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Apple’s career website featured a new job opening a couple of days ago. The company requires a Maps Web User Interface Designer, the person would be working on a “new secret project,” among other things. Since the original job posting went live and the wording was picked up by online news outlets, it has now been removed from the posting. However, the rumor mill has now begun speculating as to what this new secret project might be, which is apparently related to Maps.

One theory is that perhaps Apple wants to expand the reach of its Maps service beyond iOS and Mac devices. Apple Maps debuted with iOS 6 and they will be available on Mac computers after OS X 10.9 Mavericks is released in the coming weeks. Rumor has it that Apple might allow the Maps service to be accessed through a conventional web browser, regardless of the operating system or device. People applying for this position must possess three years of experience in building native and web apps. The company also requires that candidates have knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, DOM, XML and JSON. It is too soon to say right now, for sure, what this project is. Hopefully we’ll see it materialize in the future.

Apple Wants Someone To Work On A “Secret Project” With Maps original content from Ubergizmo.

Aaron Fechter invented Whac-A-Mole. He also builds animatronic rock bands for franchises like Chuck E. Cheese’s and ShowBiz Pizza Place. What more could we ask him to contribute? Nothing. He has given great gifts to mankind. But Aaron Fechter demands more of himself. He is trying to develop an alternative fuel that is cleaner burning than propane. A heroic citizen of Earth! But he had a small accident the other day at his warehouse in Orlando. Okay it was an explosion. Okay yeah he blew his warehouse up.

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Its not like games haven’t been blamed in the past for inciting violence, but one probably wouldn’t put indie hit Minecraft along with games that are often blamed. However, the father of a nine year old school boy in Florida believes that Minecraft incited his son to act out in a negative way. The boy reportedly told his friends that he had weapons in his backpack, the friends told on him which lead to school officials searching the boy’s backpack. They found an unloaded gun and a magazine with six bullets, a steak knife and a small sledgehammer.

Fortunately, no one was injured and the police confiscated all of the weapons. The gun belonged to the boy’s father, who claimed that while it was stored in a drawer, it couldn’t be fired as the firing pin had been removed. Speaking to WFTV news, he said that his son was “playing a character he learned from Minecraft,” as “they use hammers to dig and knives and guns to protect themselves from zombies.” The unnamed boy was charged with three counts of possession and he has been sentenced to home confinement by a state judge as a result of his actions, bringing lethal weapons into a school.

Minecraft Blamed As Student Brings Weapons To School original content from Ubergizmo.

MOSCOW — A court in the northern Russian city of Murmansk on Sunday sent six more Greenpeace activists to jail for two months and showed no sign that the remaining two activists would be treated any differently for a protest at a drilling platform in Arctic waters.

Twenty other activists and two journalists were ordered jailed for two months during a marathon court session on Thursday that stretched late into night, but the court ruled to hold the remaining eight only until new hearings could be held on Sunday.

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Over the past few weeks we’ve seen a lot of alleged iPad 5 parts and components begin leaked on the internet. The purported rear casing of Apple’s next generation iPad has been seen multiple times, and the part itself is almost always been identical in all of those leaks. The latest one is no different. A video has been posted online in which a similar rear casing is compared with the iPad 4 and iPad mini.

The rear casing in this video is of the “Space Grey” color that Apple has debuted with the iPhone 5s. It is expected that the same color will be offered for iPad 5 as well. The comparison makes it evident that iPad 5 is going to be thinner than its predecessor, and the fact that it will also have slimmer bezels. This possibility has been rumored many times in the past as well. Apparently the design of iPad 5 is going to be a lot similar to that of the iPad mini, and this rear casing certainly does bear resemblance to that of its younger sibling. Still, nothing can be said for sure right now given the fact that these are, after all, leaks from unofficial sources. Apple is expected to unveil the iPad 5 and iPad mini 2 on October 15th, only then we’ll know what the new tablets really look like.

Alleged iPad 5 Rear Casing Compared With iPad 4 And iPad Mini original content from Ubergizmo.