Bill Gates revealed the details of an intimate letter this week that he sent to Steve Jobs shortly before the Apple co-founder passed away in October. In an interview with The Telegraph , Gates says he learned of Jobs’ medical condition and wrote him a letter, one that Jobs later kept by his bed. “I told Steve about how he should feel great about what he had done and the company he had built,” said Gates, discussing Jobs’ children in the letter too. He also dismissed Jobs’ critical comments about him in the recent Steve Jobs biography: “He spent a lot of his time competing with me. There are lots of times when Steve said [critical] things about me

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Bill Gates sent final, heartfelt letter to Steve Jobs

Klaus Schulze pilots his Moog spaceship through the composition “For Barry Graves” live in 1977. The track can be found on “La Vie Electronique Vol. 5.” The Klaus Schulze La Vie Electronique series, which started in 2009, are reissues of The Ultimate Edition, a CD box set from 2000 that contained a staggering 50 discs,

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Klaus Schulze, live Moog madness from 1977

Seriously, we can’t caveat this one enough — there is no way of knowing if this is in fact the Galaxy S III or, if it is, when it might come to market — but, it looks like Samsungs ” next big smartphone ” just made a cameo on the company’s support pages. Listed as the GT-i9300, the mystery device reared its head over at the Global Download Center of the United Arab Emerites site. If Sammy is to keep with its naming scheme i93XX would be a flagship device — the i90XX line was the Galaxy S , i91XX represents the S2 series, while the i9250 and i9220 are the Nexus and Note respectively.

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Did the Galaxy S III just pop up on Samsung’s support site?

Juha Saarinen sez, 2Johns2Cups by goldenturkey New Zealand media were raided by police last November just before the general election, after the incumbent centre-right Prime Minister John Key made a criminal complaint over a recording of a conversation in a cafe between him and far right-wing politician John Banks during a staged media event. The

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Here’s the utterly inconsequential recording that resulted in NZ PM John Key ordering raids on the free press

At Los Angeles International airport early this morning, TSA screeners mistook a woman’s insulin pump for a gun. Screening and boarding at Terminal 4 were delayed as airport authorities searched for a woman they thought had a weapon.

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LA airport security scare caused by TSA mistaking insulin pump for gun

The European Union has officially approved Sony’s buyout of Ericsson for ownership of the Sony Ericsson joint venture. The deal, which was announced in late October , will give Sony control of the company’s phone development, and — perhaps more importantly — full rights to the company’s patent portfolio. Despite the wait for approval, Sony has already started rebranding products , with the Xperia S and Xperia Ion bearing only the Sony name. Given that Sony Ericsson posted a €247 million loss last quarter, however, there have certainly been better times to take control

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Sony’s PlayStation Vita hasn’t exactly sold like hotcakes over in Japan , so the company has sweetened the pot for the portable’s potential Stateside buyers. Those who placed pre-orders will get a couple of extra goodies for their $350. To go with the previously promised limited edition case, 4GB memory card and copy of Little Deviants, you’ll also receive 250MB of data from AT&T and a PlayStation Network game gratis as soon as you activate 3G on the device. Furthermore, folks buying a Vita on launch day can look forward to the same free data and PSN game, plus an 8GB memory card in exchange for their $300. So, that enough to get you on the handheld’s bandwagon?

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Sony reveals new 3G/WiFi PS Vita bundles: free data, PSN games and memory cards for everyone

“It was his newsletter, and it was under his name, so he always got to see the final product…He would proof it.” Renae Hathway, a former secretary in Ron Paul’s company and former supporter of the Texas congressman, in the Washington Post today about those wacky racist newsletters previously mentioned here on Boing Boing.

