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Free Apps Eat Your Smartphone Battery-> 1

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judgecorp
judgecorp writes "Here's a reason to pay for smartphone apps. The free versions can spend three times as much energy finding and serving ads as they do on their actual job. Research from a Purdue university scientist found that as much as 75 percent of the energy used by free apps goes on accessing location services, finding suitable adverts and displaying them."
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Sony forces gamers to waive right to sue->

Submitted by Aneurysm
Aneurysm writes "Sony has changed the terms and conditions required to sign into the PSN network. Lurking within the small print is a waiver forcing gamers to give up the right to join a class action lawsuit for any future security breaches; rather they must go through a Sony appointed abitrator. To opt out of this clause Sony is requiring written confirmation within the next 30 days. The Register also has information."
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Comment: Re:You Got Turing'd (Score 1) 238

by Aneurysm (#33828960) Attached to: The Encryption Pioneer Who Was Written Out of History
Except his work wasn't suppressed for reasons of national security. He made the discovery within and for an intelligence organisation. He didn't get screwed at all, he seems perfectly happy to have done his part for his country. Making discoveries like this to be kept secret was his job.

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