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Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone fingerprint sensor hacked

The fingerprint security on Samsung's flagship Galaxy S5 phone has been hacked by a German team, who warn that its implementation is less secure - and its consequences potentially much worse - than on Apple's iPhone 5S.

Security Research Labs, based in Berlin, posted a YouTube clip(included below) showing how they had used a rubber mould incorporating a high-resolution image of a fingerprint lifted from a smartphone screen. The same print and mould that was used to spoof the iPhone 5S's fingerprint sensor was used to fool Samsung's.

But the researchers pointed to what they said are "additional concerns" about Samsung's security system compared with the iPhone's, because a would-be hacker can make an unlimited number of attempts at spoofing the fingerprint, and because it can be linked to payment systems such as PayPal - which could then be used to wire money to the attacker's account.

i think what iphone did to samsung was quite humerus , because as we all know androids usually try and copy iphone apps to make their brand better, i believe it was an intelligent way to trick the other android phones and hopefully andriod phones will try and be more original from now on

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Sony struggles to meet demand as PS4 sales surpass 7m

Sony has sold 7m PlayStation 4s worldwide since its launch in November 2013, as the Japanese electronics company continues to struggle to meet the huge demand for the new console.

The PS4 is ahead of Microsoft’s Xbox One in sales, which sold 3m units by the end of 2013 but recently got a boost by the release of the triple AAA sci-fi shooter Titanfall.

"The response from the global gaming community for PS4 has been overwhelming and we are truly humbled," said Andrew House, president and group chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment in a statement. "Although we are still facing difficulties keeping up with the strong demand worldwide, we remain steadfast in our commitment to meet the needs of our customers.”

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Nintendo Game Boy – 25 facts for its 25th anniversary

The screen was tiny, the graphics limited to shades of gray on a dull green background, but the Nintendo Game Boy was a revolution when it launched in Japan 25 years ago today. The original version may look hopelessly chunky now, but back then it was unimaginably svelte, a proper console that you play on anywhere – an ingenious gaming equivalent of the personal stereo. 

Nintendo game boy has been out for many years, it was a popular gaming hand held device many years ago which was very successful due to the fact that many people loved and owned the Nintendo game boy, i believe if they created a more modern and updated Nintendo Game Boy that it would sell and make millions

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Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg on why girls need to do computer science

This week on Tech Weekly with Aleks Krotoski we hear from one of the most powerful figures in the global digital economy, Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook. Sandberg tells Jemima Kiss about the latest edition of her hugely successful book Lean In and why the tech sector and society needs to facilitate and encourage the ambitions of women. The interview was recorded as part of the Guardian's Women in Leadership events and the podcast includes an extract from the full discussion which is posted as a Tech Weekly Extra exclusive on our Soundcloud account.

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Google: 80% of news organisations are targeted by state hackers

More than four-fifths of the world's top media organisations, including the Guardian, have been the target of likely state sponsored hacking attacks, according to research from two Google security engineers.

Presented at the ongoing Black Hat Asia 2014 conference in Singapore, Shane Huntley and Morgan Marquis-Boire's research shows that journalists are "massively over-represented" among the targets of state-sponsored hackers.

While the pair didn't go into detail about their methodology, they confirmed to Reuters that Google "tracks the state actors that attack our users".

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20 best Android apps and games this week

It's time for this week's roundup of the best new Android apps and games. This week sees a mixture of comics, photo-slinging, magazines, basketball, Star Wars and golfing-themed Flappy Birdity.

Prices are correct at the time of writing, with “IAP” indicating whether in-app purchases are used within the app or game. Looking for iPhone and iPad apps instead? That roundup will be published on Monday morning.

I believe that many app creators will be happy to see their created app put up in the top 20 for best android apps, this will give them the confidence to try and improve it and make it better to increase their level of consistensy

Feminism

Example 1

Broadcast

Traditional-female 

This advert is  traditional as it is a make up advert and the audience will know that they are going to see a female character on their as the product is a hair conditioner. This advert does not challenge the gender performance is reinforces it because it has the right character to present a feminine product. 

