Reddit co-founder, Internet activist and computer prodigy Aaron
Swartz, has committed suicide, according to police authorities. His body
was found in his New York apartment and he is believed to have hanged
himself to death. 
Swartz’s suicide has sparked a volley of reactions online with many
coming out to support and remember him. Swartz was facing criminal
charges for stealing more than 4 million articles from JSTOR, an online
archive and journal distribution service.
In July 2011, Swartz was indicted by a federal grand jury of wire
fraud, computer fraud and other charges related to allegedly stealing
millions of academic articles and journals from a digital archive at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Notably however, JSTOR
itself did not press charges against him.
Swartz, who pleaded not guilty to all cou
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According to a report in DigiTimes, Apple’s 27-inch iMac is facing shipment delays as Apple’s main iMac panel supplier LG is having trouble with production.
The report quotes industry sources as saying that the LG Display
has reportedly been facing full lamination issues while producing the
panels, slowing down shipments of the 27-inch device to 100,000 units a
month, 
According to Apple’s online store, the 27-inch iMac is expected to
ship in 3-4 weeks, which is much longer when compared to the 21.5-inch
iMacs, which are available to ship in 7-10 business days.
Apple’s 27-inch iMac. AFP Apple had launched the newer, slimmer versions of the iMac in
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Researchers have created a headband with built in earphones could help us sleep more soundly and easily.
The SleepPhones are a fabric band with earphones built in - and
its makers claim you can even use them without waking a partner sleeping
next to you, the Daily Mail reported.
Current versions have a wire to connect to a phone, but a
wireless version, set to go on sale in April, has just won a prestigious
awards at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
"Being able to sleep soundly is crucial to feeling well overall,
and SleepPhones help by playing relaxing audio, drowning out noises, and
establishing a positive bedtime routine,” Wei-Shin Lai, one of the
inventors of the headphones said.
The firm began selling the product in 2007, when Lai was working as a doctor.
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Tegra 4 wasn't the only major announcement made by NVIDIA at its pre-CES
event. The company also announced Project Shield, an Android-based
handheld gaming system, that is set to be the first Tegra 4-powered
device to hit the market in Q2 2013.  Project Shield is a
pure-Android device, with access to Google Play, in contrast to other
Android-based gaming devices announced so far, like GameStick and OUYA,
which will ship with custom, gaming-focussed stores. This means you can
install and run regular Android apps with minimum hassle. NVIDIA's Project Shield sure boasts of some impressive specs. With the power of Tegra 4
beneath its wings, the console is likely capable of handling whatever
you throw at it, including playing 4K video. It comes with a 5-inch,
1280x720 HD retinal multitouch display and built-in speakers to offer
the portable console experience. Project Shield can also stream
games from a P
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It was being speculated that HTC will be revealing it much talked about HTC M7 smartphone at the CES 2013. There
have plenty of leaks regarding this device and according to the rumour
mill HTC M7 was spotted running on Android 4.1.2 but will perhaps launch
with Android 4.2 on-board. Apart from this, HTC is expected to add a
layer of HTC Sense 5.0 on this smartphone. 
Pocketnow.com has
posted a few pictures, which they claim are screenshots of this new user
interface. It is already known that HTC Sense 5.0 is expected to bring
in a whole new user experience. It is being touted to be "simple and
clean" and will have an improved lockscreen, and offer further tweaks to
HTC apps. In the current lot of leaked images, there is
also a picture of what perhaps might be the new lockscreen. From this
picture, it appears that HTC may have gotten rid
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