There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
- The New Yorker profiles Julian Paul Assange, the brain behind WikiLeaks, and describes the history, preparation and eventual launch of the controversial 2007 helicopter attack video. [From: The New Yorker]
- Joystiq reports that 'GoldenEye,' the classic Nintendo 64 James Bond-themed shooter, might be getting relaunched on the Wii and Nintendo DS, prompting half of the Switched team to seriously consider honing their proximity mine skills in anticipation for a possible November release. [From: Joystiq]
- Way back in the '80s, Steve Jobs was famously fired from Apple by former CEO John Sculley. The Daily Beast talks to Sculley about why he fired the man who would become one of the world's most well-known businessmen. [From: The Daily Beast]
- Ah, contact management, the bane of modern computing existence. With names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers and more littered across Facebook, your computer's address book, e-mail, Linked In and countless other locations, keeping everything synced and up-to-date is a mammoth task. Lifehacker gives it a valiant go with an approach that uses Google contacts to keep everything glued together. [From: Lifehacker]
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