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Facebook users in the U.S. will soon be able to see which of their friends are nearby using a new feature the company is launching on Thursday. The “Nearby Friends” feature must be turned on by the user, so people shouldn’t expect to broadcast their location unknowingly. It will use your smartphone’s GPS system to tell your Facebook friends you are nearby - provided they have the feature turned on as well. Rather than share your exact location, it will show only that you are nearby, say, within half a mile. If you like, you can manually share a more precise location with a specific friend you’d like to meet up with. Friends can see where you’re located in a particular park, airport or city block. By default, your exact…

Prof Stuart Parkin developed a type of datareading head capable of detecting weaker and smaller signals than had previously been possible. The innovation allowed more information to be stored on each disk platter. The foundation behind the award said he had made Facebook, Google, Amazon and other online services possible. “Parkin is a leading innovator in the field of spintronics, which relies on the magnetic spin of electrons rather than their charge to store bits and is one of the most successful fields of nanotechnology yet,” said Technology Academy Finland. “[His] innovations have led to a huge expansion of data acquisition and storage capacities, which in turn have underpinned the evolution of large data centres and cloud services, social networks, music and film distribution online.” Previous winners of the one…

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Welcome to the New MercyMe The last album from Christian rockers MercyMe, 2012’sThe Hurt & The Healer, adopted a noticeably somber tone in response to the death of the cousin of frontman Bart Millard. Welcome to the New lives up to its title with a more upbeat feel, lead single “Shake” having already recorded solid chart action for the natives of Greenville, Texas. FIVE FACTS: 1. As well as vocalist Bart Millard, the band consists of keyboardist James Bryson, bassist Nathan Cochran, percussionist Robby Shaffer and guitarists Barry Graul and Michael Scheuchzer. 2. The band was formed in 1994. 3. Of the dance groove of lead single “Shake”, Millard has joked: “I grew up Southern Baptist which means I would be banished if I were to learn how to dance.…

Video phone calls? Yeah, we do that. Asking computers for information? Sure, several times a day. Colonies on the moon and jet packs as a mode of everyday transportation. OK, maybe not. The New York World’s Fair of 1964 introduced 51 million visitors to a range of technological innovations and predictions, some that turned out to be right on the money and others that, perhaps thankfully, were way off the mark. At the Bell System pavilion, engineers touted a ‘“picturephone” that allowed callers to see who they were talking to, a concept that lives on in modern-day apps such as Skype and FaceTime. At the time, though, picture phones didn’t take off, said Lori Walters, history professor at the University of Central Florida. She attributed that_, to high setup costs…

T-Mobile announced that it will sell iPads capable of connecting to LTE networks at the same price as iPads that can only connect to Wi-Fi networks, essentially offering customers a $130 discount on the Apple tablets. The Seattle-based carrier said the special prices would be available for a limited time starting Saturday. Customers can get the discounted iPads, as well as other tablets, for nothing down followed by 24 monthly payments that vary depending on the tablet chosen. Under this promotion, for example, customers can get the LTE 16-gigabyte iPad mini with Retina display, which normally retails for $529, for a total of $398.88. T-Mobile is offering several other iPads as well as tablets from Samsung and Google. Additionally, T-Mobile is offering tablet customers 1-gigabyte of data per month for…

UNEARTHED INTERNAL DOCUMENT EXPOSES LIE Think back, for a moment, to the heady days of late 2010 and early 2011, when Apple had already taken the computing world by storm with its iPad and so many other manufacturers were hurriedly clambering onto the bandwagon in light of its success. The results were by turns good, bad and occasionally very ugly, but one of the most acclaimed competitors was the Galaxy Tab of Apple’s long-time South Korean adversary Samsung - not least on account of the two million of them that were said to have been shipped as soon as January 2011. Such figures were absolutely barnstorming, and the various news outlets didn’t hesitate to declare it as such, with headlines like “Android tablets eat away at iPad’s lead” and “Android…

