Reimagined Flags Based on National Stereotypes are Awesome Art [Art]

Kirill Zaytsev's "Flagsters: Flags Letters Countries & Stereotypes" is a visual experiment using national flags and their verbal stereotypes to reimagine pre-existing national designs. More »


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Solavei MVNO will pay you when your friends sign up, $49 a month all-in for those without any

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Unlike regular mobile networks, virtual operators -- or MVNOs -- have none of those expensive cellular infrastructures to worry about. Newcomer, Solavei, (which rides atop T-Mobile) is using this freedom to focus in on its business model. Just out of beta, the provider is offering unlimited voice, text and data for $49 per month, or free. Free? Well, if you're silver-tongued enough to talk friends and family into signing up, too, you'll get $20 kickback a month for every three -- or "trio" as the marketing calls it -- that you convince. There are other bonuses and chances to earn money -- all obviously aimed at spreading the network's audience, and offsetting the lower overheads. You can also use your own unlocked phone, or buy one of the three that Solavei currently offers (HTC One X, Wildfire S and ZTE Origin). This isn't the first time we've seen such philanthropic approaches, and it might smack a little bit of MLM, but if your after an all-you-can eat mobile deal, and have a large group of friends, this could be a nice little earner. Still not sold? Perhaps the feel-good corporate video after the break will switch that up.

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Apple Map Disasters, Real-Life Warp Drive, Cam Girl Secrets, And More [The Best Stories Of The Week]

This week we finally witnessed the arrivial of the iPhone 5, but it brought with it a pretty questionable and sometimes horrifying map app. But that's not all, NASA is working on warp drive, we delve into the bleak world of Internet cam girls, we caught a peek of (maybe) the iPad Mini, and watched a rapper lose his Google-virginity. Catch up below. More »


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How Secure is My Password lets you know just that

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We've all heard it before; you need to select a lengthy password, one that's hard to guess. Not a dictionary word. And it has to have some capital letters in it too, and some digits, and a symbol or two won't hurt either.

That's a handy set of rules to keep in mind, but How Secure is My Password helps us understand why they're important.

It's basically like a full-screen version of one of those password-strength meters websites sometimes use. But instead of showing you a bar going from "weak" to "strong", it shows you an estimation of how long your password would take to crack. That's a much more visceral way to understand why your password is strong.

For example, when I entered "rabbit", it came back with "your password is one of the 500 most common passwords. It could be cracked almost instantly". "rabbit5" would take two hours, "$rabbit5" would take 38 days, and "$rabbitZ5" would take 237 years. It's quite enlightening to see what a difference three simple characters can make.

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Apple Mapocalypse Sends iOS 6 Users Into a Tizzy, Riverbank

That’s not where Wired’s offices are. Image: Roberto Baldwin/Wired

Updated 5:15 PM PST with comment from Apple.

Disgruntled users across the globe are flocking to share their displeasure with Apple’s new Maps app, which has a tendency to mislocate businesses, misplace cities, streets and towns, and display warped Dali-esque distortions of skyscrapers, bridges and other landmarks.

Apple replaced Google Maps with its own app in iOS 6, released on Wednesday, cutting its closest tie to smartphone rival Google. But the seemingly premature launch of the Apple app is turning into a significant black eye in an otherwise well-received operating system upgrade.

“The maps for my hometown in iOS 6 are not only extremely ugly (and old) but not a singular business has a correct location as far as I can see,” Apple forum member björnfrommalmö posted Wednesday. “Anyone else getting really annoyed by this switch?”

“iOS 6 Maps” and “Google Maps” began trending on Twitter Thursday, and a popular Tumblr emerged to provide a central location for the numerous Maps fails.

Google shows that Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands is not a road-less wasteland. Image: The Amazing iOS 6 Maps Tumblr

ReadWriteWeb editor Dan Frommer documented a number of #ios6pocalypse fails in New York City, namely the Manhattan Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge, which in 3-D fly-over mode appear to have suffered an earthquake. The Washington State Department of Transportation even got in on the action, tweeting, “Although #ios6 may say differently, we can assure you that the Tacoma Narrows Bridges have not melted” with a link to Maps’ rendering of the bridge.

