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The Jiaozhou Bay Bridge is 26.2 miles long and was completed in four years. We need to put them to work on the Second Avenue subway.

And a Twitter account. Almost 1300 tweets in the first couple of days.

At today’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Steve Jobs gave up the details of the company’s much-discussed cloud-based music service. The new iCloud service replaces Apple’s MobileMe document-sharing offering, which cost $99 a year. The new iCloud service is free and available now with an iOS 4.3 update, Jobs said. With iCloud, content such as music and documents is stored on …

A teenager in China reportedly sold one of his kidneys on the black market in order to buy himself an iPad. The 17-year-old, identified only as Little Zheng, told a local TV station he had arranged the sale of the kidney over the internet.The story only came to light after the teenager’s mother became suspicious. The case highlights China’s black …

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Apple is set to launch a cloud-based music player that will scan a user’s home iTunes library and then make those tracks available from any web device. Apple has signed deals with Warner Music Group Corp., Sony Corp.’s Sony Music Entertainment and EMI Group Ltd. and expects to sign a fourth with Vivendi SA’s Universal Music Group this week. The …

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Twitter has acquired my obsession, Tweetdeck. Via Washington Post: Word has been circulating for weeks now that Twitter was soon to be swooping up the popular third-party app. In early May, Mike Arrington reported that the deal was as good as done, but the two companies were not yet willing to publicly release the numbers. That changed today, as CNN …

Titan Media says they’re the first gay porn company to offer streaming video via Apple TV. TitanMen is pleased to announce the implementation of Apple Airplay to stream video-on-demand directly to consumer’s televisions via Apple TV*. Simply log into Vod.TitanMen.com with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and stream video-on-demand to your television equipped with the latest Apple TV. As …

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Microsoft has agreed to purchase Skype for $8.5B. The acquisition will “increase the accessibility of real-time video and voice communications, bringing benefits to both consumers and enterprise users and generating significant new business and revenue opportunities,” Microsoft said. Skype will support Microsoft devices like Xbox and Kinect, Windows Phone and an array of Windows devices. Microsoft will also connect Skype …

I don’t see this one catching on.

In order to reduce pilfering, some hotels have begun attaching RFID chips to their towels and linens. The radio-frequency identification chips designed by Linen Technology Tracking can be put in towels, sheets and bathrobes to keep track of stock and, more importantly, to ensure their return when light-fingered guests forget their manners. The market for such items sounds well developed. …

Amazon has launched a cloud-based digital storage service, beating Apple and Google to what industry observers believe will be the next big thing for folks wishing to access their files from any computer or phone. Amazon has announced its own cloud-based media streaming service. It’s called the Amazon Cloud Player and you can start using it right now. It looks …

This here website thingy is presently running at about 1.7M – 2M pageviews per month. As you can see above, Mac owners are highly overrepresented among JMG readers, which I’m sure has something to do with y’all being all artsy and shit. Pageviews via iPad have gone up tenfold in the last couple of months, a trend I expect to …

I’m just surprised that it lasted five years.

More creepy clips at Buzzfeed.

Microsoft wants everybody to stop using IE6 and has created a deathwatch countdown map.