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If you’re seeing the reports today of a “confidential presentation” making a case for Foxconn creating the iPhone 5S in time for June 2013, you’ll know how vague leaks can get. What we’re seeing here is an information source that points us toward a launch of the next iPhone well within the bounds of predictability with Apple’s past launches and suggests a couple extra doozies we can just as easily dismiss as believe outright. The report seems to have been delivered to TechCrunch where their source says they’ve got information so specific, it’s like nothing a source of their caliber has had before.

The source, they say, is a manufacturer operating out of Shenzhen, China, and is likely set to release some iPhone-friendly accessories at the launch of the next model. What’s not entirely clear is how the information they possess seems to be so pinpointed. Where every launch of the iPhone (or any Apple product, for that matter), has accessory makers only getting Apple certification of products after the device they’ve revealed is shown to the public.

In this case, Apple is said to be working directly with Foxconn and this one manufacturer of products (again, likely accessories), to be revealed right as the iPhone 5S is revealed, launched as it is launched.

You can read this one of two ways. On one hand, we could be looking at a whole new age for Apple where they’ve become willing to work with manufacturers of devices and accessories that function with Apple-manufactured hardware at a level more extensive than basic Apple certification. On the other hand, it could all be bunk.

Have a peek at our iPhone 5S timeline below to see if this device rings a bell for you before it’s revealed later this year!

iPhone 5S tip suggests rather unique Apple launch is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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YouTube has been wanting to focus more on its live streaming capabilities for a while now, and they’ve just now started to expand the functionality. At GDC 2013 today, YouTube announced that it’s making its live-streaming tools available for game developers, which will allow them to implement live streaming capabilities in their video games.

YouTube has released a set of APIs that game developers can grab that will allow them to easily include such features into their games. The APIs will allow developers to live stream a video coming from a game, while YouTube takes that video feed and transcodes the video in real time so that viewers can watch the live stream on YouTube.

YouTube has partnered with Call of Duty: Black Ops II in the past to offer similar capabilities, but the service is making it available to all game developers who want to include live streaming in their games. YouTube says that this will not only be great for promoting games, but also for offering a neat way for gamers to share their gaming experiences with others.

Sony announced similar functionality last month during the company’s announcement of the PlayStation 4. In this case, gamers press a “Share” button on the controller to quickly share game footage with friends who weren’t there to see it for themselves. Popular PC gaming chat client Xfire has also had this capability for years, allowing PC gamers to live stream their gameplay to other Xfire users.

[via CNET]

YouTube announces live-streaming tools for game developers is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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"An investigator for the Air Force stated that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered…"

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Out of all the 6,700 files in the FBI’s virtual reading room known as The Vault, one towers above the others in popularity. It’s not about Nixon. It’s not about John Lennon. It’s a one-page memo concerning flying saucers. The FBI recently released a memorandum on the memorandum, declaring the “Guy Hottel Memo” the most popular document in The Vault.

Hottel, then a special agent in charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, wrote the note in 1950. It concerned a reported sighting and recovery, in Roswell, N.M., of three flying saucers with small, human-shaped bodies inside. That’s all pretty exciting, but the memo goes on to say that no further evaluation by the FBI took place. That’s a bit anticlimactic.

Some UFO enthusiasts have taken the memo as corroboration of UFO landings in Roswell, but the vagueness and brevity of the note don’t give readers much to go on. The memo hasn’t exactly been hidden all these years. It was first made available to the public way back in the 1970s. It’s also dated three years after the famous Roswell UFO incident supposedly happened, in… [Read more]

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