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September 8, 2014
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iPhone 6: Four things we need, but may not get

I live in a mixed household. I use a Samsung Galaxy S5, my wife uses an iPhone 5s. Half of my friends use Android phones, the other half use iPhones.

So, I know both worlds. Unlike some knee-jerk smartphone fans, I can see there’s a lot of good in both major smartphone families. And, I can also see that it looks like the iPhone 6will have lots of neat, new features.

Here’s my fundamental problem with the iPhone. Over the years I kee
p seeing the same old blunders appearing over and over again in the iPhone line and its supporting software. So, excuse me if I can’t get as excited as some people do about the iPhone 6 and its top-of-the-line 5.5-inch display. For me to really excited about iPhones, I want Apple to once and for all take care of the following issues.

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September 5, 2014
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How to watch the NFL on the internet

On any given Sunday in the United States, professional football is the most popular sport of all. There’s only one problem. If you’re a cord-cutter (someone who’s left cable and satellite behind for internet television), you’re going to find it difficult to watch America’s favorite Sunday afternoon pastime. There are ways, however, you can still get your National Football League (NFL) fix.

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September 2, 2014
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Rebooting on Mars

If you think fixing computer problems on your PC is a pain, trying fixing them from 125 million miles away. That’s exactly what NASA’s JPL Mars Exploration Rover (MER) team will be doing soon.

The Opportunity rover, which has been exploring Mars for ten years now, has been randomly rebooting for several months. Because the rover always came back, the team tried ignoring the problem, but just like you with a misbehaving computer, the day finally came when they couldn’t put up up with it anymore.

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September 1, 2014
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After alleged iCloud breach, here’s how to secure your personal cloud

In light of the news that an alleged hacker cracked the iCloud accounts of celebrities, such as Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton, to reveal their private, intimate photos, there remains a high level of speculation and rumor over exactly what happened.

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August 29, 2014
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Vault: The Linux Foundation’s new storage-focused tradeshow

Here’s a secret that most server administrrators know, but few outside the datacenter and server room know: Most big data stores, and the cloud’s petabytes of storage, are all based on Linux.

Amazon Web Services S3 storage and the like may look simple but behind the interface there’s a complicated web of storage devices, services, and file systems based on Linux. In recognition of this, The Linux Foundation, has announced a new conference, Vault.

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