. In the first public demo of the actual game, players are seen raiding an alien base, picking up rare guns after a huge battle, then meeting up with other groups of players to take on a massive boss together. It sounds like a cross between Borderlands, Halo and Guild Wars&#8211;all highly addictive on their own&#8211;and just the kind of game that makes sense of all those slimy industry buzzwords. Activision It&#8217;s no surprise, then, that Bungie helped Microsoft and Sony shape the next generation of game consoles, as I learned from Harold Ryan, Bungie&#8217;s president. Just as Bungie provided input on Microsoft&#8217;s original Xbox and its Xbox Live online service, the studio provided similar input to Microsoft and Sony for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, Ryan said during an interview at last week&#8217;s E3 Expo. &#8220;As it turned out, our aspirations for Destiny were very aligned to a lot of the tech that&#8217;s going into the new consoles, and so it&#8217;s actually been a great opportunity for us to push forward,&#8221; he said. Ryan couldn&#8217;t provide many specifics on how Bungie actually influenced the design of the Xbox One and PS4, citing non-disclosure<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164893&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Supercomputer Named As World&#8217;s Fastest</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/18/chinese-supercomputer-named-as-worlds-fastest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING (AP) &#8212; A Chinese university has built the world&#8217;s fastest supercomputer, almost doubling the speed of the U.S. machine that previously claimed the top spot and underlining China&#8217;s rise as a science and technology powerhouse. The semiannual TOP500 listing of the world&#8217;s fastest supercomputers released Monday says the Tianhe-2 developed by the National University of Defense Technology in central China&#8217;s Changsha city is capable of sustained computing of 33.86 petaflops per second. That&#8217;s the equivalent of 33,860 trillion calculations per second. The Tianhe-2, which means Milky Way-2, knocks the U.S. Energy Department&#8217;s Titan machine off the No. 1 spot. It achieved 17.59 petaflops per second. Supercomputers are used for complex work such as modeling weather systems, simulating nuclear explosions and designing jetliners. It&#8217;s the second time a Chinese computer has been named the world&#8217;s fastest. In November 2010, the Tianhe-2&#8242;s predecessor, Tianhe-1A, had that honor before Japan&#8217;s K computer overtook it a few months later on the TOP500 list, a ranking curated by three computer scientists at universities in the U.S. and Germany. The Tianhe-2 shows how China is leveraging rapid economic growth and sharp increases in research spending to join the United States, Europe and Japan in the global technology elite. &#8220;Most of the features of the system were developed in China, and they are only using Intel for the main compute part,&#8221; TOP500 editor Jack Dongarra, who toured the Tianhe-2 facility in May, said in a news release. &#8220;That is, the interconnect, operating system, front-end processors and software are mainly Chinese.&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164944&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Praise of Telegrams, the Original Social Network</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/18/telegrams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the media begins reporting that some once-pervasive piece of technology is finally, definitively dead, my instinct is always to be skeptical. Back in 2011, for instance, NBC Nightly News ran a segment that commemorated the closure of what it said was the world&#8217;s last typewriter factory. More than two years later, the typewriter is still very much with us. So when I saw news stories this week stating that the world&#8217;s final telegram will be sent in India on July 14&#8211;169 years after Samuel Morse&#8217;s first telegraph message&#8211;I didn&#8217;t automatically assume that the world&#8217;s final telegram would be sent in India on July 14. And indeed, there seem to be a number of companies still in the telegram business that don&#8217;t appear to be planning to go out of business next month, such as iTelegram and American Telegram. If their telegrams are any less authentic than the ones that India&#8217;s telecommunications company is about to stop handling, maybe someone out there can school me on the difference. In a less technical sense, of course, the telegram has been dead for decades. I&#8217;ve never sent one, and I suspect that the odds are pretty high that you haven&#8217;t, either. By the time e-mail became common in the early 1990s, multiple other technologies&#8211;fax, overnight delivery, relatively affordable long-distance phone calls&#8211;had long since rendered telegrams an anachronism. But there was a time when they were part of ordinary life&#8211;or, to be more accurate, out-of-the-ordinary life. Reading about their alleged imminent demise, I was moved to pull out my grandmother&#8217;s family albums, which include a number of vintage examples, all sent via Western Union (which discontinued its service in 2006, prompting an earlier round of death-of-the-telegram stories). As a product of the middle of the 19th century, the telegram may be ancient history, but it&#8217;s also reminiscent of multiple current modes of electronic communications. The one at the top of this post even declares itself to be a &#8220;Social Message,&#8221; linking it in purpose to modern social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164888&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Official: Nook Tablets Are Now Ridiculously