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majority of our community was never a
target."
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UNLUCKY SEVEN
Prosecutors hit Silk Road
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Young Texan now formally accused of
"narcotics trafficking" among other charges.
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DON'T TEXT AND DRIVE!
CarPlay introductions
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Xiaomi Mi4 review: Chinas iPhone killer
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A big iPhone that runs Android ends up being the best of both worlds.
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Spacecraft may have
captured dust particles
from beyond our Solar
System
Android attack improves
timing, allows data theft
Attractive faces and good
health may not be related
Researchers: only 0.03 percent chance the
particles came from our Solar System.
Mobile apps could gather sensitive information
on other running applications.
Facial symmetry, which many find attractive,
isn't linked to better health.
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AMERICAN IDOL, CANADIAN TROUBLE.
BlackBerry can pursue
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against Ryan Seacrests
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a preliminary injunction, BlackBerry says.
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TO PROTECT AND SERVE
Drones spotted near Los
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headquarters
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UAS was theirs. It was not."
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RATED EFOR EVERY GENDER
Report: Adult women
gamers now double the
number of under-18 boys
Casual/social gaming also saw a rise
compared to last year.
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TIMETO RECHARGE
Apple announces battery
replacement program for
the iPhone 5
Early battery death affects phones sold
between September 2012 and January
2013.
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WECAN DREAM, CAN'T WE?
HBO could clear $600
million per year with
online streaming
A set of streaming plans that allegedly
wouldn't anger the cable giants.
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at some choice Sierra
gaming moments
Should you go forward with
a project if the code isnt
clean?
Say goodbye to the video
store, hello to the non-
profit foundation
Darknet drug markets kept
alive by great customer
service
Researchers make color-
shifting surface modeled on
squid
Plus, how to play multiplayer old-school Space
Quest and King's Quest, right now.
Bad code can be salvaged; resist the urge to
rewrite the software.
How one of the last video stores turned non-
profit with an eye on preservation.
Because they live on the fringes, these sites
are remarkably innovative.
Devices that parallel biological materials make
for one-second color changes.
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THE WEEK'S TOP STORIES
01. Xiaomi Mi4 review: Chinas
iPhone killer is unoriginal but
amazing
02. The state of Android updates:
Whos fast, whos slow, and
why
03. Monkeys selfie cannot be
copyrighted, US regulators say
04. Sony doesnt understand why
so many people are buying PS4s
05. DIY diagnosis: How an extreme
athlete uncovered her genetic
flaw
06. The other strange tale of
Facebooks disputed origins
07. Leaked Comcast employee
metrics show what we figured:
Sell or perish [Updated]
08. Apple announces battery
replacement program for the
iPhone 5
49ers stadium Wi-Fi
served 25,000 concurrent
users, 2.13TB in all
Instant replay feature for phones will drive
use even higher in regular season.
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3, 2, 1, PAY
SpaceX Texas launch
facility gets no-tax deal
with hosting county
State also gives SpaceX $15 million as part
of the spaceport deal.
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HOW ABOUT SLIDE-TO-INVALIDATE?
Supreme Court ruling
wont kill Apples slide to
unlock patent
Samsung hoped Alice v. CLS Bank might be
a game-changer, but it's too late.
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GO FUND YOURSELF
GoFundMe campaign for
Ferguson shooter drowns
under racist commentary
Campaign raises $234,990 in donations and
thousands of hate-filled messages.
by Lee Hutchinson - Aug 22, 8:30pm HVGMT
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FAST UPLOAD, FURIOUS RESPONSE
British man sentenced to
nearly three years in
prison for movie piracy
Authorities caught Fast and Furious 6
uploader via his profile on a dating site.
by Megan Geuss - Aug 22, 7:05pm HVGMT
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GAMESTOP DON'T STOP
GameStop sells over
Comcast donations help
company secure support for
Time Warner Cable merger
China censorship filters are
hamstringing posts that
help their cause
This week in iPhone
rumors: Its all about the
screen
Do you really need to pay
$20 to delete your Ashley
Madison profile?
Stealing encryption keys
through the power of touch
Mayors, governors, charities praise Comcast's
giving ways in letters to FCC.
Pro-government content gets caught as much
as anti-government posts.
Reports about the new iPhone's screen
resolutionand its production problems.
Cheaters are pushed for money to delete
profiles, but don't have to pay.
Researchers pilfer decryption keys through
Ethernet and human touch side channel.
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one-half of all PS4 and
Xbox One titles
Brick-and-mortar retailer is still central to the
console market.
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SWAP MEET SELFIE
Selfie linked to stolen
iPhone a case of
whodunit
"I didn't steal it. I went to a swap meet and
my aunt bought it for me."