While some of the problems, like fly-over fails, tend to the humorous, the reality is that relying on Apple’s just-released mapping surface could be downright dangerous. Buzzfeed’s Matt Buchanan noted that a friend ended up at a “mobile home estate” next to an abandoned doctor’s office instead of an actual clinic. Imagine if that had happened during a life-threatening scenario.

“We launched this new map service knowing it is a major initiative and that we are just getting started with it,” Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller told Wired. “Maps is a cloud-based solution and the more people use it, the better it will get. We appreciate all of the customer feedback and are working hard to make the customer experience even better.”

That’s not where the Washington Monument is. Image: The Amazing iOS 6 Maps Tumblr

“The issue with maps clearly has been a challenge for Apple,” Gartner analyst Brian Blau told Wired via e-mail. “It’s not an impossible problem to solve, but building, deploying and maintaining a sophisticated mapping service is not something that can be done overnight.”

Indeed, developing your own mapping technology is inherently hard, and something competing services like Google and Nokia-owned Navteq have spent years on. Apple’s endeavors, meanwhile, look to date back only around three years with the purchase of mapping-related startups Placebase, Poly9, and C3 Technologies. Back when Google Maps first launched, it too was plagued with inaccuracies that sent users back into the arms of competitors.

But in an age when we’ve come to depend on smartphones for delivering accurate information at a moment’s notice — particularly mapping information — inaccuracies are a big deal.

Although Apple has released products like Siri and the original Apple TV, which weren’t quite ready for primetime at launch, Apple rarely releases a product that actually lessens the overall user experience. The last time that happened was with MobileMe; Ping, although a failure, didn’t necessarily worsen the iTunes experience noticeably.

Apple has around 30 Maps-related job positions currently available, including a number of “iOS Software Engineer – Maps” positions which involve things like working on 3-D fly-over models, mesh generation of terrain, and road rendering, according to the job listing.

But for now, those who are rightly wary of relying on Apple’s Maps have a pretty easy workaround, if they don’t want to rely on another third-party app: Just visit Google Maps in Safari and add a bookmark to your homescreen. Or accept the fact that you may end up in a field or the middle of a river instead of your intended destination.

A search for a particular street landed me a few blocks over from the correct one in Oxford, Mississippi. Image: Christina Bonnington/Wired

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/09/ios-6-maps-problems/

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The Linux Desktop: Not Dead, Just Broken

Faithful readers of the Linux Blog Safari column here at LinuxInsider may recall the woeful report a few weeks back that a murder had been committed -- by Apple, no less! -- and that the Linux desktop was dead. It was a distressing report, to be sure, not least because there was no corpse in sight. Linux Girl had her funereal-black Tux cape cleaned and pressed, just in case -- but without a body, the funeral had to be postponed. Good thing, too, because since then new reports have emerged, and they're much more encouraging!

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iPhone 5 launch live from Apple Store Montreal

I'm at the Fairview Apple Store in Montreal waiting in line for the iPhone 5. There's about 100 people here right now -- it's the suburbs! -- but Apple is serving coffee and Starbucks muffins. We're tired but we're wired!

I'll add video and pictures here as I get them! Line on!

iPhone 5 launch live from Apple Store Montreal

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Google Talk Guru answers questions via your IM app

google talk guru answersBots -- like the kind which automate IRC rooms and Google Wave -- are a good thing to know about. There are plenty of useful bots worth knowing about, too, including the Google Talk Guru.

Just add guru@googlelabs.com to your GTalk buddies, and you can start firing off questions. Lifehacker suggests that the same types of queries supported by Google SMS will work, though we didn't have any luck getting a response out of the Guru with phrases like "score detroit red wings" or "sushi R3N 1Y1."

Still, Guru does answer a good variety of questions and it works right within your favorite IM app. It's well worth adding to your friend list, especially for getting answers on the go on your mobile device of choice.

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