Cheap</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/17/its-official-nook-tablets-are-now-ridiculously-cheap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, Amazon&#8217;s Kindles and Barnes &#38; Noble&#8217;s Nooks were very similar content-consumption tablets at very similar price points. No longer. In May, Barnes &#38; Noble rolled out a software update that allows Nook HD and HD+ users to use Google&#8217;s standard Android apps and buy new software and content from the Google Play store, knocking down the walled garden that forced you to buy books, magazines and other content from B&#38;N. And now the bookselling behemoth is extending a Father&#8217;s Day special — it&#8217;s still a &#8220;limited time&#8221; offer, though with no specified end — that leaves the Nook HD and HD+ with prices that are ridiculously cheap even for cheap tablets. The 7-inch Nook HD, normally $199, is now $129; the 9-inch Nook HD+ has plummeted from $269 to $149. By contrast, Amazon&#8217;s 7-inch Kindle Fire HD is $199 and its 8.9-inch model is $269. (It does have a basic model, the Kindle Fire, for $159.) These models are no longer exact counterparts to B&#38;N&#8217;s Nooks: for instance, the Nook HD+ is lighter than the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 inch, but doesn&#8217;t have a camera. But when it comes to raw bang for the buck, the Nooks trounce Amazon and everyone else. Why is Barnes &#38; Noble selling Nooks at prices that surely don&#8217;t leave room for a profit margin, and might involve a loss on every sale? Lots of folks are assuming that it has something to do with the rumors from February that the company might pull back on hardware in favor of selling content for other companies&#8217; gadgets, and therefore wonder if it&#8217;s holding a fire sale so it can exit the tablet market. Could be. But it&#8217;s also possible that B&#38;N is trying to clear out its stock because it has new models in the works. In either case, I don&#8217;t think people who buy a Nook HD or Nook HD+ are going to end up with a doorstop. Now that the tablets work with Google Play services, they&#8217;ll be useful no<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164881&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Police Use Facial Recognition Software to Identify You</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/17/how-police-use-facial-recognition-software-to-identify-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Fox Van Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bank has just been robbed. The only evidence left behind is grainy security camera footage – detectives have a blurry face, but nothing else to go off of. The photo gets enhanced and run through a database. A few drama-filled moments later, the computer spits out the name and address of a suspect. This may sound like a terrible plot from an episode (every episode?) of CSI: Miami. But it’s also happening every day in police departments across the country. According to the Washington Post, police officers in 26 states are empowered to use facial recognition software in conjunction with a database of driver’s license photos to track down witnesses, verify IDs, and learn more about potential suspects. Over 120 million Americans appear in these facial recognition systems nationwide. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never been arrested for a crime before – if you drive, the police already know what you look like. Show up in the wrong camera and the fuzz will be able to find you within hours. Not all states let the police search through photo databases of private citizens. Oregon, Washington, New York and eight other states restrict police access to face-recognition systems. California, meanwhile, does not have a facial-recognition system in place. Currently, most police officers do not need a warrant to run your picture or likeness through a law enforcement database, so long as doing so has a legitimate purpose. Police can analyze security camera footage stills and even Facebook photos to help crack difficult cases. The American Civil Liberties Union has long opposed facial recognition technology for “its potential to finally and decisively put an end to the possibility of anonymity in public.” Of course, given how muted public response was to revelations that the government is spying on all our Internet communications, America may very well respond to the threat with another big yawn. This article was written by Fox Van Allen and originally appeared on Techlicious. More from Techlicious: How to Stop Verizon from Spying on Your Location Law Would Let Police Search Your Phone After Accidents What You<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164877&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Instagram to Add Video</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/17/report-instagram-to-add-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a Facebook event this Thursday – our own Harry McCracken will be there covering it – but TechCrunch thinks it might already know what&#8217;s going to be announced. &#8220;On June 20, a source says Facebook will unveil that Instagram, its popular photo-sharing app, will begin to let people also take and share short videos. Call it the Vine effect,&#8221; reports Ingrid Lunden. Vine, as you may recall, is the Twitter-owned video service that lets users capture six-second video clips for quick and easy sharing. Adding video to Instagram seems like a relatively mundane thing to hold an entire press event about, so maybe this part of a larger announcement or maybe – *looks at calendar* – yep, we&#8217;re getting into the tried-and-true summer tech news slowdown. Facebook may be trying to temper expectations, too: Its event invitation says, &#8220;Join us for coffee and learn about a new product.