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• Zynga founder Mark Pincus is no longer in the C-suite - CNN -- Tech News
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  Zynga founder and former CEO steps down from operational role.
  
• HBO shows coming to Amazon ... not Netflix - CNN -- Tech News
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
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• Facebook profit triples on mobile growth - CNN -- Tech News
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
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• With 24 million students, Codecademy revamps its offerings - CNN -- Tech News
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  Learn-to-code site optimizes for the Web rather than recreating offline learning.
  
• What's an Instagram or Pinterest picture really worth? - CNN -- Tech News
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  The tech startup Piqora raises $7.7 million to help marketers find out.
  
• Grand tour of the Apple retail palaces of Europe: Amsterdam - CNN -- Tech News
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  Dutch royalty once shopped in the century-old fashion house where Apple now sells iPads.
  
• VIDEO: Will robots put us all out of work? - TG Daily
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  BBC Newsnight's technology editor David Grossman explains what impact a "second machine age" will have on our society and economy.
  
• 800,000 baby monitor batteries recalled - CNN -- Tech News
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  About 800,000 rechargeable batteries used in the Summer Infant infant video monitors are being recalled because of burn hazards, according to the U.S. government.
  
• VIDEO: One man's bid to make kindness cool - TG Daily
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  BBC News hears from a man carrying out a daily random act of kindness or 'RAK Nomination'.
  
• VIDEO: The return of 'bedroom' programming - TG Daily
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  Developer Lucas Pope explains how he created the award-winning game Papers, Please.
  
• All eyes on Apple Inc. - CNN -- Tech News
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  With today's earnings expected to be ho-hum, does Apple have a surprise up its sleeve?
  
• Future of the net debated in Brazil - TG Daily
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  Tensions emerge ahead of a meeting being held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to discuss changes to the way the internet is governed.
  
• NYPD Twitter campaign 'backfires' - TG Daily
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  Twitter users bombard the New York Police department with images depicting police aggression in the latest social media campaign to go awry.
  
• Supreme Court justices skeptical of Aereo, but wary of killing it - CNN -- Tech News
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  At oral arguments over the legality of the service, which streams live broadcast TV to smartphones, the Court seemed fearful of hampering other cloud-service businesses.
  
• Grandfather launches smart gun push after Sandy Hook shooting - CNN -- Tech News
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  Carmen Lobis wants to make guns safer, and he has a very personal reason.
  
• Apple profits beat expectations - TG Daily
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  Technology giant Apple plans a share buyback after it reports profits of $10.2bn, selling a more than 43 million iPhones in the second quarter of 2014.
  
• Facebook earnings surge on mobile ads - TG Daily
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  Facebook reports growing earnings on surging mobile advertising revenue as chief finance officer David Ebersman prepares to leave.
  
• Amazon and HBO sign streaming deal - TG Daily
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  US customers of streaming service Amazon Prime will be able to stream such TV shows as The Sopranos and The Wire thanks to a new deal with subscription channel HBO.
  
• Tesco Broadband faces double fault - TG Daily
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  Tesco customers are frustrated by an email fault that coincided with a call centre glitch that meant they were unable to get information.
  
• Robot portable printer secures cash - TG Daily
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  An Israeli start-up secures enough funds to put a pocket-sized robot printer into production.
  
• Game-maker Zynga in widening loss - TG Daily
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  Troubled online game-maker Zynga reports a loss of $61m, as founder Mark Pincus steps down as chief product officer.
  
• With HBO deal, Amazon Fire TV gains an edge - CNN -- Tech News
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  Streaming agreement gives set-top box a significant advantage over its competitors.
  
• Scientists watch enormous iceberg drift away from Antarctic glacier - Fox News
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  Scientists are watching an iceberg bigger than the island of Guam as it slowly moves away from an Antarctic glacier.
  
• AIG cyber insurance covers bodily harm - CNN -- Tech News
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  Who says the digital world and the physical one are separate?
  
• Android kitchen computers offer transparent touchscreens - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  

  LinuxGizmos: Cloudproject and Elam Kitchen have launched a line of Android-based home furnishings and appliances that feature transparent multitouch displays.
  

  
  
• Build tic-tac-toe with Kivy - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  

  LinuxUser: Kivy is a highly cross-platform graphical framework for Python, designed for the creation of innovative user interfaces like multitouch apps.

