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After debuted the latest in a series of wacky stunts, dating service and scholarship fund Grouspawn, I caught up with Groupon CEO Andrew Mason backstage at TechCrunch Disrupt to talk about the recent Groupon backlash, the company's success problem and how transparency can scale to hundreds of millions of dollars in deals in 150 cities around the world.

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Software engineers analyzing the code inside Stuxnet, the supervirus that is focusing its attacks in Iran power plants, have found a secret code word that may point to its country of origin. More »

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Break out the birthday paddle: Google turns 12!

Filed under: Google

It's time to hand out the birthday paddlin'!

Yes, today marks Google's 12th anniversary. Looking back at all the Google news we've covered since Downloadsquad was founded, it's hard to believe that all the acquisitions, free software, and privacy ... er ... missteps have occurred in only 12 relatively short years.

Google's cake doodle is provided by pop artist Wayne Thibaud, who our friends at Switched point out has rather a thing for painting cakes.

Enjoy your day, Google -- and here's to another year of having no shortage of news about you to report on!

PS: Such an important day for nerd culture deserves something more than Happy Birthday, so I've embedded Weird Al's White and Nerdy after the break.

Break out the birthday paddle: Google turns 12! originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nokia N8 first unboxing

Nokia said Q3, Nokia has delivered Q3. Just. The long-awaited first shipments of the Finnish market leader's N8 handset are today finally going out, and we've gotten our hands on one of the very first retail units out there. Gaze upon the gallery below to see what you'll be getting inside the box alongside your multimedia powerhouse, and do make full use of our comments section too -- we want to hear any questions you may have about the N8 and will try to answer them in full, both here and in our full review, which is naturally coming up soon!

Gallery: Nokia N8 first unboxing

Nokia N8 first unboxing originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Sep 2010 05:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Meego flashed to Nexus One, Dell Streak, HTC Desire

Filed under: Linux, Mobile

Got an HTC Desire, Nexus One, or Dell Streak burning a hole in your pocket? Wish there was something you could run on it besides Android? Probably not, but for those of you out there who just can't stand running stock anything on your devices, why not take the plunge and install Meego?

Anybody else think that the Dell Streak pictured on the Meego Wiki page could use a serious screen cleaning?

[via Slashgear]

Meego flashed to Nexus One, Dell Streak, HTC Desire originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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'Ask an Iraqi leader,' courtesy of YouTube

Filed under: Internet, Google, web 2.0

YouTube, often considered the 'Wild West' of Google's operation, has launched a new series of interviews called 'Iraq Looks Forward.'

Conducted by Arabic-language television network Al Arabiya, these interviews will draw from a pool of questions that have been submitted by you and I. You can go ahead and submit a question now -- and vote on other questions! Voting is, as you'd expect, pretty contentious -- but for some reason, even neutral questions like 'When will the new government be formed?', which has 23 thumbs-up votes, has 10 thumbs-down votes. In fact, almost all of the questions have a lot of thumbs-downing...

These questions will be posed to the sitting Prime Minister of Iraq, the Prime Minister of Kurdistan and 'others,' so if you have something important to ask... ask! The deadline is next Monday, September 27.

'Ask an Iraqi leader,' courtesy of YouTube originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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QNAP intros 1080p-capable NMP-1000P network multimedia player

It's a minor refresh, but a refresh nonetheless. If you'll recall, we saw the original NMP-1000 break cover at CeBIT 2009, and now that we're 1.5 years in the future, the QNAP NMP-1000P is making its debut for those who crave 1080p. Judging from the exterior, little has changed from then until now, but the revamped innards may be of interest -- there's a Sigma Designs SMP8643 SoC, a 667MHz CPU with floating point processor, support for 1080/24p playback and WiFi integration if you spring for an optional adapter. You'll also get a revised user interface, local and internet-based content streaming and room for a user-supplied 3.5-inch SATA hard drive, not to mention compatibility with just about every file format under the sun. Mum's the word on pricing and availability, but we're guessing it'll be out on shelves somewhere prior to the holidays.

