Day: October 5, 2013

Social Fixer Falls Victim To Facebook Legal Threats

rueger writes “The author of the very excellent Social Fixer browser plug-in is bowing to legal threats from Facebook and removing the core functionality that made his tool so great. I like Social Fixer a lot. It makes Facebook at least three or four times more usable. The author, Matt Kruse, says ‘Any threat of…


Design duel: iPhone 5S takes the Moto X

The Moto X is a good phone, but it doesn’t reach the rarefied industrial-design heights of the 5S…….


Dear Apple, what’s wrong with shenanigans?

This week, Apple’s Phil Schiller took to Twitter to sniff at Samsung’s alleged “shenanigans.” But, as a CNBC broadcast about JP Morgan underlined, shenaniganing is just part of businessing, isn’t it?……


Wacky racers – The Reg’s guide to 2013’s Solar Challengers

Who gets to be Snidely Whiplash?……


Cisco, Google and SAP may buy BlackBerry’s bits: report

Intel, LG and Samsung also invited to auction for the sick man of mobility……


Scientists Boycott NASA Conference Because of Ban On Chinese Participants

New submitter Eunuchswear writes “Congress has passed laws forbidding NASA from allowing Chinese nationals on its premises, so NASA was forced to reject applications from Chinese scientists to attend the upcoming meeting on the Kepler space telescope next month. This ban extends even to Chinese scientists and students working in the USA, angering many American…


Microsoft Exec Says Xbox One Kinect Is Not Built For Advertising

MojoKid writes “Among the various SNAFUs and PR misfires related to the Xbox One release earlier this year, one item that had people upset was that Kinect would be used for advertising–or worse, that the Xbox One Kinect was actually designed with advertising in mind. The source was a UI designer who was expounding the…


MasterCard Joining Push For Fingerprint ID Standard

schwit1 writes with this selection from a story at USA Today: “MasterCard is joining the FIDO Alliance, signaling that the payment network is getting interested in using fingerprints and other biometric data to identify people for online payments. MasterCard will be the first major payment network to join FIDO. The Alliance is developing an open…


This T-shirt is designed to fool Facebook auto-tagging

Realface Glamoflage shirts feature celebrity lookalike faces to throw off recognition algorithms. Just don’t expect to look fashionable…….


Limping BlackBerry makes buyout overtures to Google, others — report

The beleaguered smartphone maker is seeking “preliminary expressions of interest” for all or part of the company from Google, Samsung, LG, and others, according to news agency Reuters…….