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New Dropbox for Mac Beta Incorporates iPhoto, Screenshot Sharing

Today Dropbox released a new beta version of its desktop app for both Mac and Windows with a couple of small but really useful features for their many cloud-oriented users. Read More >>

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The Pentagon’s Putting Its Big Brother Data Collection in the Cloud

News emerged this week that the U.S. Army, which has been collecting biometric data of locals in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, is going to start storing that data in the cloud. Put simply, biometrics is the collection of personal, physical data using devices like retina scanners, and no matter what way you spin the situation, it's a potentially pretty creepy practice. (Do you want the government to take pictures of the inside of your eyeball?) But in a warzone, it seems downright dangerous. Doubly so in the cloud. Read More >>

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Google Books Has Just Become a Book-Pirate’s Dream

Part of the Google I/O onslaught yesterday was an update to Google Play Books for both Android and iOS. In and of itself it's not exactly ground-breaking, but Google'll now let you read books uploaded to your Google Drive (through Google Books), which means cloud-syncing for your own, erm, acquired books. Read More >>

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A Look Behind the Scenes of the Internet Archive’s Impossible Task

Last autumn, the Internet Archive celebrated a massive milestone, as the "online Library of Alexandria" reached 10 Petabytes of stored information. Yes, that means 10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes accessible to anyone. Wow. Read More >>

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iCloud Threw All Its Toys Out of the Pram Today

Apple's iCloud portfolio of various streaming and syncing services has existed for two years. And in those two years, Apple still hasn't been able to keep it from regularly fucking up. It happened again today! Read More >>

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10 Tricks to Make Yourself a Dropbox Master

Dropbox is a robust independent file syncing tool (which Apple once tried to buy) that recently hit the 100m user milestone. It's arguably the most popular cloud service around, and for good reason. Read More >>

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Here’s How to Grab Yourself 50GB of Free Box Cloud Storage For Life

If you haven't had your fill of cloud storage by now, here's how to grab yourself another 50GB of the stuff from Box, not just for a year or two, but for life. Plus, you can gift your friends 50GB too. Read More >>

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A New Service Gives You Storage for All Your Devices That Never Runs Out

Imagine never running out of room on your hard drive or having a cheaper cloud storage solution. Actually, you don't have to imagine either because BitCasa offers "infinite" storage space on the cheap. Read More >>

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Dropbox Just Put All Your Photos in One Place

Any photos you have on Dropbox are about to be organised. A new service called Virtual Photo Album rounds up literally every image you've got in Dropbox, puts them in one place, and sorts them by date. Pretty great — or maybe pretty scary if you're not sure what's in your Dropbox. Read More >>

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BitTorrent’s New “Cloud” Service Could Out-Mega Mega

Mega has been stealing the spotlight when it comes to new cloud storage services, but its actual usability has been sort of crappy since launch. Meanwhile, in Kim Dotcom's gargantuan shadow, BitTorrent is trying its hand at "cloud" storage too, with BitTorrent Sync, and it just might be the Mega that Mega wants to be. Read More >>

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MediaFire for Android: Store 50GB of Your Stuff For Free

Storage space is precious, and most major services — Google Drive and iCloud, for example — only give you a measly 5GB for free. MediaFire, is pretty magnanimous, doling out 50GB on the house. And it just launched on Android. Read More >>

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Microsoft: The Future of the Xbox Is Cloud-Centric Gaming

Here's an interesting titbit. Phil Harrison, VP of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business, let slip that the future of the Xbox isn't about one piece of hardware, but cloud-based gaming. Maybe the Xbox 720 won't be all that revolutionary hardware-wise, then? Read More >>

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“I’m Just Popping Down the Pub to, Er, Use the Complementary Wi-Fi”

Binge drinking enabler Punch Taverns has signed a deal with omnipresent Wi-Fi provider The Cloud, which will see free Wi-Fi access launched in some 3,000 pubs across the UK. Read More >>

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Dropbox Is Finally on Windows 8 ‘Modern UI’

Hooray, the Microsoft Surface just got slightly more useful. A Dropbox app for Windows 8's Metro modern UI is finally available. If you've got true Win 8 on your machine, I'm guessing you've already got the x86 Windows Dropbox app, but now you can have two. Awesome? [Windows Store] Read More >>

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Amazon’s Silk Browser Can Be Hacked to Provide Free Grid Computing

Cloud computing is big business. Companies and individual users rent bandwidth from large cloud services to perform all manner of tasks, from hosting small websites to churning through large, computing-intensive tasks like modelling new drug compounds. But what if you could gain access to all that computing power for free? Read More >>