Alternative female

This advert of women's fitness suggests that gender is only a performance, that chan be challenged. This advert is a fitness advert and the audience would normally suggests that it would have male characters on it, but in this case we have females. This challenges the Butlers theory that gender is a performance as we have women doing something which a male dominant will do.

Traditional - Male 

Insanity workout 

This advert is fully traditional because we would normally see a male character of an fitness advert because they want to show the strong and macho men. This why the use a male character to fully the gender performance because if they had a female on their no male character would watch it and it would have been a alternative advert.

Alternative Male
Mr Muscle

This advert challenges the gender performance, as you can see the advert has a male character using a feminine cleaning product. This advert is showing a male character using a cleaning product challenges the gender performance because people would normally see a female character using cleaning products in the kitchen

Critical investigation

Has new and digital media had an impact upon ownership and control of the media institution(s) involved in your case study area?  Explain in detail any impact and what exactly has changed

Instagram is an online photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that allows its users to take pictures and videos, apply digital filters to them, and share them on a variety of social networking services, such as Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr etc. Users are also able to record and share short videos lasting approximately 15 seconds. Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and launched in October 2010. The service rapidly gained popularity, with over 100 million active users as of April 2012. Instagram is distributed through the Apple App Store, Google Play, and Windows Phone Store. April 10^th 2012 Facebook had announced its buy for Instagram Facebook is paying £629m in cash and stock for the takeover. Facebook's chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to continue to develop Instagram as a separate brand, allowing it to post to rival networks. The app is free and allows users to apply 17 filters to the pictures they take - changing the colour balance to give the images a different feel - before they are uploaded. 

What impact has there been on the way in which the audience now consume the media products/ texts involved in your case study?  How does it differ from what went before?  Consider (SHEP)

With instagram, marketers have access to a huge audience of 100 million active users snapping over 40 million photos per day and posting 1000 comments per second, Instagram is more than a place for selfies and cat pictures. Since the audience have be a grouping content through a hash tag make it easy for consumers to share photos with your brand by choosing a hash tag that balances individuality with simplicity.

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How to teach a dog to read using an iPad

It was inevitable, really, given the irrepressible rise of the selfie: the day has finally come when we can attempt to teach our canine friends to capture images of themselves.

All the same, I am a little taken aback to find myself smearing my iPad screen with peanut butter and waving it under my pup’s nose.

I am at an iPad class billed as “higher education for your dog”, run by the pioneer of dog-selfie training, New Yorker Anna Jane Grossman. She has teamed up with her childhood friend Nicole Scott, founder of City Dog, and Londoners now have the opportunity to attend one of their iDog clinics.

“These courses are about having fun together, developing the bond between you and your dog, and refining your training skills. Plus you will walk away with a cool party trick,” promises Scott, while Grossman is quick to point out that we are not here to teach our dogs to do useful things, such as online banking.

This shows that new digital media is improving, you can tell from the way way they are including animals into the new type of app, a lot  of dog owners with ipads will enjoy this app because it will give them a chance to create a stronger bond with their pet. This could benefit apple financially because it is a very interesting and smart app.

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Yahoo, Google and Apple also claim right to read user emails

Microsoft is not unique in claiming the right to read users' emails – Apple, Yahoo and Google all reserve that right as well, the Guardian has determined.

The broad rights email providers claim for themselves has come to light following Microsoft's admission that it read a journalist's Hotmail accountin an attempt to track down the source of an internal leak. But most webmail services claim the right to read users' email if they believe that such access is necessary to protect their property.

Microsoft's own terms of service allow the company to access content"when Microsoft forms a good faith belief that doing so is necessary [to] protect the… property of Microsoft". It made use of that right to read the email of an un-named journalist who had allegedly taken possession of the source code to Windows 8 thanks to an internal leak at the firm.

