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Wednesday April 04, 2012 Google is planning to double its server capacity in Oklahoma by building a new facility next to its data center. The company says fifty new jobs will be created by expanding the facility. The new facility will be built next to the $600 million data center Google opened near Pryor last fall, said data center operations manager Mike Wooten. Google will hire employees to work on deployment of servers and equipment maintenance, and is looking primarily for local residents to fill the positions, he said. It would seem that the missing iPhone prototype wasn't "priceless," after all.If you're a little too impatient to wait for the Absinthe jailbreak tool to make its way to Windows, good news, there's another option. The iPhone Dev Team has released Corona, a command line-based option for Mac and Windows 7 that will deliver Cydia to your iOS 5.0 or 5.0.1-running iPhone 4S or iPad 2. Obviously, you'll want to be comfortable with the terminal and command prompt but, if you can handle a little CTRL+c and CTRL+v action, jailbreaking your brand new iOS device shouldn't prove too difficult. Hit up the source link for complete instructions on how to free your shiny A5 portable from Apple's shackles while still using your Microsoft machine.
Engadget
Isn’t it delightful how geek culture works? During my Christmas shopping last year, I stumbled into a favorite little pop culture shop in Little Collins Street in Melbourne which is well known for its comprehensive stocking of all things Lovecraftian. I was looking for some stocking fillers for the kids; instead I walked out with [...] The combination of a cloud service and verification that does not involve sharing data has allowed one company to provide a true bumper-to-bumper insurance policy, reports Victor Cruz.
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Tom's Hardware: Hardware News, Tests and Reviews
March 15, 2012 This month's update covers AMD's new Radeons HD 7750, 7770, 7850, and 7870 graphics cards, along with the disappearing Radeon HD 6950 and 6970. Plus, we consider the value of Nvidia's GeForce GT 440 GDDR5 now that the Radeon HD 5670 is unavailable.
SoMe is a film about the rise (and fall?) of social media. Produced by web rabble-rouser and satirist, Loren Feldman , the film will feature Feldman’s signature puppet act (it will be cool, I promise) and interviews with and segments about web luminaries like: Julia Allison, Michael Arrington, Steve Ballmer, Henry Blodget, Chris Brogan, Robert Bruce, Paul Carr, Pete Cashmore, Brian Clark, Ron Conway, Henry Copland, Jay Cuthrell, Mike Daisey, Barry Diller, Jack Dorsey, Dan Farber, Steve Gillmor, Paul Graham, MC Hammer, Shel Israel, Andrew Jecklin, Steve Jobs, Kim Kardashian, Ashton Kutcher, Loic LeMeur, Jakob Lodwick
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from the oh-the-people-you'll-sue dept Another week, another batch of comments. This week on the insightful side, the top three votegetters were so close that I'm just going to post all three.
We've heard recently of CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act , a bill currently making its way through Congress that many are calling the latest incarnation of SOPA. Reader SolKeshNaranek points out an article at Techdirt explaining exactly why this bill is bad , and how its backers are trying to deflect criticism by using language that's different and rather vague. Quoting: "The bill defines 'cybersecurity systems' and 'cyber threat information' as anything to do with protecting a network from: ' (A) efforts to degrade, disrupt, or destroy such system or network; or (B) theft or misappropriation of private or government information, intellectual property, or personally identifiable information. ' It's easy to see how that definition could be interpreted to include things that go way beyond network security — specifically, copyright policing systems at virtually any point along a network could easily qualify."
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April Fool's Mischief Managed You may have noticed something odd about the site on Sunday, like some new things showing up on an unexpected schedule. Perhaps you emitted a tiny squeak of glee as you eagerly clicked "Buy Now." Then you remembered the date. We gotcha again! Allow us to take you on the behind the scenes tour of our 4/1 mischievousness.
ThinkGeek :: Stuff for Smart Masses
Modern society is ruled, dominated, and slavishly beholden to one of mankind’s most simple machinations: The binary digit. What will be the next analog device to fall victim to binary, and what does it mean to have just a handful of fiber optic cables carrying the sum of human civilization?
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