Sony Optiarc, manufacturer of many of the optical drives that spin your
discs in stereos, computers and other devices, has declared to stop the
production of optical drives. In times where most of the data is streamed
via cloud services and the internet, this seems logical.

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Okay, you all know cell phones. Put in a SIM card, and you’re good to go.
Then there are phones to put in 2 sim cards (maybe one local and one
traveller prepaid card for roaming. Seems feasible and logic. But one
manufacturer thought, hey, there’s room for more. another SIM slot.

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When it comes to freaky GPU solutions, mostly PowerColor and ASUS are
involved with this. This time, PowerColor combines two 7970 Tahiti XT
GPUs and adds 6GB of video RAM to the card. The result: a devilish power-
suckling pixel monster.

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During a fuilade, a man lost his life again by police power. 46 shots have been
fired. The police of Michigan stated that the man was considered a severe
threat to the officers and ready to stab the officers with the knife armed.
At current, the man’s body is obducted if he has been subject to drugs.

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Apple seems to reach for the stars. While other companies try to reach the 100
billion border, Apple goes for Platinum and heads onwards to the trillion.
The per-share stock value is 663.50 US$ and give Apple a value of 623 billion
US$ in total. And the new devices aren’t yet issued.

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It seems as if the air’s getting thinner for Julian Assange. In London, the Embassy
of Ecuador is about to be stormed by London authorities to arrest Julian Assange
who is about to be expelled to Sweden where he will be probably forwarded to
the US Authorites for exploting US governmental secrets.

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The cell network. Reason for many users to start turning red as if they have eaten
a hot pepperoni of Habañero. You know this situation probably. At your home
(in my case Switzerland) the cell phone works like a charm, and *BANG*, just as
you cross the border to the neighbor country, your signal’s gone. Black hole!

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When it comes to police and USA, you’d better know how to behave. One
man in New York hd the bad luck to face NYPD officers with an itchy
trigger finger and got shot. The problem: He was armed with a knife and
seems to have offended the officers. 12 bullets ended this man’s life!

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It seems as if Wikileaks got many enemies on the internet. The most recent
attempt to unveil Trapwire (a surveillance network in the USA) brought a mass
of attack attempts to the Wikileaks homepage. A anonymous group called
“Antileaks” already took responsibility for this hack attempt which may be…

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When it comes to Copyright and filesharing, the music industry is taking every
attempt to cross borders. In this case, the german Federal Court has confirmed
that ISPs have to issue private data from persons who violate the copyright.
That means, if a copyright owner files a lawsuit against a user from whom he…

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While Zynga has to fight with low business figures of the last quarter, the mana-
gement undergoes another change. John Schappert, who has been acquired
from EA, has left Zynga. As Mark Pincus has limited the competences of John
Schappert, this was the only logical consequence.

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Google got fined $22.5 million for repeatedly violating the privacy policy
concerning user data. The fine has mainly been spoken for using cookies in the
mobile browsers of iPhone, iPad and android devices. The main problem was
that no usr confirmation for the cookies was needed.

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So the NASA has finally placed a robot on the surface of Mars to explore
it’s surface. The question is, what’s so interesting about a planet that is
most likely not containing life (due to it’s atmospheric consistence) and
most likely won’t have any valuable ressources on it?

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Car crashes are spectacular. Abd if they’re on footage material, it’s much
more spectacular. I’ve take some together for your viewing pleasure.
Some are funny, some are crazy, some are spectacular. Never thought,
that there are so many car crashes within such a small time period.

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It seems that Apple does everything to have it’s products properly placed
on the markets. During the really immense pressure of the lawsuit between
Apple and Samsung, Apple has unveiled that it uses more then one billion
USD of advertising budget for iPhone & Co.

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Just yesterday I have written about plane-based city surveillance in
Germany. The next step onwards to total surveillance of citizen is just
one step away. The project, called INDECT is just being enrolled and
already basis for wild speculations and citizen-enforced protests.