We live in an era of electricity. We depend on electricity to light our world and to power our lives. We depend on extensions of electricity—cell phones, laptops, tablets, and the like—to make our work more efficient and our play more diverse. In short, we depend on electronics and electricity to make our lives easier. But with that ease of living come risks. Batteries end up in landfills and leak poison into the ground. Frayed and exposed wires are a hazard to curious young children, pets, and people who simply aren’t paying attention. Power cords are left plugged in with nothing attached—a huge waste of energy. But what if we could eliminate these problems? What if we could rid our homes of wires and batteries? This is what the startup…

RUMORS SUGGEST BIG CHANGES FOR TIME-HONORED MEDIA APPLICATION If there’s one app that has certainly served Apple well, it is the daddy of them all - iTunes. It’s been a fixture of pretty much all of our lives since its first release in January 2001, subsequently being a daily port of call on our iPods, iPhones and iPads. However, while iTunes may be approaching pensioner status in software terms, you’d never have guessed it - indeed, in 2014, it’s looking as fresh and spiritely as it’s ever done. Still, the march of time is relentless, and the busy men and women at Cupertino clearly grasp this if some of the fairly solid rumors we’ve been hearing lately are anything to go by. After all, when it comes to digital media,…

CEO Jeff Bezos’ annual letter to shareholders offers a glimpse into Amazon’s internal workings and what it is aiming for in the future, including more grocery services and the much-discussed drone delivery. In the letter released Thursday, Bezos outlined Amazon’s offerings, including its fresh grocery business called Prime Fresh, which it has offered for five years in Seattle and expanded to Los Angeles and San Francisco. For $299 a year members get same-day and early morning delivery on groceries and other items ranging from toys to electronics and household goods. Bezos said the goal is to expand to more cities overtime. After making a hubbub about testing delivery by aerial drones in December, the company said its Prime Air team is testing fifth- and sixth-generation aerial vehicles and in the…

If Douglas MacArthur or Ulysses S. Grant went to the U.S. Military Academy today, they might be testing their defensive skills hunched in front of a computer screen. A team of caffeine-fueled cadets is spending long days this week in a computer lab trying to fend off threats cooked up by experts at the National Security Agency. The annual Cyber Defense Exercise running through Thursday will determine which of the five service academies can create computer networks that can best withstand the four-day barrage. The 14-year-old exercise lacks the lore of Army-Navy football but not the intensity. Not only does the exercise dovetail into the military’s broader strategy of staying ahead of the curve in cyber operations, but the West Point cadets also relish the chance to test their computer…

The number of Americans who say they’ve had important personal information stolen online is on the rise, according to a Pew Research Center report released Monday. According to the survey conducted in January, 18 percent of online adults have had personal information stolen such as their social security number, credit card or bank account information. That’s up from 11 percent in a July 2013 Pew survey. The number of adults who had an online account compromised or taken over without their permission - such as email or social media -remained flat at 21 percent. The survey was done after news broke of Target Corp.’s massive pre-Christmas data breach, but well before last week’s discovery of the “Heartbleed” bug, which has caused widespread worry across the Internet. The Target breach resulted…

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Ride Along An action-packed comedy directed by Tim Story, Ride Along sees mouthy, but jumpy security guard Ben Barber (Kevin Hart) join decorated APD detective James Payton (Ice Cube) on a 24-hour patrol of Atlanta, as he seeks to demonstrate his worthiness for the hand of James’s sister, Angela (Tika Sumpter). However, when the duo end up in the company of the city’s most notorious criminal, it isn’t just bullets that James has to worry about - it’s also his new partner’s rapid-fire mouth. FIVE FACTS: 1. The film also stars John Leguizamo, Bryan Callen and Laurence Fishburne. 2. Video games play a big part in Ride Along’s plot, Ice Cube commenting: “I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so…

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Venture capital funding for U.S. start-ups hit its highest mark since 2001 during the first three months of the year and 11 companies were valued at $1 billion or more, underscoring the increasingly pricey environment for entrepreneurs, according to a report on Thursday from consultancy CB Insights. Venture capitalists invested $9.99 billion across 880 deals in the first quarter of 2014. The dollar amount jumped by 44 percent compared with the same quarter in 2013, while the number of deals rose by 5 percent. The large number of companies that won funding last quarter with billion dollar valuations is the same as for all of 2013. The year before, just eight companies were funded at valuations of $1 billion or more. The valuation is the amount the investors think the…