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Tech NewsGoogle’s New Plan: Annoy You Into Compliance
Google Plus users just got a pretty horrible new feature: search your name, and instead of finding out information about yourself, you’re asked to provide it. Quite simply, Google doesn’t want to give you information until you give it information. Guh. As Drew Olanoff of The Next Web noted today, if you are using Google’s … Continued
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Netflix Discovers It Has a Marketing Problem
Adage reports that Netflix is replacing its chief marketing officer Leslie Kilgore. You don’t say? I’m nearly as surprised as I was when yesterday was Thursday. Netflix’ marketing was nothing short of disasterous last year. It’s little wonder the company is looking for someone new. Kilgore has been running Netflix marketing since 2000, and obviously … Continued
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Facebook Launches Open Graph With 60 New Partners
Facebook opened up Open Graph tonight, its tool for letting third party developers share actions in your timeline. It announced 60 partners tonight, including AirBnB, Runkeeper, and Pintrest, and now it’s open to developers everywhere. Basically, privacy is over. What this means is the app-ification of your timeline. The new Open Graph tool will let … Continued
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SOPA And PIPA Are the Internet’s Own Damn Fault
Lots of sites are protesting SOPA today by going dark. Turning your website black is cute, and even attention-grabbing. But the only way SOPA dies is if the Internet industry starts lobbying just as hard as the entertainment industry. Look, I fully support efforts by Reddit and Wikipedia and others to raise awareness. But the … Continued
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Mark Zuckerberg Finally Comes Out Against SOPA
The drumbeat of heavy-hitting Internet companies that have come out against SOPA and PIPA continues to pound. Facebook founder and amateur butcher Mark Zuckerberg just came out against the bill, with a post on Facebook. Zuck notes that the company is against SOPA and PIPA in no uncertain terms. The post also links to Facebook’s … Continued
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Jerry Yang Out at Yahoo!
Yahoo! board member Jerry Yang has apparently been forced out of the company he founded. In a statement released today, Yahoo announced he had resigned from its board of directors, and all other positions at the company. In resigning, Yang wrote: My time at Yahoo!, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of … Continued
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This Kind of Ignorance Is What Gives Gadget Guys A Bad Name (Updated)
At CES last week, in addition to all the gear and gadgets, there was something else on display: women. As with many trade shows—especially ones aimed at a male audience—CES was rife with booth babes. Yet when the BBC ran a story on the practice of hiring scantily-clad models to stand around booths and draw … Continued
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Here’s What The iPad 3, 4, and 5 Will Look Like
You may have seen the story that the iPad 3 has gone into production. We’re pleased to announce that we already know what it’s going to look like. In fact, we know about the next two models after that as well. Although a few details may change before they hit shelves, we’ve got an exclusive … Continued
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Google’s Newest Search Result? An FTC Antitrust Investigation
I’m not the only one troubled by Google’s new Search Plus Your World—Google’s aggressive push to include social results in its search that seems to favor Google+ over other social media services. So is the FTC. Bloomberg reports the FTC has expanded its antitrust probe to look at whether or not Google is giving preferential … Continued
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Nearly Two-Thirds of Apple’s Suppliers Don’t Abide by Worker Hours Limits
Apple for the first time (to its credit!) released a list of suppliers today along with a compliance report that shows only 38-percent are abiding by rules on work hours limits. According to Apple’s audit, at 93 facilities more than 50 percent of people worked more than its limit of 60 hours per week. At … Continued
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Google Just Made Bing the Best Search Engine
I just switched the default search engine in my browser from Google to Bing. And if you care about working efficiently, or getting the right results when you search, then maybe you should too. Don’t laugh! Google changed the way search works this week. It deeply integrated Google+ into search results. It’s ostensibly meant to … Continued
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The One About The Las Vegas Per Diem (Updated)
“Just bought $50 of burritos to take home because I haven’t finished my per diem.” That’s the message we just got from Gizmodo editorial assistant Kyle Wagner, who clearly doesn’t quite get how Gawker Media per diems work. Update: Airport security took Kyle’s burritos away. Can someone meet Wagner at JFK with some burritos please?
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All These Waterproof Gadgets Are Making Me Wet!
We’ve been beating the drum for waterproof gadgets for some time now. (That our fearless leader Joe Brown is a fly fisherman may have a little bit to do with this.) Well, they’re finally starting to arrive in promising numbers. While you can’t exactly say that it’s overwhelming, they’re here, sprinkled throughout the show floor … Continued
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Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter
I trudge past several million dollars worth of 3DTVs, looking for a good place to take a shit. The toilets are all filthy. CES attendees are overwhlemingly men. Men are filthy, especially when they’ve been drinking too much coffee and eating Vegas buffets. So I duck into the ladies’ room. It is empty and pristine. … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Most (and Least) Amazing Things We Saw at CES Day One
Day one is winding down at CES, and we’re already starting to see some trends emerge. Like, everyone seems to have the flu. And, wow, those are some big-ass TVs. But we’ve been picking up on a few themes that seem to be emerging after this first official day of CES. Here are the highlights, … Continued
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I Don’t Think I Want Polaroid’s Android Point And Shoot Camera Yet
Polaroid is trying to stay relevant in the digital age with a camera that’s an Android mashup with a 3x optical zoom, 720p video, a 16 MB sensor and, well, a lot of head scratch. The Android OS that powers the phone does have interesting capabilities—you’ll be able to edit photos on the fly, for … Continued
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Man on Man Gold-Rimmed Segway CES Monster Love
How would you roll if you were a big baller CEO of one of the world’s largest electronics companies? If you’re Monster Cable CEO Noel Lee, on a tricked out gold-rimmed Segway of course. Oh, and look, a Segway-strapped admirer! So Lee is rolling on his Segway, talking to military brass (really) and generally just … Continued
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LG’s Massive 84-Inch Ultradefinition TV Won’t Fit In My Anything
If you want to get a sense of just how massive LG Display’s new 84-inch Ultradefinition 3DTV is, check out this shot. That tiny-looking TV on the left? It’s a ridiculously big 60 inches, dwarfed by LG’s 4K monster. Are you very rich? Is your home very large? You are totally going to want the … Continued
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