Andzakovic, an avid biker since age 15, equipped his motorcycle with a Raspberry Pi, a heads-up display (HUD) integrated in a bike helmet, GPS, a laptop, routers and wireless sniffing and attack tools.

The bike can detect Wi-Fi access points upon passes them and plot these access points on Google Maps. The access points are reflected on the display in different colors indicating what type of security they use. The amount of data transmitted between the bike and the access points are also shown in a bar graph at the center of the display.

Andzakovic can kick users off their Wi-Fi networks using the Wi-Fi scanning bike by sending out deauthentication packets. He can also hack into protected access points using the data that the bike collected. Andzakovic intends to use the bike for wireless network penetration tests.

Andzakovic presented the bike at the AusCERT security conference on the Gold Coast.

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1. Medium

Medium, a new blogging platform from Evan Williams (co-founder of Blogger and Twitter), hosts stories quite a bit longer than 140 characters. The network, still in early beta after launching last October, touts a simple, stark design and a stripped-down editing mode designed for everything from recipes to manifestos.

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Have you ever dropped into Facebook to check your news feed, only to be amazed how many unfamiliar names fill your screen? Lab partners from seventh grade, friends’ parents; it’s enough to spur another friend purge (or an exodus). As the social networking giant expands its user base, it’s only natural to seek out a niche that appeals to you, instead of appealing to everyone.

We’ve compiled a list of 10 social platforms with huge potential. Some are expanding rapidly; others have yet to launch. Here, you’ll find blogging platforms to express something more than disdain for your soggy sandwich or the most LOL-worthy cat GIF (for the record, it’s this one).

Would you use any of these services instead of Facebook? Or do you have your eye on another rising social star? Tell us in the comments.

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1. Hiding Facebook Posts

You can hide an ordinary Facebook post from certain people by changing the privacy settings before you send it. Image courtesy of Facebook

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Did you know that on Facebook, you can make a post totally invisible to a certain person or group of people?

It’s a great privacy option for anyone planning a surprise event, shielding personal photos from nosy acquaintances or even hiding nefarious activity from the boss.

Take a look through our walkthrough in the how-to gallery above. Let us know in the comments if you’ve used this particular privacy function — and how it worked out for you.

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Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories. Apple is working on … something. That’s according to All Things D, where Apple CEO Tim Cook was on stage Tuesday for the D11 tech conference. Spotify has launched a new component in its web-based music app, called Discover. And the most popular activity on smartphones is still talking, believe it or not. It accounts for 26% of time spent on a phone every day.

Check out the video above for more on these stories.

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“I have decided next year I will not seek a fifth Congressional term,” says Bachmann, who has served in the House of Representatives since 2007. She’s been on the House Intelligence Committee since 2011.

Bachmann, who made a failed bid for the Republican presidential nomination last year, later added the decision is not related to ongoing investigations of her campaign’s fundraising methods.

“This decision was not impacted in any way by the recent inquiries into the activities of my former presidential campaign or my former presidential staff,” she said.

Bachmann’s presidential campaign strategy relied on garnering Tea Party support. However, Tea Party conservatives never truly rallied behind Bachmann. Instead, they flirted with several other candidates — including Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Herman Cain — before putting their energy behind former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. Santorum eventually lost the nomination to former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who went on to lose the general election to Barack Obama.

Bachmann’s choice to announce her retirement from Congress via YouTube makes her the latest politician to sidestep the media in announcing a major decision directly to voters — just last week, Anthony Weiner officially announced his New York City mayoral campaign via YouTube.

Why are politicians making big announcements via YouTube? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

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“In recent days, it has become clear that our systems to identify and remove hate speech have failed to work as effectively as we would like, particularly around issues of gender-based hate,” Marne Levine, VP of Global Public Policy, wrote on Facebook’s official blog. “In some cases, content is not being removed as quickly as we want. In other cases, content that should be removed has not been or has been evaluated using outdated criteria.”

In response, Levine wrote that the company plans to review and update guidelines regarding hate speech on the network. Facebook plans to work with “legal experts and others, including representatives of the women’s coalition and other groups that have historically faced discrimination,” she wrote.

