Sorry, Edible Arrangements — you are no longer the desired gift-by-delivery of choice. It's not your fault, though. Nobody can compete with flowers that look like puppies. More »
OMFG, Puppy Bouquets! [Cute]
Apple’s iCloud bags last major record label, will cost $25 / year to sign up?
We’d heard that Universal was the only holdout, and now CNET says the deal is done — Apple has reportedly signed all four major record labels for its upcoming iCloud service. We’ll be bringing you all the confirmed details on June 6th, but while you wait, here’s some food for thought: the Los Angeles Times says that Apple will eventually charge somewhere around $25 a year for a subscription to the cloud. That will help supplement the 58 percent piece of the pie it’s planning to take from the music industry for songs distributed though the network, and possibly some ad revenue as well. 30 percent will reportedly go to the labels, and another 12 percent to publishers, who will apparently be signing their own agreements with Apple tomorrow.
Update: There’s actually an interesting discrepancy between the two sources here: the LA Times reports that Apple’s taking that nice, juicy 58 percent, but CNET says that the labels will take 58 percent while Apple claims its traditional 30 percent instead. We’re investigating.
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Hackers Spill over 1,000,000 Sony Online Accounts [Hackers]
Sony getting its ass handed to it by hackers is becoming about as newsworthy as a netbook release, but this one is particularly brutal: Lulz Security just released a file containing over a million user logins. Home addresses included. More »
Canada Post makes last-minute offer to union
Canada Post said on Thursday it is offering a number of last-minute compromises to avert a postal worker strike set for midnight.
Hackers stole secret Canadian government data
Hackers who attacked two of Canada’s federal departments stole classified information before being discovered last January, CBC News has learned.
The World of 100
There is no doubting the skill of designer Toby Ng. His designs have won him numerous accolades including the Red Dots Awards, International Design Awards, and the Hong Kong International Poster Triennial Awards among others. One of his projects, called World of 100 answers the question: If the world were a village of 100 people, what would its composition be? The answer consists of twenty brilliantly designed posters based on statistics about the population around the world under different classifications. The stats are more powerful because of Ng’s illustrations. He uses vibrant, bold colors combined with crisp, clean lines.
“Look,” says Ng, “this is the world we are living in.”
Apple iCloud logo revealed… it’s a cloud
Apple itself has already confirmed the name, and now Apple Insider has snapped some early pictures at the Moscone Center that reveal the iCloud logo / icon. Shockingly, it’s a cloud.
Apple iCloud logo revealed… it’s a cloud originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Seeding in Sask. 70% done
Seventy per cent of the this year’s crop is now in the ground, Saskatchewan Agriculture says.
FAQ: 8 things to know about the postal strike
Canada Post workers are set to walk off the job at 11:59 p.m. ET. The rolling strike will begin in Winnipeg, lasting 24 hours there, before moving on to another site. Here are 8 things you need to know about the job action.
Leslie Nielsen — One Final Fart Joke
Filed under: Leslie Nielsen, R.I.P.
Here lies the late, great Leslie Nielsen in Evergreen Cemetery in Fort Lauderdale, FL … where the “Airplane” star was immortalized on his gravestone with the exact fart-inspired epitaph he requested years before his death.
RIP.
Thanks to our friends at Sun-Sentinel.com for the pic.
Winnipeg’s NHL name to follow ticket drive
The name of Winnipeg’s new NHL team won’t be unveiled until the season ticket drive is done, CBC News has learned.
Toshiba Thrive tablet with Android 3.1 ships in July, starts at $429
That Toshiba Thrive tablet that surfaced on J&R's site last month? Turns out, someone got a little excited — the company just confirmed the listing went up prematurely and that the price was wrong. But, we just got word that the Thrive will indeed debut as Toshiba’s first tablet for the US market, with pre-orders beginning June 13th at Best Buy, along with the usual “office superstores” and “e-commerce players,” and a mid-July ship date (we’re hearing the 10th). The 10.1-inch (1280 x 800) tablet runs Android 3.1, and comes in three sizes: 8GB ($429), 16GB ($479), and 32GB ($579). Not bad, when you consider the 16GB model undercuts the Galaxy Tab 10.1 by $20.
