An anonymous reader writes "Peter Sunde was arrested today in a police raid in southern Sweden. The Pirate Bay co-founder was wanted by Interpol as he had yet to serve prison time for his involvement with the site.
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Saturday, May 31, 2014
Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Arrested In Sweden
An anonymous reader writes "Peter Sunde was arrested today in a police raid in southern Sweden. The Pirate Bay co-founder was wanted by Interpol as he had yet to serve prison time for his involvement with the site.
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Friday, May 30, 2014
What It's Like to Interview for Tech Jobs
Over the past year I have had great opportunities to interview for positions at companies I respect, and some I didn't. I wanted to share my experiences to help others looking to go down this job path and some general interviewing tips. This post originally appeared on Justin Garrison's blog.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2014
SciShow Explains Why We Have Different Blood Types
For the latest round of “Quick Questions” by SciShow, Michael Aranda answers the user-submitted query “What Are Blood Types,” taking on the roles that antigens and antibodies play in determining our own types, and how these facts impact blood transfusions.
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5 questions we hope NBC will ask Edward Snowden — but they probably won’t
Edward Snowden gives his first full interview to a major American television outlet tonight at 7:00 pm Pacific with NBC. Famed news anchor (and rap artist) Brian Williams will be asking the questions.
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Old console, new tricks: Getting the most out of your Wii
It's not a great time to be a Nintendo fan. Forecasts are falling; profits are down; and Nintendo's new console just can't bottle the lightning its predecessor left behind. The faithful may believe that the Wii U will pull through (after all, Mario Kart 8 and Super Smash Bros.
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Beats by Apple Makes Monster's Big Mistake Even Bigger
Apple's move to buy Beats for $3 billion is a big deal, and not just because it's the biggest acquisition in the company's history. But for Monster's Noel and Kevin Lee, the original brains behind Beats, all it means is extra salt in the wound.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Monday, May 26, 2014
How To Check If Your iPhone Is Locked or Unlocked For Free
Imagine the scene: you need to leave the country for an impromptu holiday or business trip. You travel in style to your destination, purchase a local SIM card in order to try and keep costs down only to realize that your iPhone is locked to your home network and won’t accept the local SIM.
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Sunday, May 25, 2014
Clean Your Car Seats With Washing Soda
Car seats absorb all sorts of stains and crumbs. Over time fabric seats can get gross, but you can avoid expensive cleaners by using washing soda and dishwashing liquid to clean the interior. Over at POPSUGAR they give their full recipe, but the main ingredient is washing soda.
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Saturday, May 24, 2014
How the iPhone Activation Lock hack works
The recently revealed exploit that allows anyone to bypass the iPhone’s Activation Lock system is a rather simple process that requires adding just a single line of code to a computer running iTunes.
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How To Fix iOS 7 iMessage Delivery Bug When Switching From iPhone To Android
As Apple recently acknowledged, iPhone users switching to Android or any other platform are running into a bug that sees messages continue to be sent using iOS’s proprietary iMessage protocol.
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Friday, May 23, 2014
Hearthstone's Americas Qualifier prize pool is $250,000
Blizzard has announced a $250,000 prize pool for Hearthstone's Americas Qualifier Tournament. The breakdown is $100,000 for first place, $50,000 for second place, $150,000 for third and fourth place, $7,500 for fifth through eighth place, and $5,000 for ninth through sixteenth place.
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How to Build a Hackintosh
Build a Hackintosh with better performance than a Mac Pro — for half the price. A comprehensive, free, step-by-step guide.
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Thursday, May 22, 2014
Pushbullet Now Syncs All Your Notifications Across any Android Device
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Beautiful Images of Fungi Photographed by Steve Axford
Steve Axford is a retired resident of New South Wales, Australia, who spends much of his time traveling and photographing nature, capturing — perhaps most notably — some truly stunning images of fungi in its various form.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014
'flipflop' Lets You Quickly Move to Your Last-used App
If you're a Windows user and you're familiar with the Alt+Tab command that allows you to move between your running applications without using your mouse, then you might be happy to know that iOS developer twodayslate has just created a new free jailbreak tweak for iOS dubbed flipflop to let you do s
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The World's Smallest Nanomotor Spins as Fast as a Jet Engine
A team of engineers at the University of Texas at Austin recently created the world's smallest, fastest nanomotor. Designed to power microscopic machines that could deliver medicine or fight cancer, this thing will fit inside of a human cell. And boy can it purr.
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Microsoft Finally Surrendered To the iPad. Good!
Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 is many things. It's thinner, it's faster; it's all of the superlatives that come when you out a New and Improved version of anything tech. It, along with the absence of a Surface Mini, is also a white flag.
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Saturday, May 17, 2014
Console Wars
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Friday, May 16, 2014
Interstellar may be the first movie that shows a "real" warp drive
At last we got to see the full trailer for Chris Nolan's Insterstellar. The drama on Earth seems centered around a worldwide food crisis fired by climate change and resource depletion—a quite probable future.
