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Christa Mrgan, a designer for Rogue Amoeba, has written a thorough critique of iOS 7 for Macworld. While she applauds Apple’s bold design choices, she points out several concerns with the design; most critically, its use of thin, difficult to read fonts. Be sure to scroll down to read user Hamranhansenhansen’s long comment, which features a well-argued defense of iOS’s previous skeuomorphic designs.

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Today is Independence Day in the United States, and that means fireworks! As beautiful as they can be, they’re tricky to photograph. Darren Rowse of Digital Photography School has a list of tips so you can take the best firework pictures possible.

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Mark.JUK writes "The European Union and Japan have unveiled a joint investment of 18 Million Euro's that aims to build more efficient fibre optic broadband networks that are "5000 times faster than today's average European broadband ISP speed (100Gbps compared to 19.7Mbps)". The funding will go towards supporting six research projects, which range from an effort to enable fibre optic networks at more than 100Gbps (aka – STRAUSS), to investigating new ways of ensuring efficient use of energy in information networks (aka — GreenICN). Faster than 100Gbps fibre optic links already exist but the new research could potentially help to bring these closer to homes. Some ISPs already offer 1Gbps+ connections to home users; not so long ago everybody was still stuck on a 50Kbps dialup link or slower."

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En mamma ansåg att bilderna på ett tåg som kör runt barn på parken Zoo i Eskilstuna var nidbilder av svarta personer.

Matbutiken Lidl vid Stigbergstorget i Göteborg rånades i kväll.

En 16-årig pojke fördes till sjukhus med lättare rökskador efter en brand på Sundbo ungdomshem utanför Fagersta i kväll.

astroengine writes "Astronomers were on a celestial fishing expedition for pulsing neutron stars and other radio bursts when they found something unexpected in archived sky sweeps conducted by the Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia. The powerful signal, which lasted for just milliseconds, could have been a fluke, but then the team found three more equally energetic transient flashes all far removed from the galactic plane and coming from different points in the sky. Astronomers are at a loss to explain what these flashes are — they could be a common astrophysical phenomenon that has only just been detected as our radio antennae have become sensitive enough, or they could be very rare and totally new phenomenon that, so far, defies explanation."