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Burger King Twitter account hacked

The Twitter account associated with the fast-food chain Burger King was suspended after an apparent hacking that defaced the page with messages that the account had been sold to rival McDonald's.

The @BurgerKing account name was changed today to "McDonalds" and the Golden Arches' familiar logo was added to the page, as was a message that the account had been sold to McDonald's "because the whopper flopped." Read more »

How One Entrepreneur With an Idea Can Change the World

Bill Gates appeared yesterday on the Today Show, primarily to talk about how the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is changing the world. What really struck us about this interview is the role that a company that didn't even exist until 1975 has had in eradicating a devastating disease. Because of his success at Microsoft, Bill Gates has given away more than $26 billion through his Foundation over the past eighteen years. Read more »

Apple releases iOS 6.1

After five beta test versions, Apple today released iOS 6.1, the first major update to iOS 6 since September. The software, which went out this morning as an over-the-air update as well as a download through iTunes, brings a few new minor features, along with bug fixes.

Chief among the new features is 4G LTE support for more carriers, along with a feature that lets users purchase movie tickets from Fandango after finding showtimes using Siri. Apple also returned the option for iTunes Match subscribers to download individual songs from iCloud, something that was quietly removed in a previous software release.

On the privacy side, the update also adds an option to reset Apple's advertising identifier option, the "non-permanent, non-personal, device identifier" feature added as part of iOS 6. Read more »