&#8221; It&#8217;s just coffee, in other words. Facebook isn&#8217;t taking us out to a fancy dinner or anything. Mashable wonders whether the event might be used to announce a Facebook RSS reader in light of Google shutting down its own RSS reader on July 1. I&#8217;d argue that using the Like button effectively turns Facebook into an RSS reader anyway, but with Digg building its own RSS reader and current RSS powerhouses like Feedly all looking to cash in on the vacuum created by the Google Reader shut down, it wouldn&#8217;t be totally outrageous to think Facebook might want to get in on the action as well. Whatever the case, we&#8217;ll know more for sure on Thursday &#8212; check back here for updates.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164874&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For iOS 7, Apple Needs More Than Game Controllers to Win Gaming</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/17/apple-needs-more-than-ios-7-game-controllers-to-win-gaming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sleeper game news out of WWDC last week was that Apple plans to fold actual Apple-baked game controller support into iOS 7 as well as OS X 10.9. Alas, it doesn&#8217;t entail an Apple-crafted controller, only third-party licensed game controller support, and yes, iOS already has game controller support courtesy Bluetooth; the difference in iOS 7 involves Apple&#8217;s new developmental guidelines and an API that goes hand-in-glove with Apple-blessed products from gamepad-makers like Logitech and Moga. Word from sites like Pocket Gamer is that the new controllers should be available this fall, around the time iOS 7 hits. We&#8217;ve even seen semi-detailed mockups of the controllers, laid out by Apple in its iOS prerelease developer library: a wraparound iPhone 5 shell harboring a d-pad, dual analog thumbsticks and both face and shoulder buttons (that&#8217;s it above) as well as a traditional wireless gamepad, presumably angled toward OS X gaming (shown below). According to Apple: &#8220;The new Game Controller framework, added in iOS 7 and OS X v10.9, makes it easy to find controllers connected to a Mac or iOS device. Once discovered, your game reads control inputs as part of its normal gameplay.&#8221; Apple breaks controllers into two basic types here: a standard or extended &#8220;form-fitting&#8221; controller (allowing players to access both the touchscreen and controller buttons) and a separate wireless controller. The company also specifies that the controllers &#8220;must be optional,&#8221; meaning there has to be a way to play each game without a controller; as Apple puts it, &#8220;controllers must enhance gameplay — they must not be required.&#8221; Apple adds that device discovery will be intrinsic to iOS 7 and OS X 10.9&#8242;s new &#8220;Game Controller framework.&#8221; For companies like iCade and SteelSeries, who already make iOS game controllers, that means no longer chasing after discrete game support &#8212; just design to the API and honor Apple&#8217;s &#8220;controllers must enhance gameplay&#8221; principle and you&#8217;re theoretically in business. That is news of a sort: Apple throwing its weight behind anything explicitly gaming-related is a big deal considering Apple&#8217;s historically timid embrace<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164818&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Which Mobile Network Is Fastest? The Results from PCMag&#8217;s 30-City Speed Tests Are In</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/17/which-mobile-network-is-fastest-the-results-from-pcmags-30-city-speed-tests-are-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PCMag has published the results from its annual test of mobile data speeds. Covering 30 cities around the country, PCMag used eight Samsung Galaxy Note II smartphones set to connect to the LTE and non-LTE signals of each of the four major networks (AT&#38;T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon). You can read more about the process here. The overall results from the tests seem to indicate that AT&#38;T logged the fastest LTE speeds in the most places, while Verizon held up well from a reliability standpoint and &#8220;aced every rural/suburban region&#8221; thanks to its nationwide LTE coverage. According to PCMag&#8217;s Sascha Segan: Overall, we found AT&#38;T&#8217;s LTE network to be the fastest of the group, but Verizon Wireless typically triumphed on our reliability gauges. T-Mobile&#8217;s new LTE network looked great in the few cities where we could find it, and it has the best backup in T-Mobile&#8217;s HSPA+ network. Sprint, just like in 2012, didn&#8217;t win any cities, but it&#8217;s on an upward trend by switching from obsolete WiMAX to a fresh LTE system. While results varied city by city, Segan concluded that all four carriers are &#8220;working hard and delivering better networks than they did last year,&#8221; adding, &#8220;There&#8217;s one thing clear, though: If you have an older 3G phone and you&#8217;re in an LTE coverage area, upgrade to an LTE phone right now. The difference in data performance is dramatic.