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Culture Google mobile apps collect Wi-Fi location data While Google's Street View cars are sidelined pending the investigation into its Wi-Fi spying scandal, it has a backup plan for providing geolocation services: crowdsourcing. Android users can decline to participate in Google's wireless hot-spot data gathering, but they'll have to forgo getting their location information via hot spots, a relia
Tech Industry HTML5 will kill mobile apps. No, it won't The latest Web technologies could kill mobile apps, if only Web apps would help sell hardware. Which they don't. More valuable than any review: Placement in the app store. Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET Did Apple kick the ball into its own goal with its campaign against Flash? By forcing Web developers, and ultimately Adobe, out of the Fla
Culture Exclusive: Third attack against Sony planned A source tells CNET a third major cyberattack is planned on Sony this weekend and could lead to the release of information copied from the company's servers. A group of hackers says it is planning another wave of cyberattacks against Sony in retaliation for its handling of the PlayStation Network breach. An observer of the Internet Relay Chat ch
Tech Industry Obama dines with Jobs, Zuckerberg, other tech honchos At an evening affair in Silicon Valley, the president discusses jobs, education, and R&D with bigwigs including the CEOs of Apple, Facebook, Google, Netflix, and Cisco. President Obama talks jobs and the economy with some of the nation's top tech leaders. Seated at the president's left is Apple CEO Steve Jobs; at his right, Facebo
Culture Facebook's next big media move: Comments Multiple sources have told CNET that the massive social network is on the cusp of releasing a product that would allow digital publishers to power their commenting systems entirely through Facebook. Facebook is planning to launch a third-party commenting system in a matter of weeks, according to multiple sources familiar with the new product. This n
Culture Why Twitter is mum on Egypt block The company doesn't want to comment on persistent reports that Twitter.com is inaccessible amid anti-government protests.Perhaps it's still in the dark about what's happening. Update at 5:05 p.m. PT: Twitter has confirmed that it has been blocked in Egypt. According to the @TwitterGlobalPR account: "We can confirm that Twitter was blocked in Egypt around 8
Culture Google yanking H.264 video out of Chrome In Web video encoding, there are two major standards. Google just announced it's backing its own WebM over the codec Apple and Microsoft support. Google just fired a broadside in the Web's codec wars. With its alternative WebM video-encoding technology now entering the marketplace, Google announced plans today to remove built-in Chrome support for a
Security DOJ sends order to Twitter for WikiLeaks-related account info Virginia judge tells Twitter to cough up info on accounts including Icelandic politician and Tor programmer, who have 10 days to fight request that arose as part of WikiLeaks criminal probe The U.S. Justice Department has obtained a court order directing Twitter to turn over information about the accounts of activists with ties
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It could be humanity's oldest story of doomed love. Archaeologists have unearthed two skeletons from the Neolithic period locked in an eternal embrace and buried outside Mantua, Italy, just 25 miles south of Verona, the city where Shakespeare set the star-crossed tale of Romeo and Juliet. After being found at the site where a factory is planned, people worldwide have speculated on the circumstanc
Gadgets Human brain has more switches than all computers on Earth Researchers at Stanford develop a new imaging method that enables visualization in unprecedented detail of the myriad connections between nerve cells in the brain. The human brain is truly awesome. A typical, healthy one houses some 200 billion nerve cells, which are connected to one another via hundreds of trillions of synapses. Ea
Culture Gossip explodes over photo app Instagram Sources say that the gimmicky photo-filter iPhone app is seeking a $20 million valuation as it puts together its Series A funding round. There's a lot of chatter right now about Instagram, an iPhone app for adding artsy filters to photos and sharing them across various social-media networks, which has taken the early-adopter crowd by storm and court
Culture Google offers JPEG alternative for faster Web With WebP, Google hopes to drastically cut data-transfer barriers to Web browsing. But it's not easy to challenge JPEG's dominance. It turns out there was more to Google's WebM technology than just a plan to revolutionize Web-based video. The company also wants to revolutionize still images on the Web with a new format called WebP. Google plans
Security Intel: Leaked HDCP copy protection code is legit Master key code could be used to create pirate devices, but Intel says they would be hard to make and they would be illegal. These are some of the 376 lines of HDCP master key code posted to the Internet. Intel has confirmed that code posted to the Internet earlier this week is the master key that is part of an Intel-created standard used t
Culture Oracle sues Google over Android and Java Google's Android software infringes on several patents related to Java, which Oracle acquired from Sun earlier this year, Oracle says in suit filed Thursday. Two Silicon Valley heavyweights are about to reenact the Java wars: this time, in a court room. Oracle issued a press release late Thursday saying it has filed suit against Google for infringin