In addition, Facebook plans to update the training for teams that evaluate claims of hate speech and increase the accountability of the creators of “insensitive” content. A few months ago, the company initiated a policy in which authors of such offensive content were required to attach their authentic identity to it.

In her blog post, Levine stresses that while the often-hard-to-define hate speech is verboten on the social network, offensive speech is OK. “While there is no universally accepted definition of hate speech, as a platform we define the term to mean direct and serious attacks on any protected category of people based on their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability or disease,” she wrote.

Levine’s statement comes after a coalition of watchdog groups initiated a boycott of Facebook and charged that there was too much language and imagery on the site that glorified violence against women.

Examples of such content included a meme with a picture of a woman whose mouth was taped, surrounded by the caption: “Don’t wrap it and tap it. Tape her and rape her.” The group also called on advertisers to flee the social network and started the hashtag #FBRape to pressure Facebook. According to Think Progress, some 15 advertisers took part in the boycott, including Nationwide UK and Nissan UK.

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Cook assured viewers that Apple has “absolutely not” lost its cool and still has “several more game changers in us,” but he remained vague about the company’s future. He suggested that Apple is interested in wearable computing — but for the wrist, not the eyes — and offered a canned response similar to last year’s comment about the need for a company to improve on the household television experience.

While Cook did not reveal any major product news — last year, he noted that Ping would be killed off — he did confirm that Apple’s design guru Jony Ive is in charge of the refresh for iOS 7, which should be previewed next month at WWDC. Cook also revealed that Apple has used some of its cash reserves to acquire nine companies so far this year.

You can watch the complete 81-minute interview from last night below:

How do you think Cook did in the interview? Share in the comments.

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To create a ring, just create and upload a flat, black-and-white pattern to Shapeways’ Custom Ring App. The flat pattern will be printed in a ring shape, as you can see in the examples below:

Rings cost as little as $2.30 and as much as $130 or more, depending on the material chosen. If creating a ring from scratch is intimidating, you can choose to modify and print a ring from a range of pre-existing templates.

Shapeways entrance

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Windows 8 Hybrids Hit the Enterprise

The Toshiba Portégé Z10t is a Windows 8 hybrid for business users. The screen detaches from the keyboard dock to become a tablet. It can be configured with either Windows 8 Pro or Windows 7, and it starts at $1,499.

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While IT managers aren’t exactly jumping at Windows 8, manufacturers are rising to the occasion to create new kinds of PCs that cater to the needs of enterprise. The Portégé Z10t is Toshiba’s first take on a Windows 8 hybrid PC for business users.

Except it doesn’t have to be a Windows 8 machine. Although the Z10t ships with Windows 8 Pro by default, customers can configure it to run 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows 7. This might help convince a few businesses to consider the Portégé, since recent research from Forrester Research points to enterprise customers basically skipping Windows 8.

Still, it’s designed for touch: The Z10t is a hybrid, meaning it’s a laptop until you detach the 11.6-inch screen from the keyboard dock and then it becomes a tablet. Similar to the Surface Pro, it ships with a pair of digitizing pens, and the screen has a fingerprint-resistant coating that makes it feel more like writing on paper. One pen is in the box; another slips into a hole on the device.

That coating also reduces glare, and the IPS (in-plane switching) LCD tech prevents brightness and color from dropping off too much if you view the screen from the side. From a brief hands-on with the new Portégé, I can also say it feels good to the fingertip, in contrast to many gloss Windows 8 screens that are a little too “sticky.”

The screen pops into the keyboard dock just by sliding down, but it won’t come out again unless you slide the release button and lift. That way, users can still grab and carry the laptop by the screen when necessary. It weighs 3.1 pounds.

Customers can configure the Portégé Z10t with either an Intel Core i5 or i7 processor and 128 or 256GB of storage. RAM is 4GB, but when Intel’s Haswell chips arrive, Toshiba will offer an 8GB option. A fingerprint reader, which will be integrated on the top edge of the tablet, is optional.