&#8221; Fastest Mobile Networks 2013 [PCMag.com]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164865&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Gadgets</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/gadgets/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Netflix to Run Original TV Series from Dreamworks</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/17/netflix-to-run-original-tv-series-from-dreamworks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Netflix is going to start running original television series from Dreamworks Animation. Financial terms were not disclosed. Netflix Inc. says the multi-year agreement is its biggest deal ever for original first-run content and includes more than 300 hours of new programming. It expands on an existing relationship between the companies. For Dreamworks, the transaction announced Monday is part of a major initiative to expand its television production and distribution worldwide. Netflix has been adding original programming to its roster of movies, and debuted the original series &#8220;House of Cards&#8221; on Feb. 1. It has also increased its focus on children&#8217;s programming in a move seen as taking a different tack than traditional premium pay TV channels such as HBO, Starz and Showtime, whose original shows are tailored more to adults. In December Netflix announced it will offer Disney movies, starting with films released in 2016. It declined to make a similar deal for the rights to Sony movies starting in 2016, which was kept by Starz. The new Dreamworks shows will be inspired by characters from its hit franchises like &#8220;Shrek&#8221; and &#8220;Kung Fu Panda&#8221; and upcoming feature films as well as the Classic Media library that Dreamworks Animation SKG Inc. bought last year. The television shows will be commercial free. The first series is expected to begin airing in 2014 and will be shown in the 40 countries in which Netflix operates. In February the companies announced their first ever Netflix original series for kids based on the film &#8220;Turbo&#8221; that is coming out in movie theaters next month. The original series, called &#8220;Turbo F.A.S.T.,&#8221; will be shown starting in December. Next year Netflix customers in the U.S. and Latin America will also have access to some of Dreamworks&#8217; newest films, including &#8220;The Croods&#8221; and &#8220;Turbo.&#8221; Netflix shares rose $12.29, or 5.7 percent, to $226.28 in morning trading. Dreamworks shares rose $1.69, or 7.4 percent, to $24.50.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164862&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Netflix</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/companies-2/netflix/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>How Apple Will Disrupt the TV Market</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/17/how-apple-will-disrupt-the-tv-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which came first: the chicken or the egg? The tech industry has its own version of this riddle: hardware or software? The answer perhaps depends on whether you&#8217;re a hardware or software engineer, but in most cases, the answer is hardware. When Eddie Roberts built the first PC in 1974, he did so by putting a series of processors on a printed circuit board and built a hardware shell with a screen connected to it to form a PC. As history points out, what he needed next was software to make it run. For this, he turned to Bill Gates and Paul Allen, who created the first PC operating system for use with the Altair 8800. When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak wanted to make their own version of the Altair 8800, they built the PC hardware first and then created a dedicated set of software instruction codes to make it work. The result was the Apple I and II. And when IBM built its first PC, the company built a motherboard that used an Intel processor and onboard memory. But IBM too needed a software operating system to make it run. Like Roberts, they turned to Gates and Allen, and MS-DOS was born. In all these examples, the hardware platform came out first, followed closely by an operating system and, just as important, a dedicated software-development kit (SDK) that software developers could use to create applications for these hardware platforms. This pattern can be tracked to pretty much all of our smart-tech products. It starts with hardware, followed by a smart operating system, followed by an SDK. Apple created the iPhone and simultaneously built what&#8217;s now called iOS to give it intelligence. Apple then created an SDK for software developers to create apps for use on this device. The same goes for the iPad. And while Google appears to have done this in reverse by creating Android before the hardware to run it was created, the approach was similar. Andy Rubin knew very well that the hardware platform drove<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164775&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why iOS 7 Looks Unfinished (Spoiler: It&#8217;s Because It&#8217;s Unfinished)</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/17/ios-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the many things that everybody knows about Apple which aren&#8217;t actually true is the notion that it only tells the world about products once they&#8217;re fully baked. In the case of operating systems&#8211;for Macs, iPhones and iPads&#8211;it always shows off new versions months before consumers can get their hands on them, when they&#8217;re still works in progress. That&#8217;s more by necessity than choice: The company needs to give third-party developers early access to upcoming upgrades so they can begin to get their apps ready. Usually, however, what Apple shows involves incremental change that&#8217;s easy to get your head around. It&#8217;s more of the same, only better, which is rarely a controversial proposition. Then there&#8217;s iOS 7, which Apple announced at last week&#8217;s WWDC keynote in San Francisco and plans to ship this fall. The seventh version of its mobile operating system is the first to depart&#8211;radically&#8211;from the general look and feel established by the first iPhone in 2007. It&#8217;s the most dramatic change to a piece of an Apple platform since OS X showed up to replace the Mac&#8217;s original operating system in 2000. With a stripped-down, layered interface spearheaded by Apple design god Jonathan Ive, iOS 7 practically demands that people form gut reactions about it, often before getting hands-on time. (The only