A Big Creepy Peruvian Tomb; 'Teen Mom' and the Daddy Complex
 Discovered: Smoking bans scare some smokers, your relationship with daddy determines how you watch Teen Mom, get ready to have your DNA sequences, and a big creepy Peruvian tomb. Smoking bans cause a chunk of smokers to quit. It's not a huge portion, but a study found that 5 percent of smokers quit after a ban went to effect in Spain. They say that means it is working. ...
Aereo wins partial victory in broadcasters' suit
Aereo, a startup that takes live TV broadcasts and sends them to mobile devices in New York for a monthly fee, has won a partial victory in court over the media companies that are suing it. Funds with Facebook hammered as proxy by shorts
(Reuters) - Some investment funds have paid a price for their friendship with Facebook since the social networking giant went public last week. Firsthand Technology Value Fund and GSV Capital Corp, two closed-end funds that bought shares of the social media company before the IPO, have taken a beating, used as proxies for betting against Facebook. "Until investors can actually short Facebook, they have to keep shorting things that can give them some sort of proxy for Facebook," said Thomas Vandeventer, manager of the Tocqueville Opportunity Fund, which owns shares in both closed-end funds. ... Clueful keeps an eye on your other apps to find out which are misusing your data
The ways which mobile apps make use of the data we put into them can be kind of scary. In the last two years alone, there have been several scandals revealing how an app or service was shipping off user data to some unknown location or server, or spreading what seemed to be private information to companies for advertising. ION Air Pro Takes on the Action-Camera Competition
The mobile action cam market isn’t new; just look at companies such as GoPro and Contour HD. But Giovanni Tomaselli thinks it’s just about time for a new player. Founder and CEO of ION, Tomaselli is launching a new camera today: the ION Air Pro...
  New ad zapper has TV networks worried about sales
The maker of a new DVR that lets consumers zap away broadcast TV commercials at the touch of a button suggested Tuesday that the networks are being short-sighted in opposing the technology.
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