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Weekly tech news roundup for October 17
This week: leaked images show Fitbit’s newest devices, Google announces Lollipop mobile OS, and Apple unveils new iPads (plus a few other goodies). Check out the Kickstarter of the week and MasterCard’s new touchless payment credit card coming to a wallet near you in 2015. Also, Lockheed Martin is developing a Mr. Fusion, the earth’s magnetic field may be flipping sooner rather than later, and click on over and take a peek at Drunk J. Crew for some Friday Fun.
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The Dropbox password leak–6 lessons we learned
Yet another massive user ID and password leak. This time it affects about 7 million DropBox users, even if DropBox denies they were hacked. As usual, such a hack means that the data these users have stored in DropBox is in jeopardy. It also means that those who use the same ID and password on many services have much bigger troubles. We have six things we can learn from this most recent alleged hacking incident.
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Cheap Tunes Tuesday: The Doors
Ladies and gentlemen, from Los Angeles, California—THE DOORS! All the way back in 1965, a couple guys who went to UCLA to study theater and film met up to discuss forming a band. This self-titled album came out on January 4th, 1967 and it was the first album out of nine released by The Doors. It was recorded at Sunset Sound Studios over just six days, with the 11-minute conclusion track ‘The End’ taking two sessions to get just right. It’s also today’s Cheap Tunes Tuesday album.
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Weekly tech news roundup for October 10
This week: Tesla unveils an amazing new car with auto-pilot features, HP splits in two, and Snapchat has been hacked (big time). In other news, Apple Pay is coming soon — really soon, but you should also check out a cool all-in-one credit card coming next year (it appears to be way better than Coin). And believe it or not, there’s a big change coming to yard tool technology and, if you need a chuckle, be sure to check out some age prediction software that has produced some hilarious results.
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On-Screen Voice Mail
Technology keeps changing to make our lives easier. Being able to check messages through the TV is just another small thing to enhance your home communication experience. And when things like this keep getting added, and for free, life just keeps getting better.
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