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Yahoo Partners with Twitter

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Yahoo has formed a partnership with Twitter to help boost the company’s social features. With this partnership, users will be able “to view the short, 140-character messages created by Twitter users, dubbed Tweets, directly within Yahoo sites as well as to publish their own Twitter messages without leaving Yahoo.” Continue reading for a video on “Love, Relationships and Social Media.”

Yahoo also plans to display a live stream of Tweets within other online properties including its email service and sites devoted to sports, entertainment and finance later this year.

[via Yahoo]

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Google Executives Convicted in Italy

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Three Google executives were convicted in Milan today for “criminal defamation and a failure to comply with the Italian privacy code”, due to a video that was uploaded four years ago which showed students bullying an autistic schoolmate. In addition to appealing the case, Google says “the verdict ‘poses a crucial question for the freedom on which the internet is built,’ since none of the three employees found guilty had anything to do with the offending video.”

“They didn’t upload it, they didn’t film it, they didn’t review it and yet they have been found guilty,” said Google’s senior communications manager, Bill Echikson, in Milan.

[via Reuters – Google]

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Bloom Energy Press Conference

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So you’ve seen the Bloom Box, now CEO KR Sridhar answers the question — live from the Bloom Energy press conference: “Is Bloom Energy’s fuel cell a zero pollution product?” Continue reading for the video.

Bloom’s invention is 60 percent cleaner than a coal power plant, and it produces that power on site. No transmission lines, no grid where energy gets wasted.

[via Engadget]

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Toyoda Says Automaker Doesn’t Run Away From Problems

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Toyota Motor Corp. CEO Akio Toyoda “apologized to Congress and consumers for safety lapses that led to widespread recalls for accelerator and braking failures,” during the hearing today. Video after the break.

“At times, we do find defects,” Toyoda told the panel. “But in such situations, we always stop, strive to understand the problem, and make changes to improve further. We never run away from our problems or pretend we don’t notice them.”

[via Businessweek]

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Titanium iPhone

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No, the handset pictured above is not another leaked iPhone 4G production unit, but rather a custom made titanium case. The Modmyi user says: “It’s made out of a special titanium alloy that is RF transparent. I had tried aluminum but that was a complete disaster.” Continue reading for one more picture.

For CNC you will need a very high resolution machine, and molding is not available to mere mortals. Only someone at an aerospace company, a high end prototyping shop, or a factory would be able to pull this off.

[via Gizmodo – Modmyi]

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Apple Celebrates Selling 10-Billionth iTunes Song Download

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Apple celebrated its 10-billionth iTunes song download today, and awarded the lucky user with a $10,000 gift card. This means that “the store is now making over $520 million a quarter and that the Black Eyed Peas have two of the top 20 best-selling songs of all time, the first and the third.” Continue reading to see the very first iTunes/Pepsi commercial.

Pretty incredible achievement for Apple, and with the iPad on the way, I’ll bet the iTunes store will only get busier.

[via TUAW]

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Another Phishing Attack Hits Twitter

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As social media websites like Facebook or Twitter become more popular, phishing attacks against their users become increasingly common, and that is the case with this latest scheme. If you receive any messages with “This You?” from a user, with a link right after, do not click it, as the URL points to a bogus log-in page. Video after the break.

In the last couple of weeks, Twitter users have been the target of several large-scale phishing attacks, and according to security experts over at Sophos, the latest one is no different.

[via Mashable]

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Shamu Incident at Sea World Orlando Causes Show Closure

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Tragedy struck Sea World Orlando today when a trainer lost her life during an encounter with a whale. News of this incident hit Twitter even before reaching mainstream outlets. While they “are not revealing the identity of the victim, a local TV station is reporting that a female employee was killed after she was grabbed by one of the theme park’s whales at the start of a public show.” Continue reading for the news report.

Park guest Victoria Biniak told the station that the trainer was a veteran of SeaWorld and had just finished explaining to the audience the show they were about to see. At that point, Biniak said, the whale came up from the water and grabbed the woman.

[via LAtimes]

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Air Car Hits France

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Whether it be the AirPod, OneFlowAir, CityFlowAir, MiniFlowAir or MultiFlowAi, France-based MDI Enterprises has you covered. These vehicles are all powered by compressed air using the company’s patented “active chamber”, which is essentially a tank that uses fuel to heat the air for double the energy output. Video after the break.

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