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Tipster Warns Grindr Users That Their Exact Location Can Be Determined

NDTV Gadgets reports that an unknown person has sent warnings to thousands of Grindr users in countries with anti-gay laws. The tipster warns that the user’s exact location or address can be triangulated, putting them at risk of being found by authorities or gay-bashers. The anonymous spammer, who is presumably acting altruistically, includes links to a Twitter account, YouTube video …

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Hotel Chains Step Up Digital Services

Hilton Hotels is spending $550M on a program that will allow guests to choose their rooms, check in, and open their rooms with their smartphones. The company plans to announce this week new technology intended for its 4,200 properties world-wide. Targeting younger travelers, Hilton is aiming to leapfrog competitors that already have rolled out new services like turning mobile phones …

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Today In Creepy Robots

He’ll order your Chinese takeout AND be your wingman. (Tipped by JMG reader Ray)

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Kids React To Game Boy

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Google Cardboard

Forbes breaks it down: Google’s answer to VR? Cardboard. Or, rather, a DIY cardboard headset equipped with cheap lenses into which you slide your smartphone. Simply download the Cardboard app and you’re ready to roll, all for a few bucks in materials. Which is—let’s face it—about as weird an idea as anyone could dream up, but also sort of brilliant; …

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Today In Creepy Robots

Uncanny valley, anyone?

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Amazon Unveils Its First Cell Phone

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos today unveiled his company’s first cell phone, the Fire Phone. First-look reviewers are (mostly) impressed. Via The Verve: The Fire Phone has a 4.7-inch HD display, aluminum buttons, a Qualcomm processor, Adreno 330 graphics, and 2GB of RAM. Bezos talked a lot about the phone’s build, from the injection-molded connectors to the chamfered edges. There’s a …

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Tetris Turns 30

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New SpaceX Ship Unveiled

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Google Demos Self-Driving Car

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Open Thread Thursday

Tell us about the most useful apps on your phone.

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LG Teases Its Smartwatch

Via Techcrunch: LG is showing off a new teaser video of its G Watch, the Android Wear device it’s launching later this year. Android Wear is the operating system that Google has created for smartwatch devices, which exists essentially as an extension of Android to deliver notifications and other information from smartphones running its mobile OS. The G Watch is …

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Mark Ronson On Sampling

Clip recap: Sampling isn’t about “hijacking nostalgia wholesale,” says Mark Ronson. It’s about inserting yourself into the narrative of a song while also pushing that story forward. Watch the DJ scramble 15 TED Talks into an audio-visual omelette, and trace the evolution of “La Di Da Di,” Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick’s 1984 hit that has been reimagined for …

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Limbaugh Gets Second Cochlear Implant

Rush Limbaugh is off the air this week while he gets a second cochlear implant. He received surgery for the first implant for his left ear about 13 years ago, he said, and doctors at the time advised him against getting the second implant in case a cure was developed for his deteriorated hearing. On his show Limbaugh said he …

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Google Contact Lens Cameras?

CNET says Google is working on it: Google has a patent pending for a contact lens with a micro camera and sensors embedded on the surface controlled by blinking, which would enable you to take hands-free pictures and could help the blind navigate the everyday obstacles of the world. Although still apparently hypothetical, the patent combines ideas from Google Glass …

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Phone Makers Give Nod To “Kill Switch”

After years of pleas from law enforcement, a coalition of the largest mobile handset makers in the world have agreed to install kill switches on devices manufactured after July 2015. The kill switch feature will allow the phone’s owner to wipe all data and disable the phone.  Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft, along with the five biggest cellular carriers in …

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Google Glass Goes On Public Sale Today

Google Glass is doing a one-day public sale today. Beginning at 9 a.m. ET, Google will sell its wearable computing device, Glass, for $1,500 plus tax. Buyers will also get a sunglasses shade or one of Google’s newly-introduced prescription glasses frames with their purchase. The one-day sale is an expansion of Google’s Glass Explorer program, which began back in 2012. …

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Headline Of The Day

Via Mashable: The NSA knew about the Internet security bug Heartbleed and regularly used it to gather intelligence for at least two years, anonymous sources told Bloomberg. If the report is true — both the White House and the NSA say it’s not (see below) — the NSA could have collected information like passwords and private communications from hundreds of …

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Focus On The Family Mocks Mozilla

“Even though that apology [post from Mozilla] says they encourage staff and community to share their opinions and beliefs in public, don’t bother. The comments section is closed.” Guess who doesn’t allow comments on their YouTube videos?

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Heartbleed Bug Roils Technies

The Boston Globe reports on the Heartbleed bug that has IT departments scrambling across the nation. The word “Heartbleed” meant nothing at the start of the week. Today it is one of the hottest topics on the Internet — a simple security bug in an obscure piece of software that could compromise the personal information of millions. And while the …

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