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FTC releases facial recognition tech guidelines ZDNet The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has released "best practices" guidelines for companies that use facial recognition technology. ftc facial recognition technology guidelines report. For many of us, tagging friends on Facebook or handing over biometric ... See all stories on this topic »

Climate conflict: Warmer world could be more violent USA TODAY Islamic Party fighters travel after an exercise near Mogadishu, Somalia, in 2009. A new study says that climate change will lead to more violence in some parts of the world as factions fight over increasingly scarce resources. (Photo: Farah Abdi Warsameh AP) ... See all stories on this topic »

Verizon Expands 'Quad Play' Deals With Time Warner Cable, Cox PC Magazine Verizon Wireless is expanding its cable "quad play" deals, offering customers with Time Warner Cable or Cox Communications the opportunity to sign up for cable and Verizon wireless services in one step. Time Warner Cable customers in regions of New ... See all stories on this topic »

LG Optimus L9 Coming to T-Mobile for $79.99 PC Magazine LG Optimus L9. T-Mobile on Monday announced that it will begin selling the budget-friendly LG Optimus L9 smartphone next week. The LG Optimus L9 will be available starting on Oct. 31 at T-Mobile retail stores nationwide, as well as select national retailers ... See all stories on this topic »

US presidential debates' great unmentionable: climate change The Guardian The Pentagon ranks it as a national security threat and, left unchecked, climate change is expected to cost the US economy billions of dollars every year – and yet it has proved the great unmentionable of this election campaign. Amid unprecedented melting of ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Apple iPad Mini and New Mac Computers: Announcement Today in San Jose ABC News Apple is kicking off what is going to be a very busy week in consumer technology today with an event at the California Theatre in San Jose. The company sent out invitations to the media event last week teasing that it had "a little more to show" and is expected ... See all stories on this topic » ABC News

Music streaming service Rara slips off cloak, jumps into ring with Spotify Register Stealth streaming service Rara is slightly less stealthy today. The Omnifone-backed brand launched 10 months ago and operates in 20 countries. Today it's adding iPhone, iPad and Windows 8 MetroNotro apps, and beginning to market itself in the UK and ... See all stories on this topic »

Blue Origin Successfully Tests Crew Capsule Escape Rocket Wired (blog) Blue Origin has hit its second milestone in as many weeks after the successful test of its crew escape system. The test took place on Friday at the company's west Texas launch site and included a firing of the escape motor on a full-scale sub-orbital crew ... See all stories on this topic »

Xbox SmartGlass set to launch on October 26 Computerandvideogames.com CVG Home /; News. Posted on Tuesday 23rd Oct 2012 at 8:29 AM UTC. Xbox SmartGlass set to launch on October 26. Media swapping service will support variety of games, sports and entertainment apps at launch; iOS and Android edition 'inbound'. Share ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook earnings will spotlight mobile and Zynga CNN NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Facebook's second earnings report as a public company comes out late Tuesday, and the social network is under pressure to prove it can make more money on its 1 billion users. Facebook watchers are focused on two key areas: ... See all stories on this topic »

Apple "rubber-banding" patent invalid suggests USPTO report SlashGear Apple's "bounce scroll" rubber-banding patent has been invalidated, at least preliminarily, by the US Patent and Trade Office, potentially throwing the company's legal victory over Samsung into disarray. The decision by the USPTO to tentatively withdraw ... See all stories on this topic » SlashGear

Navy robot dances Gangnam Style TG Daily Don't expect the best leg-work in the world: like your dad after a few beers, Charli doesn't risk lifting his feet too far from the dance floor. But the navy robot has all the other moves of PSY's viral Gangnam Style down pretty pat, from the horse riding to the lasso ... See all stories on this topic » TG Daily

Nokia Predicts Carrier Interest in Windows Phone 8 Tom's Hardware Guide Carriers will get tired of selling just Android-powered smartphones and iPhones, apparently. The CEO of struggling Nokia believes carriers will register a considerable interest in Windows Phone 8 in the near future. Stephen Elop believes carriers will soon ... See all stories on this topic »

