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  • Facebook booked over group exhorting cow slaughter

    An FIR was Monday registered here against social networking site Facebook on a complaint that claimed a group on the site exhorts people to slaughter cows, police said. The site was booked under penal provisions and under the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000, on the complaint filed by senior police officer Amitabh Thakur. In his complaint filed at Gomtinagar police station, Thakur alleged ...

  • Anonymous threat leads to Guantanamo WiFi shutdown

    According to the Associated Press the US military has shut down WiFi services at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and blocked personnel from accessing social networking accounts. US military personnel have been blocked from accessing Facebook and Twitter in response to an Anonymous operation meant to raise awareness about prison conditions at Guantanamo, although nothing bad has happened so ...

  • Netflix wont release a Blackberry 10 app

    Blackberry Q10 and Z10 smartphones, which must be a blow for the Canadian smartphone maker. When asked whether he had used the Blackberry 10 operating system, Reed said simply, "No." Then he elaborated a bit, saying, "Like many people I was a Blackberry addict from 1997 or 1998 through to the iPhone but I haven't tried [Blackberry 10]. We don't currently support ...

  • Apples iPhone and iPad chips generate 83 percent of Samsungs processor revenue

    Samsung relied on rival Apple for 83 percent of its processor revenues in 2012. As a semiconductor vendor Samsung is second only to Intel, however most of its chip revenues come from selling memory and controller parts. According to analyst outfit IC ...

  • HTC One with stock Android incoming to challenge Samsung

    . The developer apparently has some inside knowledge about the company's plans, tweeting on Monday that the firm will launch a "Senseless" version of the HTC One, just ...

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8MM

8MM

According to screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, the idea behind "8MM" was a single scene: a rich old man dies, and when his safe is opened, a snuff film is found among the cash and stock certificates. A simple idea, and for most of its duration, "8MM" does a good, if somewhat stomach-churning, job of exploring a logical story that might follow such a discovery. It is only in its last half-hour, wh ... ...

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  • Apples Cook faces Senate questions on taxes

    In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012 photo, Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an introduction of the new iPhone 5 in San Francisco. Cook is scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill Tuesday May 21, 2013, to explain the company (TM)s tax strategy, which a Senate subcommittee says lets it avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, ...

  • Live TV Where to watch the Senates Apple hearings

    FORTUNE -- If the subcommittee report is any indication, Tim Cook and his colleagues will face tough questions Tuesday from Sens. Carl Levin (Dem.) and John McCain's (Rep.) Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The report charges that Apple ...

  • PC will be saved by power saving Haswell says Intel

    Intel's chief technology officer Justin Rattner. He said that all that is needed for the PC industry to be swept out of its doldrums is for the Haswell Messiah to arrive to herald a glorious new golden age for the PC. Well words to that effect at least. Speaking ...

  • Watson starts diagnosing patients

    Watson software to the health industry where it is going to be telling people what is wrong with them. Watson, which understands natural language, will be trying to make sure that doctors do not make the wrong medical diagnosis. Watson vice-president of marketing Stephen Gold told a digital health conference in Dublin that at the moment one in five medical diagnoses are incomplete or wrong. ...

  • Stop blaming Ireland for dodgy tax arrangements

    Google have been named and shamed for hiding their cash from the US in Irish bank accounts so that they can pay tax in the much cheaper Ireland. In a report to its Senate, the US is seen as blaming the Irish for "facilitating" Apple and Google's tax avoidance antics, something which has hotly been denied by Eire. Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore told national broadcaster RTE ...

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