In the few minutes I had to explore the Z10t, I found it to be an unremarkable hybrid PC, designed purely around function — exactly what you want in a workhorse machine. The matte screen makes the experience a little less “poppy” than you’d find on, say, a Surface Pro, but as an anti-glare feature, it works great.

The Portégé Z10t starts shipping today, starting at $1,499 (Core i5/128GB/4GB RAM), which includes a three-year warranty.

How do you like Toshiba’s business hybrid? Share your thoughts in the comments.

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The mind-reading robot — a PR2 personal robot designed by Willow Garage, equipped with a Microsoft Kinect 3D camera — does that by analyzing your body movements. It then searches through its database of various household activities and decides which action will likely follow.

Let’s say you’re done with your lunch and you want to place the leftovers into the fridge. The robot sees that you’re picking up a container with food and proceeds to open the fridge for you, as that action is very likely to happen next.

The robot could also pour your beer or coffee, put the dirty dishes away as well as a number of other menial tasks.

“We extract the general principles of how people behave. Drinking coffee is a big activity, but there are several parts to it,“ said Ashutosh Saxena, Cornell professor of computer science and co-author of a new study tied to the research.

Scientists from Cornell claim the robot made correct predictions 82% of the time when looking one second into the future, 71% for three seconds and 57% for 10 seconds.

According to Saxena, the next step is improving on robot’s reactions to the predictions. “The future would be to figure out how the robot plans its action. Right now we are almost hard-coding the responses, but there should be a way for the robot to learn how to respond,” he said.

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“When 140 characters doesn’t cut it, fastFT will go beyond the headlines, providing context and opinion in quick, authoritative reports with a level of transparency and personality that isn’t available elsewhere,” Barber wrote in a memo shared with Mashable.

FastFT will be run by a team of eight editorial staff members: three in New York, three in London and two in Hong Kong, according to an FT spokesperson. Other FT journalists, as well as guest writers, will also contribute, the spokesperson added.

In concept, fastFT is much like The Atlantic Wire, which offers commentary and opinion on breaking news from around the web from a dedicated staff at The Atlantic magazine. Whereas the Wire pays particular attention to U.S. news, politics, culture and entertainment however, the FT will focus on global financial markets, allowing the paper to deliver news commentary and analysis faster and less formally than its standard article format allows. As such, it will be able to more effectively compete with faster, business-focused news outlets such as Business Insider and the WSJ‘s blog network.

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Discover — originally announced in December 2012 — is showing users relevant artists and playlists, based on their current listening habits. It’s also offering curated content from music sites and services such as Pitchfork, Songkick and Tunigo.

Other new feature of note is Audio Preview, which enables users to listen to new music without stopping the song they’re currently playing. Click and hold over any play button on the Discover page and you’ll listen to that song; release it and you return to the song you were playing before.

SEE ALSO: Spotify Wants to Make Music Discovery Truly Social

The Discover page is available today on play.spotify.com. It will also “gradually” roll out to Spotify’s desktop and mobile apps.

Spotify Discover Tab

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Public Lab’s Infragram camera won’t break the bank, and highlights plant growth by taking advantage of near-infrared technology, as explained in the above video. Public Lab, also known as the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science, is a community that works on affordable, do-it-yourself versions of scientific equipment.

In the process of converting sunlight into sugars, plants actually absorb red and blue light. Since infrared light is not absorbed, however, Public Lab’s near-infrared camera can help compare infrared with visible light to show how productive the plant cells are.

The technology can highlight plant growth, which Infragram’s creators say could be useful for everyone from gardeners to organic farmers and wetlands activists. This photographic technique isn’t new, but Public Lab’s handheld version is available at an affordable price.

With 38 days left in its campaign, Public Lab has already surpassed its $30,000 goal on Kickstarter.

For a $10 pledge, backers can get a do-it-yourself filter, and for a $35 pledge, backers will get the Infragram Webcam, which is a “cheap, barebones webcam for taking composite photos.” For a $95 pledge or higher, backers can get the Infragram Point & Shoot, which is “a simple but experimental camera for taking infrared/visible photos.”