Culture MP3tunes ups music storage to much-needed 10GB A higher storage limit announced last week makes MP3tunes' free online storage locker service worth another look. Cloud-based music storage just got a little more appealing. The Web-based MP3tunes player works like iTunes, but with some unique features like slideshows of album art and artist pictures. Screenshot MP3tunes, the online music lock
Sci-Tech IBM setting up cloud for genome research Teaming up with the University of Missouri, IBM is developing a cloud-computing environment where scientists can collaborate on and share information about their genome research. IBM is looking to help genome experts further their research by providing a cloud where they can better share information with their colleagues. IBM and the University of
Culture Pandigital, B&N partner on $200 color e-reader Pandigital's new 7-inch color-screen e-reader looks a little like a mini iPad, but costs only $200. Barnes & Noble's e-book store is integrated into the device, which is scheduled to ship in mid-June. If you know of Pandigital, you probably know it for its photo frames. However, the company is moving into the hot e-book reader market with a de
Culture Gray Powell's father: 'He was devastated' Robert Powell defends his son, the Apple engineer who reportedly lost a prototype iPhone. The elder Powell said whoever found it is a "thief." The father of Gray Powell, the Apple engineer who reportedly lost a prototype of the iPhone 4G, says his son was reeling following the incident. "Of course he was devastated," Robert Powell told CNET in a ph
Tech Industry Apple removes Wi-Fi finders from App Store Apple began removing apps capable of detecting Wi-Fi networks out of the App Store, with no explanation. Apple on Thursday began removing another category of apps from its iPhone App Store. This time, it's not porn, it's Wi-Fi. Apple removed several Wi-Fi apps commonly referred to as stumblers, or apps that seek out available Wi-Fi networks
Smart Home 8-Bit NYC is the coolest map--ever Map of New York City depicted in 8-bit gaming glory is a viable mapping tool too. 8-Bit NYC in all its 8-bit glory. Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET I'm not one to fawn over online maps, but 8-Bit NYC appeals to my two loves: usefulness and 1980s adventure video games. The 8-Bit NYC map is simply fantastic. The service displays New York City in a depic
Software Top 10 movie recommendation engines If you don't know what to watch Friday night, look no further than this list of the top movie recommendation engines on the Web. They all offer something different. There are dozens of movie recommendation engines on the Web. Some require little or no input before they give you titles, while others want to find out exactly what your interests are. I've
Culture PHP and Perl crashing the enterprise party Java and .Net used to be the enterprise's primary programming languages, but Perl, Python, and other dynamic languages are hitting the enterprise mainstream. The enterprise has long favored Java and .Net, but PHP and other dynamic programming languages have left their infancies and are rapidly closing the gap on their more stodgy competitors. That
Sci-Tech Analysis of an apology: Toyota, a Japanese thing? Is the apology of Toyota's President Akio Toyoda really uniquely Japanese? The apology from Toyota President Akio Toyoda is being interpreted by the U.S. media as a uniquely Japanese thing. Really? Let me say up front that I lived in Japan for 10 years. I made every effort to become proficient in Japanese, as it was crucially important for
Scott McNealy, the smack-talking co-founder and long-running leader of Sun Microsystems, has bid adieu to his company in a memo that mixes nostalgia with a rallying cry for employees about to become part of Oracle. The memo, sent Tuesday under the subject line "Thanks for a great 28 years," has more genuine emotion than you'll see in a year's worth of official communications from most corporate le
Software IBM grabs largest enterprise cloud deployment Big Blue notches another 100,000 seats of LotusLive as Panasonic goes all-in with cloud services. IBM IBM is expected to announce on Thursday the largest enterprise cloud computing deployment to date as Panasonic begins a migration off Microsoft Exchange to IBM's LotusLive cloud service. More than 100,000 employees will participate in the init
Culture 'Google Energy' subsidiary considers clean power Google creates energy subsidiary and submits a request to buy and sell electricity. It's part of Google's goal to use large amounts of renewable energy to offset its carbon footprint. Google took a step toward entering the energy business with the creation of a subsidiary called Google Energy and a request with a federal agency to buy and se
Sci-Tech MIT unveils new 'smart' bike wheel The institute's new Copenhagen wheel can store energy to make riding easier and can also talk to an iPhone to monitor its rider and keep tabs on traffic. The clever folks at MIT have developed a smart wheel that could give bicycle riders a 21st century boost. The new Copenhagen wheel Senseable City Lab Unveiled Tuesday at the Copenhagen Conference on Cli
Culture White House Web site makes open-source move The open-source Drupal package now is used to power WhiteHouse.gov. But please don't conflate open source and open governance. The WhiteHouse.gov Web site now employs open-source software called Drupal to manage and publish its content, a high-profile endorsement for the project and the 2-year-old start-up Acquia that supports it. Drupal is open-
At first glance, James Dyson's latest invention looks like a powerful HD antenna or perhaps a small portal into another world. But in fact, the device, which carries the vaunting title of Dyson Air Multiplier, is something much more common: a fan. What, a fan with no blades? Yes, that's exactly what you're looking at, and what makes the Air Multiplier so hard for people to classify at first. This
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