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How Apple Will Draft Everyone Into The Cloud. Or Else

Groupon Founders Reinvent The Pawnshop

How do you reboot the image of a store synonymous with mildew seediness? Bring it online, of course. "In a brick-and-mortar store, you're talking to an employee who makes $8 to $10 an hour who doesn't care about your situation," Todd Hills, CEO of Pawngo, tells us.READ»

CYBER ATTACKS | Comment

LulzSec Touts Hacktivism And NATO Considers War

BY Kit EatonToday

LulzSec is in the news for hacking Sony, Nintendo, and PBS, among others. And now it seems the group is tied to hacktivist group Anonymous. NATO is not happy.READ»

E3 | Comment

More Machine Than Man Now? Xbox Pushes Kinect's Gesturing Gameplay To New Level

BY Gregory FerensteinToday

Activating Jedi powers with motions actually used in the movies? Yes, please!READ»

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY | Comment

New Google R&D Team Charged With Making Renewable Energy Work For The Market

BY Tim CarmodyToday

Forget driverless cars: Google is hiring engineers to develop new technology that can deliver clean energy at utility scale.READ»

30SecondMBA.com: Has social networking improved or hurt productivity in your company?

BY FastCompany StaffToday

Damien Basile, Cofounder and CMO of Addieu, answers this business question at 30SecondMBA.com. READ»

SLIDESHOW

With Conan Aboard, TBS Bets On A Wacky, Animated Rebranding [Video]

BY Belinda LanksToday

When TBS, the station of comedy reruns, announced that it had snagged Conan O’Brien, media observers responded with a collective “huh?” But what at first blush seemed like an odd pairing, made perfect sense, not so much for what ... READ»

VIDEO GAMES | Comment

A Brief History Of Video Games

BY Clay DillowToday

As players big and small convene at E3 in Los Angeles to catch a glimpse of gaming's future, we take a look back at the innovations that got us here.READ»

ICLOUD | Comment

How Apple Will Draft Everyone Into The Cloud. Or Else

BY E.B. BoydToday

Pity the poor programmer whose software doesn't automatically sync every digital thing you own across all of your devices instantly. Thanks to Apple, if you're not in the cloud soon, you're buried. READ»

IFIVE | Comment

iFive: Clinton On Google Vs. China, Sony Hacked Again, RSA Security "Keys" Hacked, Weiner's Tweets, Sony PS Vita Revealed

BY Kit EatonToday

Welcome to Tuesday, the day after the Sony, Apple, and Microsoft press blow-outs where we all try to work out what happened. For starters, here's the early news:READ»

ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART

Five Rising Stars From London’s Prestigious Royal College Of Art [Slideshow]

BY Suzanne LaBarreMon Jun 6, 2011

The Royal College of Art has a history of churning out some of the best designers in the U.K.: James Dyson, Jonathan Barnbrook, Alan Fletcher (the guy who founded Pentagram), Jasper Morrison, Thomas Heatherwick. The list goes on. An ... READ»

WANTED: STYLE

Wanted: A Leather iPad Case For Fashion Plates

BY Chris DannenMon Jun 6, 2011

The iPad's appeal is in its thinness -- one reason Apple's new iPad Smart Cover is backless. As Apple's own marketing asks: "why hide it in a bulky case?" So it would seem that Kenton Sorenson's 5-ounce leather iPad Portfolio has ... READ»

AMAZON | Comment

Is Streaming Video Cannibalizing Amazon's DVD Sales?

BY Austin CarrMon Jun 6, 2011

Will DVD sales decline as Instant video becomes more popular on Amazon?READ»

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY | Comment

Human Exposure To Toxic BPA Is Worse Than Previously Thought

BY Ariel SchwartzMon Jun 6, 2011

When you measure BPA levels based on a lifetime of daily exposure, it turns out our bodies are full of the poisonous stuff.READ»

App Turns Your Facebook Page Into An Art Show

BY Suzanne LaBarreMon Jun 6, 2011

Your Facebook page is already something of a minor art show, highlighting your little place in the cultural firmament through photographs and likes and cheerful cartoon chickens. Well now, you can turn it into a full-blown museum ... READ»

APPLE | Comment

How Apple's Lion Mauls Competitors And Feasts On Their Ideas For iOS [Video]

BY Austin CarrMon Jun 6, 2011

When Apple announced a new feature called "Reading List," which lets you save articles to read later, Instapaper founder Marco Arment immediately tweeted just one word, which may reflect the feelings of a lot of developers today: "Shit."READ»

APPLE | Comment

The Apple Land Grab: How The Free Cloud Will Help Grow A Nation

BY E.B. BoydMon Jun 6, 2011

Prices so low, Apple must be INSANE! Or, more likely, they're hooking a whole new world of users with bargain basement prices on OS Lion and iCloud while planning to charge them later for add-ons and premium features. READ»

GROUPON | Comment

Are Smaller Daily Deal Services Doomed By Groupon, Living Social, and Google?

BY Austin CarrMon Jun 6, 2011

There's tons of players in the daily deals space--BuyWithMe, BloomSpot, DailyFlock, Tippr, and more. But given the towering giants now either entering or dominating the market, are smaller competitors doomed?READ»

FABRICA

Arty Benetton Researchers Create A Sweetly Surreal Furniture Line [Slideshow]

BY Belinda LanksMon Jun 6, 2011

“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples, then you and I will still each have one apple,” George Bernard Shaw once said. “But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, ... READ»

RETINAL PROSTHETICS

What If A Virus Could Let Blind People See In Infrared?

BY John PavlusMon Jun 6, 2011

Retinal prosthetics -- electronic implants that do the work of damaged or missing light-sensitive cells in blind peoples' eyes -- are pretty amazing, but they remain crude at best because of one key design flaw: The human eye is not a ... READ»