Google rolled out its latest version of Google Earth on Thursday. Calling it “the most beautiful Google Earth yet,” the update has managed to eliminate the “patchy” look of some of its images and now presents users with a more realistic depiction of how our planet really looks from up high.
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(Reuters) – When Apple Inc set up its customer service plan for the iPhone, it seems to have had the best intentions of humanity in mind — any phone under warranty can get serviced because it's the phone that's tied to the warranty, not the owner. So you don't have to show up in person at an Apple store to get your phone fixed, which allows the common scenario of the boss sending his or her …
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Building off its homepage redesign in December, YouTube is rolling out design updates to other aspects of its site.
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Groupon has just started experimenting with a new way of getting its offers into the hands of more people by utilizing kiosks with touchscreen displays located around the company’s home city of Chicago.
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Twitter just announce a new policy that sounds scarier than it is, especially following all the talk about censorship these days. In a blog post titled "The Tweets Must Flow" twitter announced that it will now have the ability to restrict tweets to certain countries, instead of having to completely removing content individual governments consider illegal. "Starting today, we give ourselves the …
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Facebook is partnering with Washington state to combat a type of spam called "clickjacking" that is plaguing the social networking site, company and state officials announced Thursday.
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The newest version of Google's Android software, codenamed "Ice Cream Sandwich," got a major makeover, and the overall operating system has been expanded to run on both smartphones and tablets, which would theoretically attract more programmers to make apps for Android.
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Yesterday Google announced it would be “simplifying” its privacy policy so that all separate Google product accounts would be tied together for a single signup system. As expected, privacy advocates are outraged by the change and Google’s failure to allow users to opt-out. To Google’s credit, there are some issues here that needed to be fixed–but in the process, it could sacrificing user trust …
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We know. We know. Everyone still hasn't stopped talking about how many iPhone 4Ses Apple sold last quarter, and here we are reporting on new rumors about the next one. But this most recent iPhone 5 rumor has piqued our interest more than usual.
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