Web tracking firm collected personal data TG Daily A web analytics company has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that it used its web-tracking software to collect personal data - including credit card information and Social Security numbers - without alerting users. Boston-based ... See all stories on this topic » TG Daily

Iphone 5 will cost £180 on EE's £36 4G tariff Inquirer UK MOBILE OPERATOR EE has shed more light on its 4G pricing, revealing the upfront costs of its first LTE smartphones. EE lifted the lid on its 4G LTE price plans earlier today, revealing that customers will have to pay £36, £41, £51 and £56 per month for ... See all stories on this topic »

Humans Held Responsible for Earthquake in Italy. Meanwhile, Humans Actually ... Slate Magazine (blog) A study published Sunday in the journal Nature Geoscience indicates that human activity triggered a deadly earthquake in southern Spain last year.* Meanwhile, in Italy on Monday, six scientists and a government official were sentenced to six years in prison ... See all stories on this topic » Slate Magazine (blog)

Lisa Webber, California Nurse, Finds Meteorite That Struck Her House (VIDEO) Huffington Post Lisa Webber, a nurse at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, is credited with finding a meteorite fragment that has been confirmed to be a remnant of the fireball that streaked across Northern California skies last Wednesday evening. See all stories on this topic »

Tech Sector in Turmoil as World Shifts to Mobile CNBC.com Intel made its fortune on the chips that power personal computers, and Microsoft on the software that goes inside. Google's secret sauce is that it finds what you are looking for on the Internet. But the ground is shifting beneath these tech titans because of a ... See all stories on this topic »

Male beluga whales mimic human speech, study shows Fox News SAN DIEGO – It could be the muffled sound of singing in the shower or that sing-songy indecipherable voice from the Muppets' Swedish Chef. Surprisingly, scientists said the audio they captured was a whale imitating people. In fact, the whale song sounded ... See all stories on this topic »

2013 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup wins "Truck of Texas" award Detroit Free Press The 2013 Ram 1500 pickup won the coveted "Truck of Texas" award at the 20th annual Texas Auto Writers Association's Texas Truck Rodeo on Monday. The award is highly sought after by automakers because Texas is the largest pickup market in the U.S. ... See all stories on this topic »

Go-anywhere camera flies high with YouTube generation Sydney Morning Herald There have been two major milestones in narcissistic photography in the past century. The first was the invention of the self-timer, which Kodak began selling during World War I. The second came a few years ago, as teenagers stood before mirrors taking ... See all stories on this topic » Sydney Morning Herald

GM to debut new Chevy Silverado, GMC Sierra pickups in December Detroit Free Press General Motors plans to reveal its redesigned Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra full-size pickups Dec. 13 in Detroit, officials said Monday. The highly anticipated trucks are central to GM's profitability in North America. The Silverado 1500, which hasn't been ... See all stories on this topic »

Corpse Party Slashing Price In Half, Sequel Announced Just Push Start XSEED's morbid visual novel series, Corpse Party, has just been announced to have a sequel arriving stateside in the coming months. Skipping the typical number conventions, Corpse Party: Book of Shadows is set to bring back the setting of Heavenly Host ... See all stories on this topic »

Sprint Expands 4G LTE Network, Now Available in 32 Markets PC Magazine Sprint is making headway on its 4G LTE rollout, firing up its ultra-fast network in several new markets in Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, and Texas. The wireless carrier on Monday announced it turned on its 4G LTE network in a number of Chicago suburbs, ... See all stories on this topic »

SEMA 2012: Chevy Spark Sinister Is Menacing GM Authority (blog) The folks over at Chevy have given what is an otherwise cute and lovable Spark city car an ominous appearance with the Spark Sinister concept. As you might have noticed, the SEMA-exclusive car's black theme and aggressive motif looks at ease in the ... See all stories on this topic » GM Authority (blog)

