How Apple plans to make sure your iPhone never goes off in a movie theater again
A couple years ago during a performance at the New York Philharmonic, an iPhone alarm interrupted a performance of Mahler’s 9th Symphony, prompting the conductor to stop the performance. The culprit said his iPhone had been set to mute, but the iPhone overrode this switch for a preset alarm that its own said he didn’t even know about.
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Bitcoin may have finally reached a tipping point
After a rocky spring, Bitcoin is on a bit of a winning streak as notable web retailers add support, Russia softens its stance towards the cryptocurrency and a leading venture capitalist sweeps the entire Federal auction.
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EU official slams Google for following the EU court’s own ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling
File this under the law of unintended (but entirely predictable) consequences. After hearing reports that Google had decided to remove a BBC News article from its search results that detailed the disastrous tenure of former Merrill Lynch CEO Stan O’Neal, a spokesperson for the European Commission has now come out and said that Google’s removal of the article was “not a good judgement.”
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New report gives key details about the iPhone 6 announcement and release date
The rumors surrounding the release date of the iPhone 6 are finally beginning to coalesce. MacRumors reports that a reliable source has confirmed the iPhone 6 will be launching in late September this year. Apple is expected to beginning shipping mass quantities of the device to the United States in the last two weeks of August and will then make an official announcement within the first two weeks of September.
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The mysterious case of the vanishing PS Vitas
If you’ve waited until now to try to get your hands on Sony’s latest portable console, you might be out of luck. Polygon has noted that even though the PS Vita was recently re-released with a slimmer frame and improved battery life, the Borderlands 2 bundle is currently out of stock at every major online retailer, including Target, Walmart, Best Buy and GameStop. The listing on Target even states that the bundle is “not sold in stores.” Amazon is no longer selling the bundle directly either — you’d have to go through a reseller to buy one from the online marketplace.
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Windows Phone still isn’t close to solving its biggest problem
Windows Phone is in a real Catch-22: App developers won’t make apps for the platform if Windows Phone doesn’t get more users and Windows Phone won’t get more users until more app developers make apps for the platform. And it’s not enough for Microsoft to just throw cash at developers to get them to bring their apps to the platform long after they’ve become hits — the company needs a way to get developers to put Windows Phone on the radar right from the beginning.
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T-Mobile’s network seems to be getting much better than anyone expected
For a long time, T-Mobile’s biggest “pain point” has been the quality of its wireless network, but that may be changing much more quickly than any of us expected. Re/code’s Walt Mossberg recently took T-Mobile up on its offer to try out its network for free for one week and he found that Big Magenta’s LTE network actually performed better in Verizon’s did.
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Apple’s iWatch again said to launch in October
As rumors of various Apple device launches continue to pile up, it’s looking increasingly likely that Apple is on its way to having the biggest holiday season of all time. For those keeping score, we’re now supposedly looking forward to seeing two brand new iPhone 6 models, a refreshed iPad Air, a tweaked iPad mini, a Retina MacBook Air, a revamped Apple TV and a brand new iWatch all debut in the span of a few months. We’re not sure how Apple will manage to maintain growth in next year’s holiday quarter, but for the time being, it looks like Apple fans have plenty to look forward to in 2014.
Now, yet another report has popped up to support claims that Apple will launch its highly anticipated iWatch this coming October.
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Speed limit raised to 120 km/h on select B.C. highways
Filed under: Canada, Government/Legal
While an Ontario group continues to petition raising speed limits on 400-series highways to 130 km/h, the Province of British Columbia has already made some major changes by increasing top speeds on select highways to 120 km/h.
The new speed limit takes effect this week along the Coquihalla Highway between Hope and Kamloops, the Okanagan Connector from just outside Merritt to Peachland, and along a section of the Island Highway between Parksville and Campbell River. Highways Minister Todd Stone says results of a review of rural highway safety led government to raise speed limits on certain divided, multilane highways to 120 km/h from 110 km/h.
Meanwhile, a pilot project is also being planned for sections of the Coquihalla Highway, Highway 1 between Sicamous and Revelstoke, and parts of the Sea-to-Sky Highway north of Vancouver, using reader boards to set variable speed limits that depend on road conditions.
The review also calls for measures to remind slower drivers to stay right, except to pass, as well as a pilot program advising motorists to pull over if more than five vehicles are following. The review examined four aspects of road safety on B.C.’s rural highways, ranging from speed limit revisions to measures to reduce collisions with wildlife.
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UH-OH: Your Android device might be broadcasting your location to everyone around you
In an age where we store our most important data on our mobile devices, we depend on device manufacturers and designers to ensure our information is kept safe. Unfortunately, potential problems are often overlooked until someone finds a way to take advantage of them, as appears to be the case with the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s latest discovery.
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