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Those racist, crazy 1990s Ron Paul newsletters? He signed off on every single one, associates say

Sony is looking to get people excited for the upcoming launch of the PlayStation Vita . We’ve already heard about the special pre-order First Edition that’s shipping out to early adopters a week before the February 22nd North American release date, but now the company has announced that it’s going to have a special SKU for those who can wait for the official launch date to get the next-generation portable. The Launch Day bundle includes the 3G + Wi-Fi Vita, a 8GB proprietary memory card , a PSN game (of unknown type), and an auto-renewing 250MB AT&T DataConnect Pass good for a month. The bundle will cost you $299 — technically 99 cents less than the barebones 3G Vita. Sony says you may not even need to wait in line — so long as it r..

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PlayStation Vita launch bundle includes 3G system, 8GB card, and a PSN game for $299

Microsoft named former antivirus worker Andrey Sabelnikov as a suspect in its Kelihos botnet case earlier this week , leaving him surprised at the decision. Sabelnikov, a 31-year-old Russian, insisted in a blog post today that he is “absolutely not guilty,” and plans to prove his innocence in court after being “surprised and shocked” at the accusation. Microsoft presented evidence on Monday, in an amended complaint with a US District Court, that Sabelnikov “wrote the code for and either created, or participated in creating, the Kelihos malware.” Kelihos, a network of compromised machines, used to send over 3.8 million spam emails a day at its peak, and Microsoft alleges that Sabelnikov used malware to control and operate the botnet,… Continue reading…

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A worker checks in a special room where the Parma hams are hung to dry in Langhirano near Parma. Prosciutto di Parma can only be produced in a very restricted area of 29 sq km (11.2 sq mile) around the town of Parma in the region of Emilia Romagna, just north of Tuscany. Around 10

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The Great Hall of Hams

[Video Link] Short video of Maus creator Art Spiegelman getting a hero’s welcome in France, where a museum in Angouleme is exhibiting a retrospective of his work. (Via Potrzebie)

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Art Spiegelman exhibition in Angouleme, France

Just wake up from a very restful week-long slumber? First of all, we’re envious of your good fortune. Second, Research in Motion made a few changes to its leadership chart. Third, you must be really hungry right about now.

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“This easy-to-use beauty and skincare product was developed by an ordinary housewife. Chikako Hirama was simply concerned about her own age and wanted an easy way to combat those telltale lines. Just try the yellow or pink Pupeko daily using such techniques as puffing out your cheeks or sucking them in while breathing through the

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Anti-aging mouthpiece

RePress is a new WordPress plugin that turns any WordPress site into a proxy that can be used to circumvent national firewalls, including the systems used in The Netherlands, Italy, Finland and other countries where The Pirate Bay is blocked. The plugin is developed by the hosting company Greenhost and allows everyone with a WordPress

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(Photo via RFE-RL) Authorities in Russia are investigating the legality of a “doll demonstration” demanding “clean elections” in the Siberian city of Barnaul, and looking for the humans responsible. Russian news agency RIA Novosti reports that Russia’s police “[arrest] anyone, young or old, who takes part in an “unsanctioned” opposition rally”—so, some citizens in one

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In Russia, tiny protest sparks big police response: LEGO minifigs, South Park dolls, and Wall-e for democracy

Newly-independent Jon Rubinstein, the man who reinvented Palm in his role as CEO before selling the company to HP , just reached out to us to say what he’s up to next: “Going to take some well deserved time off after four and a half years developing webOS.” So there aren’t any immediate plans for Jon to get back into the game — and to his credit, we’re sure that his journey at Palm and HP has been an extraordinarily stressful one. We’ve got a full, exclusive interview coming up, so stay tuned. Continue reading…

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LG’s play for US smartphone market share is simple: bring over the popular Optimus LTE from Europe, and tweak it for different carriers. The $199.99 (with a two-year contract) LG Spectrum for Verizon is the second such handset, after the Nitro HD for AT&T. When I reviewed the Nitro, I called it the best LTE phone available on AT&T, and the Spectrum is every bit as good on paper: 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, 1GB of RAM, a 4.5-inch IPS display, LTE connectivity, and an 8-megapixel camera.