Public Lab already has three successfully funded Kickstarter projects for open-source environmental tools under its belt. One was a grassroots effort to map the effects of the BP oil spill in the Gulf Coast.

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The laser, which emits a blue light and includes a metal handle, can torch through paper, tape, ping-pong balls, cardboard and wooden splints, among other items. Watch for yourself in the video, above.

“Here my BEAST 3000 mW [milliwatt] laser goes up against a bunch of flammable stuff. Most thing slight instantly when placed in the beam of this laser!” the laser’s creator, YouTube user styropyro, says in the video’s description. “This is the most powerful handheld laser that I’ve ever used!”

He adds, “I usually try to refrain from using the term ‘lightsaber’ when referring to my lasers, but there really isn’t much else out there to describe this laser.”

Would you consider the device a lightsaber? Give us your take in the comments, below.

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HTC’s long-awaited flagship device originally launched on T-Mobile on April 24, but its availability was limited to 300 stores. Now, it’s expected to be available in all T-Mobile retail stores and branded locations.

The BlackBerry Q10 is also scheduled to hit T-Mobile retail stores on June 5. It will have the same pricing as the HTC One — a $99 down payment with 24 equal $20 monthly payments.

SEE ALSO: BlackBerry Q10 Is for Keyboard Lovers Only

The keyboard smartphone from BlackBerry sports a 3.1-inch AMOLED screen, a dual-core 1.5GHz processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage and LTE connectivity.

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New Tang Dynasty (NTD) Television reports that farmer Sun Jifa, in China’s northern Jilin province, lost his arms years ago when a fishing explosive prematurely went off. Sun could only afford a low-grade pair of prosthetic arms, but they weren’t very useful.

So despite having no instructions, Sun spent eight years building his own steel pair of bionic arms from scratch, NTD Television reported. His story is explained in the video above.

“It transfers power from the natural movement of my elbow into the finger, allowing it to grab and hold,” Sun, 53, told NTD Television.

But what’s arguably even more remarkable is that Sun then turned his invention into a successful business.

Other amputees soon began requesting their own version of Sun’s prosthetics, according to NTD Television. Today, Sun has reportedly sold over 1,000 steel limbs for about US$490 each.

“By using these hands, I can help the family with chores. I can do some farmwork. I’m not useless,” he told NTD Television. “I really feel a weight has lifted. I feel I’m not a freeloader. I can be useful.”

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Levine uttered the brief comment — which you can listen to at the 1:14 mark in the video, below, from the show’s official YouTube page — just moments before America’s votes eliminated his early frontrunners Judith Hill and Sarah Simmons. Seconds earlier, his other finalist Amber Carrington was spared. The moment appears to be the result of a hot mic.

Levine responded early Wednesday morning with dictionary entries on Twitter.

joke-noun1. something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or prankish act

— Adam Levine (@adamlevine) May 29, 2013

hu·mor·less(hymr-ls)adj.1. Lacking a sense of humor.2. Said or done without humor

— Adam Levine (@adamlevine) May 29, 2013

light·heart·ed Function: adjective1 : free from care, anxiety, or seriousness : happy-go-lucky 2 : cheerfully optimistic

— Adam Levine (@adamlevine) May 29, 2013

mis·un·der·stand Pronunciation: \(ˌ)mi-ˌsən-dər-ˈstand\Date: 13th century1 : to fail to understand 2 : to interpret incorrectly

— Adam Levine (@adamlevine) May 29, 2013

Joke or not, the statement caught viewers by surprise, with some expressing their disbelief on Twitter. Here’s a sampling of tweets that Levine’s “I hate this country” phrase incited:

Someone is gonna get fired for leaving @adamlevine‘s mic on when he said “I hate this country” #thevoice

— Ashley Hevener (@ashhev) May 29, 2013

Does @adamlevine get deported for saying “I hate this country” on the voice tonight? lol hey US we’ll trade you for Bieber!