  
  
• Secret to surviving mass extinctions? Don't be a picky eater - Fox News
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  Finicky eaters usually do not survive mass extinction events, suggests a new study on prehistoric big cats.
  
• Time-lapse video shows powerful asteroids strike Earth with surprising frequency - Fox News
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  Since the start of the 21st century, dozens of incoming asteroids have slammed into Earth, some of them packing far more energy than a city-destroying atomic bomb, a new animation illustrates.
  
• Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Docker: Container virtualization goes mainstream - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  

  ZDnet: Red Hat and Ubuntu are Linux rivals and they disagree on many technical details, but they do agree on one thing: Docker, a container technology is going to be a major virtualization technology in the years to come.

  
  
• China developing Linux-based OS after Windows XP shutdown - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  

  Xinhua: China will focus on the development of a new operating system (OS) based on Linux to cope with the shutdown of Windows XP.

  
  
• Who Wrote/Built OpenStack Icehouse? [SLIDE SHOW] - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  

  eWEEK: For OpenStack Icehouse, 1,202 authors contributed 17,209 code commits. In terms of contributing organizations, Red Hat tops the list, followed by IBM, HP and Rackspace.

  
  
• Mysterious ocean 'quack' finally identified - Fox News
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  A mysterious quacking noise in the ocean that has baffled scientists for decades has finally been identified, researchers say.
  
• Spacewalking astronauts complete crucial repair job - Fox News
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  Spacewalking astronauts easily replaced a dead computer outside the International Space Station on Wednesday and got their orbiting home back up to full strength.
  
• Milky Way's structure mapped in unprecedented detail - Fox News
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  Astronomers are one step closer to solving a longstanding mystery — just what our Milky Way galaxy looks like.
  
• An introduction to the School of Open - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 23 Apr 2014
  

  OpenSource.com: The School of Open is a learning environment that focuses on increasing our understanding of openness and how it fosters creativity and education in the digital age.

  
  
• Chunk of Africa found underneath Southeastern US - Fox News
  Tue, 22 Apr 2014
  Geoscientists have identified a chunk of Africa stuck onto the southeastern United States.
  
• Math wiz monkeys providing researchers with insights into human brain activity - Fox News
  Tue, 22 Apr 2014
  Monkeys trained to solve math problems are providing researchers with new insights into understanding a human learning disability in which children have difficulty adding numbers.
  
• You could soon use bitcoin to support political campaigns - CNN -- Tech News
  Tue, 22 Apr 2014
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• U.S. should block Comcast-Time Warner merger - CNN -- Tech News
  Tue, 22 Apr 2014
  A merger may not raise prices in the short term but could hamper future competition.
  
• AT&T, Chernin set sights on streaming video - CNN -- Tech News
  Tue, 22 Apr 2014
  With $500 million, the companies will seek to invest in video-on-demand channels and streaming video services.
  
• Humans may have dispersed out of Africa earlier than thought - Fox News
  Tue, 22 Apr 2014
  Modern humans may have dispersed in more than one wave of migration out of Africa, and they may have done so earlier than scientists had long thought, researchers now say.
  
• Extinct species of assassin fly found in amber - Fox News
  Tue, 22 Apr 2014
  An extinct species of assassin fly that lived during the age of the dinosaurs has been discovered inside a translucent tomb of amber.
  
• Review: Loop mobile wallet - CNN -- Tech News
  Tue, 22 Apr 2014
  The system uses novel magnetic technology to imitate your debit, credit, and loyalty cards.
  
• 9 cybersecurity threats that companies need to monitor - CNN -- Tech News
  Tue, 22 Apr 2014
  App attacks, crimeware, skimmers, and other cybersecurity concerns for enterprise executives, per a new report.
  
• AT&T eyes high-speed Internet in 100 cities - CNN -- Tech News
  Tue, 22 Apr 2014
  
  
• Meet four kings of Alibaba's online retail empire - CNN -- Tech News
  Tue, 22 Apr 2014
  Alibaba's shopping sites account for 80% of online retail in China. Meet four successful merchants.
  
• Google refunding buyers of fake app - TG Daily
  Tue, 22 Apr 2014
  Google is refunding people who bought a fake anti-virus app through its Google Play store.
  
• Russian social network founder fired - TG Daily
  Tue, 22 Apr 2014
  The founder of Russian social network VKontakte says he has been fired and that his site has been taken over by allies of President Putin.
  
