The post-Google apocalypse; Windows 8 tablet train wreck; 4TB hard drives; Trillion FPS cameras? and more!
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The post-Google appocalypse
For almost 15 years, the entire fabric of the world wide
web has been indelibly marked, haunted, and governed by a
single entity: Google. Now it's dying, and so is
Windows -- and in their places are dozens of app stores.
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Amazon Silk revisited: Is the "split" cloud browser
any faster?
After a month of use, it's time to check in on the Kindle
Fire's Silk browser. Has it sped up as Amazon claimed?
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The Windows 8 tablet train wreck
Microsoft is on a knife edge: It is developing a version
of Windows that could ensure its continued success in the
computer market -- or it could completely cannibalize
Microsoft's profits and lead to the slow, painful,
obsolescent death.
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Is Android the most closed open source project?
A report from VisionMobile claims that Android is the most
closed of all the open source projects on the market. All
the report reveals is VisionMobile's lack of understanding
of the word "open."
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Sony, Universal, Fox, Google employees caught pirating TV,
movies, music
Perhaps those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones?
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MIT slows down light with trillion-frames-per-second video
camera
If you thought slow-mo videos of watermelons being exploded
by bullets and chubby, jowled faces recoiling from slaps was
as good as it gets, think again: MIT Media Lab has created a
camera-and-laser rig that's capable of capturing one
trillion exposures per second; fast enough to visualize the
speed of light.
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Hitachi ships world's first 4TB hard drive, sticks it to
Thor
Hitachi, seemingly in defiance of the weather gods, has
launched the world's largest 3.5-inch hard drive: The
monstrous four-platter 4TB Deskstar 5K.
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