The iPhone 4S didn’t thrill Apple fans, who worry that Tim Cook and Co. won’t be able to wow consumers the same way the incredibly imaginative Jobs did
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http://theweek.com/article/index/220090/can-apple-innovate-without-steve-jobsnbsp
Thank you SpaceX, for keeping the final frontier exciting. SpaceX’s CTO Elon Musk recently announced at a recent press conference that his organization has finally designed a viable launch vehicle that’s extremely cost-effective. For now, let it be called the Reusable Launch vehicle or RLV. Original Story SpaceX Working Like Mad On Reusable Launch Rocket © Geeky …
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Everyone agrees: He created great gadgets.
But, some note, he didn’t cure cancer, end apartheid, or bring about the fall of communism
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http://theweek.com/article/index/220124/steve-jobs-death-is-the-world-overreacting
User-generated encyclopedia Wikipedia shut down its Italian website yesterday to protest a proposed privacy law drafted by the Italian government, reports The Atlantic.
The law would force websites to remove any information identified as defamatory to an individual within 48 hours of a complaint.
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http://venturebeat.com/2011/10/06/italian-wikipedia-censorship/
It is February 24 1955.
AT&T has just created the first transistor, the Pentagon has just started developing the first nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles, and in San Francisco… in a hospital in San Francisco, Steve Jones is born.
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http://www.extremetech.com/computing/98791-what-would-the-world-be-like-if-steve-jobs-had-never-existed
Its common knowledge that the entertainment industry is lobbying extensively in Washington to get tougher copyright laws adopted.
In a counter-move the file-hosting company RapidShare has hired lobbyists of its own. TorrentFreak got a chance to talk to RapidShares general counsel Daniel Raimer, to find out what their main motives are and how open Washington is to their message.
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http://torrentfreak.com/rapidshare-fights-for-the-cloud-in-washington-111006/
Apple founder and tech visionary Steve Jobs died on Wednesday.
Jobs was heavily influenced by 1960s counterculture, and once told a reporter that taking LSD was one of the two or three most important things he did in his life. Can LSD really make you more creative?
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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2011/10/steve_jobs_implied_that_taking_lsd_made_him_more_creative_does_t.html
The creative team over at the Foundry, which is a research team at Mint Digital focused on exploring physical objects which connect to the web though digital technology. Have used a MacBook Pro and dismantled it to create this fantastic tribute portrait to Steve Jobs who died yesterday. Original Story MacBook Pro Parts Used To Create Tribute Portrait Of Steve …
Via: http://www.geeky-gadgets.com
Well, now that Apple has announced the iPhone 4S, theres only one other flagship on the horizon that people are eagerly anticipating and thats the Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
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http://www.bgr.com/2011/10/06/samsung-galaxy-nexus-full-specs-revealed-verizon-wireless-exclusive/