Following the revelation that Microsoft could, and did, read users' email,the firm's deputy general counsel told the Guardian that it would be tightening up its privacy policy. The new rules require an internal and external legal team to review any internal requests for access, and commit the firm to increased transparency over future requests.

I believe some people will not like the fact that their email are being monitored and watched by Microsoft because they want their own privacy, this will make Microsoft less unique from trying steal other companies ideas. This connotes that Microsoft are running out of originality.

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Bill Gates: Microsoft would have bought WhatsApp too

Microsoft’s founder, Bill Gates, says that Facebook and Google weren’t the only companies interested in acquiring WhatsApp: Microsoft was also “willing” to buy the messaging app.

Facebook bought the five-year-old WhatsApp cross-platform text message replacement app, which sends messages via phones’ data connections rather than SMS, for $19bn in February. WhatsApp is Facebook’s biggest acquisition and showed the importance of the drive to mobile from the desktop for the social network.

WhatsApp rebuffed a $1bn offer from Google in April last year prior to the social network’s bid. Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg said that WhatsApp was on track to connect 1 billion people which is what made it valuable.

“Microsoft would have been willing to buy it, too. I don’t know for $19bn, but the company’s extremely valuable,” Gates, 58, told Rolling Stone in a wide-ranging interview covering technology, climate change and God.

I believe that if Bill Gates purchased whats app it would have financially benefited more , unfortunately he was too late to buy it. I think that if Bill Gates purchased whats app he could have added more of his creativity to the app, making it attract more people to download it thus making more money.

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Microsoft's $2.5bn question: what if it doesn't release Office for the iPad?

It may be one of Microsoft’s biggest squandered opportunities.

Tired of waiting for Office to be optimised for their mobile gadgets, a growing contingent of younger companies is turning to cheaper, simpler and touch-friendly apps that can perform word processing and other tasks in the “cloud” - on internet-based systems.

Take Artivest Holdings, a New York-based financial services startup that sells alternative investment products. The New York-based company uses an app called Quip, which combines word processing and messaging, to handle all but the most sensitive legal and financial files.

“There are no more Microsoft Word documents being circulated. If someone emails me a Word document, I’ll tell them to put it in Quip,” said Artivest’s chief investment officer David Levine. 

“If I’m walking to and from home, or going to an appointment, I can review or edit on my iPad. Not being tied to my desk, that’s a big pro,” he said. 

The speed with which apps like Quip have been adopted is forcing Microsoft to intensify its efforts to bring the powerful but ageing Office software suite to tablets and smartphones, according to people close to the company.

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Internet of things: funding to double, David Cameron announces

Funding for research into using the internet to improve everyday devices will more than double as part of efforts to make the UK a world leader in digital technology, David Cameron has announced.

The prime minister announced an extra £45m to develop the "internet of things" as he arrived in Germany for the CeBIT 2014 trade fair.

He is attending the event in Hanover – where he is due to hold talks with German chancellor Angela Merkel – as Britain is the official "partner country" of the event.

Combining British ingenuity with German engineering would put the two countries at the forefront of a new technology-based "industrial revolution", he suggested.

The prime minister said: "I see the internet of things as a huge transformative development – a way of boosting productivity, of keeping us healthier, making transport more efficient, reducing energy needs, tackling climate change.

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Instagramming North Korea

David Guttenfelder has visited North Korean more than any other western photographer, regularly visiting in the past decade. Instagram, he says, has become just as essential as his work for Associated Press. 

AP’s chief Asia photographer, Guttenfelder says that using a phone camera allowed his to take less formal shots that felt less invasive, and more intimate, particularly since North Korea lifted its own smartphone ban in March 2013.

His follower account has grown from around 100 this time last year to more than 300,000 now.

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What is Apple CarPlay?

Apple has launched its assault on the in-car technology market by announcing a product called CarPlay, which it hopes will integrate the iPhone, Apple maps and Siri into the car dashboard.

Announced at the Geneva International Motor Show, CarPlay is the next evolution of Apple’s iOS in the Car, which connected iPhones to car stereos via the now obsolete docking connector that featured on iPhones and iPods up until the release of the iPhone 5 with the newer, smaller Lightning Connector.

