UPDATE 2: From CNET: “SF police confirm search for lost, unreleased iPhone”
UPDATE 1: Ah, this might help explain things somewhat. From SF Weekly: “Lost iPhone 5: Bernal Heights Man Says Visitors Impersonating Police Searched His Home (Exclusive)”
This case needs a Sherlock Holmes.
A couple of days ago, CNET got wind that yet …
“Given that the full database file is downloadable from hundreds of sites there is only one internally rational action.”
That’s one of the updates from WikiLeaks’ Twitter account this week, alluding to the organization’s recent spat with U.K. newspaper the Guardian, which published a WikiLeaks-related book back in February that …
A woman buys a plank of iPad-shaped wood, liquid cremation hits the big time, and Apple loses yet another secret iPhone in a bar. All that and more as we take a quick look back at what happened in tech this week.
Want more videos like this one? Click here…
FOLLOW-UP: WikiLeaks has published 250,000+ U.S. Embassy cables to a searchable online database…
As the story goes, some 100,000 or more secret U.S. diplomatic cables found their way onto the internet recently—the cables had been rounded up by none other than WikiLeaks, the non-profit, secret-leaking organization with the simple
…
It’s no fire sale HP TouchPad, but for $199, Lenovo’s IdeaPad A1 tablet looks like a decent 7-inch slab of Android for cheap.
Just keep in mind that the IdeaPad A1 is far from the cutting edge of technology. Inside, there’s a 1 GHz processor (all the rage in 2010), 8 GB of storage, a 3-megapixel rear camera and a VGA front-facing
…
It’s a weird time for the camera industry.
On the one hand, DSLRs continue to get cheaper and more powerful, becoming more and more accessible to hobbyists and budding pros. Meanwhile, at the other end of the spectrum sits the iPhone, which unexpectedly became the most popular camera on Flickr (and likely the world), thanks in no …
After months of speculation, it’s time for the sale of streaming video site Hulu to turn into a bidding war. Six companies have submitted informal bids for the site this week, according to those in the know, including three big names eager to own what could be turned into a Netflix streaming video killer.
Samsung’s taking a couple more swings at sub-iPad tablet sizes with the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note and the Galaxy Tab 7.7. Finding success with these smaller sizes hasn’t been easy for tablet makers, but there’s a chance Samsung could finally get it right this time.
Let’s start with the Galaxy Note, a phone-tablet hybrid with a 5.3-inch …
Remember when Apple was accused of illegally tracking the location of iPhone users via a location discovery system inherent to iOS4 earlier this year? Well, it turns out that it wasn’t just Apple—or Google, which was also found via a leaked memo to be doing the same thing with their Android devices. Now Microsoft is being sued for …
It only took the better part of two decades for Germany to realize id Software’s Doom and Doom II aren’t going to debase its youth. Yep, the Fatherland just officially lifted a 17-year ban on sales to minors of the first-person shooter (and its sequel) that more or less engineered and defined the genre when it launched for PCs back in …
Why do people hate on Zuck so much? All he does is wear a goofy grin and call things awesome (even when they aren’t) and cover our magazine from time to time. He’s not so different from you or I, give or take a few billion dollars…and killing his own animals.
But I guess this next bit of news won’t exactly help his cause, as he sits …
Imagine a relatively small sub-$100 microscope that can probe the food on your plate (or the blood pumping through your body) using a laser instead of lenses. Also: it’s capable of using that laser to produce holographic images. No, not Holodeck-caliber simulacrums, but sophisticated 3D images of dense surfaces, say your skin (see the …