• Supreme court quizzes Aereo: Do TV streams break the law? - CNN -- Tech News
  Tue, 22 Apr 2014
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• VIDEO: Actress writes her own happy ending - TG Daily
  Tue, 22 Apr 2014
  A woman pioneer in the digital space talks about using technology to create acting opportunities that wouldn't otherwise exist.
  
• VIDEO: Hands-on with Microsoft's Cortana - TG Daily
  Tue, 22 Apr 2014
  Meet the brains behind Windows Phone's Cortana
  
• VIDEO: Facebook targets small business - TG Daily
  Tue, 22 Apr 2014
  Chief operating officer of Facebook Sheryl Sandberg has been speaking to business executives from the UK and Ireland in Dublin.
  
• Graphene 'made with kitchen blender' - TG Daily
  Tue, 22 Apr 2014
  Scientists have outlined how they managed to make the wonder material graphene using a kitchen blender.
  
• VIDEO: Aircraft factory's technology role - TG Daily
  Tue, 22 Apr 2014
  The East Yorkshire aircraft factory which used to make Hawk trainer jets is now developing high technology projects.
  
• Airbnb in court over housing laws - TG Daily
  Tue, 22 Apr 2014
  Airbnb, the website that lets people rent their homes to holidaymakers, is to appear at the Supreme Court in New York.
  
• 'World's fastest' lift to be built - TG Daily
  Tue, 22 Apr 2014
  Hitachi says it will install a lift capable of reaching speeds of 72km/h (45mph) into a skyscraper in Guangzhou, southern China.
  
• Easter egg: DSL router patch merely hides backdoor instead of closing it - LinuxToday News
  Tue, 22 Apr 2014
  

  Ars Technica: First, DSL router owners got an unwelcome Christmas present. Now, the same gift is back as an Easter egg.

  
  
• Why an open source community beats access to tech support - LinuxToday News
  Tue, 22 Apr 2014
  

  OpenSource.com: Most of the time, no single company or entity exists behind an open source project, like with a proprietary system. Instead open source has communities.

  
  
• Heartbleed and Heartache in FOSS Town - LinuxToday News
  Tue, 22 Apr 2014
  

  Linux Insider: The bottom line, however, is that the bug lingered for years.

  
  
• Netflix reports rise in profits - TG Daily
  Mon, 21 Apr 2014
  Internet streaming video service Netflix reports profits of $53m during the first quarter, and says it will soon increase subscription prices.
  
• VIDEO: Robot chefs take over restaurant - TG Daily
  Mon, 21 Apr 2014
  A restaurant in China has started serving food that's been prepared by robots.
  
• Reddit revolt over censored posts - TG Daily
  Mon, 21 Apr 2014
  Reddit downgrades the status of its technology section after it emerges that many popular terms had been banned from its headlines.
  
• VIDEO: Autistic workers get chance to shine - TG Daily
  Mon, 21 Apr 2014
  Autistic people have historically struggled to find and keep jobs, but with as many as one in 68 American children being diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. The Specialists Guild, a non-profit group in San Francisco, is working to prepare people with autism for jobs in the technology industry.
  
• UK scares sports piracy site offline - TG Daily
  Mon, 21 Apr 2014
  One of the biggest sports file-sharing sites closes down after a UK police force warns its operators that they could face jail.
  
• Facebook boss wants women to act - TG Daily
  Mon, 21 Apr 2014
  Facebook's highest-ranked woman says women need to take action to create a more equal world.
  
• VIDEO: Is this India's first social media election? - TG Daily
  Sun, 20 Apr 2014
  Indian elections are under way, and most parties are using the internet to try and woo voters. Is this India's first social media election?
  
• VIDEO: Hackathon brings new sounds to life - TG Daily
  Sat, 19 Apr 2014
  LJ Rich visits Music Tech Fest's 24hr hackathon where people come together to collaboratively create new instruments and sounds.
  
• VIDEO: Turning the world into an orchestra - TG Daily
  Thu, 17 Apr 2014
  Spencer Kelly tests out Mogees- a device linked to your smartphone which turns objects into musical instruments.
  
• Cyborg glasses express fake emotions - TG Daily
  Wed, 16 Apr 2014
  A Japanese researcher creates glasses that show computer-generated eyes that express emotions so that the wearer does not need to bother.