What is it?

CarPlay is a more advanced way to connect an iPhone to a car’s entertainment and information systems, allowing access to a variety of the smartphone’s functions including music, messaging and navigation.

How does it work?

Like existing cars with iPod or iPhone connections, cars fitted with the new Apple CarPlay will connect to iPhones using the Lightning Connector, pulling data and information directly from the iPhone and charging it in the process.

The iPhone can be controlled via voice, or through the car’s native touchscreen interface mounted in the dashboard or with traditional buttons including those mounted on the steering wheel.

i believe that many apple users will enjoy the fact that you can connect your  iphone to a cars entertainment and information system. Also i believe that apple could make more money after people start buying those type of cars.

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Blackphone: can a mobile ever truly be hack-proof?

Encryption and security specialists Silent Circle has teamed up with Geeksphone, a joint project between security-conscious developers, entrepreneurs and ex-special forces operatives, to launch a new mobile phone that claims to give users back control of their data and lets them “determine what data they want to reveal, rather than be forced”.

On the face of it, the Blackphone does exactly that. For $629 (£377), customers get a smartphone that includes one year’s subscription to secure communication service Silent Circle and a virtual private network (VPN) for secure browsing, a ”remote wipe” anti-theft feature, a firewall and a year’s subscription to 5GB of secure cloud storage.

It also has no sign-up process, no ecosystem like Android or iPhone has (although it runs a modified Android OS) and a Blackphone specific app-store that is on the way, although users can still download apps from the Google Play Store or third party apps unrelated to Google.

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Facebook 'in talks to buy drone satellite firm'

Facebook is reportedly in discussions to acquire Titan Aerospace, a manufacturer of drones, for around $60m.

Titan Aerospace specialises in solar-powered, very high flying drones capable of staying airborne for five years at a time, positioned as a more cost-effective alternative to orbital satellites dubbed as “atmospheric satellites”.

The talks, confirmed by technology site TechCrunch, indicate that Facebook is likely interested in these satellite alternative drones that fly as high as 20km in altitude as part of its Internet.org initiative.

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Batman: Arkham Knight announced

Interestingly, the game will be available on PC, PS4 and Xbox One only. “We’re excited to be developing the game for next-gen platforms,” said game director, Sefton Hill. “[It] has allowed us to bring to life the design elements that we envisioned from the beginning such as the Batmobile and how it augments Batman’s abilities, to the fully detailed and realized Gotham City.”

Released in 2009, Arkham Asylum provided an authentic vision of the Batman universe and was acclaimed for its smooth controls and accessible combat mechanic. Co-written by DC author Paul Dini the story captured the gothic darkness of the best Dark Knight comics. The sequel, Arkham City, expanded the action to feature a whole area of Gotham, but retained the original’s style and atmosphere. 

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YouTube reveals $1bn music payouts, but some labels still unhappy

A recent piece of research by VideoInk and video analytics firm Tubular Labs claimed that music videos account for 38.4% of all views on YouTube, reinforcing the Google subsidiary’s position as the world’s biggest streaming music service.

“We’ve paid out to the music industry over the last several years over a billion dollars,” said vice president of YouTube content Tom Pickett during a panel session at the Midem music industry show in Cannes this week, during which he also stressed that “we are all-in on music”.

Not everyone is convinced. A key theme of this year’s Midem has been continued resentment towards YouTube and its parent company from musicians, independent labels and industry bodies alike. Pickett was heckled during his panel session, and the conference also saw regular anti-Google outbursts from speakers.

