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RT @Techmeme: Cops might finally need a warrant to read your Gmail (@cfarivar / Ars Technica)

RT @Techmeme: Cops might finally need a warrant to read your Gmail (@cfarivar / Ars Technica)

RT @Techmeme: Apple's strategically-timed iPhone 5 rollout schedule (@philiped / Fortune)

RT @Techmeme: Apple's strategically-timed iPhone 5 rollout schedule (@philiped / Fortune)

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To use it, type in the words ‘Bacon number’ (without quotes), followed by an actor or actresses name. Google will come back with how closely he/she has been to Kevin Bacon.

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Google Inc rejected a request by the White House on Friday to reconsider its decision to keep online a controversial YouTube movie clip that has ignited anti-American protests in the Middle East. The Internet company said it was censoring the video in India and Indonesia after blocking it on Wednesday in Egypt and Libya, where U.S. embassies have been stormed by protestors enraged over depiction of the Prophet Mohammad as a fraud and philanderer. On Tuesday, the U.S. Ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed in a fiery siege on the embassy in Benghazi. Google said was further restricting the clip to comply with local law rather than as a response to political pressure.

But that's the old market, and the old way. It is, you might say, the Samsung or Sony way. It has not been the Apple way — iPod sales decline steadily every quarter, and cynically changing the nano into a tiny fake iPhone to juice sales one last time won't stop that slide. The MP3 player market is dead, and Apple doesn't seem to know how to move on.

"We undertook to honor an agreement on DNT that the industry reached with the White House early this year," a spokesman for the company said in a statement emailed to the Los Angeles Times. "To that end we’re making this setting visible in our Chromium developer channel, so that it will be available in upcoming versions of Chrome by year’s end."

“Apple at the ITC is bulletproof,” said Rodney Sweetland, a lawyer at Duane Morris in Washington, who specializes in trade cases. “Nobody can get any traction against them there. The lesson is, if you want to get relief against Apple, it’s going to have to be in a foreign forum where it doesn’t have the clout or the cachet it has at the ITC or the northern district of California.”

Apple calls the new connector Lightning, but giving it a clever name doesn't mean it adds anything but dollars in Apple's bank account.

For a while now I'd heard that Apple was working on its own ARM based CPU core, but last I heard Apple was having issues making it work. I assumed that it was too early for Apple's own design to be ready. It turns out that it's not. Based on a lot of digging over the past couple of days, and conversations with the right people, I've confirmed that Apple's A6 SoC is based on Apple's own ARM based CPU core and not the Cortex A15.

For more than forty years, the United States courts have recognized that students do not check their First Amendment rights at the schoolhouse door.

Buzzfeed, the click-factory that has figured out Facebook and Twitter, plus Ze Frank, the guy who figured out Web video back in its infancy. Together they’re going to try to figure out modern-day YouTube. Buzzfeed has bought Ze Frank’s games/video start-up, which means it has “acqhired” Frank and two of his three employees. Frank’s job is to help Buzzfeed CEO Jonah Peretti break into Google’s video giant. “Facebook and Twitter have been

Yahoo employees will have a choice of phones: iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One X, HTC EVO 4G LTE, or Nokia Lumia 920. Yahoo is also going to pay its employees data and phone bills. Yahoo is also going to discontinue IT support for Blackberry phones.

People keep asking why Apple didn’t opt for the micro-USB connector. The answer is simple: that connector isn’t smart enough. It has only 5 pins: +5V, Ground, 2 digital data pins, and a sense pin, so most of the dock connector functions wouldn’t work – only charging and syncing would. Also, the pins are so small that no current plug/connector manufacturer allows the 2A needed for iPad charging. Note that this refers to individual pins; I’ve been told that several devices manage to get around this by some trick or other, but I couldn’t find any standard for doing so.

RT @Techmeme: Twitter To Remove Third-Party Image Services From Its Apps (@jwherrman / BuzzFeed)

RT @Techmeme: Everything's broken and nobody's upset (@shanselman)

RT @Techmeme: Everything's broken and nobody's upset (@shanselman)

RT @Techmeme: Google takes on Instagram and Facebook by acquiring top iOS photo app Snapseed (@hamburger /... http: ...

RT @TheFacebookPro: Facebook Overshare: 7 Things You Might Not Realize You're Telling The World - Huffington Post

RT @MediaPost: iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Top 2 Milllion in 24 Hours

First third-party Lightning to 30-pin adapters show up on Amazon for $10-18 (Ebay too) | 9to5Mac | |

Twitpic founder Noah Everett says he understands Twitter's choice, though he wishes it were a different one. "They're trying to control those eyeballs on their apps, they're an ad-based company, they make money that way." He says his site, the biggest of the bunch, gets a majority of its uploads from sources other than the official Twitter apps — a group, however, that includes uploads from 3rd-party Twitter clients, which account for about 23% of all tweets.

The total Geekbench 2 score comes in at 1601. Poole notes that the average score for the iPhone 4S is 629 and the average score for the iPad 3 is 766. A comparison chart of previous iOS devices can be viewed at Geekbench. The numbers seem to validate Apple's claim that the A6 processor is twice as fast as the A5 and any previous iOS device. This one score also places the iPhone 5 ahead of the average scores of all Android phones on Geekbench. The full Geekbench results further breakdown processor, memory and bandwidth performance.

The reporter states some of the coolest new features of the iPhone 5, including holographic photos and laser keyboard. Unfortunately for them (and us,) those features aren’t actually available on the iPhone 5. It appears that the footage used in the package is from a year-old concept video by Aatma Studio, which you can watch below.

The government, however, has interpreted the anti-hacking provisions to include activities such as violating a website’s terms of service or a company’s computer usage policy, a position a federal appeals court in April said means “millions of unsuspecting individuals would find that they are engaging in criminal conduct.” The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in limiting reach of the CFAA, said that violations of employee contract agreements and websites’ terms of service were better left to civil lawsuits.

We knew that Samsung was going to be bringing the Galaxy Note II to US shores sometime this year, and things are slowly starting to come into focus. Samsung has just announced that the larger-than-life handset will be coming to no less than five different US carriers by mid-November. Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and US Cellular will all be carrying the device, which features a 5.5-inch Super AMOLED display, 16GB of storage, and a 1.6GHz quad-core processor.