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QNAP intros 1080p-capable NMP-1000P network multimedia player originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A man who gets his money's worth [From the Forums]

As far as I can tell, there is no entry in the Guinness Book for amount of data consumed by a person in a month.  So I'm creating a very unofficial, tongue-in-cheek, yet highly prestigious and chock full of nerd cred World Record for Data Use on a Mobile Device.  The bragging rights go to (the envelope please) jonathanlc2005 from our very own forums, with a total usage for one month of 52.663 Gigabytes!

Be fully aware that jonathan IS paying for the Sprint Hotspot, so before anyone pulls a Kanye and jumps in, do the math -- 52 GB @ $30.00 isn't abusing anything, except maybe Jonathan's wallet.  Think you can beat the record?  Grab a screen cap of your total data usage for the month, or a pic of the relevant portion of your bill (be sure to edit out any personal info please!) and send it to me.  No cheaters, so that means no unofficial WiFi hotspot or tether apps from the Market.  We don't want to give the carriers any more ammo to use against us.  For now, feel free to head over and congratulate jonathan on his hard work!  [Android Central forums]

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AOL acquires 5min Media, a video syndication company

Filed under: Business, Video, AOL

While the TechCrunch deal is the most exciting news I've heard from AOL today, it's not the only major deal to go down: This morning AOL announced its purchase of 5min Media, a massive video syndication company.

When you go to the 5min homepage, it looks a bit like a mini-YouTube; that's not the exciting part. What's noteworthy about 5min is that they manually curate all of their content (over 200,000 categorized, tagged and rated videos), and provide technology for automatically embedding relevant videos alongside textual content. So if you've got a blog post about dogs, 5min can automatically place a pet-related video next to your content - possibly something about the exact breed of dog you mentioned.

5min specialized in educational content, and their player shows it: When you switch to full-screen, you get a Tools menu which allows you to advance the video frame-by-frame, change the brightness and even go slo-mo so you can see exactly what's happening. You can play with these features using this random video showing How to Remove the LCD from the 13" Macbook.

AOL acquires 5min Media, a video syndication company originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Use the Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary to find out what things are called

Filed under: Web, Education

Everyone knows what a mushroom looks like. But what do you call those fin-looking parts under the cap? You know, those thin, membrane-like things?

That's the type of question you can't really use a regular dictionary for. You might get lucky with Wikipedia, but in this particular case, you won't.

The Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary helps you answer questions like these. It's a large visual index of beautiful, detailed illustrations from fields such as plants and gardening, communications, sports and games, and lots more. Each illustration has a legend, and when you click the word, you also get a short definition. But what's important is that you now know the word, so you can look it up elsewhere.

As far as I know, there's no community-generated visual dictionary (like Wiktionary for regular words). This could be an awesome Wiki-style project, but for now, Merriam-Webster offers one of the best visual dictionaries online, and it's free.

(Oh, and I didn't tell you what that part of the mushroom is called. If you're curious, just click the image and find out for yourself!)

Use the Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary to find out what things are called originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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PlayOn finally gets its iPhone app approved, HTML5 lets out a sigh of resignation

We're loving this new, slightly more liberal wave of App Store approvals (aren't we easily pleased?), and it looks like PlayOn drew the lucky number today. After waiting in vain for an app approval, PlayOn actually developed a fairly sufficient HTML5 solution to its streaming-web-video-to-your-device problem, but there's nothing quite like the sheen and polish of a bonafide app. Unfortunately, PlayOn's desktop software, which is required to make this Netflix / Amazon / Hulu / ESPN / CBS / etc.-beaming possible, is still PC only.

[Thanks, Corey]

PlayOn finally gets its iPhone app approved, HTML5 lets out a sigh of resignation originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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