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Video games, Down's syndrome and my brother – a personal story

In 2005, when my brother Euan was still a schoolboy, we used to play a lot of Tekken 5 together. If you’re new to this famed video game series, it’s a one-on-one martial arts simulation - a ferocious yet endearingly flamboyant experience in which kangaroos trade blows with Bruce Lee clones, and winged demons grapple with Mexican wrestlers. And I’m fairly sure Euan is the most savage, unprincipled Tekken 5 player ever to lay his traitorous fingers upon a PlayStation 2 controller. Some combatants prefer to open a bout with a stunning punch to the lower body, but Euan was rarely that noble. “Wait a minute, I want to show you something,” he'd declare, scuttling out of reach. I'd dutifully wander over to his side of the arena, all patronising solicitude, and he'd kick me in the face.

Euan is a dirty fighter. But he's also one of the most fearlessly imaginative people you'll meet. And in its own small way, our shared gaming hobby is proof of this.

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How online gamers are solving science's biggest problems

For all their virtual accomplishments, gamers aren't feted for their real-world usefulness. But that perception might be about to change, thanks to a new wave of games that let players with little or no scientific knowledge tackle some of science's biggest problems. And gamers are already proving their worth.

In 2011, people playing Foldit, an online puzzle game about protein folding, resolved the structure of an enzyme that causes an Aids-like disease in monkeys. Researchers had been working on the problem for 13 years. The gamers solved it in three weeks.

A year later, people playing an astronomy game called Planet Huntersfound a curious planet with four stars in its system, and to date, they've discovered 40 planets that could potentially support life, all of which had been previously missed by professional astronomers.

This will give all gamers a upper hand with problem solving, this could attract more gamers to solve unthinkable scientific problems, this story will encourage the gamers to play more this could be a problem. This story was directed at young adults and teens. I believe that they will be pleased to hear this story because it will encourage them to want to play more.

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Facebook: reports of its demise are greatly exaggerated

A striking study by researchers at Princeton University this week made headlines for its claim that Facebook would lose 80% of its users by 2017. Now, in an effort to point out flaws in the study, a Facebook analyst has applied similar methodology to predict the impending doom of Princeton University.

In a paper published earlier this week, John Cannarella and Joshua Spechler, from Princeton's mechanical and aerospace engineering department, compared Facebook’s spread to that of an infectious disease. After noting a fall in the number of times "Facebook" was typed into Google as a search term, they concluded that the population was gradually becoming immune to the attractions of the social network.

The research was widely picked up – including by the Guardian – and quickly went viral. Since then, commentators have lined up to debunk it, and Facebook itself stepped on on Thursday. Using Facebook Likes to illustrate the popularity of America's top universities.

Unfortunately I believe Facebook is going to die out soon because of all the new social networking sights, there are more things to do on other social networking sights. However there are still people that use this web sight but not as much as they used to in the past. This is a problem for the people own Facebook unfortunattly this will effect them financially   

12 years of slavery Official Trailer !

12 Years a Slave is a 2013 American-British epic historical drama film and an adaptation of the 1853 memoir of the same name by Solomon Northup, a New York State-born free negro who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. in 1841 and sold into slavery. He worked on plantations in the state of Louisiana for twelve years before his release. The first scholarly edition of Northup's memoir, co-edited in 1968 by Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon, carefully retraced and validated the account and concluded it to be accurate. In the pre-civil war based in the United states, a free black man named Solomon Northup from up-state New York is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty at the hands of a vindictive slave owner, as well as unexspected kindness, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity.

The use of Alverado's theory with the representations of black males makes an excellent  links with this film. The film 12 Years A Slave links with the pittied section of Alverado's theory as you can see that the film was based of slavery making the audience feel sympathy for the black characters.

Another section of representations in Alverado's theory is exotic an example of a exotic black person is the singer/song writer Beyonce, as you can see in the music video she presents herself as a seductive female with the use of her body movements and body langue. Ibelieve this is a great link to Alverado's theory of exotic. 

The film 'Get Rich or die trying' is a good example of a dangerous representation, as you can see in the film it contains features such as guns, knives, drugs and violence. This film shows the ways of receiving or making money illegally, also it has many gory scenes of black males dying within the film. This film has a gangster image or gang-bangers and fights, I believe it grasps the representation of Dangerous excellently.

