Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // June 12, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Jun 12, 2013

WTF Is Waze And Why Did Google Just Pay A Billion+ For It?

The tech industry has seen its fair share of acquisition whoppers lately, with Salesforce acquiring ExactTarget for $2.5 billion this month, and Yahoo putting... read more

Samsung Just Killed Nokia's 'True PureView' Windows Phone And It's Not Even Unboxed Yet

Poor Nokia. Samsung doesn't stop. It's just announced a new iteration of its flagship Galaxy S4 handset which has a digital camera embedded in its rump. The... read more

Electric Kool-Aid iOS 7 Test

Flat, man. Flat is free. It doesn't tell us what to think. We don't need those metaphors. Skeuomorphism was a trap. A mental prison, holding us back. Let the... read more

NFC Stands For Nobody F****** Cares And Apple Gets That

If you think QR codes are a bad joke then consider NFC. Near Field Communications' evangelists have been trying to get smartphone owners to share stuff by... read more

PRISM Would Have Come Off Better With Better PowerPoint Design

I don't know what to believe about the world anymore. First of all, how does an NSA contractor have the ability to wiretap anyone, ANYONE, from an... read more

Google Glass Gets A Teardown, Revealing It Can Be Hacked To Prescription Glasses

Google Glass isn't in the hands of consumers yet, but a pair of intrepid Glass explorers didn't let that stop them from taking the thing apart to see what makes... read more

Netflix Will Launch Multiple User Profiles This Summer To Keep Your Recommendations Pristine

It's a nuisance many Netflix users are familiar with--you log-on to watch something from the Criterion Collection, only to find that your recommendations are... read more

The Mysterious Case Of The Missing Jawbone Up

It seems a week doesn't go by without finding out about a malfunctioning Jawbone Up band. The wearable step tracking bracelet measures how much you move each... read more

Apple's iOS 7 Is A Smorgasbord For Game Developers, With Sprite Kit, Game Controller Support And More

Apple's developer bits are generally the bigger picture story that comes out of WWDC, and some details are slowly emerging about those 1,500 or so new APIs... read more

Is PRISM Precipitating A Bitcoin Sell-Off?

Bitcoin has experienced a fairly massive drop in value over the weekend and into this week, moving from a peak of $118 on June 7 to a low of $89 on June 9.... read more

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