Steve Jobs Was Confused In His E-mails

I like how "Steve Jobs was confused" and time stamps on e-mail aren't always right.

Known as the "smoking gun" e-mail, it directly implicated Jobs and established his intent to change the business. In the message, Jobs responded to price tiers suggested by Cue: "I can live with this, as long as they move Amazon to the agent model too for new releases for the first year. If they don't, I'm not sure we can be competitive..."

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Beer Glass That Uses iPhone As A Kickstand

Even though there is a handful of things wrong with this beer glass design, I like the idea in general.

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SanDisk Extreme II 240GB SSD

Overclockers Club just posted a review of the SanDisk Extreme II 240GB SSD for your viewing pleasure. For comparison purposes, you can see our evaluation here.

Clearly SanDisk has hit a home run here with its "nCache" system that utilizes the pseudo-SLC behavior of newer MLC flash dies. This does bring the cost up from very slightly over budget MLC-only drives from other manufacturers but the performance you get from the Extreme II more than makes up for that increase.

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[H]ardware Round-Up II

Gigabyte GTX 770 WindForce 3X 2GB

Legit Reviews has the Gigabyte GTX 770 WindForce 3X strapped to the test bench today for a little review action.

At the end of the day there are a ton of GeForce GTX 770 video cards available for sale. When we looked this morning we found one dozen different GeForce GTX 770 cards for sale ranging in price from $399.99 to $509.99 plus shipping. The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 WindForce 3X just happens to be on the low end of that price range and that came as a shock to us.

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Where Will You Play SHIELD?

NVIDIA asked E3 attendees where they would play with their SHIELD and that got me wondering, where would you use it? A little Borderlands 2 in the bathroom is what I'm thinking.

In the backyard. In bed. In the bathroom. In the office while the boss isn’t looking. And they’re already thinking about where they’ll use the device to sneak in some gaming. About two dozen SHIELDs loaded with more than twenty games were placed out for the show attendees to play with.

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China’s Supercomputer Takes No. 1 Ranking

Imagine all the hacking the Chinese government could do with this supercomputer.

Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, is the world’s new No. 1 system with a performance of 33.86 petaflop/s on the Linpack benchmark, according to the 41stedition of the twice-yearlyTOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. The list was announced June 17 during the opening session of the 2013 International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzig, Germany.

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Layoffs And Project Cancellations Hit IO Interactive

It looks like IO Interactive has laid off half its staff and cancelled a bunch of projects. The company says it remains committed to the Hitman series but that looks like the only game they will be working on.

In a statement passed on to Develop, a spokesperson for the studio said the Denmark-based company was moving toward a sole focus on the Hitman franchise, and as a result would be cancelling a number of projects and initiatives at the studio. The developer is currently in pre-production on a new triple-A Hitman title.

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[H]ot Deals

Today's [H]ot Deals forum thread is full of exclusive deals just for [H] readers. The best part is, some of these deals even come with free shipping! The coupon codes for the items listed below won't last forever and are limited to stock on hand so you'd better get in on these deals while the getting is good.

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Anti-Social Media App Is Stupid

If you don't want to be bothered by people using social media apps...install this app. Stupid app is stupid.

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Six Strikes Copyright Alert Warns Against "Dangerous" P2P Software

I like how they try to make "unsolicited access to porn" sound like a bad thing.

The goal of the "six strikes" program is to inform subscribers that their connection are being used to infringe copyrights while pointing them towards legal alternatives. However, Time Warner Cable is going one step further by warning users about the dangers of P2P software including identity theft, spyware, viruses and unsolicited access to porn.

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Gaming [H]eadlines

ASUS GeForce GTX 770 DirectCU II Review

Want a highly overclockable video card that provides a great gameplay experience at a competitive price? Look no further than our evaluation of the ASUS GeForce GTX 770 DirectCU II. This could be just the video card you are looking for.

We break down the first custom GTX 770 video card from ASUS. We compare the ASUS GeForce GTX 770 DirectCU II to a GeForce GTX 680 and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition in today's most demanding games. With a competitive price, a custom cooler, and vast overclocking capabilities, this just may be the upgrade you have been waiting for.

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Will Xbox Live Bans Affect Your Xbox One Game Library?

According to this Destructiod article, Xbox Live bans will not affect your Xbox One game library.

Major Nelson, in a Reddit video interview, contradicted Xbox Support, stating, "Absolutely not, you will always have access to the games you purchase. Absolutely not." According to him, you only have to worry about losing multiplayer features through an Xbox Live ban.

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[H]ardware Round-Up

Cable Holding Back Superfast Broadband?

Is cable holding back superfast broadband adoption on purpose? Without having to even think about it, I am going to go ahead and just say "yes."

The cable industry says it is more than ready to compete with Google Fiber, but adds that consumers are nowhere near ready for gigabit speeds. Is it cable's pricing schemes that are holding back adoption?

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No Windows 8 or 32-bit For Battlefield 4 Alpha?

According to this forum thread at NeoGaf, invites have gone out for the Battlefield 4 Alpha. What makes this interesting is the recommended system requirements: OS: Vista SP2, Win7, Windows 8 not supported. 64-bit! 32-bit not supported.

