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Apple TV remote redesign will likely feature a touch pad

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by on May 5, 2015 at 12:32 am
Posted In: Around the Web

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Get ready for a brand new way to interact with your Apple TV. The New York Times is reporting that the company is revamping the design of its ATV remote control for the new models that are expected to debut at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference this June. The remote will reportedly feature a touch pad and be thicker in size. Apple is not commenting on this information, which was derived from an anonymous source within the company. The source said that the size will be comparable to the remote control for Amazon’s Echo wireless speaker. While a touch pad for the Apple…

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This notorious troll is gaming Twitter ads to promote white supremacism

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by on May 4, 2015 at 5:54 pm
Posted In: ads, Around the Web, Insider, racism, trolling, Weev

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Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer became a free speech hero when he was jailed for a year after revealing a hole in iPad security and exposing thousands of AT&T customers’ details back in 2010. His sentence was ultimately quashed. Since then he’s become even more well-known as one of the Web’s most notorious trolls, which he combines with a taste for white supremacist ideology, going so far as to get a huge swastika tattoo. His latest trick is gaming Twitter’s self-service ad console to push a tweet espousing his views into the timelines of women and ethnic minorities. This is the funniest dollar that…

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Watch this now: Have we already lost our freedom?

May04
by on May 4, 2015 at 5:52 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Ancilla Tilia thinks that privacy is about knowledge, and knowledge is power. Do we understand that by giving our information away now, we are giving it to companies that might not exist yet and to governments that are not yet elected? We’ve just added Ancilla Tilia’s talk from last year’s TNW Europe Conference to our TNW Video site and you can watch it right now for free. We might have already lost our freedoms. For our future children, freedom will be a vague term that has no meaning to them. Freedom is already very difficult to define, and we might…

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Watch this now: Have we already lost our freedom?

May04
by on May 4, 2015 at 5:52 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Ancilla Tilia thinks that privacy is about knowledge, and knowledge is power. Do we understand that by giving our information away now, we are giving it to companies that might not exist yet and to governments that are not yet elected? We’ve just added Ancilla Tilia’s talk from last year’s TNW Europe Conference to our TNW Video site and you can watch it right now for free. We might have already lost our freedoms. For our future children, freedom will be a vague term that has no meaning to them. Freedom is already very difficult to define, and we might…

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