We can only write so many stories here every day, but we read (or at least skim) through a few hundred every day. Here is a selection of some of the most interesting and thought-provoking stories we saw today.
The first beta version of iOS 5 has only been out for about a week, but it’s already clear that no other pre-release version of iOS has ever seen a wider release than this one. It’s hard to pinpoint why this is the case, but there are clearly enough users who either paid $99 per year to become part of Apple’s developer program or who paid a rogue activation service a few dollars to get access to the beta that way. As iOS developer Malcom Barclay notes, this wide release has some interesting consequences for developers: some users are now leaving negative iTunes reviews for apps that don’t work on iOS 5 yet.
There has been a lot of discussion around Facebook’s face recognition-based photo tagging feature lately, but putting your picture up on Facebook can have other unintended consequences as well. In two German states (Hamburg and North Rhine-Westphalia), police agents now regularly use Facebook to ensure that they’re sending traffic tickets that were generated by automated…
The weekend is usually a slow time for tech news, but that doesn’t mean interesting things don’t happen. Most of us would rather spend our time at the beach or in our backyard that in our offices, though, so here are the 10 most interesting tech stories that were published over the weekend while you…