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A new option’s shown up in Chromium builds that allows users to choose what type of cached personal data should be encrypted as it’s sent to Google’s cloud. Until now, only saved passwords have been encrypted, but the new option would conceivably cover everything from saved form data, like credit card numbers, to Omnibar auto-completions and what extensions are installed. [Browser Scene] More »

Do you like Android 3.1? Do you like tablets slimmer than the iPad 2? You might want to talk to Samsung in that case, because the Galaxy creator has put those two features together on its Galaxy Tab 10.1 product page and has compounded the excitement with a tweet saying the tablet is mere days away. Now, there’s a bit of conflicting information here, because Samsung’s tweet actually promises Android 3.0, but the Tab 10.1 page clearly lists the harder, better, faster, stronger Android version as the one that comes with the slate. Additionally, our conversations with Samsung at Google I/O earlier this month indicated that the June 8th launch date that we’ve been taking as gospel until recently is a little shakier now, with a slight delay possibly being caused by the desire to install the latest Honeycomb on board. So maybe the tweet’s accurate in saying the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is coming in just a few days, it just depends on your definition of “few.”

Update: Another tweet from Samsung’s US account has reaffirmed that Android 3.1 will be the OS.

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There’s nothing as spectacular as watching a thunderstorm roll in on the dry Australian landscape, which could explain why I’ve just spooked myself by watching William Phuoc’s video of a bolt striking just 200m from where they were photographing. [PetaPixel] More »

Sony is once again dealing with an online security breach after the company said Wednesday that 2,000 customers of its Sony Ericsson venture in Canada may have had their information taken.

Canada Post rejected its union’s latest contract proposal on Tuesday, saying the offer would increase the Crown corporation’s labour costs by $1.4 billion, but made a counter-proposal that may get negotiations back on track.

This is actually great: Barry Bonds, the star of Bob Costas’s nightmares, will provide scholarships for Bryan Stow’s two grade-school-age children. Stow was brutally beaten at Dodger Stadium in March for wearing a Giants jersey. His condition is slowly improving, and police recently arrested a suspect in his beating. More »

This is actually great: Barry Bonds, the star of Bob Costas’s nightmares, will provide scholarships for Bryan Stow’s two grade-school-age children. Stow was brutally beaten at Dodger Stadium in March for wearing a Giants jersey. His condition is slowly improving, and police recently arrested a suspect in his beating. More »

A Yorkton radiologist whose work prompted a review of nearly 70,000 exams is suing for defamation.

With the final launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour and only one more launch before the program is retired, NASA officially announced the shuttle’s replacement today: the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV). How uninspiring of a name is that? More »

The Atlanta Thrashers’ sale and move to Winnipeg is not yet official, but Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed already is talking as if losing the team is inevitable.

NASA has confirmed news that was as inevitable as it was unwelcome: orbiting Mars satellites will cease search operations for the fallen rover at the end of the month.

If you’ve been waiting to get your hands on the hard-to-find Android 3.0 ASUS 10.1″ Eee Pad Transformer then you better be heading over to Staples Canada online store. They have removed the “out of stock” and now list both the 16GB and 32GB models as ready to ship with an “Expected Delivery 1-10 Business […]

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Some Saskatchewan students stage a walkout of their own in advance of the teachers’ two-day strike scheduled to start Wednesday.

The fate of a Yorkton, Sask., man charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of his daughter’s boyfriend is now in the hands of the jury.

We’ve highlighted top 10 Gmail Labs you should enable before, but you’ll find more than ten useful features hidden inside Gmail’s Laboratory, and Google’s releasing new ones all the time. Here are ten more powered-up Gmail Labs worth enabling. More »

Facebook appears to have added a “Subscribe via RSS” option to Pages. The link, found at the bottom left side of Pages beneath the profile picture, leads to an Atom feed of wall posts by the Page that can be auto-discovered by clients.

The RSS option will assist users that want to stay up to date with news distributed from specific Pages without constantly having to check Facebook. Some people that might find this especially useful include those tasked with industry or corporate communications policy compliance, researchers, or those whose access to Facebook is blocked by an employer, educator, or government.

This link joins RSS links on Notes as evidence that RSS is not dead on Facebook, despite the site more actively supporting JSON-based API feeds. In the past, Pages could sometimes be subscribed to via SMS, but now most Pages show both RSS and SMS options. Some clients have also had limited access to RSS feeds of Pages in the past, but there was no official option for this on Pages.

Before, some thought Twitter’s API and RSS options made it a better choice for producing content to be received by certain types of clients. Though Facebook’s Graph API still doesn’t support subscriptions, Page wall RSS subscriptions bring it closer to parity with Twitter. They will also permit some experimental users of Facebook, where certain types of posts can trigger actions in controlled by clients.

Before And After of the Day: Missourian Aaron Fuhrman — a self-taught landscape photographer — has been traveling around Joplin, photographing heartrending panoramic shots of the devastation left in the aftermath of Sunday’s tornado.

Fuhrman lined up one of these panoramic photos with a Google Street View screencap of the same intersection to illustrate the comprehension-challenging extent of damage caused by the twister.

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Tagged: Before And After, Joplin, Joplin Tornado

When a show gets canceled before its time, it can go out gracefully or it can go out like an oily smack on the trousers. Unfortunately for The Event, we got the full smackage. More »

Normally, we don’t report news of games going gold. After all, when a game is hitting its release date, it’s not really news. But when that game is Duke Nukem Forever, it’s a whole different story.

Gearbox announced in a tweet today that Duke Nukem Forever has gone gold. DNF has had more release dates than Elizabeth Taylor had husbands. From its announcement back in 1997 to going gold today, the development of this game has been a sordid saga of delays, revamps, engine changes, and more.

Since 2K assumed the reins of the franchise last year, the development has proceeded apace. Now, the day that many believed would never come has arrived. Duke’s coming back, and the discs are being pressed right now. It’s almost hard to believe that it’s actually going to launch. I may not believe it until I can hold it in my hand.

DNF will land in stores on June 14, and will be available on PC, PS3, and XBox 360.