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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: flying electric car, 3D-printed livers and a two-story-tall bike

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Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green. The Northern Hemisphere is finally beginning to wake up from a long, cold winter, and green vehicles are …


Path app is adding 1 million new registered users a week

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It looks like everyone loves stickers, because following its last update, Path is growing — fast. The social app is now pulling in a million users a week and has recently topped nine million. It’s picked up most of its new chroniclers and message…


Akamai: DDoS attacks tripled year-over-year in 2012, China ranks as biggest offender

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Akamai’s back with yet another snapshot of the state of the internet and, surprise surprise, it’s reporting that DDoS attacks were up threefold last year versus 2011. That stat’s just one slice of the sprawling cybersecurity picture painted by the…


Google’s new Places for Business app lets you verify and update listings on your iPhone

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When you run your own business, time is money and sometimes you don’t have the excess minutes to return to your PC and tweak your Google Place Google+ Local listing, right? Fortunately, if you’re carrying an iPhone in your pocket and have Google’s…


TomTom refreshes GO sat nav, offers 3D maps and lifetime traffic information

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In addition to some redesigned sports watches, TomTom has just launched a refreshed version of its GO GPS unit for drivers who still prefer a dedicated sat nav. The hardware comes with interactive 3D maps, a lifetime’s supply of real-time traffic inf…


Telenav announces Scout for Cars: Built In, brings together phones and in-dash systems in navigation harmony

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Telenav has long been a purveyor of navigation apps for phones, browsers, and cars, but today the company’s revealed Scout for Cars: Built In to bring those platforms together. It’s an in-dash system that provides both the form factor and UX optimize…


Telenav Scout for Phones to go 3D, get crowd-sourced traffic reporting in 2013

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There are plenty of choices to meet your mobile mapping needs, from feature-rich offerings from big names like Google, Apple and Nokia to crowd-sourced services like Waze. Telenav’s Scout app falls somewhere in between, and today the company announce…


LA combats congestion by synchronizing all 4,500 traffic signals

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Los Angeles is well known as a city plagued by gridlock, but a new traffic control strategy three decades in the making could help to ease the pain. That’s the goal of the Automated Traffic Surveillance and Control system, which was c…


Spam war caused failure at critical internet exchange center

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The dust is settling from this week’s Dutch DDoS attacks — by some accounts, the largest denial-of-service action ever mounted, channeling 300 gigabits of junk traffic to the web’s weakest spots. For the most part, our tubes per…


Honda’s new smartphone app can reduce traffic jams and improve fuel efficiency

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Taking its traffic-management technology to Indonesia, Japanese car-maker Honda has successfully road-tested a new smartphone app that on average was able to delay the formation of traffic jams by as much as six minutes and improve fu…