Apple Brings Final Developer Services Back Online, Extends Memberships By 1 Month

Apple today announced that all of its developer program services are now back online. Apple’s portal for developers, which also hosts its iOS and OS X beta downloads, went down on July 18th and a few days after, the company acknowledged that there had been a security breach. To make up for the prolonged outage of some of the services, Apple will...

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Microsoft Doesn’t Want To Admit Windows RT Is Dead

Microsoft is in a tough spot. Windows RT is all but dead in the water. But Microsoft has approximately a zillion and a half Surface RT tablets collecting dust in warehouses. And so Ballmer and Co. continued its ignorant fight against Apple and the far more successful iPad with another TV spot that pits the two against each other. Spoiler: The...

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Why Founders Fail: The Product CEO Paradox

Editor’s note: Ben Horowitz is co-founder and partner of Andreessen Horowitz. He was co-founder and CEO of Opsware (formerly Loudcloud), which was acquired by HP, and ran several product divisions at Netscape. He serves on the board of companies such as Capriza, Foursquare, Jawbone, Lytro, Magnet, NationBuilder, Okta, Rap Genius, SnapLogic, and...

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Surface RT 2: Tegra confirmed, despite superiority of Snapdragon and Bay Trail

Despite the Surface RT’s miserable performance, and almost every other tablet maker jumping ship to Qualcomm, it appears that the Surface RT 2 — due out in October alongside Windows 8.1 — will still be powered by Nvidia’s Tegra SoC. With Intel’s Bay Trail due to hit the market at around the same time, and potentially offering more performance than...

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Amazon might throw its hat in the ring with an Android-based gaming console

2013 is already filled to the brim with console launches, but it seems as if we’re in for at least one additional competitor in the fourth quarter. Rumors now point towards Amazon launching an Android-based game console by the end of the year, and the few details we have sound surprisingly compelling. While the world definitely doesn’t need yet...

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ET deals: $599 Core i5-powered Dell 15R laptop

We seem to be in the midst of a last-gen close out bonanza from Dell. Here’s a prime example: this deal will net you a 1080p laptop with discrete graphics, backlit keyboard, and a ton of other goodies for $600.Most of us power users are in love with high res screens. With 1080p resolution on a 15.6-inch LCD, the Inspiron 15R Special Edition has...

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Mystery of 600,000 light-year-long gas stream solved by Hubble

Our Milky Way galaxy doesn’t just hover in space all by itself. There are a number of small satellite galaxies orbiting it like moons around a planet. Two of these galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, have been at the heart of an astronomical mystery for the last 50 years. It was 1965 when scientists discovered a massive stream of gas...

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Xbox Live Family Plans get converted to individual memberships starting August 27th

Microsoft just detailed how the Xbox One's "Home Gold" will spread the Xbox Live Gold love across multiple users of a particular system, but what about those with the current generation's Xbox Live Family Plan? The folks in Redmond stopped accepting new subscribers to the $99 / year package back in March, and now users are receiving an email (included...

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Google loads up non-assertion pledge with 79 more patents

In an attempt to live up to its age-old motto to not be evil, Google has just added 79 more patents to its Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge. Enacted in March of this year, the pact was designed to encourage open-source software development, and consists of patents the Mountain View company won't use to sue anyone unless first attacked. While...

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Apple's developer center back online, again

"Here's where it all happens for Apple developers" reads the tagline, but that's not been the case for much of the last few weeks. This morning, Apple's advising that its developer centre is now fully restored, after being taken offline due to intruder attempts. Hopefully for real this time. In any case, Cupertino's offering up a month's extended...

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Fox Sports becomes official Formula E broadcaster

What good is an EV racing league like Formula E if there's no way to watch it? Not much, which is why the FIA has reached a deal making Fox Sports the official Formula E broadcaster. The agreement gives Fox a US exclusive for TV coverage as well as a mixture of exclusive and non-exclusive rights (including online content) in over 80 regions. We...

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The Future Of Work: Amazon vs. Zappos

Twenty years ago Tony Hsieh was part of the three-man Harvard team that won the hyper-prestigious ACM Programmming Contest. Five years later he sold LinkExchange to Microsoft for more than $250 million. Then he sold Zappos to Amazon for $1.2 billion, while retaining operational independence.Now he’s trying to make the desert bloom. And if he fails,...

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The Angel Health Monitor Is A Fitbit For Hackers

The Angel Health monitor, besides having a fairly morbid name (you rarely see angels unless you’re sailing down the river Styx), is actually quite cool. Designed to be a “developer’s” health monitoring system, the Angel senses motion and acceleration, skin temperature, blood oxygen saturation, and heart rate. Created by Eugene Jorov and Amir...

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Nvidia CEO shares details on second-generation Microsoft Surface tablet

Microsoft’s first Surface tablet was an absolute disaster. The company managed to pull in $853 million in revenue during the last fiscal year from combined Surface RT and Surface Pro sales, which sounds like a pretty solid showing until you consider the facts that it also wrote off $900 million and spent a small fortune advertising the devices....

