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After getting called out for excess battery use in its iOS app, Facebook is releasing some updates to fix the problem. The first update, available today, […] Read the original post by Jared Newman

The App Store is great for recapturing nostalgia from another time and place. Whether you’re melancholy for retro games from the Atari era or catching […] Read the original post by J.R. Bookwalter

Joseph Walker has a very interesting dilemma: My 1TB iMac died and I decided I wanted to move 400GB of photos and videos into the iCloud […] Read the original post by Glenn Fleishman

Tens of thousands of people who bought MacKeeper have filed for refunds as part of a proposed class-action settlement against the application’s former developer. The number […] Read the original post by Jeremy Kirk

If you have a large iTunes library, you may have reached the point where you need to offload some of your media files to another […] Read the original post by Kirk McElhearn

My mother just left for a week-long trip to Europe. Before she went I set up her phone on AT&T’s international data plan, reminding me […] Read the original post by Dan Moren

Motor drives up to 250kW Parker Hannifin has extended its AC30 series of variable speed AC drives up to 250kW. The move follows a recent upgrade to closed-loop […] Read the original post by steve bush

Fast diodes for automotive and telecom power Vishay is aiming at automotive and telecom power with fast switching soft-recovery (25ns recovery) FRED Pt rectifiers. AEC-Q101-qualified and […] Read the original post by steve bush

Which came first: the chicken, the egg, or the iPhone? An HTC exec is claiming none of the above. Following widespread criticism that HTC’s newest One A9 […] Read the original post by Oscar Raymundo

It used to be so easy to fly under-the-radar on Facebook. You could prevent people from searching for you by name, then that went away. […] Read the original post by Caitlin McGarry

Dale Myers posted a blog entry a few days ago about a problem he’d found in 1Password: while passwords in AgileBits’ vaults were secure, metadata […] Read the original post by Glenn Fleishman

‘Steve Jobs,’ a film of high drama and intrigue Image by Universal Studios The making of the new film “Steve Jobs” included almost as much drama and […] Read the original post by Matt Kapko

Lowest drift bandgap voltage reference ever Linear Tech is claiming a record for its latest voltage reference – the lowest drift bandgap ever – at 1.5ppm/°C, […] Read the original post by steve bush

Comcast could soon take another shot at the quadruple play as it reportedly looks to launch its own wireless phone service. Unnamed sources told Bloomberg that […] Read the original post by Jared Newman

Your Instagram feed is about to be hit with a new kind of image—something caught between a looping Vine and a GIF that lasts just […] Read the original post by Caitlin McGarry