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• Inside a Prague Brothel, Where Sex Is Free If You Perform for the Web (NSFW)
  In her book Big Sister, photographer Hana Jakrlova explores an internet sex club in Prague where the clients get to have sex for free as long as they agree to let their exploits be filmed and broadcast live across the web.
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• Exclusive: Hands-On With the 2013 Chevy Spark's MyLink System
  Doug Newcomb puts the MyLink smartphone-linking system in a preproduction 2013 Chevy Spark through its paces.
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• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for June 14
  Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
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• Samsung Wants Its TecTiles to Get You Tapping Your Phone
  Samsung announces TecTiles, NFC stickers that can be programmed to automatically launch apps, send messages or change an NFC-equipped phone's settings.
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• MacBook Pro With Retina Display Torn Down, Virtually Unfixable
  Those who throw down more than two grand for a new MacBook Pro with Retina Display will have a hell of a time trying to fix their notebook should anything go amiss. iFixit's latest teardown reveals the newest member of the MacBook Pro line is the "least-repairable laptop" the team has ever had to tear ...
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• How Apple Doomed Ping
  Ping is dead. Apple's fumbling of its Facebook relationship, steaming model and other things doomed the social music service ¿ and point toward how the company can succeed in the future.
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• Hands-On With the Super Slim MacBook Pro With Retina Display
  The MacBook Pro is Apple's top-of-the-line notebook powerhouse. With a trimmer profile, super-high-resolution display, and drool-worthy internal specs, the company's latest entrant to the Pro line marks itself as a force to be reckoned with. Here are our hands-on impressions.
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• Battle of the Cloud Awards
  Last month the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) picked winners of its annual CODiE awards from the main categories of business software, digital content and education. Nearing their 50th anniversary the CODiE¿s are the industry¿s only peer-reviewed awards program where live demos and trail access are mandatory. This year, 119 finalists were selected from ...
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• Start Your Engines — Slot Car Racing Is Back!
  Invented in 1912, the small-scale, obsessive sport of slot car racing has seen its ups and downs over the last hundred years. The hobby, in which motorized model cars speed around a slotted track, enjoyed its height of popularity after World War II, then sputtered in the '70s with the introduction of Pong and other videogames. The public arcades where hobbyists could race have largely been wiped off the map, but an estimated three million slot car enthusiasts still rev their tiny engines in basements and garages.
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• Is Flash the Way Forward in the Cloud?
  In just the last 12 months, SSDs have turned the corner, reports Wired Enterprise's Cade Metz. They're appearing in high-profile laptops such as Google's Chromebooks and Apple¿s brand-new MacBook Pros -- and in the data center, many companies are realizing SSDs make economic sense even with their higher price tags. Artur Bergman, the founder of Fastly, ...
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• Flash Drives Replace Disks at Amazon, Facebook, Dropbox
  Inside a data center in San Jose, California, Dropbox is running servers equipped with solid-state drives, also known as SSDs -- super-fast storage devices that could one day replace traditional hard drives. The company doesn't use SSDs in all its servers, but it's moving in that direction. In other words, Dropbox is indicative of the web's leading services.
  06.13.12

• Natural Experiments Show Media's Effects on Families
  I interviewed UCSD economist Gordon Dahl about one of his natural experiments ¿ the data-driven observation that an unexpected home-team football loss leads to a spike in domestic violence in the team's home city ¿ for my book, Brain Trust. A recent review by Dahl in the journal Family Relations uses the natural experiments to discover how media affects families.
  06.13.12

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for June 13
  Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
  06.13.12

• Google Is Evil
  It's bad enough when you run a search company in an increasingly social world. It's worse when anti-trust regulators say you have unfairly and illegally used your dominance in search to promote your own products over those of competitors. Now Google executives, who like to boast of their company's informal motto, "Don't Be Evil," also stand accused of being just that -- and rightly so. What other interpretation is possible in light of persistent allegations that the internet titan deliberately engaged in ¿the single greatest breach in the history of privacy¿ and "one of the biggest violations of data protection laws that we had ever seen?¿
  06.12.12

• How the New Mac OS Could Kill 5 Beloved Third-Party Apps
  Don't look now, but new features in Apple's OS X threaten to consign various third-party apps to the dustbin of obsolescence. It's called "sherlocking," and we have five imminent examples.
  06.12.12

• Demon's Score Brings Back That Old iNiS Rhythm
  LOS ANGELES -- Tucked into a corner of the Electronic Entertainment Expo show floor last week, almost invisible, was a game that represents something a small fan base has been begging for for years.
  06.12.12

• Fathers Day Gift Guide ¿ For the Kid at Heart
  I'm lucky to have a husband who is a kid at heart because it makes shopping for him easy and fun. Most of the time, I can get his presents at my local toy store or comic book shop. It was this unique trait that inspired me to put together the ultimate Father's Day gift guide for the kid at heart. So, without further adieu, I give you the gift guide for the dad who prefers transformers over ties and Legos over soap on a rope.
  06.12.12

• New York Facebook Already Thinks It's Better Dressed Than California Facebook
  Facebook's New York boss is determined to keep the company from turning into Google as it expands beyond boring old Silicon Valley.
  06.12.12

• Apple, Google Just Killed Portable GPS Devices
  If it wasn't obvious before, it's crystal clear today. The dedicated portable GPS device is dead, with Apple and Google playing pallbearer to Garmin, Magellan and TomTom.
  06.12.12

• Careful With That Axe, Eugene, You'll Pop the Social Media Bubble
  Like the dot-com bubble years prior, there is a social media bubble that is on the precipice of popping, except we all may be in denial about its existence.
  06.12.12

• Is QuizBoard the Next Words With Friends?
  QuizBoard is to Trivial Pursuit what Words with Friends is to Scrabble and Draw Something is to Pictionary.
  06.12.12

• A Google-a-Day Puzzle for June 12
  Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
  06.12.12

• With Google Gone, Can Apple Successfully Navigate in Maps?
  After giving Google the boot in maps, Apple will still have to prove that its maps can compete.
  06.11.12

• iOS 6: A Deeper Look at Its 10 Coolest Features
  At Apple's WWDC keynote Monday, the company selected 10 of the biggest areas of improvement to show off for the masses. The new features Apple highlighted really focus on two key areas: convenience, and accessibility. Here's a closer look at what they offer.
  06.11.12

• Microsoft Answers Coder Cries Over New Development Kit
  Who says Microsoft doesn¿t listen? After developers complained that the free version of Microsoft¿s new Visual Studio programming kit would only let them build Windows applications if they use Microsoft¿s new touch-happy Metro interface, the software giant has changed its tune. The company will now offer a free version of Visual Studio that lets them build ordinary Windows desktop applications as well.
  06.11.12

• MacBook Pro With Retina Display Gives Apple 1-Year Lead on Ultrabooks
  Apple's next-generation MacBook Pro is about as thin as a MacBook Air, as fast as high-end desktop computers, and features the highest-resolution notebook screen ever made. And, according to industry analysts, the new notebook pushes Apple at least a year ahead of the best competing ultrabooks and high-end PC notebooks.
  06.11.12

• Twilight of the Trucks: WWDC Was All About Apple¿s Big Bet on Mobile
  At Apple's WWDC the message was perfectly clear: Apple is a company whose heart beats to mobile.
  06.11.12