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UP24 review: Jawbone’s newest activity tracker ups the ante for the quantified self

Apr11
by on April 11, 2014 at 2:55 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Product Reviews

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I’ve never been very good at getting to sleep early. I consider it a hangover from a period of my life that was spent playing poker for a living. Professional poker does strange things to sleep patterns if you do it for long enough. I’m also fortunate enough to work for one of the world’s best technology blogs with a geographically distributed team that works remotely. The combination of these two factors means that I don’t have to move very far each day, and I’m often awake when I really shouldn’t be. All of which makes me a pretty ideal…

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Facebook received 28,147 government requests for data impacting 38,256 accounts in the second half of 2013

Apr11
by on April 11, 2014 at 2:16 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media

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Facebook today revealed the number of data requests it received from various law enforcement agencies around the world in the second half of last year: 28,147. Those requests impacted a potential 38,256 accounts, according to the company. Since Facebook only released its first report in August 2013, we can’t compare to see how these results compare to previous years. We can, however, compare the second half of 2013 (July to December) against the first half (January to June), as well as get a total for the full year. The new numbers for the second half of last year are slightly…

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Is Crimea part of Russia? Answers found on Facebook, Vkontakte differ; Wikipedia changes its mind

Apr11
by on April 11, 2014 at 1:40 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Investigations

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This post was originally published on East-West Digital News and has been republished with permission. Three weeks after Russia asserted that Crimea and the city of Sebastopol have become part of its territory, Facebook and Russian-language social network Vkontakte still categorize the inhabitants of these regions as being located in Ukraine. Meanwhile, two other major social networks, Odnoklassniki (Classmates) and Moi Mir (My World), have already classified them as being part of the Russian Federation. Wikipedia, on its side, appears to have changed Crimea’s status several times already, reported Russia Beyond The Headlines. Sparking an editing quarrel that lasted several days, Crimea was…

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Morning for iPhone gives you all the need-to-knows to start your day

Apr11
by on April 11, 2014 at 12:11 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

Morning for iOS has proven to be a popular tool for getting all the crucial need-to-knows to start your day, but thus far it has been an iPad-only affair. With the latest update, however, two-man development team Tamper has made it available for iPhone users too. In a nutshell, Morning collates all the information you may need to know each morning, including weather, tasks, traffic (commute time), news, calendar, stocks, countdown timer and, of course, time. Additionally, you can customize the look-and-feel with a range of themes.     Morning is a beautiful app for sure and, as such, it has actually been…

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Taptanium returns with Windy, a relaxing stereoscopic 3D soundscape of wind for iOS

Apr11
by on April 11, 2014 at 11:19 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Who would’ve thought that weather-themed audio apps would prove such a hit? Way back in July last year, we brought you news on Taptanium’s Thunderspace, a stereoscopic 3D soundscape of thundery weather for iOS, from the creators of popular weather app Haze. Similar to Raining.fm, Thunderspace serves up a blustery weather-based audio experience, designed to help you ‘relax’. But Thunderspace really went the extra mile in putting the various soundcapes together – it even introduced ‘real’ wind to the mix too. Now, the Germany-based app development studio has teamed up once more with Emmy-award winning nature sound recording artist Gordon…

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