Forza Horizon Should Have Been Free Wired (blog) But something is rotten in Denver. I was checking out a Ferrari in the game's auto shop, and the game's narrator popped in to let me know about one of the game's pricier features. "What, you don't have enough credits?" she cooed. "Why not buy a car token or ... See all stories on this topic »

2-Million-Light-Year-Long Supersonic Jet Of Unknown Material Found PlanetSave.com A supersonic jet of unknown material has been discovered blasting out over two million miles from the center of a distant galaxy's resident super massive black hole. It apparently looks very similar to what's called the afterburner flow, released from a jet engine ... See all stories on this topic »

Fiat Faces Brazil Challenge as Hyundai Threatens Profit Bloomberg Fiat SpA (F) and Volkswagen AG (VOW) have dominated Brazilian auto sales for years, holding the top two spots. Now, General Motors Co. and Asian rivals are gaining share in a market the European carmakers had been counting on to offset weak demand ... See all stories on this topic »

Gasoline prices _ finally _ begin to slide Las Vegas Sun The Associated Press. Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012 | 3:14 a.m.. Gasoline prices have finally begun their seasonal slide. Better late than never. The national average retail price has fallen for ten straight days and is now $3.74 per gallon. That's 13 cents below the fall ... See all stories on this topic »

Apple starts testing iOS 6.0.1 for release in coming weeks, iOS 6.1 to come after ... BGR 10:00 AM. One of our reliable Apple (AAPL) sources has let us know Apple has begun testing iOS 6.0.1 with different carrier partners in the U.S. and we have a general list of what the first iOS 6 update will entail. iOS 6.0.1 should fix the horizontal lines bug on ... See all stories on this topic » BGR

Microsoft, An Empire Under Siege, Makes Its Next Moves NPR (blog) Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks at a Microsoft event in San Francisco in July. This week, Microsoft launches Windows 8, a radical redesign of its operating system, as well as a new set of tablet computers. Jeff Chiu/AP. Microsoft, the company that defined ... See all stories on this topic » NPR (blog)

UPDATE 1-Nissan recalls new Altima in US on loose steering bolts Reuters Oct 22 (Reuters) - Nissan Motor Co is recalling 13,919 of its top-selling Altima sedans in the United States because bolts that may not have been tightened properly during production could fall off, increasing the risk of a crash, according to U.S. safety ... See all stories on this topic »

Firefox's Social API debuts with Facebook Messenger CNET Mozilla's Social API has activated in Firefox Beta today with its first partner, Facebook Messenger. The innovation has the potential to forever alter how browsers interact with social-networking sites, but the project is still in its infancy. The Social API (turn it on ... See all stories on this topic »

Consumers Flock to Purchase New $249 Google Chromebook Tom's Hardware Guide Analysts had expressed doubts regarding the recently unveiled device. Despite criticism from analysts regarding its potential performance in the market, Google's newly announced Samsung-developed Chromebook has been sitting atop the Amazon best ... See all stories on this topic »

Microsoft tries to play leapfrog with Windows 8 CNET Microsoft tries to play leapfrog with Windows 8. The company is upending Windows to get back in the game, which is now centered on mobile devices. It won't overtake Apple or Google, but it will apply its money, developers, and persistence to winning. See all stories on this topic »

3 Storylines to Watch in Apple's Upcoming Earnings DailyFinance In the following video, senior technology analyst Eric Bleeker talks some interesting storylines in Apple's upcoming earnings on Thursday. First up is Mac sales. While the Mac doesn't contribute to Apple's sales in a way either the iPad or iPhone do, it could ... See all stories on this topic »

Microsoft touts Skype for Windows 8, Windows RT launch on Friday Computerworld Computerworld - Microsoft today said that a free Windows 8 and Windows RT Skype app will be ready for downloading from the Windows Store on Friday, Oct. 26. The long-rumored app -- bloggers have been posting leaked screenshots of Skype for Windows ... See all stories on this topic »