people Apple is providing with a preview version are those who have signed up as iOS developers; they must sign a non-disclosure agreement that forbids them from publicly sharing their experiences with it.) And form gut reactions people have been doing&#8211;remarkably diverse ones. Here are a few sound bites from blog posts published within hours of the keynote&#8217;s end: John Gruber of Daring Fireball says iOS 7 is more impressive, in certain respects, than Steve Jobs-era iOS: This is the first product of the post-Jobs Apple. The result shows that in some ways Apple’s software design has gotten better, because it was Jobs (and Forstall) who had a penchant for exuberant textures and gimmickry. Frank Chimero thinks it looks like a rush job: Part of being<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164539&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Best of E3 2013: 15 Games to Look Forward To</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<title>Apple Details Government Requests for Data</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/17/apple-details-government-requests-for-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Apple says it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data for the six months ended in May. The company, like some other businesses, had asked the U.S government to be able to share how many requests it received related to national security and how it handled them. Those requests were made as part of Prism, the recently revealed highly classified National Security Agency program that seizes records from Internet companies. Prism appears to do what its name suggests. Like a triangular piece of glass, Prism takes large beams of data and helps the government find discrete, manageable strands of information. Prism was revealed this month by The Washington Post and Guardian newspapers, and has touched off the latest round in a decade-long debate over what limits to impose on government eavesdropping, which the Obama administration says is essential to keep the nation safe. Apple Inc. said that between 9,000 and 10,000 accounts or devices were specified in data requests between Dec. 1, 2012, and May 31 from federal, state and local authorities and included both criminal investigations and national security matters. It said that the most common form of request came from police investigating robberies and other crimes, searching for missing children, trying to locate a patient with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, or hoping to prevent a suicide. The company also made clear how much access the government has. &#8220;We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer content must get a court order,&#8221; Apple said in a statement on its website. Apple explained that its legal team evaluates each request and that it delivers &#8220;the narrowest possible set of information to the authorities&#8221; when deemed appropriate. The company said that it has refused some requests in the past. Facebook Inc. has said that it received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests for data from all government agencies in the second half of last year. The social media company said fewer than 19,000<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164827&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Begins Launching Internet-beaming Balloons</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/15/google-begins-launching-internet-beaming-balloons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Martha Mendoza and Nick Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand) — Google is launching Internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons with the lofty goal of getting the entire planet online. Eighteen months in the works, the top-secret project was announced Saturday in New Zealand, where up to 50 volunteer households are already beginning to receive the Internet briefly on their home computers via translucent helium balloons that sail by on the wind 12 miles above Earth. While the project is still in the very early testing stages, Google hopes eventually to launch thousands of the thin, polyethylene-film inflatables and bring the Internet to some of the more remote parts of the globe, narrowing the digital divide between the 2.2 billion people who are online and the 4.8 billion who aren&#8217;t. If successful, the technology might allow countries to leapfrog the expense of installing fiber-optic cable, dramatically increasing Internet usage in places such as Africa and Southeast Asia. &#8220;It&#8217;s a huge moonshot, a really big goal to go after,&#8221; said project leader Mike Cassidy. &#8220;The power of the Internet is probably one of the most transformative technologies of our time.&#8221; The so-called Project Loon was developed in the clandestine Google X lab that also came up with a driverless car and Google&#8217;s Web-surfing eyeglasses. Google would not say how much it is investing in the project or how much customers will be charged when it is up and running. The first person to get Google Balloon Internet access this week was Charles Nimmo, a farmer and entrepreneur in the small town of Leeston who signed up for the experiment. Technicians attached a bright red, basketball-size receiver resembling a giant Google map pin to the outside of his home. In a successful preliminary test, Nimmo received the Internet for about 15 minutes before the 49-foot-wide transmitting balloon he was relying on floated out of range. The first thing he did was check the weather forecast because he wanted to find out if it was a good time for &#8220;crutching&#8221; his sheep, or removing the wool around<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164753&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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