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Apple holds a quarter of e-book market, Eddy Cue says

AronrPorter — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:57:26 +0000

But Barnes & Noble is neck-and-neck with the electronics giant and sometimes surpasses Apple's market share in digital books, the high-level Apple executive said during testimony in court. [Read more]

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Evernote adds Reminders, extending task-management options

heloltiki554 — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:51:21 +0000

If, like many, you use Evernote as a sophisticated to-do list, the latest update to the essential software and service is about to dramatically increase its usefulness. Reminders give Evernote a full suite of alarm and notification features, ideal for turning static notes into dynamic action items

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‘Titan’ falls: Today’s top supercomputer is owned by China, powered by Intel

AronrPorter — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:46:19 +0000

China has regained the crown for the fastest supercomputer on the planet, according to the semiannual Top500 list, which claims that the Milky Way-2 supercomputer has doubled the performance of the previous leader, the American "Titan" supercomputer, in just six months.

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Latest iPhone 6 concept design inspired by Apple iOS 7 debut

kumar — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:22:00 +0000

Within just a few days of Apple unveiling iOS 7 at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference last week, a creative designer came out with a concept of what iPhone 6 might look like with the new software.

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Video app Squrl pumps up content with redesign

pal.inderjeet@gmail.com — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:06:25 +0000

The video-discovery app that scours the Internet improves its search and adds private messaging. The next step is getting official with content providers

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Why we can’t stop malicious insiders

CarlosAdkinss — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:03:20 +0000

Security experts have been saying for years that insiders -- malicious, careless or simply unaware -- are a greater threat to organizations, both public and private, than hackers.

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Scientist out to break Amdahl’s law

xt2wa0 — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:41:51 +0000

Many attempts have been made over the last 46 years to rewrite Amdahl's law, a theory that focuses on performance relative to parallel and serial computing. One scientist hopes to prove that Amdahl's law can be surpassed, and that it doesn't apply in certain parallel computing models.

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Snowden: NSA snoops on U.S. phone calls without warrants

sx2oyuc8u — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:35:09 +0000

Ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden says Americans' domestic communications are perused by National Security Agency "on the certification of an analyst rather than a warrant." [Read more]

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New Fords to Be Full of Knobs

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:34:22 +0000

Ford pulls back from dashboard touchscreens in cars as it moves to restore some knobs and buttons following complaints about its MyFord Touch interface

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New tech can detect even viruses yet to be discovered

supriya — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:30:42 +0000

Researchers say a next-gen sequencing approach allows them to subtract the entire human genetic sequence from the genetic material of a blood sample and identify viruses based on what remains. [Read more]

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