— David DK Kelly (@SeaDogsDK) May 29, 2013

If Christina woulda said “I hate this country” like Adam did today, ppl woulda tweet her so much hate but since it’s Adam everything is cool

— SpanishTina! (@lovE29eR) May 29, 2013

I think @adamlevine saying “I hate this country” was completely unnecessary. @nbcthevoice @nbc

— Nathaniel (@onlynathaniel) May 29, 2013

hearing adam levine say “i hate this country” from off camera is a small comfort in the wake of the voting tragedy that happened this week.

— Dianne Choie (@diannechoie) May 29, 2013

The two best singers on @nbcthevoice got voted off, I agree with Adam, “I hate this country.” It’s not the voice, it’s the country show

— BGALLY11❤ (@1Dfan4life_14) May 29, 2013

@imgregrunge @thevoice_tf1 Adam clearly meant to say “I hate country (music)”

— Richard Pyle (@pyle27) May 29, 2013

@rcooney13 he has the right to be pissed! at least his team had genuine talent.

— skylar mann (@skymann02) May 29, 2013

Contestants with the lowest votes are eliminated every week. People can vote via phone calls, texts and online through NBC.com, the Zeebox app, the NBC app and The Voice Live Facebook app. In 2011, The Voice became the first televised singing competition in the U.S. to allow iTunes sales to count as votes.

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In Bogotá, Colombia’s capital city, crowdfunding will build a skyscraper, thanks to the donations of 300,000 residents who contributed a total of $170 million. Rodrigo Nino, CEO of Prodigy Network — the company behind the crowdfunded effort — thinks this model can be replicated and even improved upon.

In fact, Nino wants to crowdfund an entire city, as he announced at last week’s PSFK Conference 2013 in New York. It’s why he launched My Ideal City, a website where Colombians can contribute to their cities by sharing ideas and funding projects.

If you want to learn more, check out the video, above.

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That certainly looks to be the case in the clip, above, which Bechu uploaded on Sunday. Watch as he deftly juggles a golf ball with his club, twirling and flipping the putter as he goes. And what’s more? A camera — GoPro, according to the video’s YouTube title — also records the action from Bechu’s perspective, giving us two views of his amazing tricks.

Check the video; then let us know what you think in the comments.

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Wary of the Kinect sensor, Peter Schaar, Germany’s federal data protection commissioner, is calling the Xbox One a “monitoring device,” according to a translated report in German news magazine Der Spiegel.

“The Xbox continuously records all sorts of personal information about me. Reaction rates, my learning or emotional states. They are then processed on an external server, and possibly even passed on to third parties. Whether they will ever be deleted, the person cannot influence,” Schaar told Der Spiegel.

It’s true that the enhanced hardware in both the Xbox One and its Kinect companions are remarkable pieces of work. I witnessed first-hand how the sensors can detect not only the pulse in users’ faces, but also their facial expressions and where their attention is directed. During the Xbox launch in Redmond, Wash., Microsoft executives demonstrated how these features can be used to enhance game play, system control, as well as content delivery and consumption.

How much of that data will be stored locally, and how much will go to the always-connected cloud is, for now, unclear.

For its part, Microsoft sought to allay privacy fears with this statement:

“We know our customers want and expect strong privacy protections to be built into our products, devices and services, and for companies to be responsible stewards of their data. Microsoft has more than ten years of experience making privacy a top priority. Kinect for Xbox 360 was designed and built with strong privacy protections in place and the new Kinect will continue this commitment.

We are designing the new Kinect with simple, easy methods to customize privacy settings and provide clear notifications and meaningful privacy choices for how data will be used, stored and shared. We remain fully committed to addressing our customers’ privacy questions in greater detail in the coming weeks.”

There may also be some misconceptions about the Xbox One’s always-on nature. For one: When you walk in the room, is it watching you?

Marc Whitten, corporate vice-president of Xbox Live, told Mashable that while Xbox One will and Kinect will always be on, “it’s not watching you while it’s in low-powered mode.”

Regardless, Xbox One will clearly be the most attentive Xbox we’ve ever seen.

