IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 23/07/2014

Liveblog: Apple’s Q3 2014 earnings call happens July 22 at 5pm Eastern
This quarter saw many announcements, but few products.

Climate models that accidentally got El Niño right also show warming slowdown
We've been stuck in cool, La Niña state for most of the past decade.

Startup claims it will build fiber network in LA and wireless throughout US
$70 billion plan sounds… perhaps overly optimistic.

Gamers win free early copies of iOS game, respond by leaking it
Modern Combat 5 leaks ahead of Thursday launch; pirates already banned.

Senate committee report excoriates Air Force for IT incompetence
ERP system effort becomes “cautionary tale” for bad project management.

GA Supreme Court to reconsider sweeping gag order against anti-troll site
Blogger admits to "stupid posts" about viral poem but says gag order went too far.

Activist group sues US border agency over new, vast intelligence system
CBP never responded to request for info on “Analytical Framework for Intelligence.”

Captured by amateur video, NYPD “chokehold” arrest results in death
In the Digital Age, no longer is it just the watchers watching the watched.

Liveblog: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to talk Q4 earnings, big layoffs
Liveblog begins Tuesday at at 5:30pm ET/2:30pm PT.

Retro revival: Warner Bros. options movie rights to Space Invaders game
Because we don't have enough films about invaders from space...

Undocumented iOS functions allow monitoring of personal data, expert says
"Backdoor" can be abused by gov't agents and ex-lovers to gain persistent access.

Bungie: Cross-generation Destiny wouldn’t be fair to low-res players
Fewer pixels on older hardware puts players at a disadvantage, engineer argues.

Verizon FiOS finally symmetrical, upload speeds boosted to match download
FiOS uploads now range from 15Mbps to 500Mbps.

Explaining Continuity: The tech tying iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite together
Handoff, AirDrop, and more will bridge the device gap—if your hardware is up to it.

Apollo 11 turns 45: A lunar landing anniversary retrospective
We look at some lesser-known facts and myths surrounding Armstrong's one small step.

Growth factor restores insulin response in diabetic mice
And it does so without any of the side effects of other treatments.

DOE, commercial partners start world’s largest carbon capture project
Emissions from a coal plant will be captured and used to liberate oil.

Robotic glove gives you extra fingers for grabbing
Glove sports two extra robotic fingers that respond to your movements.

Search-and-rescue drone mission readies for takeoff after defeating FAA
Feds maintain commercial use of model-drones is illegal; courts aren't so sure.

The Internet’s Own Boy review: Remembering—and honoring—Aaron Swartz
Documentary overcomes bias to tell reddit co-founder's tragic, remarkable story.

Pirate Bay traffic has doubled post-ISP blocks
The US is still the largest source of traffic.

A guide to winning the customer service cancellation phone battle
If you want to cancel your account, you must prepare to be (occasionally) nasty.

Ars editor learns feds have his old IP addresses, full credit card numbers
FOIA request turns up 9 years of records, including plaintext credit card numbers.

Citing lack of interest, Lenovo pulls 8-inch Windows tablets from the US [Updated]
ThinkPad Tablet 8 disappears, but new Windows tablets will arrive this winter.

Google tests new Chrome OS UI that’s more Android than Windows
It's unclear whether "Athena" would replace or augment the Windows-esque UI.

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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 23/07/2014

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