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What sounds like a scene from Minority report or other SciFi movies has
actually happened in Germany. A little town, called Bocholt, has been
inspected using a plane and with it, a infrared camera was taking warmth
zone pictures to identify bad-isolated houses.

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What sceptic stock analysts have expected has now happened: The
facebook stock shares have reached a new all-time low: 24 USD is not
what shareholders have wanted but stagnating member numbers and
an operative loss of USD 157M is not a good sign for high share value!

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It seems as if the problems around Diablo III still won’t stop. Today another
god mode bug, this time for the wizard has hit Blizzard very hard. Rumors
about a wanted advantage for a small amount of the gamers do the round.
All those, who play the game the honest way, are angry and annoyed.

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Olympia – Everyone has probably heard of it and watched it on TV to
favorize one’s country. What was fun before the millennium is now only
one more frustration when you see how money rules the world actually.
have tickets become available to the worker class to fair prices, it seems…

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Interesting to see, how Facebook has performed just four weeks later.
And it seems as if the stock won’t go any further up so far as it’s value is
at 28.75 US$ by now. Thus, the stock noted still below initial value.
Rough time for Mark Zuckerberg and his try to go for $100 billion value!

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What looks funny, could also be dangerous, sure. In this case I had some
serious thinking active when watching this guy lifting a heavy weight up.
Unfortunately he stopped breathing to save energy(?) with the fatal
effect of collapsing. Fortunately he didn’t hurt much. Now you’re warned!

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Laws can be a real nuisance today. Especially the USA make it almost impossible
NOT to break any law. Even if you don’t know it for sure, you run risk into
breaking the law. So it happened to two men from Seattle, that they broke the law
when being in Canada and buying some treats for their children.

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This might be a not-so-good-day for Apple. The London Court has decided
that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab isn’t just a simple copy of Apple’s famous iPad.
But not enough for this: As the judge thought, that a simple financial settle-
ment won’t stop Apple from fighting on, he brought up a special verdict.

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AMD has a nice driver structure. The driver installs fine on a clean system and
provides you with a lot of controls over your graphics hardware. But once you
start updating your graphics driver (as the Control Center tells you to do) upon
notification, you may run into deep trouble. Happened to me again just today…

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Collapsing buildings always look spectacular. Even more when you see
five 200m tall cooling towers of a coal power plant collapsing within
seconds. What looks like “piece of cake” in the video is the result of a
monthlong planning and engineering to avoid surrounding damage.

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Again on the Road in Russia. This time, a rig driver thought, he’d change
driving direction on the go and makes an U-Turn at the most unfitting
position/situation. Not looking what the counter traffic does, can be very
dangerous. This video shows, what happens when two rigs collide.

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The iPhone – base for many gadget ideas, enhanced by Apps that utilize
the integrated peripherals such as the flashLED and the vibration motor
in other ways than intended. There’s almost nothing which hasn’t been
tried with the iPhone. But a taser? With the power of 630.000 volts?

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Rien ne va plus! Something like this could maybe come true to the unfiltered
Internet as we know it. The EU is about to bring out a Child Protection Filter.
Its purpose: Filter out any material that’s probably unsuitable for youngsters.
But what, if the technique gets into wrong lanes and is used for censoring?

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Dog poo can be very annoying. In most citis there’s no obey to clean the
dogs’ poo away. So if you’re not watching your step carefully, you’ll find
yourself stepping into dog poo. Smelly and not very comfy feeling! Also
the smell ain’t charming the nose! Time for revenge.

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What seems odd for most of us, seems normal for Microsoft. So it is known
to winfuture that Microsoft wants to make the switch to the new Metro
surface more delicate to the customers by putting up a rather high budget
for advertisement of Windows 8. But seriously: is this really necessary?

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It seems as if Mozilla’s Firebird project dies not yield the results it is
supposed to. So officially, Thunderbird will no longer be actively
developed and equipped with new features. Features are now only
included when users bring in the necessary program code.

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