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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Cruise aims to spark a revolution among autopilot technology with a $10,000 accessory that consumers can use to create a self-driving car, of sorts. At the heart of the Cruise RP-1 system is a sensor pod that gets mounted on the roof of a car. It utilizes cameras, data and radar to analyze the vehicle's surroundings. With that information, it can make changes in steering to keep a driver within lane boundaries, monitor nearby vehicles or other obstacles, and move or brake to avoid a collision.

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Cruise RP-1 Kit Transforms Regular Audis Into Driverless Cars

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Cruise aims to spark a revolution among autopilot technology with a $10,000 accessory that consumers can use to create a self-driving car,...

Somewhere.com, which bills itself as a sort of pinterest for sharing your work (not your favorite knitting patterns), has now launched the iPhone app to accompany the site we covered in January. Somewhere’s pitch is that many people think visually and most social platforms (unlike perhaps Pinterest) don’t work that way. And that’s a missing link in business social platforms. Read More

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Somewhere Releases iPhone App For Sharing Your Work (Not Your Life)

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Somewhere.com, which bills itself as a sort of pinterest for sharing your work (not your favorite knitting patterns), has now launched the i...

A startup with an intriguing API product has raised a small seed round of £330,000. RainBird is an API platform lets developers build knowledge bases or publish web sites based on those knowledge bases. The founders say it works ‘a bit like GitHub is with source code repositories’. If you don’t want to pay for it, you are adding knowledge into the RainBird community for… Read More

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RainBird Opens Beta To Build Knowledge Base Platform

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A startup with an intriguing API product has raised a small seed round of £330,000. RainBird is an API platform lets developers build knowle...

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

While Apple's mobile operating system does hold users' hands when it comes to device management more so than competitor Android, there are additional steps you can take to optimize your iOS device. Free third-party utilities are available in app form to beef up battery management, cloud storage and camera backup, as well as to find lost phones, among other things. Our No. 1 choice, Battery Doctor HD, is one of the most popular battery management tools available in the iTunes store, and it looks fabulous with its elegant and sophisticated graphic design.

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All Things Appy: Top 5 iOS Utilities and Tools

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TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington has reached a settlement agreement with Jenn Allen. He’s posted a copy of the agreement on his site Uncrunched, and it says that “Allen retracts, and expresses her regret for making, the Statements.” Apparently that covers a number of statements Allen made accusing Arrington of abusing and raping her. Arrington, meanwhile, has dropped… Read More

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Jenn Allen Retracts Michael Arrington Rape Accusations

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TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington has reached a settlement agreement with Jenn Allen. He’s posted a copy of the agreement on his site Unc...

Two months after the Heartbleed vulnerability sent frissons of fear down the spines of IT managers everywhere, 300,000 servers still remain vulnerable, Errata Security said. When the flaw was announced in April, Errata found 600,000 servers vulnerable. "The norm is to do no patches at all for some systems, no matter how easy it is to patch," said Errata CEO Robert Graham. "If they're retirement management systems, [being left unpatched] won't be a problem, but if they're on a power grid, there is a problem."

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Heartbleed Flaw Goes Unpatched on 300K Servers: Report

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Two months after the Heartbleed vulnerability sent frissons of fear down the spines of IT managers everywhere, 300,000 servers still remai...

Ransomware is a growing problem for consumers and businesses. In Symantec's most recent quarterly security report, the company's researchers found all targeted attacks -- including ransomware -- grew 91 percent year-over-year. That's raising a big question for those targeted by cyberextortionists: Should the ransom be paid? Security experts generally say no, but some insert a caveat or two. "It's easy to say you shouldn't pay the ransom, but you may have to do it to save your business," said Troy Gill, a senior security analyst with AppRiver.

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