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1 DOWN, 49 TO GO
California DMV says
Googles autonomous car
tests need a steering
wheel
State isn't ready to approve Google's cars
without a backup control system.
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YOU BETA BELIEVEIT!
Apple releases OS X
Yosemite Public Beta 2 to
testers
Update should increase stability, continues
Yosemite's visual transformation.
by Andrew Cunningham - Aug 21, 7:26pm HVGMT
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MONKEY SELFIEBROUHAHA
Monkeys selfie cannot be
copyrighted, US regulators
say
Selfie by macaca nigra monkey is public
domain, not owned by nature photographer.
by David Kravets - Aug 21, 7:20pm HVGMT
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STOP THERIFT, I WANNA GET OFF
Developer cites motion
sickness in delaying
Oculus Rift support
VR may never totally solve its "simulation
sickness" problem.
by Kyle Orland - Aug 21, 6:40pm HVGMT
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GOING, BUT NOT GONE
Ozone-destroying
chemical still floating
around; no one knows
the source
25 years after it was banned, carbon
tetrachloride isn't going away quickly.
by John Timmer - Aug 21, 4:47pm HVGMT
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CHROME-IN-THE-BOX
Acers new Chromebox
stands on its side, is
otherwise just a
Chromebox
There's not a lot of room for originality in a
desktop this small.
by Andrew Cunningham - Aug 21, 4:22pm HVGMT
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WHAT'S MY TRACKING NUMBER?
Researchers create privacy
wrapper for Android Web
apps
New ant species evolved
within the nest of its
relatives
Congressional staffers
banned again from
Wikipedia after
transphobic edits
Comcast incompetence
inspires more painful tales
from customers
Got weapons? Nude body
scanners easily defeated
Users can wrap Facebook and other apps to
better control their privacy and security,
according to researchers from North Carolina
State University.
And they may only occupy a single stand of
trees, conveniently located on campus.
Edits to Orange is the New Black and other
articles earn a month-long ban.
The horror: Man talks to six Comcast CSRs in
90 minutes, problem still unfixed.
Study: Machines show you nude, but
sometimes can't detect explosives or weapons.
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UPS says 51 stores infected
with credit card stealing
malware
First Target, then supermarkets, and now
our shipping stores. What's next?
by Cyrus Farivar - Aug 21, 12:35am HVGMT
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BEING STEALTHY
Latest Gameover botnet
lays low, looking to resist
takedown
The botnet that the government shut down
is back, with some changes.
by Robert Lemos - Aug 20, 10:20pm HVGMT
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TWEETSPAM
How Twitters new
"BotMaker" filter flushes
spam out of timelines
Sifting spam from ham at scale and in real
time is a hard problem to solve.
by Lee Hutchinson - Aug 20, 8:50pm HVGMT
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GOOD DAY, EH
Vancouver man creeped
out by drone buzzing near
his 36th-story condo
Drone was "a couple of feet away from my
patio, camera pointed right at me."
by Cyrus Farivar - Aug 20, 8:27pm HVGMT
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TROLLIN' AIN'T EASY
Trouble in troll-ville:
Intellectual Ventures lays
off 140 workers
Biggest patent holder can't get as many
investors to pony up any more.
by Joe Mullin - Aug 20, 7:44pm HVGMT
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SECRETS AREFOR EVERYONE
Brazil court to Apple,
Google: Wipe anonymous
sharing app off users
phones
New app called Secret is forbidden by the
Brazilian constitution, judge says.
by Megan Geuss - Aug 20, 6:29pm HVGMT
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SLOW BURN
Study: Amazon Fire
Phone launch slow,
hampered by AT&T deal
Offers comparison with G3, Droid Ultra
sales, but no comment on phone criticisms.
by Sam Machkovech - Aug 20, 5:49pm HVGMT
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THEEND OF THEWORLD (OF WARCRAFT)
Blizzard no longer expects
World of Warcraft
subscriber growth
World of Warcraft has gone from 12 million
subscribers at peak to 6.8 million.
by Kyle Orland - Aug 20, 5:23pm HVGMT
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MONEY MAKES EVERYTHING BETTER
Netflix ends one of its
What Depression Quest
taught me about dealing
with mental illness
Seals carried tuberculosis
across the Atlantic, gave it
to humans
FCC Republican wants to let
states block municipal
broadband
reddit nixes new subreddit
advertising high-end
counterfeit US dollars
In wake of Ferguson
shooting, calls escalate for
cops to wear body cams
Text-based choose-your-own-adventure game
a powerful look at a daily struggle.
Disease was present in the Americas prior to
European contact.
Democrats warned not to take action a future
Republican-led FCC would dislike.
$225 in bitcoins buys you $500 in rare
supernotes made by one "Willy.clock."
Cameras serve as a "check against the abuse
of power by police officers," says ACLU.
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