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Intel Core i7 4770K Review

The crew at eTeknix have just published a review of the Intel Core i7 4770K processor. For comparison purposes, you can see our evaluation here.

Intel's Core i7 4770K boasts a stock clock speed of 3.5GHz, with 3.9GHz Turbo and 8MB of shared L3 cache. The Core i7 4770K supports dual channel memory at 1600MHz and has 18 PCI Express lanes integrated onto its main controller. The Core i7 4770K is recommended for the Z87 platform which we aren't covering here but there will be extensive coverage of it throughout our Z87 motherboard reviews.

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Apple's Statement On What They Shared With The Government

After reading this, I can see people calling in fake Alzheimer’s / suicide / missing persons reports just to harass iPhone owners. It'll be the Apple version of "swatting."

From December 1, 2012 to May 31, 2013, Apple received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data. Between 9,000 and 10,000 accounts or devices were specified in those requests, which came from federal, state and local authorities and included both criminal investigations and national security matters. The most common form of request comes from police investigating robberies and other crimes, searching for missing children, trying to locate a patient with Alzheimer’s disease, or hoping to prevent a suicide.

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Wacky Web Browser Works Like a Ouija Board

Some dude built a web browser that allows people around the world to surf the internet together in one window. Trust me, it is as hectic as it sounds. Watch the video below (with equally hectic music).

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No Warrant Required To Listen To Your Phone Calls

Not only does the NSA not need a warrant to listen to your phone calls, the decision to monitor your calls is really just up to an analysts' discretion. Oh yeah, that extends to your e-mail and text messages too.

If the NSA wants "to listen to the phone," an analyst's decision is sufficient, without any other legal authorization required, Nadler said he learned. "I was rather startled," said Nadler, an attorney and congressman who serves on the House Judiciary committee.

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AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000 Powers Rubicon Project’s Advertising Trading Platform

AMD today announced that its SeaMicro SM15000™ server is the foundation for Rubicon Project’s REVV, the world’s largest, fastest and easiest-to-use independent real-time trading platform for buying and selling digital ads. The REVV platform currently reaches 97 percent of all U.S. Internet users, as measured by comScore’s reach measurement, and processes transactions between more than 500 of the world’s premium publishers and over 140,000 advertisers across a massive marketplace. AMD and Rubicon Project worked closely to create the RubiCube, a standardized, tightly integrated micro-POP-in-a-box solution, which will provide Rubicon Project with an operational competitive edge in all its key markets.

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Dell Buyout Vote Still Undecided

Several things have happened to influence the shareholder’s vote for Dell to go private: an interested party has dropped out of the negotiations, Carl Icahn is reportedly walking away from the fight he began and now the vote seems to balance on the recommendations of two proxy firms. The vote is to be held on July 18th.

The opinions of those firms will carry a lot of weight among certain institutional shareholders. A recommendation against the buyout by either firm — ISS in particular — could sway enough shareholders that its approval might be in doubt.

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Bill Introduced to Head Off Consumer Monitoring

Two members of the House of Representatives are attempting to get in front of new technology being developed by companies using set-top boxes to spy on home consumers, by introducing legislation that would regulate the technology. The cameras can distinguish viewer’s activities and then direct data-specific ads to the TV. Talk about invasion of privacy.

In a statement, the two lawmakers said they want to get out ahead of the release of this new technology and pass legislation that ensures it would include beefed up privacy protections for consumers. They added that this legislation is particularly relevant given the recent revelations about the National Security Agency's Internet surveillance programs.

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Google Developing System to Eradicate Child Porn

Google is harnessing its massive Internet search capabilities to create a database of child abuse sites that can be shared with other companies in an effort to shut down child pornography on the Internet. The system is expected to be completed and operational within a year.

If the database is used effectively, any flagged image in the database would not be searchable through participating search engines or web hosting providers. And maybe best of all, computers will automatically flag and remove these images without any human needing to see them.

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Modern Technology Discovers 1200 Year Old Lost City

An Indiana Jones tale it isn’t. The discovery of Mahendraparvata, a 1200 year old hidden city in Cambodia isn’t the romantic image of an archeologist fighting his way through the jungle to make a discovery. It is the story of modern airborne sensing equipment using laser mapping to give an overall outline of the lost city and its surrounding architecture. Not nearly as romantic, but a heck of a lot more practical.

Lidar works by firing rapid laser pulses at a landscape with a sensor, measuring the time it takes for each pulse to bounce back. By repeating the process, the technology builds up a complex picture of the terrain it is measuring.

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Kim Dotcom Releases New Police Raid Footage

We haven’t heard too much from our favorite Internet attention grabber lately, so to remind everyone he is still around, Kim Dotcom has taken the opportunity to share his traumatic experience of the illegal police raid on his mansion complex in New Zealand via his CCTV viewpoint.

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Star Trek Medical Tricorder Is About To Become A Reality

The medical tricorder is about to make the leap from science fiction to science fact. While not quite as sophisticated as the Star Trek version, the Scanadu Scout measures your vital statistics by just placing the unit on your forehead and then transfers the data to your smartphone. Pending FDA approval, the Scanadu Scout will be available next March. Gene Roddenberry would approve.

The small device is similar to the medical tricorder scanners featured in Star Trek, and is used by simply placing it against your forehead.

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