I chose Kevin Heart to link with the humerus section of representations in Alverado's theory, as you can see Kevin Heart shows he is a very talented and funny comedian, he presents himself as sarcastic and also self concious and changes it into a way of humour, he is very succesful at what he does and enjoys making jokes about his family. This shows he doesn't really care what people think about him.   









                                      

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Tetris is back - for the PS4 and Xbox One

During the summer of 1992, between my first and second years at university, I was working at a video game studio in Leamington Spa. We were supposed to be coding a game called Tank Commander for the PC, a long forgotten battle simulation – but one day someone brought in a Game Link cable, which allowed the connection of two Nintendo Game Boy consoles together. Of course, we immediately loaded up the Tetris competitive mode, in which any lines you cleared on your own screen would be cruelly transferred on to the bottom of your opponent's stack. Work ground to a halt and didn't really start up again for several days.

Most gamers have Tetris addiction stories. Since Russian programmer Alexey Pajitnov first developed the falling shape puzzler while working at the Moscow Academy of Sciences, it has sold hundreds of millions of copies on more than 50 different hardware platforms. Scientists and designers have pondered over its incredible appeal, the extraordinary compulsion people have to fit variously shaped tetriminos into a bucket. The beauty of Tetris is its simplicity – you need to understand no archaic conventions or rules of gaming. It is also essentially about something that we all find intrinsically satisfying: tidying up. Tetris is about imposing order, even if the task is Sisyphean, because the shapes don't stop falling until your stack reaches the top of the screen. And then it's all over.

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Motorola Moto X review: less 'hello Moto', more hello Google

The Motorola Moto X is the first flagship smartphone from the inventor of the mobile since it was acquired by Google, and as such is a Google phone through and through.

Motorola hopes that the Moto X, together with the excellent Moto G budget smartphone launched in November 2013, will be enough to turn the company's fortunes around from a sustained loss over the past six quarters since it was acquired in May 2012.

The Moto X was originally launched solely in the US in August 2013, and has taken almost six months to reach the UK. It was originally touted as the "self-driving" smartphone, due to its ability to respond to the keywords "OK Google Now" triggering searches, controlling music and making calls even while the screen is off.

Motorola says it spent several months fine-tuning the Moto X's speech recognition to handle the varied accents around the UK - an important point if it is to function, as Andrew Morley, director of Motorola UK stressed, so you "really can use it without your hands, through the natural communications medium of voice."

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Privacy concerns raised as Google+ makes it possible to send email via name search

Google is integrating its Gmail service and Google+ social tracking network so that people without your Gmail address can send you emails by a name search.

The move has raised questions about its privacy implications, after similar moves with Gmail and its then-new Google Buzz social network in 2010 led to a row over alleged privacy invasion. Those in turn led to Google being bound to a 20-year privacy oversight by the US Federal Trade Commission.

Google has also made the change opt-out, so that users will have to change their settings to prevent unknown people emailing them. The senders will not see the email address of the person they are sending the message to unless the recipient replies.

Announcing the move in a blogpost, Google product manager David Nachum wrote:

Have you ever started typing an email to someone only to realize halfway through the draft that you haven't actually exchanged email addresses? If you are nodding your head 'yes' and already have a Google+ profile, then you’re in luck, because now it's easier for people using Gmail and Google+ to connect over email.

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LG's texting washing machine? Tech firms are asking the wrong questions

The annual vapourware games – otherwise known as the International Consumer Electronics Show – took place last week in Las Vegas. As ever, it brought fascinating glimpses inside the fevered imaginations ofmarketing and engineering executives.

One of the most hilarious was LG of South Korea, which promised that we would be able to text our washing machine or dryer to ask how it's doing.

Pause a moment to let that sink in, and then ask yourself: when was the last time you actually cared how far through its wash/spin/dry cycle your washer and/or dryer was? Personally, if that does happen, then I get up and go and look at it. It's not as if my home is so large that it requires a special expedition.