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Thursday, May 15, 2014
Being gluten free is dumb because gluten intolerance may not even exist
If you have Celiac, this obviously doesn't apply to you. Don't eat gluten. But if you don't have Celiac—and that's 99% of the human population, mind you—there's no reason to be gluten free. You're wasting your time.
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Tires with built-in sensors keep a watchful eye on tread wear
Continental is bolstering its Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS ) to not only monitor your tire pressure but its tread depth, too. As your tires age and change shape, so does the way they roll and interact with the road surface.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Survey finds battery life is most important for iPhone owners
A new survey, reportedly taken from a sample of 50,000 smartphone users around the world, reveals the reasons consumers made the phone purchasing decisions they did.
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The Man Who Literally Built Star Wars
One of the most memorable elements of the original Star Wars in 1977 wasn't the story, or characters, or even the soundtrack. It was the set design. Back in the 1970s, you didn't just get the interior of the Millennium Falcon spaceship made.
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8 mini packs of sugru (8x5g)
Welcome Login or Register Hi there! We ship from Michigan at cost price. The best sugru pack for about 95% of people. 8 foil-wrapped pieces of sugru, ready for 8 fixing sessions around the house, car, factory floor or just about anywhere really.
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George R.R. Martin Writes Everything In WordStar 4.0 On A DOS Machine
George R.R. Martin is an impressive man. Not only can he kill off characters like it’s NBD, and magically make you care for characters who have been historically evil, but he writes millions of words about an imaginary land without any help from the vast information of the Internet.
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Apple clueless on iMessage purgatory syndrome
Apple’s iMessage platform is great for heavy texters. Integrated deeply into the bowels of Apple’s mobile and desktop operating systems, iMessage simply disappears so normals are completely oblivious to the fact they’re actually using the system.
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Risk Board Game Coffee Table: World Domination at Your Feet
So you love a good game of Risk. You play it all of the time. You even strategize when you are not playing. You are basically addicted to world domination. If that sounds like you, here is your dream coffee table.
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Game of Thrones Characters as Hearthstone Cards [Pics]
These Heartstone card by reddit user randomnate can unfortunately not be used in the game, but they’re funny and actually make sense. If you’re reading this from the front page, check ‘em all out after the jump!
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Unwhiteboard Cleans Whiteboard Photos With an Email
Web: You can avoid taking notes in the meeting by simply taking a photo of the whiteboard at the end. But those photos might not be perfectly legible. Unwhiteboard cleans them up if you just send the photo to this email: Unwhiteboard won't transcribe your whiteboard.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Apple's Love-Hate Relationship with Samsung
Apple and Samsung have had a love-hate relationship for quite a while. Despite the ongoing litigation between them, they are codependent on each other for the iPad's success.
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Google Search 4.0 is out with several Google Now improvements
Google today released an update for its popular Google Search app. The update brings the iOS client to version 4.0, and includes a number of improvements to the Google Now feature such as support for smarter conversations and faster load times.
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What Steve Jobs really said about an Apple HDTV
When it comes to the bevy of Apple HDTV rumors that seasonally spring up, Steve Jobs' quote about "finally cracking the HDTV puzzle" is often referenced as proof positive that an Apple-branded television is in the works.
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This Is What a $129 Smartphone Looks Like
Motorola announced the Moto E early Tuesday morning in London. This afternoon, we had a chance to meet with the company in New York City to talk about the Moto E, its purpose, and the company’s expectations for the new smartphone. The device costs just $129 without any sort of contract.
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New Snowden Docs Highlight “Weaknesses” In Facebook Data Security
Journalist Glenn Greenwald released a bunch of new documents from “the Snowden archive” today to coincide with the publication of his book No Place To Hide.
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Google Search for iOS gets smarter with conversational voice search
Google's just updated its search app on iOS, and in doing so it's made the voice search feature much more useful. With Google Search version 4.
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Here's Why You Should Avoid Fake iPad Chargers At All Costs
To me, it seems strange that one would spend vast amounts of money on a premium product like an Apple iPad, but not pony up the money for a decent, official spare charger. Counterfeit charging accessories make big bucks for those behind them, but as a side-by-side tear-down of real vs.
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'Alien' designer HR Giger dead at 74
Yesterday the world lost the man behind one of the most memorable movie villains of all time. HR Giger, the Swiss-born artist who designed the "Xenomorph" monster for the film Alien, passed away at age 74 after suffering injuries from a fall.
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Monday, May 12, 2014
How Sega Planned To Crush Nintendo, 24 Years Ago
Blake J. Harris' book Console Wars, out tomorrow, takes readers behind enemy lines to meet the men and women who created the exciting and exceptionally bitter rivalry between Sega and Nintendo.
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Best Tweaks of the Week May 5 - May 11
This recap will go over the best tweaks that we've shown you this week. It's certainly not all of them, but we think these are some of the most notable. These are in no specific order. 1. OS Experience – $9.
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