The Xbox One

Ending years of rumors and speculation, Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One, the successor to the Xbox 360, on May 21, 2013. The price will be revealed closer to launch (expected holiday), but the new console has superior processing power, comes bundled with the Kinect sensor and has new abilities for watching TV and movies more conveniently.

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The BMX freestyler shows off tricks that seem impossible, but Knoll tackles the stunts with ease. The incredible moves include upside down maneuvering, handstands and enough spinning to make your brain dizzy.

Enough chatter — just watch.

1. Mountain Biker Gets Wiped Out by Antelope

Waaaiiit for it ... ouch.

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We start with a mid-morning tweet from Eric Dickerson, who is regarded as one of the greatest NFL running backs of all time and a 1999 inductee into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Long since retired, Dickerson now resides in the tony Southern California suburb of Calabasas.

Calabasas is also, as it happens, home to the Biebster. And the 19-year-old Bieber’s driving style has apparently rubbed some of his older neighbors the wrong way, as evidenced by Dickerson’s Tuesday morning post:

I live in Calabasas too and @justinbieber needs to slow his ass down.

— Eric Dickerson (@EricDickerson) May 28, 2013

Dickerson’s curmudgeonly tweet didn’t come out of the blue. He was actually backing up Keyshawn Johnson, another former NFL star and Calabasas resident also apparently fed up with how Bieber cruises around the neighborhood.

A Tuesday morning TMZ report said Johnson, driving a Prius, hunted the Ferrari-driving Bieber down in hopes of delivering a little lecture about traffic safety. It’s difficult to explain this rationally, so we’ll just leave three choice paragraphs from the TMZ story right here:

Keyshawn — a former NFL superstar — had just left a party Monday night inside of his exclusive gated community in Calabasas (with his child in the car), when Bieber zoomed by in his Ferrari at breakneck speeds.

We’re told Keyshawn was furious — feeling Justin could’ve killed someone — so he brought his kid home, then chased after the singer in his Prius (yes, a Prius chasing a Ferrari).

When KJ got to Bieber’s pad — he blocked Justin’s Ferrari in the driveway and got out of his car to confront Justin face-to-face … but Justin ran inside of his house and refused to come out.

Bieber may have escaped the reported in-person scolding from Johnson, but Dickerson still wasn’t done with him. Four hours after his original finger-wagging tweet, the Hall of Famer posted this followup:

Hey @justinbieber I use to have a white Ferrari too, but I knew the speed limit in neighborhoods where kids played. twitter.com/EricDickerson/…

— Eric Dickerson (@EricDickerson) May 28, 2013

And there you have it. Only on Twitter, folks. Only on Twitter.

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CEO Tim Cook set the record straight during an interview Tuesday evening, remarking that Apple “did not make a bid for Waze” — contrary to reports by several tech publications earlier this year.

According to the rumors, Apple was attempting to acquire Waze in order to fix some of the ongoing issues with Apple Maps.

Cook says that maps are important, which is why you’ve seen Apple investing as much as it has in improving its maps product.

Cooks admits, “We screwed up there,” when it comes to maps, but what the company has now is “greatly improved” from where it started.

Cook was interviewed during All Things Digital’s D11 conference currently being held in southern California. Amongst other remarks, Cook announced that Apple has sold 13 million Apple TVs and that customer satisfaction for Apple products is currently “off the charts.”

Facebook and Google are now rumored to be looking to acquire the social driving app.

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Working under the premise that “slow-mo makes everything better,” YouTube added a new slow motion enhancement tool to its built-in editor on Tuesday, making it accessible to everyone who uses the site to create videos.

YouTube’s built-in video editor already has a number of different effects that users can harness when editing their videos. The slow-mo effect was developed in-house at YouTube, using frame analysis to blend intermediate frames together. The result: Videos look like they were shot with a high-speed camera.

Videos that feature slow-motion effects seem to be popular on YouTube. For instance, the Slow Mo Guys channel has more than 2 million subscribers and 220 million overall views.

Check out a slow-mo video created with the editor, above. The original video is posted below:

What are your thoughts on YouTube’s new slomo feature? Will you use it? Tell us in the comments, below.

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