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Yet another vendor has dumped Windows RT

Windows RT is quickly becoming the kid in high school who never showered and whom no one wanted to sit with in the cafeteria. The Wall Street Journal reports that Asus has officially cancelled all of its plans to make Windows RT tablets because no devices based on the operating system have sold well. Asus is just the latest Windows OEM to give...

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Spray and pray: Archos to unveil a dozen new Android devices at IFA

Remember when more than 100 tablets were unveiled by various companies at CES 2011? Archos may someday try to beat that record on its own. A report from CNET reveals that French consumer electronics company Archos is planning to unveil a dozen new Android devices at the annual IFA trade show in Berlin, Germany next month. The company’s plans include...

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ITC bans several Samsung devices in Apple patent case

After Apple narrowly escaped a sales ban on its iPhone 4 and iPad 2 late last week, it looks like Samsung might not be so lucky. Apple on Friday won its case against Samsung, which was found by the U.S. International Trade Commission to infringe on the famous ”Steve Jobs patent” as well as an additional hardware patent. As a result, the ITC has...

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Amazon slashes Kindle Fire HD price as next-gen launch nears

Amazon is preparing to launch brand new Kindle Fire HD tablets in the coming months and BGR has detailed them fully in a pair of exclusive reports. The second-generation Kindle Fire HD models will feature an all-new exterior design, as well as a complete internal overhaul with cutting-edge specs that outclass every comparable tablet on the market...

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New Nexus 7 reportedly suffers from faulty GPS

Google’s new Nexus 7 may have the best display of any small tablet but it’s showing some deficiencies in other areas. PhoneArena reports that several early adopters of the new Nexus 7 have complained about the tablet’s GPS performance and have said that it will shut down after being online for as little as two minutes. From there, users say they...

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iPhone’s market share in China falls to just 5%

Tim Cook’s talks with China Mobile have just taken on some more urgency. Bloomberg reports that research firm Canalys has just found that the iPhone’s market share fell to just 5% in China in the second quarter of 2013, down from 9% in Q2 2012. Nicole Peng, Canalys’s China research director, tells Bloomberg that Apple is getting walloped by low-cost...

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Acer backs away from Windows

Microsoft is having a tough time getting many of its PC manufacturing partners to use Windows Phone 8 and Windows RT for their new devices and now The Wall Street Journal reports that longtime Windows OEM Acer is trying to grow its “non-Windows business as soon as possible” by embracing Android for mobile devices. Acer’s goal is to generate 30%...

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Google starts testing its ‘Wi-Fi balloons’ in California

Regardless of what Bill Gates thinks, Google is going ahead with its initiative to improve Internet access in Africa with large balloons that can send Wi-Fi signals to rural parts of the continent. Google said this week that it’s started running tests of its Project Loon balloons in California’s Central Valley “to research various approaches for...

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President Obama said a review of the NSA could have come “without putting at risk our national security”, and therefore, declared, “No, I don’t think Mr. Snowden is a patriot” at a press conference today on spying transparency. Obama insisted he had ordered a review of surveillance programs before the “NSA leaker” kicked off a “not always fully...

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MIT Students Show How To 3D Print Your Own Non-Duplicatable Keys For Easy Breaking And Entering

If there’s one thing that sucks about breaking-and-entering it’s that it’s too difficult. Three enterprising young MIT students have figured out a way to make that easier, thanks to a 3D printing workaround to the sticky issue of making duplicates of so-called “non-duplicatable” keys. All you need is a flatbed scanner, an original Primus lock key...

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Meta, The Crazy AR Glasses That Aim To Do What Google Glass Can’t, Go Up For Pre-Order

Over a year after the announcement Of Google Glass, many folks I talk to still seem to be misunderstanding what Glass can actually do. “It’ll be great for Augmented Reality!” they say, assuming that Glass can render objects directly into your full view of the world (it can’t.) “Ooh! It’ll be like Minority Report!”, expecting Glass’ camera to pick...

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ITC Says Samsung Violated Apple Patents, Calls For Sales Ban On Older Samsung Devices

Apple won a seemingly decisive victory against Samsung in its patent-centric court battle last year, but the legal back-and-forth is far from over. The Cupertino company asked the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. to allow a sales ban on certain Samsung devices earlier today, and now the International Trade Commission has ruled...

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Bitcoin Ticker Available On Bloomberg Terminal For Employees

Bitcoin is now officially mainstream. According to BTC Geek, Bloomberg terminal users can now look up Bitcoin’s pricing history. Data comes from ubiquitous Bitcoin exchange service Mt. Gox as well as Tradehill.For now, only Bloomberg employees can access the ticker. But the feature should make its way to regular Bloomberg terminal customers under...

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