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T-Mobile customers can’t access new giveaway app after ‘high demand’ causes server slowdown

Many T-Mobile customers expecting their first freebies as part of the company’s new giveaway app were left disappointed Tuesday morning.

T-Mobile Tuesday, the wireless carrier’s new app revealed on Monday that offers weekly giveaways for food, movie tickets, game gear and other items, ran into what appeared to be server issues on Tuesday morning as customers tried accessing the app.

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After Rovi buys TiVo, company might stop making its own hardware

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Rovi, the company that's buying TiVo, isn't very interested in staying in the hardware business.

The combined company will be looking to partner with set-top box makers instead of continuing to sell set-top boxes directly to consumers, Rovi Chief Financial Officer Peter Halt said at an investors conference last week. (See transcript and this Light Reading article.)

Halt noted...

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Tor developer Jacob Appelbaum quits after “sexual mistreatment” allegations

Jacob Appelbaum, as seen in this 2013 photo. (credit: Tobias Klenze)

Tor Project officials say that one of their most public-facing developers and a member of the "Core Team," Jacob Appelbaum, left the organization on May 25 after "public allegations of sexual mistreatment."

In a statement published Saturday on the Tor Project's website, the organization wrote:

These types of allegations were not...

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Pitx2 promotes heart repair by activating the antioxidant response after cardiac injury

Myocardial infarction results in compromised myocardial function and heart failure owing to insufficient cardiomyocyte self-renewal. Unlike many vertebrates, mammalian hearts have only a transient neonatal renewal capacity. Reactivating primitive reparative ability in the mature mammalian heart requires knowledge of the mechanisms that promote early heart repair. By testing an established Hippo-deficient heart regeneration mouse model for factors that promote renewal, here we show that...

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