If you’ve been following along, you already know it’s powered by Tegra 2 and has WiFi, Bluetooth, full-sized USB and HDMI ports, an SD slot, a 2 MP front-facing camera, and a 5MP rear one. But the company also just unleashed a slew of other details. Head on past the break for a run-down, won’t you?
Gallery: Toshiba Thrive
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The Revolutionary 100% Effective Birth Control For Men
The RISUG injection lasts for ten years, is completely reversible and has no side effects.
Unofficial Chrome Extension Shows You How Many Google +1’s a Site Has [Downloads]
Chrome: If you’ve been looking for ways to put Google’s new +1 service to use, or just trying to get more into it, then this Chrome extension could be your ticket. The very unofficial “+1 Plus One” extension adds a button to your browser’s toolbar that, when clicked, will show you the number of +1’s that a site’s received. It also allows you to add your own +1 on the fly, which is actually the more useful feature, since the only way to do it at the moment is through search results or buttons added to sites by their owners. More »
Photosynth Creates Effortless Panoramic Photos
Creating and stitching together panoramic photos can be really tricky business. Photosynth makes the process so simple you don’t even need a tripod (or even a steady hand).
Photosynth stands a part from most other panoramic tools thanks to a super simple interface and a set of algorithms that seamlessly match up your photos even if you didn’t put the camera on a smooth panning tripod head. Photosynth does all the hard work of lining up, layering, and smoothing your images to create as big or as little of a panoramic as you want (some users create a basic 180 degree bank but you can do a complete 360 panorama if you have enough photos).
Photosynth is available as a Windows-based application or as an iOS application for on-the-go panorama creation. Hit up the link below to explore panoramas created by existing users and to grab a copy of the software. If you’re interested in using the iOS version, check out the MakeUseOf via link for an in depth look at it.
Photosynth [via MakeUseOf]
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 hits NYC Best Buy June 8, nationwide on June 17
Wondering when you can get your own Galaxy Tab 10.1, one that exchanges the cute field of robots on the back for an upgrade to Android 3.1? It appears that day is next week, with the NYC Best Buy in Union Square becoming the first to offer this tablet on Wednesday, June 8th. Those outside of the boroughs will be able to purchase theirs on the 17th, when this hunk of Honeycomb hits other retailers. The price? 16GB for $499, 32GB for $599, all in WiFi-only, though Sprint is said to start selling a similarly non-3G version sometime this summer. The press release below also confirms that the UI has been tweaked, adding in TouchWiz UX customizations, so it won’t be an entirely pure experience, but just how unclean it will be remains to be seen.
Update: We’ve confirmed with Samsung that the TouchWiz customization will actually come as a later, OTA update to the device, which we presume means it’ll be optional — at least initially.
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NVIDIA Kal-El reference tablet hands-on (video)
As if showing up in two of the first four reference devices for Windows on ARM wasn’t enough of an achievement for NVIDIA’s quad-core Kal-El superchip, it decided to visit us in person here at Computex to demonstrate its splendid graphical prowess. Running Android 3.1 on a 10-inch, 1280 x 800 screen, it gave us a first-hand look at the Glow Ball demo that wowed us in video form just a couple of days ago. What we saw on the dev tablet before us was no less impressive; lighting was being rendered in real time and scattered over a multiplicity of surfaces, while the cloth simulation was, to use a terrible pun, silky smooth. NVIDIA also ran us through a sightseeing tour of the Unreal Development Kit and Lost Planet 2, noting that the PC game took only a couple of months to port over to work on the Kal-El architecture. Unfortunately, no new details were forthcoming about when Kal-El devices might be coming or what developers we should expect to see coding games and other content to exploit the platform’s evidently mighty capabilities. For now, we’ll just have to sate ourselves with the video after the break.
