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LG to begin mass producing unbreakable displays later this year

LG is still on pace to be the first manufacturer to mass produce flexible and unbreakable displays for mobile devices. The company confirmed in a statement to the Korea Times that it has completed development of its flexible displays and is scheduled to begin mass production in the fourth quarter. LG is looking to get a jump on the competition and plans to release a smartphone with a flexible screen later this year. Samsung is also developing unbreakable and bendable displays, however the company’s first consumer devices that utilize them aren’t expected to arrive until the second half of 2014. LG estimates that it will produce 12,000 sheets of OLED flexible displays per month when production begins later this year.

Cisco to invest in Israeli venture capital funds

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Cisco Systems will invest $15 million in Israeli venture capital funds as part of a broader plan to expand its operations in Israel and outside the United States, the company said on Wednesday. The investment will be made in funds that support integration of Israelis and Arabs and the development of innovative security technologies. ...

Kim Dotcom's Great Data Massacre

Welp, here's hoping you didn't have anything important stored on Megaupload's mostly dormant servers. Megaupload owner and maniacal super villain Kim Dotcom says a huge amount of their servers have been wiped in a "data massacre" for the ages. 

Google Reader dies in two weeks – here are all the best alternatives

Google has shown that it most certainly isn’t afraid to pull the plug on services that aren’t making money. More than one out of every three Google products ends up being shuttered, and the company’s popular Google Reader RSS reader will be added to the list of dearly departed Google services in less than two weeks. Now that we have all had some time to get the panic and despair out of our systems, the rebuilding process can begin. There are plenty of options out there when it comes to finding a solid service to replace Google Reader, and it can get overwhelming. As such, we’ve narrowed it down to our five favorites and here they are in no particular order: NewsBlur

Japan formally OKs new nuclear safety requirements

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's nuclear watchdog formally approved a set of new safety requirements for atomic power plants on Wednesday, paving the way for the reopening of facilities shut down since the Fukushima disaster in a move critics charged was too hasty.

BlackBerry shares fall as analyst downgrades stock ahead of earnings

TORONTO (Reuters) - BlackBerry shares fell nearly 4 percent on Tuesday after a Bernstein Research analyst cut his rating on the stock to "underperform" ahead of the company's quarterly earnings release next week. While Bernstein's Pierre Ferragu said he expected disappointing results from the smartphone maker, other analysts have bullish expectations, pointing to an even more volatile run for a generally volatile stock. ...

Verizon accused of throttling Netflix traffic

Verizon seems to have found itself in a fresh net neutrality controversy. GigaOM reported earlier this week that bandwidth provider Cogent Communications accused Verizon of “allowing the peer connections” between the two companies “to degrade,” which results in slower wireline traffic for end users. Cogent CEO Dave Schaffer told GigaOM that Verizon says that it’s not adding more ports to its peer connections with Cogent because it’s moving traffic for an unspecified video provider that Schaffer believes to be Netflix. “Over the past year Netflix has become a big partner for us,” he said. “This is a business model problem, not an engineering problem.” Network World’s Colin Neagle, meanwhile, notes that some Verizon wireline users have been complaining about the quality of their Netflix streams

Where Teens Go Instead of Facebook (and Why You Should Too)

Which new social media sites are hot, and why you might want to try them yourself, regardless of your age.

Netflix to expand to Netherlands later this year

LOS GATOS, Calif. (AP) — Netflix is going Dutch.

Video: iOS 7 running on an iPad

Apple was in such a rush to get the first beta of its iOS 7 software ready for WWDC that it didn’t even have time to finish the iPad build. That seemingly wasn’t enough to stop some developers from giving us a look at a the software formatted for the iPad, but now it appears as though a tablet-optimized version of iOS 7 has been captured on video. A Russian YouTube user on Tuesday posted a video of what he claims to be iOS 7 running on Apple’s iPad, and it looks like the real deal. Nothing is certain, of course, but 9to5Mac says that “based on the user-interface elements of previous versions of iOS for the iPad, the video does look