A team of security researchers claim to have identified a four-year-old Android bug that can allow malicious trojans to appear as verified apps, infecting devices with malware while users remain unaware of its presence.
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It's the fourth of July, so we've dedicated this week's episode to the revitalized Made in the USA movement. Sure, the NSA is spying on us, but at least you can take your mind off it with Brian and Tim for an hour. Get your Independence Day festivities in full swing by lighting the grill and fireworks, and start streaming below.
Hosts: Tim Stevens, Brian Heater
Producer: Joe Pollicino
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For everyone in the world whose heart has not blackened and shriveled beyond repair, nothing boosts your mood quite like a new family addition in the form of a dog. That is, until you have to wake up at the crack of dawn to let that needy, opposable-thumbless mutt out. But new dog owner and Raspberry Pi enthusiast David Hunt has rigged himself up a highly creative solution: a door that automatically unlocks at your dog's bark?or as he's dubbed it, Pi-Rex.
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Yahoo must be starting the summer with an acquisition spree: it bought Qwiki yesterday, and it's buying Xobni today in a deal that AllThingsD estimates is worth $30 million to $40 million. The acquisition gives Yahoo a developer with experience in creating automatic, connected address books -- a perfect fit for a web giant that has been revamping its email and social services. Neither of the new partners is talking about what they'll create together, although Xobni is no longer accepting new customers for its paid services and has pulled downloads for both Smartr Contacts on Android and Xobni for BlackBerry. It's a gentler transition than we've seen with other takeovers, although we wouldn't get too comfy when most of Xobni's services go dark after July 2nd of next year.
Update: Our colleagues at TechCrunch hear that the acquisition price may be over $60 million.
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BURBANK, Calif. (AP) ? Disney faces one of the first big tests of its WatchABC app on Monday, as customers who had enjoyed free live viewing of local ABC stations in New York and Philadelphia on mobile devices will now need to show they are pay TV subscribers.
The app also launches Monday in four new markets, where use will likewise be limited to pay TV subscribers: Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Raleigh-Durham, N.C.
Since the middle of May, anyone who downloaded the app in New York and Philadelphia could catch live local broadcasts from Disney-owned ABC stations WABC and WPVI on iPhones, iPads and Kindle Fires.
Now they'll have to enter the username and passwords they use to access online tools from their cable TV provider. Participating providers are Comcast, Cablevision, Cox, Charter, Midcontinent and AT&T.
Customers who don't have a pay TV subscription or get service from a different provider will not be able to watch live programs on the app. Previously aired full episodes will still be available for free on demand over mobile devices.
WatchABC is part of the TV industry's "TV Everywhere" initiative, which is meant to increase the value of a pay TV subscription by giving viewers access to their favorite TV shows anytime and on multiple mobile devices. But executives have acknowledged it is taking a long time to become a reality, partly because rights deals haven't been completed.
WatchABC now has live mobile viewing available for just six of about 200 TV stations that carry ABC, although the latest rollout includes its biggest markets. Two more stations owned by Disney in Houston and Fresno, Calif., will offer live viewing through WatchABC by September. Another 13 stations owned by Hearst Corp. plan to offer live viewing the app in the coming months.
Complicating the issue, The Walt Disney Co.'s arrangements with local ABC affiliate TV stations and pay TV operators currently cover just over a third of the approximately 100 million people who pay for TV nationwide. So some people living in the covered markets will not be able to watch live programming on the app, because their provider has not reached a deal with the local ABC affiliate for the service.
Albert Cheng, chief product officer for digital media for Disney/ABC, says the rollout is similar to how the wireless phone industry gradually brought faster "4G LTE" service to different cities over time.
"It is as confusing as that ? when is my market going to happen?" he said. "The markets will be lit up as these agreements come into place, not too different than it takes time for cell carriers to put up new towers."
There are plans to possibly make the on-demand portion of WatchABC also limited to pay TV customers in the future, Cheng said, but the service would have to be more widely available to justify the loss in advertising revenue that would occur when non-pay TV users lose access.
ABC is the first broadcast network to try live streaming its programming over an app. Some pay TV networks like ESPN have been streaming live programming for some time.
WatchABC's expansion comes as upstart Aereo attempts to capture a slice of the mobile viewing audience with its $8-a-month service that started in New York last year and expanded to Boston and Atlanta this spring. Aereo plans to offer service ? which includes live streams of major local TV stations ? in Chicago in September.
Broadcasters have sued Aereo for copyright infringement, but so far Aereo has won court rulings that have kept it in business.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/watchabc-now-la-chicago-sf-pay-tv-subs-130456414.html
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Former James Bond star Pierce Brosnan is said to be devastated after the death of his daughter at age 41, who passed away from ovarian cancer.
Mother-of-two Charlotte Brosnan passed away last week, it?s been revealed, from the same disease which killed her mother Cassandra, Pierce?s first wife, 20 years ago.
The news was confirmed in a statement from the 60-year-old actor late on Monday.
?On June 28 at 2 p.m. my darling daughter Charlotte Emily passed on to eternal life, having succumbed to ovarian cancer,? Brosnan, 60, told PEOPLE. ?She was surrounded by her husband Alex, children Isabella and Lucas and brothers Christopher and Sean.
?Charlotte fought her cancer with grace and humanity, courage and dignity. Our hearts are heavy with the loss of our beautiful dear girl. We pray for her and that the cure for this wretched disease will be close at hand soon. We thank everyone for their heartfelt condolences.?
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Charlotte is survived by her long-term partner and her children, Isabella, 15 and eight-year-old Lucas.
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