Category Archives: Science & Technology
Why Did Apple Agree To Let Google Maps Back In The Tent?
Instagram: "Your Photos Are Your Photos. Period."
Earlier today, controversy erupted over Instagram’s proposed Terms of Service revisions, which, at first glance, seemed to reserve the company’s ownership of and right to sell its users’ personal photos. Slated to take effect in January, the changes were quickly denounced by many users and the media. In response, Instagram’s founder, Kevin Systrom, has published a blog post in hopes of setting the record straight, promising clearer language in the agreement and to reiterate that owners retain ownership of their photos.
With its the original draft, Instagram required users to agree to grant the company with a “royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license” to their photos for use in advertisements without compensation or notification. While Systrom claims that company is exploring means of generating advertising revenue in the form of promoted accounts and content, not unlike those found on Twitter and Facebook, it has no plans to repurpose users’ photos for advertisements. He goes on to claim that the language was erroneous and misleading and will be removed in an upcoming revision to the document.
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Apple releases iOS 6.0.2 update, promises fix for Wi-Fi issues
After complaints of intermittent Wi-Fi connectivity, Apple has released a new software update for iOS, bringing the version up to 6.0.2, according to The Next Web. The update, which is available now through iTunes, claims to fix a bug that negatively effects Wi-Fi performance. The bug, which many consumers claimed disabled Wi-Fi connectivity for the iPhone and iPad, was previously believed to have been fixed in iOS 6.0.1, but the problem persisted for some users. Apple encourages all users to download and apply the update, which can be accessed immediately by syncing your device with iTunes.
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Ancient Pharoah Ramses III Was Assassinated
By Matt Cantor
Source: Newser – Science
Arctic Town to Offer Space Flights
By Neal Colgrass
Source: Newser – Science
Cool Hobbit Gear For The Fan Who Has Everything
We’ll show you everything a fan of Middle Earth could want from the One Ring, to prop replicas, to swords, to your very own Hobbit House!
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Google Maps App Reportedly Coming to iOS Tonight
Google will reportedly release a Google Maps app for iOS tonight. According to All Things D, “sources familiar with the matter” say the standalone map app is finally set to return, replacing the version removed from the latest version of Apple’s operating system.
Previous versions of iOS included the Google Maps app by default, but Apple replaced it with its own problematic Maps app, which it apologized for in September. Users had to use Google Maps from within iPhone’s Safari browser as a workaround due to no standalone app being available.
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Amazing Video Game Artwork You Can Own!
We found some sweet retro remakes of new games, Japanese woodblock prints, designer book covers, and some seriously geeky stained glass!
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Tech Fetish Podcast Episode 150
The 150th episode of Tech Fetish is finally here – but will the TF crew talk about Tech? (Spoiler: Nope).
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Wii U Was Once a Wii Zapper Prototype
Over the past several months, Nintendo has revealed much of its thinking behind Wii U, including how it originally approached development of the system. Within these origin stories have been demonstrations of early Wii U GamePad prototypes, or more specifically what some teams – like the Miiverse team – crafted to crudely test dual-screen layouts. In that case, the GamePad was a cardboard cutout, with pen and paper being used to simulate a LCD screen.
In a new Iwata Asks column, however, the Nintendo Land development team revealed the true origins of the Wii U GamePad, before the console itself even existed.
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12 Days of Free Comics at Comixology
‘Tis the season for giving, and it looks like Comixology is taking that to heart.
The world’s leading digital comics platform — available on iOS devices, Android, Kindle Fire, Widnows 8, and the web — is giving away one free digital comic book a day for the next 12 days. And if today’s free book is any indication — Avengers vs. X-Men #0 — we’re not talking about the usual freebie fare.
Read our review of Avengers vs. X-Men #0
“Comixology has had an amazing year and to celebrate we – along with 12 amazing publisher partners – are giving back to the fans and giving them the opportunity to freely share amazing comics,” said co-founder and CEO David Steinberger. “By delivering the best reading and buying experience – what we like to call ‘buy once, read anywhere’ – we’ve hit such milestones as cresting 100 million downloads of comics and graphic novels!”
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A Real-Life Transformers Robot for Sale
Japanese designers have created a real-life Transformer in the 1/12 scale Transform Robot Version 7.2 from Brave Robotics. You can buy this sucker for $24,000. Check it out:
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Tech of the Year Preview: The Contenders
From super slim smartphones to mind-bogglingly powerful PCs, we sift through the best tech 2012 has to offer.
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IGN’s Tech of the Year 2012 Preview
From super slim smartphones to mind-bogglingly powerful PCs, we sift through the best tech 2012 has to offer.
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Judge Rejects Xbox 360 Ban in U.S., Germany
U.S. Judge James Robart has ruled against Motorola regarding a proposed ban of Xbox 360 sales in the United States. The ruling comes as part of an ongoing patent dispute between Motorola and Microsoft in which Microsoft was found to have violated multiple Motorola patents involving H.264 video coding and access to the internet via Wi-Fi.
Judge Robart has now ruled that those patents are “critical to industry standards” and should be “licensed on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms,” according to the BBC. Motorola was asking for up to $4 billion a year from Microsoft for the right to use the technology, but a new fee will now need to be negotiated. Motorola was previously granted an injunction to ban Xbox 360 and Windows 7 sales in Germany, but that ban has now been overturned by Robart’s ruling.
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