Tag: apps
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Facebook can now officially eavesdrop on you
from androidpit.com: The Facebook app was recently updated in the USA, adding a feature which turns on the device microphone in order to record background sound to know what is happening around you. Facebook sees this feature as a win for users, since status updates can be posted even quicker. On the other hand, skeptics…
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Spritz Speed Reading App Triples Your Skills?
from blogs.telegraph.co.uk: Have you seen the new speed-reading app? It’s pretty cool. Turns out there’s something odd about the way our eyes move over words, and a group of app creators, having clocked this, have been able to produce something that can – they say – triple reading speed. Yes, triple it. The secret is…
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Vietnam’s Flappy Bird Developer: It Was ‘An Addictive Product’
from thediplomat.com: After millions of downloads, Flappy Bird has vanished from the App Store and Google Play. Dong Nguyen, the game’s Vietnamese developer, permanently grounded Flappy Bird – a title that was allegedly bringing him $50,000 a week in ad revenue – in an apparent bid to clear his conscience. “Flappy Bird was designed to…
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Spy Agencies Scour Phone Apps for Personal Data
from ndtv.com: When a smartphone user opens Angry Birds, the popular game application, and starts slinging birds at chortling green pigs, spies could be lurking in the background to snatch data revealing the player’s location, age, sex and other personal information, according to secret British intelligence documents.
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@Bandsintown: Keeping Up With Concerts
Ever since I stopped reading the local ‘alternative’ weeklies, I’ve needed a way to stay up on concerts coming to town. Enter the BandsInTown app. You let the app scan the music you have on your smartphone and then it’ll keep you up-to-date with any live shows that those bands have coming up. Like the…
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If a Young Child Wanders, Technology Can Follow
from nytimes.com: Most parents have experienced that feeling of fear when a young child wanders off at the playground or disappears during a trip to the supermarket. New technology, in the form of voice watches and miniature sensing devices, is aimed at thwarting such distress by keeping track of children who are too young to…
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October #DataDump: Info, Tech, Prophets and More
Capture Your Entire Life in 30-Second Snaps // Apple rejects app for tracking U.S. drone strikes // Trying – and failing – to regulate the Internet // Battle at the top for UFO disclosure // Philip K Dick: Science Fiction Prophet
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#DataDump: Balconies, Breaches, Biggest Builds and More
Julian Assange takes aim at US as diplomatic row deepens; Speech from balcony calls on Obama to abandon witchhunt // Did Bush’s Broadband Deregulation Upend His Own NSA Wiretapping? // Alexandria 2.0: One Millionaire’s Quest to Build the Biggest Library on Earth
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Malware Arrives, Nuked on App Store For First Time
from tomsguide.com: Kaspersky has discovered the first-ever malicious app on Apple’s App Store. Kaspersky Lab is calling this a first-ever for Apple: an app offered on the App Store containing malware. The security firm confirmed its existence on Thursday, reporting that the malicious app was also available to download from Google Play. The app has…
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#DataDump: #HackedIn, Track Default, Radio and More
Hacker Claims He Stole 4.5M LinkedIn Password Hashes // IE10′s ‘Do-Not-Track’ Default Dies Quick Death // IPv6 switch to prevent the net from running out of addresses // FBI Illegally Pirated Kim Dotcom’s Data Out of New Zealand, File-Sharing King Charges // Video: ACLU Phone App Lets You Shoot the Cops*
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#DataDump: Satellites, CISPA, Space Boat and more
‘Internet doomsday’ July 9, claims FBI* Satellite export controls loom over national security, economy* Military Clashes with U.S. Spies over Outsourcing of Satellite Surveillance* Equipment Maker Caught Installing Backdoor in Control System Code* Judges Drive Truck Through Loophole in Supreme Court GPS Ruling* High Court rules iiNet not responsible for its customers’ illegal downloads* Czechs…
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#DataDump: #Discovery, Debacle, #David8 and more
Space Shuttle #Discovery Wows DC in 45min Flyover* Video: Space shuttle Discovery arrives in Washington* Video: Smithsonian Welcomes Discovery to Collection* Video Playlist: Space Shuttle Discovery* US military intelligence critic to lead spy agency* Contradicting Fed. Judge, FCC Clears Google in WiFi Sniffing Debacle* FCC’s Ruling on Google’s WiFi Snooping Sets Horrible Precedent* Video: New…
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microsoft spins android malware into windows phone giveaway
from computerworld: Microsoft is using the latest malware campaign aimed at rival Android to give away new Windows 7 Phones to the five Android users who tell the best tales of woe. “More malware on Android! Been hit? Share yr #droidrage story to win a #windowsphone upgrade. 5 best (worst?) win!” said Ben Rudolph, Microsoft’s…
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10/20 defcon: ops, apps & agony
top egypt ‘facebook revolutionary’ advising #OWS* ‘anti-cheating boyfriend’ app forced to change* video: theater review of ‘the agony & the ecstasy of steve jobs’: the moral issues behind iphone & its makers* was 1883 astro-mystery a near-miss billion ton comet?* does future hold ‘avatar’-like bodies for us?* russians wants to build colony on the moon;…
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10/13 defcon: outage, buyout, lineup
video: fbi makes arrest after johansson emails hacked* mitsubishi heavy, japanese defense contractor, targeted by over 50 computer viruses* fake netflix app poses data-stealing risk* blackberrys buzz back to life after long outage* dennis ritchie, father of ‘c’ programming language, dies at 70* microsoft skype buyout is officially official* faithful line up as apple’s new…