Office 2013 Web Apps final version now live on SkyDrive CNET Microsoft's Office 2013 Web Apps suite is now a final and official part of SkyDrive. The online Office suite has been available for SkyDrive users since July. But it's been in a customer preview mode still being tweaked by Microsoft. A tweet yesterday from Omar ... See all stories on this topic »

Analysis: Most companies won't be early adopters of Windows 8 Reuters SEATTLE (Reuters) - There was once a time when the launch of a new Windows operating system was a huge deal for the technology departments in many businesses. Not anymore. Microsoft Corp's release of Windows 8 on Friday is likely to be a non-event ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Nexus Rumors; $100 Motorola Trade-Ins; Microsoft Touch Mouse Upgrade PC Magazine Google Nexus 7. Topping tech headlines this weekend were rumors about what Google might announce at its Oct. 29 Android event. Reports suggest that the company will show off two new incarnations of the Nexus 7 tablet, both rumored to carry 32GB of ... See all stories on this topic »

BioWare Shows Off Dragon Age III Concept Art TrueAchievements Last month, BioWare pulled back the curtain on Dragon Age III: Inquisition. I know I was in the minority of gamers who actually enjoyed Dragon Age II, but when BioWare's Mark Darrah says that they're listening to feedback that gamers gave on both Dragon ... See all stories on this topic » TrueAchievements

'Dishonored,' killing baddies with supernatural style UAA Northern Light If you're a fan of "Bioshock" and "Assassin's Creed," chances are that you'll like "Dishonored." You are Corvo. You are the bodyguard to the Empress and her daughter Emily. You start off the game returning from a mission for the Empress. Your island city of ... See all stories on this topic » UAA Northern Light

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and privacy regulation Lexology (registration) As part of its effort to thwart robocalls, the FTC has announced that it is launching the "FTC Robocall Challenge" – a contest that will award a $50,000 cash prize for the best technical solution for blocking illegal robocalls. The FTC believes the challenge will ... See all stories on this topic »

The mystery ends with PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale Computerandvideogames.com Sony shared three mysterious trailers over the past few days: The Reload, The Arrival and The Aftermath. They were leading up to an interesting commercial for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. Did you guess it? PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale ... See all stories on this topic »

38 Studios items to hit the auction block Houston Chronicle PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Items ranging from graphic animation equipment to model airplanes made by former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling will be sold off at the former Providence headquarters of his failed video game company. The second of two ... See all stories on this topic »

Digital Sound Tech Used To Study Rare Owls Discovery News Great-Gray-Ow-JM-webl. Digital sound systems have moved from the living room to the forest. In Yosemite, Calif., researcher are using digital mp3 recorders to used to study a rare species of great gray owl. Trapping and banding them is traumatic for the birds ... See all stories on this topic »

Amazon's Cloud Goes Down, Taking Out Reddit, Airbnb, Netflix, Flipboard Business Insider frustrated-tired-computers-eyestrain Amazon's cloud went down again today. As we write this, sites like Reddit, Airbnb and Flipboard are fully or partially offline. Other sites affected including GitHub, Heroku, GameFAQs, Imgur, Turntable, Coursera, Branch, ... See all stories on this topic » Business Insider

Android apps leaking users' personal data, claims study Siliconrepublic.com Scientists from a computing and security group at Leibniz University of Hannover and from the Department of Maths and Computer Science at Philipps University of Marburg, Germany, examined 13,500 free apps that were downloaded from Google Play to ... See all stories on this topic » Siliconrepublic.com

Unlocked Galaxy S3 Jelly Bean release imminent, US MIA Phones Review The team here on Phones Review try and keep our readers up to speed with all the Android update news, and in the last few days some owners of the Samsung Galaxy S3 have been finally receiving the Android Jelly Bean update. Now there are reports that ... See all stories on this topic » Phones Review

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