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100 years ago, stereoscopic photos were a bit of a novelty, showing up in coin-operated viewers that forced your eyes to see the paired pictures in 3D. Some 40,000 of those snapshots (whose copyrights have expired) are now in the New York Public Library archives. Earlier this week, NYPL Labs debuted its Stereogranimator tool that lets you resurrect the old 3D effect in animated GIFs or red and blue 3D anaglyphs. The New York Times reports the idea was originally born in the brain of San Francisco artist and writer Joshua Heineman, who found the images in the NYPL archives and recognized them as stereographs

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New York Public Library lets you make ’3D’ GIFs from 100-year old stereoscopic photos

Jon Rubinstein, once a prominent voice in the mobile community as he sought to reinvent Palm, has gone quiet in recent months at HP — and that’s not often a good sign for any top-level executive’s future prospects. Indeed, Rubinstein has apparently left HP effective immediately, according to a report from AllThingsD . The move isn’t a surprise considering how many management shuffles HP has gone through as of late, and Rubinstein has all but disappeared from the webOS landscape in its recent transition to an open source platform . An HP spokesperson simply says that “Jon has fulfilled his commitment and we wish him well,” a reference to the fact that he was under contract to continue employment at HP for a set period after Palm’s 2010… Continue reading…

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The man responsible for voicing such iconic phrases as “Danger, Will Robinson!” and “That does not compute” has passed away at age 85. Dick Tufeld gave voice to the Class M-3 Model B9 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot, better known as The Robot, on 1960s TV show Lost in Space , warning the Robinson clan, particularly the youngest Robinson child Will, of threats from aliens or the villainous Dr. Smith. The movements of the robot were coordinated by a second man, Bob May, with Tufeld’s lines dubbed in during post-production.

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Remembering Dick Tufeld, voice of the ‘Lost in Space’ Robot

Richard (a.k.a. “bolivar-shagnasty”), a Reddit user and a US airman deployed in Afghanistan, just wanted to unwind by playing some Bastion on his PC, but his internet connection was so terrible that he couldn’t even connect to Steam to download the game. So in a last ditch effort he sent an email to Supergiant, creator of Bastion , to see if it had any plans to release a physical version of the game. He then got a response from creative director Greg Kasavin who said that the studio didn’t plan on releasing a physical copy — but instead of leaving it at that, the company created a physical version of the game, and sent it overseas with a Bastion bandanna.

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US airman in Afghanistan couldn’t download ‘Bastion,’ so Supergiant made him a DVD copy

Sillysparrowness, a self-described “German teacher with a leaning towards silliness,” described the process by which she came to build a beautiful, obsessively finished Tardis. I built a TARDIS (Thanks, scottiep!)

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HOWTO build a Tardis, the adorable German schoolteacher way

The FCC boys were clutching at their multimeters in horror when they saw how much work they’d have to do when Sony’s new Xperia S rolled into the bunker. Still, their loss is connectivity’s gain, as the Ericsson-branded phone is packing: GSM 850/900/1800/1900, GPRS/EGPRS, UMTS I, II, V, VIII, HSPA, RFID, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, 802.11 WiFi b/g/n and GPS. The company also found room to squeeze in ANT+ , the fitness tracker sensor, that might promise some healthy accessories on the horizon. In related news, thanks to a post on the company’s Facebook wall we know that the unit will be clad in an “anti-stain shell,” — hinting at a similar nano-coating to what we’ve seen on the Droid Razr

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Sony Xperia S jogs past the FCC carrying plenty of AT&T / T-Mobile Radios

If you missed out on the HP TouchPad fire sale extravaganzas of 2011, now’s your chance to grab a WebOS tablet at a discount. Woot.com has refurbished TouchPads in stock, and it’s selling the 16GB variety for $169.99, and the 32GB variety for $219.99, with a 90-day HP warranty. The prices are still a far cry from HP’s original $99 and $149.99 sale, especially considering these are refurbished models.

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Good Deal: Refurbished HP TouchPad 16GB for $169.99 and 32GB for $219.99 at Woot.com (update)