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Okay, so maybe it's kind of funny that the BBC has called out Nokia for the struggling mobile company's crippling sauna addiction. That doesn't mean it's not a legitimate concern! Because when your company's this far down in the dumps, it might not be the right time to install a steam room in your Zimbabwe office.

Source: Nokia's Unfortunate Sauna Addiction [Perks]

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Did you just buy a Verizon iPhone? Or maybe you're on AT&T but finally caved because you know now you'd really feel left out without one? Whatever the case may be, here are the iPhone apps you have to have.

Source: New iPhone Owners—Here Are the Best Apps [IphoneApps]

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Daniel Domscheit-Berg — Julian Assange: Chief Marketing Officer of WikiLeaksAre government spooks really out to get Julian Assange? Or are his claims simply a ruse designed to attract the spotlight? WikiLeaks former Number 2 has a little expose of his own. Take a peek Inside Wikileaks.

Shortly after I flew back to Germany from Iceland, Julian began attacking the Icelandic political system and the Ministry of Justice in particular, even though we were supposed to be work­ing with them to make the IMMI legally airtight.

The Twitter account had originally been conceived as a neu­tral channel for us to inform our followers about news and fresh articles about WL. We also alerted readers to articles critical of us, in keeping with our basic philosophy. But the account quickly developed into a channel for whatever Julian Assange happened to be thinking at any given moment. At some point, he began talking about "his followers" and "his account." Under no cir­cumstances was anyone permitted to criticize his tweets. One minute he would insult some journalists, calling them total idiots; another he would tell a mailing list of 350,000 people he had no time for interviews.

Source: Julian Assange: Chief Marketing Officer of WikiLeaks [Book Excerpt]

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Could the Next iPhone Really Be A Third Smaller Than iPhone 4?According to Bloomberg, the next iPhone may be two-thirds the size of the already (very) petite iPhone 4. That's crazy small. But will it happen?

Maybe, maybe not, according to Bloomberg's sources, who saw the prototype sometime last year. Apple has considered announcing the tiny handset this summer, but could still decide to scrap it in favor of a different model. Let's also keep in mind that two-thirds smaller could be referring to a lot of things; the length of the diagonal, the thickness, the weight. It's hard to imagine that the 66.67% iPhone shown above would be particularly usable.

Source: Could the Next iPhone Really Be A Third Smaller Than iPhone 4? [Unconfirmed]

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You know NBA Jam. It's the classic in-your-face arcade basketball game. Now available on the iPhone, it's just as boomshakalakastic as I remembered. Backboard breaking dunks, fire burning threes, punk-your-man defense—ah, just the way basketball games should be.

Source: NBA Jam for iPhone [Video]

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This photo is showing you the edge of a razor blade at about 400x magnification. Yes, that's how close you have to get in order to read the motto hand engraved onto the surface by a 64-year-old man named Graham Short.

The engraving in the photograph was preceded by about 150 failed attempts—engravings which were ruined by a shaky slip of the hand. This number of failed attempts may seem large, but you have to consider how insanely difficult it is to engrave something onto the edge of a razor blade. There's preparation and training involved:

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While Nokia's partnership with Microsoft will undoubtedly present some attractive prospects for phone-buyers, there's one cohort that's not too happy about the news: the employees in Nokia's Finnish offices. According to a Finnish newspaper, over a thousand employees left the Nokia offices in Tampere and Oulu this afternoon in protest.

The employees exercised their option to work flextime, streaming from the offices ostensibly in protest to the killing off of Nokia's Symbian operating system in favor of Windows Phone 7.

Source: Over a Thousand Nokia Employees Reportedly Walk Out in Protest [Nokia]

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Matt Buchanan & Andrew Tarantola — The Verizon iPhone 4 Switch: How Badly Will It Hurt My Wallet?Okay, you're sure: AT&T must die. But you can't live without an iPhone 4. You're getting the Verizon iPhone 4, no matter what. So how much is it going to cost you to switch?

Well! It depends. On a lot of things. How long's left in your AT&T blood contract? Are you going to sell your receptionless glass-and-steel slab? Where do you plan to hawk your used wares? Trying to figure out all these variables could drive you crazier than your ex-iPhone's reception. So we did it for you.

Source: The Verizon iPhone 4 Switch: How Badly Will It Hurt My Wallet? [Iphone 4]

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We spend a whole day wandering through our favorite fair of the year, and we had a lot of fun playing around every shiny thing we could find. Here is all the best stuff:            

Source: The Best Stuff at Toy Fair 2011 [Play]

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Digital subscriptions for the iPad are here. Huzzah! Sounds pretty good! You can subscribe to the New Yorker or PopSci with one click, and it's automagically delivered. No in-app purchases; no muss, no fuss. I've been holding out on renewing my paper mag subscriptions, waiting for this very moment.

But it's not all puppies and rainbows. In the press release announcing these subscriptions, there are two key sections that merit second looks.

Source: Apple's New Subscription Model Is Evil [Apple]