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Google Fiber gigabit Internet comes to Austin, Texas

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by on December 2, 2014 at 5:44 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, google fiber

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Google has begun accepting registrations from residents and small businesses in Austin for its Fiber gigabit Internet service. With plans starting at $70/month, users in the Texas capital will get to experience speeds of 1,000Mbps and opt-in for HD TV content too. As with its previous rollouts, Google will group parts of the city into ‘fiberhoods’, and complete installations for one area at a time. In Austin, the company is starting with neighborhoods in the south and southeast of the city – Bluebonnet, Lady Bird Lake, Emerald Forest, Ben White and Onion Creek are up first – before expanding through the…

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Hackers release confidential Sony Pictures documents after hack

Dec02
by on December 2, 2014 at 4:17 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Last week, hackers held Sony Pictures employee computers to ransom warning that if they didn’t give in to their demands they would release internal files to the public. Unfortunately for Sony, it looks like the hackers have released a chunk of the “tens of terabytes” of data they obtained from the company’s servers. In a link dump posted on sharing sites today, some of the files named in the initial attack last week appear to have been released, including a spreadsheet with details of salaries for the company’s top executives. Yesterday, full rips of unreleased movies also appeared on torrent sites. The documents appear to…

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Facebook partners with ABC for exclusive one-minute newscasts

Dec02
by on December 2, 2014 at 4:12 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Shareables

Facebook’s busy trying to woo the media lately and its latest move is a new partnership with ABC that will see the news network film one-minute long newscasts exclusively for Facebook users. The new segment, dubbed “Facecast,” will be uploaded to ABC’s Facebook page every weeknight and offer a round-up of top stories, trending topics and more, from behind the scenes at the ABC news studio. Facecast will use Facebook’s video platform and is optimized for mobile users. ➤ ABC News Facecast [Facebook] via Engadget

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Celebrate 2015’s silly holidays with a hand-drawn and lettered calendar

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by on December 2, 2014 at 12:06 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Updates

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In case you were wondering, there is actually a National Be Late For Something Day (US, September 5). And while that late part might be an everyday reality for some people (three fingers pointing back at me), it’s nice to know that someone else out there can appreciate its significance. And that’s only one of more than a dozen cool commemorations celebrated by the 2015 Calendar of Silly Holidays, designed by Annica Lydenberg, owner of Dirty Bandits design shop in Brooklyn. This set of 12 digitally printed 4 x 6 postcards, printed on heavy-weight, 100 percent recycled stock, features a design of hand…

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