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The man behind Flickr on making the service 'awesome again'

markus spiering

For a long time, the photo sharing service Flickr felt like an abandoned product. It was well-loved in its younger, more innovative days, when co-founder Caterina Fake made it a point to comment on every image that was uploaded. But once it was bought by Yahoo, Flickr sort of froze; and by doing so, it allowed its users to be lured away by Instagram, Facebook, and even Google+. However, the...

Urban exploration could aid terrorists, says National Counterterrorism Center

urban exploration (E. Spek / Shutterstock)

Urban exploration — the pursuit of accessing derelict and abandoned parts of cities — wouldn't appear to pose much threat to anyone beyond its participants, but the National Counterterrorism Center seems to disagree. According to a warning poster from last year dug up by Public Intelligence, explorers could actually provide critical security information to terrorists by posting photographs and other material online. The document reads:

Terrorists are watching your Tumblr

YouTube releases upsized Capture video recording app for iPad

YouTube Capture

We'll always maintain that recording video (or snapping photos) with a tablet is ridiculous and you're better off refraining from the very thought, but apparently YouTube feels a bit differently. Its Capture app, which lets users quickly record clips and automatically upload them to YouTube, has been upsized to run natively on Apple's iPad and iPad mini. Like before, Capture includes a number of simple editing tools for stabilization, color correction, and adding background music. The...


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The bizarre bunkerization of communist Albania

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Under communism, Albania was in a near perpetual state of paranoia, formally at war with neighboring Greece, and firmly under the control of dictator Enver Hoxha. Reflecting its leader's military mindset, the country constructed some 700,000 concrete bunkers — one for every four citizens — most of which still pepper the landscape today. Dutch photographer David Galjaard shows how the buildings are a constant reminder of the past in C...

BitTorrent Live enters beta, uses peer-to-peer to broadcast video streams

BitTorrent Live

BitTorrent today unveiled BitTorrent Live, a live streaming service designed to "eliminate barriers" for broadcasting by cutting down on infrastructure and other backend costs. The new protocol (currently in beta) accomplishes this by relying on the same peer-to-peer technology BitTorrent uses to transfer large files across the internet. Company founder Bram Cohen has spent three years working on the project, according to a recent interview...

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