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A Look Inside Google’s New OnHub Wireless Router

…it’s configurable through an app; promises better signal throughout your house than your current router; and looks nice enough that you’ll actually place it where you’re supposed to place a router, prominently in the center of your house. All of which may or may not answer the question: why should I spend $200 on a Google router? There’s no denying the great steps forward Google has made in the…

Rovio To Cut 260 Jobs As Angry Birds Loses Its Mojo

It looks like Angry Birds maker Rovio is having some troubles to pay the bills. The Finnish company is about to cut 260 jobs after reducing its workforce by 110 employees in October 2014. At the end of 2013, the company had 800 employees in total. It was nice while it lasted. There is always the movie though. [Via TechCrunch]

Samsung Galaxy Note 5 Stylus: Read the manual

I feel like such an idiot. Today on MacBreak Weekly I tried to illustrate a problem with the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 discovered by Phil Nickinson at Android Central. I inserted the stylus wrong end up for what I thought was a safe distance. It wasn’t. Crazy that something so expensive breaks so easily. I can see myself getting distracted and totally breaking one of these. [Via Leo’s POSSE]

Turning CO2 from air into car parts may help carbon capture pay

The electric current could come from conventional sources – which might offset the technique’s carbon-sucking potency – but Licht has also successfully run it on solar power. Powering carbon capture has been what keeps it from being economically viable according to some, but surely for such a new technology, power and mobility optimisation is only just beginning. If extrapolated to very large…

Major Android remote-access vulnerability is now being exploited

Based on anonymized data collected from users of an app designed to check for a newly revealed vulnerability in many Android devices, Check Point discovered that one application in the Google Play store is exploiting the vulnerability to gain a high level of access to the Android OS, bypassing user permissions—and bypassing Google’s security scans of Play applications to do so. Update: A Google…

Don’t Be Apple

I can’t help but feel like I’m feeding the TechCrunch Troll here, these articles are best ignored, but you’ve gotta love how Gruber skilfully dissects the nonsensical clickbait garbage that Jon Evans has written. What could go wrong? Well, let’s get dystopically speculative for a moment. Can you remember some of the most hyperbolic overreactions to the fall of the World Trade Center, and how they…

Apple VP Eddy Cue and Beats Co-founder Jimmy Iovine on Steve Jobs #apple #stevejobs #startup #team

via Apple VP Eddy Cue and Beats Co-founder Jimmy Iovine on Steve Jobs

What strikes me most about this video, is that a company like Samsung would be pissed watching this, knowing that Apple’s culture is the one thing they can’t copy.

Anti-Tech Protesters Are Telling Kevin Rose's Neighbors That He's A "Parasite" #startup #vc #entrepreneur

via TechCrunch

Working class revenge. I bet he’s shaking in his boots LMAO!

Anti-Tech Protesters Are Telling Kevin Rose’s Neighbors That He’s A “Parasite” #startup #vc #entrepreneur

via TechCrunch

Working class revenge. I bet he’s shaking in his boots LMAO!

Samsung sues newspaper for $284k over negative reports on Galaxy S5

via AppleInsider

Stay classy Samsung.

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Samsung sues newspaper for $284k over negative reports on Galaxy S5

via AppleInsider

Stay classy Samsung.

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Popcorn Time - Hollywood’s Nightmare #movies #business #piracy

via TechCrunch

The RIAA spent an untold fortune fighting the Napster generation until Apple turned the rippers into buyers with iTunes. Apple made it easy to grab the latest music, anywhere, at any time and it turned a generation of music pirates into, at the very least, a generation aware of the alternatives.

The current state of movie piracy is centered around archaic distribution. Consumers…

Winners of the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards, Part I #digitalphotography #camera #focus

The Atlantic

So many great shots here.