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How U2′s Bono hitched a ride with Oilers’ Gilbert Brule
On Tuesday, Gilbert Brule of the Edmonton Oilers and his girlfriend went out to walk their German shepherd. They ended up taking in an Irish singer.
As strange and surreal as it seems, this is the story about how one NHL player picked up Bono on the side of the road, and ended up backstage at a U2 show.
According to writer Ben Gelinas of the Edmonton Journal, Brule and Kelsey Nichols were driving in West Vancouver when Brule was convinced he had seen Bono hitchhiking. Nichols had her doubts, but Brule persuaded her to turn the car around and … well, it was Bono and his assistant, looking to hitch a ride because they had gone for a walk on a Beautiful Day, had been caught in the rain and were stuck in a moment they couldn't get out of. (We promise those are the only U2 song puns here.)
On the drive to Horseshoe Bay, Bono and his assistant sat in the back with the couple’s dog. The four chatted about Brule’s hockey career, about Dublin and Bono’s apparent love for Vancouver. Bono mentioned that his band was playing a show in Edmonton on Wednesday and asked if they’d like to go.
So Brule and Nichols sold their tickets for Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals, bought plane tickets (three, so Brule’s mom could come too) and flew back to Edmonton, where Brule is a forward for the Oilers.
Bono got them backstage passes to say thanks for the ride. On Nichols's pass, he wrote: "Thanks for the ride." On Brule's pass, he wrote: "My hero Gilbert."
Oh, it doesn’t stop there, as Bono included the random act of kindness in his stage banter on Wednesday night. David Staples of the Journal said that Bono told the crowd: "I like ice hockey because people who like ice hockey pick up hitchhikers." He also said he wanted to be Gilbert Brule, while Adam Clayton is Grant Fuhr, Larry Mullen Jr. is Mark Messier and The Edge is Wayne Gretzky.
Watch it here as Bono tells the tale (starts at the 52-second mark):
As Bono discovered, hockey players move in Mysterious Brules. (OK, now we’re done.)
Go and read Ben Gelinas’ fantastic tale of Brule and Bono, the greatest rock-and-roll-meets-hockey story ever told. Or at least the greatest one until Taylor Hall gives Chris Martin a piggyback ride to a Coldplay show.
FaceNiff makes Facebook hacking a portable, one-tap affair (video)
Remember Firesheep? Well, the cookie snatching Firefox extension now has a more portable cousin called FaceNiff. This Android app listens in on WiFi networks (even ones encrypted with WEP, WPA, or WPA2) and lets you hop on to the accounts of anyone sharing the wireless connection with you. Right now it works with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Nasza-Klasa (a Polish Facebook clone), but developer Bartosz Ponurkiewicz promises more are coming. You’ll need to be rooted to run FaceNiff — luckily, we had such a device laying around and gave the tap-to-hack app a try. Within 30 seconds it identified the Facebook account we had open on our laptop and had us posting updates from the phone. At least with Firesheep you had to sit down and open up a laptop, now you can hijack Twitter profiles as you stroll by Starbucks and it’ll just look like you’re sending a text message (but you wouldn’t do that… would you?). One more image and a video are after the break.
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Qualcomm announces dual- and quad-core Snapdragon processor support for Windows 8
After months of rumors, leaks, and speculation, Windows 8 is finally official on ARM and x86 platforms. Terrific. Now Qualcomm has jumped on Microsoft’s coattails with details about the silicon the company will offer to support Microsoft’s next generation OS. First on the list is Qualcomm’s dual-core MSM8960 Snapdragon with integrated 3G/LTE modem capable of speeds up to 2.5GHz, followed in early 2012 by the quad-core Snapdragon APQ8064. Of course, ARM licensees Texas Instruments and NVIDIA will be feeding at the Windows 8 table as well, as will Intel and AMD. But we’re hungry for specifics now, and only Qualcomm is offering up any detail.
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