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Japan's Toshiba Q1 profit jumps 178 percent

2012-07-31T06:29:47Z

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese electronics conglomerate Toshiba Corp posted a better-than-expected 178 percent rise in quarterly operating profit on Tuesday, boosted by strong overseas profits in the firm's

Gallery: The Evolution of Cameras from 1930 to 1970

2012-07-31T00:06:31Z

The digital camera industry has been on a nostalgic kick as of late, replicating the rugged aesthetics and feel of shooters dating back to the late 1930s

Apple vs. Samsung with a side of Sony: Vertical integration wars | ZDNet

2012-07-30T21:43:42Z

Digg is Returning with Bigger Images

2012-07-30T20:35:55Z

German Student Defies Google Cease-and-Desist with 1 Million Signatures

2012-07-30T18:22:41Z

Google is determined to take down Youtube-mp3.org, a site that rips downloadable mp3 files from streaming YouTube videos. Philip Matesanz, the site's 21-year-old owner, has collected 1.2 million signatures in protest against the action. Will his petition move the search giant?

Apple's $8.8bn profits disappoint

2012-07-30T21:57:19Z

Intel’s 64-core champion: In-depth on Xeon Phi

2012-07-30T19:16:31Z

A Look at The New Digg

2012-07-30T20:42:10Z

Surprise! Consumer Internet Companies Fuel Euro Growth VC Growth

2012-07-30T12:08:49Z

Short Film Sight Gives Us A Disturbing Glimpse Into Augmented Reality

2012-07-30T15:43:55Z

Embeddable contact lenses make for a world where augmented reality is inescapable.

Reddit Rapists Come Clean On Controversial New Thread, But Should We Listen?

2012-07-30T16:57:02Z

"I am a post-colleged age male who raped several girls through use of correction, alcohol, and other tactics over a course of 3 years." Thus begins the comment of an anonymous Reddit user submitted three days ago as part of a massive Reddit thread dealing with sexual assault, born out of one Redditor's question: "Reddit's had a few threads about sexual assault victims, but are there any redditors from the other side of the story?

Apple reportedly to unveil iPhone 5, iPad Mini on Sept 12

2012-07-30T16:02:05Z

Apple consumers could perhaps see the debut of both the new iPhone and an iPad Mini come September.

Rethink Digg - v1 preview

2012-07-30T15:32:07Z

Digg v1 will launch this week after a six-week sprint to rebuild the site from scratch. Here’s a first glimpse.

Alleged photos of the iPhone 5 emerge

2012-07-30T13:57:48Z

Ubisoft DRM Lets In Remote Attackers, Google Engineer Reports

2012-07-30T14:05:22Z

Hacker Tavis Ormandy has discovered a serious vulnerability in a well-known PC game DRM system.

Meet the Man Who Put the '@' in Your E-Mail

2012-07-30T12:03:44Z

But amid all the bluster over the origins of e-mail, one man holds a claim that resonates well beyond the rest. Ray Tomlinson is the reason your e-mail address includes an ‘@’ symbol.

Is The Latest Apple-Samsung Court Case Really All About Google?

2012-07-30T11:26:32Z

In a court case kicking off today in San Jose, Apple is tackling Samsung over software and hardware patent infringements in an attempt to win over $2.5 billion in damages.

Microsoft Announces New Hardware for Windows 8

2012-07-30T10:17:23Z

Microsoft on Monday announced new keyboards and mice optimized for tablets and laptops running the Windows 8 operating system.

Now you can buy a working $1.3 million Japanese mech over the internet ..

2012-07-30T11:28:36Z

Apple Claims This Prototype Means It Didn't Copy Sony ..

2012-07-30T10:29:31Z

The End of Gun Control? How 3d printing may make it impossible to limit the purchase of guns

2012-07-30T07:50:08Z

The 50 Most Powerful People In Enterprise Tech

2012-07-30T06:18:30Z

These people influence everything.

