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Massive Bitcoin Exchanged Robbed and Destroyed – What Next?

Today we learned that Mt.Gox, one of the biggest bitcoin exchanges in the world, has gone dark. Strong rumors support the idea that Mt.Gox was robbed of 744,000 customer Bitcoins, worth some $300 million, and worth nearly a billion dollars a few months ago. Mt.Gox users have taken to the web to bemoan their lost millions (people actually lost millions of dollars), but Mt.Gox...

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Don’t Get Scammed On Cables, and Gadget Gear – Weekly Deal Tips

A lot of companies (looking at you Radioshack) like raking in massive profits by selling really over-priced, high margin items like HMDI cables, and camera cases, at absurd prices. Seriously, I don’t recommend shopping at Radioshack, CVS, Walgreens, or even Walmart, unless you need something in a rash. You could literally buy overnight shipping on many of the items you’re going to buy, and...

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Breaking: Samsung Pulls a Lance With S4 (They Cheated)

Samsung has hit an all-time low. Like Lance Armstrong, they’re caught up in a cheating scandal, but unfortunately, in the tech world there’s no penalty. Anandtech found that the Galaxy S4 was specifically modified to speed up clock speeds significantly…but only when in certain benchmark applications. An investigation found that Samsung had specifically coded the Galaxy S4 to overclock in certain specific benchmarking tests,...

Do You Really own your Music, Books, etc, or are you just renting them?

Over the summer, a potential lawsuit created some controversy by bringing to light an Apple policy saying that music was not transferable, and dies with you. It can’t be bequeathed. When you die, your music is gone, and you can’t bequeath it. That was frustrating to some, but this new detail is just ridiculous. Barnes and Noble’s policy and system only allow you to use your...

Rumblefish- Scam, Scum, or Or innocent Victim? Part 1

Does any company deserve the right to profit off of works in the public domain by stomping on another’s rights? No, but that doesn’t stop Rumblefish, a music distributor from doing it. Earlier this year Rumblefish made headlines by using Youtube’s Content ID system to take down a video of a man talking with birds singing in the background. There was no music anywhere...