The nonsensical belief that people will text their appliances is typical of what emerges from a technology industry that simply tries to answer "What can we…?" As in, "What can we add to this toothbrush?" To which the answer, apparently, is "Bluetooth", plus a smartphone app so that your toothbrush can tell your smartphone how well you're brushing your teeth. (Depending on the definition of "well".)

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Let's Play – the YouTube phenomenon that's bigger than One Direction

For the past five years, a silent army of video makers have been populating YouTube with clips of themselves playing computer games.

What might once have seemed an unlikely sub-genre has proliferated across the network and been rewarded with its own channel, called Let's Play, or LP. For gamers, it's a chance to combine their video production skills with an innate understanding of the connective power of the internet to create channels dedicated to clips of their game-play. 

The goal is not to get laughs, create a viral hit, or even to be competitive; gamers and their subscribers simply love games enough to want to watch other people play. Playing well helps, as does focusing on a popular game – MineCraft channels are particularly popular.

The figures speak for themselves; 24-year old Swedish gamer Felix Kjellberg’s channel, PewDiePie, is the most successful Youtube channel ever with more than 17 million subscribers. He has left One Direction’s channel, with its measly 10 million subscribers, for dust.

But it's not all about the unifying love of gaming. Youtube, which is owned by Google, runs a Partner Program which means that the owner of a video channel can earn a share of the money made from video ads on the site. 

This will encourage a lot of professional gamers to try and make their own youtube channel talking about new games coming out. This will help non gamers understand the features of each console and what you can do in the game to improve your skills. Making the videos on a youtube channel will help the people gain more publicity and views; making it more world wide. The target audience for this story would be teens and young adults. 

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Technology predictions for 2014: smarter cities, bigger games

This is the year that cities become even smarter. Local authorities and councils the world over have invested in social capital and connected infrastructure with the aim of better understanding the needs of their citizens.

The Watershed arts venue in Bristol, for example, organised a Playable City Award in 2013, whose aim was "to commission an original, future-facing work, that used creative technology to explore the theme of the playable city." London, meanwhile, has introduced bins that send text messages when they are nearly full and has used sensors installed under parking bays in the West End to relieve congestion in the area – and the city is manually moving Boris Bikes to bays people are cycling from but not cycling towards (generally, if it's at the top of a hill).

In 2014, more cities will iterate and experiment. They'll implement new technologies to not only create a better connected city but to enhance the environment. That could include street lights switching on due to residents complaining about the lack of light on Twitter. There's a great number of opportunities available – and that's an exciting prospect. 

This makes alot of NDM fans excited for the new year of 2014, as we all know there are going to be high expectations due to the level of technology last year. There were many amazing new digital media technology created last year such as the IPhone5C and 5S etc. They have already started making a bin which has a sensor that can text you to tell you when the bin is full, that will attract many adult customers and sell quick because it is an outstanding creation. This makes all NDM users excited and anxious to see the outcomes of 2014's NDM.

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Snapchat reacts to hacking group releasing millions of phone numbers

The creators of Snapchat have responded to the release of millions of users’ details, exposed when hackers published a partially redacted database matching usernames to phone numbers, but have stopped short of issuing an apology.

The database of millions of US users was uploaded by an anonymous group called SnapchatDB. The last two digits of phone numbers were redacted “to minimise spam and abuse”, but the group said it would consider releasing the unredacted data “under certain circumstances”.

Snapchat has acknowledged a security flaw – first pointed out to it several months ago – and said it would release an update of the app to let users opt out of the vulnerable “Find Friends” function which searches for users in your phone’s address book.

A report about the potential abuse of the Find Friends function was released in August 2013. On Christmas Eve an Australian security research group, Gibson Security, revealed further details of vulnerabilities and said Snapchat had not responded to its warnings.

This usually happens to IPhone apps when they are starting to get very popular,  i believe that many of target audience (which would be young adults and teens) will be more careful with the way they use Snapchat and increase their privacy. This could cause a lot of people to delete the app just in case of any further hacking with other accounts, this could also affect Snapchat financially.