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You might say the week is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workweek, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Weekly Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past seven days — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.

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Jim Carrey has distanced himself from the upcoming Universal release “Kick-Ass 2” because of its violent content. Carrey used his Twitter account to pass along the message to his over 10,863,000 followers.

I did Kickass a month b4 Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence. My apologies to e

— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) June 23, 2013

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If you didn’t believe animals have the capability to grieve like people do, you might now change your mind.

In this heart-wrenching video posted on Youtube Sunday, a dog buries a dead puppy. Using its nose, the dog slowly covers the body with dirt in what appears to be an act of mourning.

Though the circumstances of the video are unclear, the dog’s attempt to preserve the pup’s bone is rather astonishing.

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To what extent is education corrupted when it becomes intertwined with profit-making businesses?
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Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

In 2002, the first LCD-based iMac succeeded the translucent PowerPC G3-based models that the original Bondi Blue iMac begat. The new generation was much more striking than the one that had placed Apple on the comeback trail. The iMac G4 mounted the display on a balanced arm similar to a Luxo lamp while the motherboard resided in a hemispherical base. This allowed the display to be adjusted to a wide range of heights and angles and each of the two main sections to be “true to itself.”

Alas, the design had its limits. It’s difficult to imagine today’s ample 27-inch iMac displays balancing off such a mount. Furthermore, after the switch to Intel, processor thermals improved to help enable the slim iMac of today. The idea of efforts being true to themselves (at least until nearly compromise-free convergence is possible), however, has stayed a hallmark of Apple. For example, the company would resist adding video to the iPod for years after competitors had the feature.

Filed under: Handhelds, Tablets, Software, Apple, Microsoft

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