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Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can't Protect Us Anymore — You have a secret that can ruin your life. — It's not a well-kept secret, either. Just a simple string of characters—maybe six of them if you're careless, 16 if you're cautious—that can reveal everything about you.
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JFK worker busted in $1.9M iPad mini heist — He could star in “Dumbfellas.” — An airport worker has been accused of being the less-than-master-mind behind the theft of $1.9 million in iPad minis from JFK Airport, court papers revealed yesterday. — Federal agents were able …
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft begs Web devs not to make WebKit the new IE6 — Internet Explorer 10 is a fast browser with good standards compliance, and the version of Internet Explorer 10 included with Windows Phone 8 is no exception, as it's almost identical to its desktop sibling.
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Nintendo's Wii U Puts Hardware Strategy to the Test — Like its famous videogame character Super Mario in his latest game, Nintendo Co. is trying to outrun its enemies. — The company, coming off of its first annual loss in more than three decades, will start selling the Wii U in U.S. stores Sunday …
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Apple's stock price falls to lowest point in six months — While short-term challenges remain, analysts are bullish on Apple's long-term. — On Friday Apple's stock price closed at $527.68 per share, the lowest it's been in six months. Since September, the company has lost about 25 percent …
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| Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry International: |
Xbox Live Turns 10: Reflecting On An Online Revolution — We chat with members of the original Xbox team and Bungie in this special look back at the origins of a service that forever changed console gaming — Ten years ago today, Microsoft officially launched Xbox Live.| Harry McCracken / TIME: |
It's Too Early to Judge Early Windows 8 Sales — Three weeks after Windows 8′s launch, Windows guru/newshound Paul Thurrott says that one of his Microsoft sources has confided that the new software isn't meeting the company's sales expectations. Thurrott gives several explanations, including: Windows 8.
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| Muhammad Lila / ABCNEWS: |
Oops! Taliban Reveal Identities of Their Mailing List Members — Somewhere out there, Mullah Omar must be shaking his head. — In a Dilbert-esque faux pax, a Taliban spokesperson sent out a routine email last week with one notable difference.He publicly CC'd the names of everyone on his mailing list.| iFixit: |
Nexus 4 Teardown — The Nexus 4 landed in our inbox just in time for a Friday teardown-a-rama. Questions that linger in our minds: Is it good as a phone? No idea. We dived right into the Nexus 4for science! Will it blend? We'll let Tom answer that one. How repairable is it?
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Twitter and developers, a love story — To say that Twitter and third-party developers have had an ambivalent relationship over the last couple of years is a massive understatement. Twitter has been undergoing a deep transformation of its business to one that makes sustainable sense as a public company.
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| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Into the vault: the operation to rescue Manhattan's drowned internet — Hurricane Sandy's storm surge flooded Verizon's downtown office, rendering miles of copper wiring useless — At Broad Street, near the tip of Lower Manhattan, the situation is far from normal.| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple and Google Talk Arbitration in Smartphone Spat — Apple and Google haven't yet buried their respective hatchets over the patent litigation between them, but evidently they are willing to put them aside for a moment in the hopes of negotiating a broader peace.
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