The Week's Juiciest Apple Rumors

2012-07-30T04:17:53Z

Measuring the Evolution of Contemporary Western Popular Music : Scientific Reports : Nature Publishing Group

2012-07-30T03:49:10Z

Popular music is a key cultural expression that has captured listeners' attention for ages. Many of the structural regularities underlying musical discourse are yet to be discovered and, accordingly, their historical evolution remains formally unknown. Here we unveil a number of patterns and metrics characterizing the generic usage of primary musical facets such as pitch, timbre, and loudness in contemporary western popular music. Many of these patterns and metrics have been consistently stable for a period of more than fifty years. However, we prove important changes or trends related to the

Great expectations: It's not easy being Mark Zuckerberg

2012-07-29T20:57:55Z

Leaked: IFPI Tutorial On How To Stop Pre-Release Music Leaks

2012-07-29T18:16:02Z

Following the inadvertent leak of several IFPI and RIAA reports this week and our subsequent articles, today we wind up with perhaps the most ironic of the series. It covers a presentation by the IFPI's head of anti-piracy operations to industry insiders on how to prevent leaks. It explains how individuals gain access to pre-release music, how to set up honey-traps to ensnare them, and also hints at why the UK's Serious Organized Crime Agency targeted the RnBXclusive blog earlier this year.

Google Fiber Is The Most Disruptive Thing The Company's Done Since Gmail

2012-07-29T16:07:35Z

This is what Google products used to be like before they started chasing Facebook with one social experiment after another.

Is HP Showing The Slate 8 In The Commercial?

2012-07-29T18:33:05Z

Is HP showing the Slate 8 in the commercial is what you will ask yourself if you see the commercial ads of the HP, where they say ”Make It Matters.”

The Infographic Creation Process

2012-07-29T22:31:56Z

There are a lot of us who want to create an infographic, but do not know where or how to even begin. It can almost seem like a giant jigsaw puzzle of information floating around in our heads with no place to put it.

Defcon 20 visitors get their own 'pirate' cellular network in Ninja Tel, exclusive One V to match

2012-07-29T20:32:43Z

Why An iPad Mini Will Crush Google's Nexus 7 - Forbes

2012-07-29T21:00:47Z

Apple apparently seeking strategic Twitter investment

2012-07-29T16:26:54Z

Apple is reportedly planning to make a huge splash in the social networking arena, but it doesn't want to build something from the ground up. It would be

The World's Nicest Cease-And-Desist Letter Ever Goes Viral, Sells Books - Forbes

2012-07-29T09:59:29Z

Companies go to great lengths to protect their trademarks. The standard response for copyright infringement is to send a threatening letter from a lawyer and threaten to sue. But the people at Jack Daniel's, one of America’s most iconic brands, opted for true southern hospitality toward Patrick Wensink, an obscure Louisville-based author of a new satirical novel, Broken Piano For President .

Twitter-Controlled Pet Feeder

2012-07-29T14:39:37Z

Twitter-Controlled pet feeder automatically dispenses food in response to activity on your Twitter account.

Mac OS X Mountain Lion (Unofficially) Sprints to Over 2 Million Downloads

2012-07-27T17:57:47Z

While nothing is yet official, early estimates have Apple's newly released Max OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) off to a roaring start. Furthermore, if the preliminary numbers are accurate, Mountain Lion could become the fastest deployed operating system of all time, regardless of platform. That's impressive.

The Original iPhone 4 Design Prototype From 2006

2012-07-28T19:13:37Z

More ancient Apple prototypes revealed by court filings this week : What looks like the first, Sony-inspired design prototype of the iPhone 4/4S, along with an iPhone that looks like a giant iPod m...

Remote camera mounts replace AFP photographers at Olympic Games

2012-07-28T14:19:25Z

Facebook's value slides by $10 billion; outlook unclear

2012-07-27T15:26:05Z

Investors wiped $10 billion off the value of Facebook Inc on Friday, taking the recently listed shares to a new low, after the social network offered no forecast and analysts said mobile investments would put future earnings under pressure.

Google Fiber: Everything you need to know

2012-07-28T03:10:58Z

Google has announced superfast internet in Kanas City, but that's not all: it's also unveiling Fiber TV, which includes DVR, apps, and voice search. It constitutes a complete rethinking of how we watch TV, and, if successful, could change the living room forever. We've got everything you need to know about Google's Fiber announcements right here.

10 Essential Google Chrome Extensions ..

2012-07-28T14:37:24Z