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Yesterday, the piracy scene erupted when a DVD-quality release of the upcoming 'Expendables 3' was leaked, a full three weeks before the movie's U.S. release date on August 15th.

In 24 hours, multiple versions of the movies have been downloaded well over 1 million times and it is still unclear how such a good copy was available so early and who leaked it.

While many movies see camera versions released within days (if not hours) of their release, DVD-quality copies are a whole different story. During Academy Award season it is not uncommon to see blockbusters leak online, but the Expendables 3 is not likely to be nominated for anything.

There have been some notable leaks in the past including workprint versions (missing some final effects and scenes) of X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, although there have not been any recently.

It is notable to note that production company Nu Image sued over 20,000 BitTorrent downloaders of the original Expendables film and could be gearing up to do so again.

After ten years of existence, The Pirate Bay finally has a real mobile site that makes the torrent tracker easier to access from your smartphones and tablets.

Dubbed "The Mobile Bay," the mobile site is the first of a few upcoming expansions by the site. Expected in the future are dedicated TV, movie and music sites.

Eventually, an RSS portal is also expected.

Until now, without a dedicated app or mobile site, users had to muddle through the desktop version of the site on their mobile devices. The new Mobile Bay offers much better functionality and an interface that can actually be navigated easily with a touchscreen.

Check a comparison of after and before:



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Sony will follow in Microsoft's footsteps and add 3D Blu-ray support for their next-gen console with the release of system firmware update v1.75.

Rival Microsoft just revealed that their dashboard update would include 3D Blu-ray support, among other notable features.

1.75 is set for release next week, following this week's mandatory 1.74 update which brought minor stability and performance enhancements.

While the update is great for headlines, it will likely matter very little for consumers who do not have a 3D-capable TV nor care for 3D Blu-rays.

Windows Phone users now have an official Uber app.

Until this week, Windows Phone owners needed to access Uber through their browser, which was not as mobile-friendly as a standalone app is.

Uber is a billion-dollar startup that allows would-be passengers to use mobile apps to connect with drivers of vehicles for hire and ridesharing services. Passengers can also track which cars are around their area using the apps.

The taxi service company is now available in 150 cities in 41 countries, despite still being banned and protested in many places due to its ability to destroy the existing taxi industry.

Just like the existing iOS and Android apps, the Windows Phone version allows you to track vehicles, save a credit card on file to never worry about having enough cash, and compare rates for calling for a vehicle.

Don Bui, an immigrant from Vietnam who is now a naturalized US citizen, will possibly owe porn studio Malibu Media $1.7 million after the judge ruled against him in a copyright case.

The studio has filed thousands of lawsuits against "John Doe" defendants in the U.S., collecting a couple of thousands of dollars from scared file sharers who do not want to go to court. Nearly all of the cases have been settled but Bui decided to let the case go to judgement.

Bui admitted to downloading and keeping 57 unauthorized Malibu Media movies from Kickass Torrents. He tried to blame the torrent protocol and Kickass Torrents, however, claiming that he had no idea how torrents work saw nothing wrong in "ordering movies" from Kickass Torrents. The torrent tracker should have told users that the files were unauthorized, argued the lawyer who went as far as to call Malibu "copyright trolls," a term they have heard countless times in the past years.

Read US District Court Judge Jonker's ruling:

Following a quick maintenance that took the game offline, Bungie's 'Destiny' beta is now available for Xbox 360 and Xbox One owners.

Codes for the Xbox beta have been (and are currently) being sent via email if you pre-ordered the game or received a code from a different method.

PlayStation owners have been using the beta since last week thanks to an exclusive pact between Sony and Bungie, and the beta ends on July 27th.

If you log in and play after 2PM Pacific on Saturday, July 26, Bungie says you will get an "exclusive emblem" that can be used in the final version.

Destiny is set for launch on the PS3, PS4, XBO and Xbox 360 on September 9th.

While it is likely more convenient to use a fingerprint reader, Motorola has introduced new 'digital tattoos' that will allow you to unlock your smartphone without having to input a password or PIN.

Moto X owners in the U.S. can purchase the temporary tattoos (10 for $10) from Vivalnk, which are basically NFC stickers that are flexible enough and thin enough to be worn on the body unobtrusively.

The company says the tattoos should last about one work week, and are waterproof. They can be removed at any point.

To unlock the device you just tap your Moto X to the tattoo, which is certainly convenient but paying $10 every 50 days to unlock your phone in a "fun" way is going to be a dealbreaker for most.

Earlier this week, NBA star Kobe Bryant was photographed on the Apple campus meeting with Apple executive and lead designer Jony Ive.

The media was quick to report that Ive wanted Kobe's thoughts on the upcoming iWatch, which will supposedly have a number of innovative health and fitness features.

Kobe did not reveal what was discussed specifically but did say that he "spent the day talking with Jony picking his brain about product." What did Jony ask him? "Jony wanted to know, how do I prepare? How do I prepare, how do I study, how do I view the game. How do you build your game. My response was much like you build products. You think sequentially. Yeah, you look at the end result of what you want to create, but there are so many other little things that go into this massive entity or device. It's no different than building my basketball game. You start with where you want your game to be, where you want to make your game the most unstoppable, or hard to deal with, and now you work backwards from there and you start building it one piece at a time, one move at a time, one counter at a time. There's a lot of similarities there."

Amazon has added hundreds of thousands of tracks to its fledgling Prime Music streaming service.

In June, the e-commerce giant said the service launched with over a million tracks and hundreds of curated playlists, which have now been expanded, as well. The service allows for unlimited streaming without any ads as long as you are a Prime subscriber. Prime costs $99 per year and offers free 2-day shipping on millions of products, free access to Amazon's streaming movie/TV catalog and hundreds of thousands of books for free via Kindle.

A few of the more popular artists added (or updated) today are David Guetta, Al Green, Miles Davis, Kendrick Lamar, Linkin Park, Shakira, Deadmau5, Ella Fitzgerald, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Neil Young, DJ Snake & Lil Jon, Young the Giant, A$AP Rocky, Elvis, Oasis, Kacey Musgraves, Ray Charles, Panic! at the Disco, Wyclef Jean, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Skrillex and John Coltrane, says the company.

While the deal is certainly great for Prime users, there are some notable songs and artists missing. As of writing, Universal Music Group's entire massive catalog is not available, unless you want to purchase the tracks via Aamzon MP3. Additionally, there are no brand new tracks like you would find on Spotify, as all the tracks available are older than six months.

Starting tomorrow, Apple's new Mac OS X Yosemite will go into public beta, allowing anyone with an Apple ID to test it out.

The updated operating system has a refreshed design, better integration with your iOS devices and features flatter icons well known to iPhone users.

Apple does note that the beta will be limited and not include all promised features of the final consumer release. This is mainly because a lot of those features are directly dependent on iOS 8, which will not be released until September.

When Yosemite does launch in full in September or October, it will be free for all current Mac users.

Get started with the beta tomorrow using this link here.

Popular torrent company Vuze has released a new lightweight client for users that may not necessarily need the plethora of features found in their namesake client.

Vuze Leap is now in beta and features a more simple interface that will use up much less of your computer's resources.

Says the company: "We sought to deliver a simpler experience as a counterpart to the powerful, full-featured core Vuze BitTorrent Client that has pleased millions of users for years. Even with file-sharing being a part of internet usage for years, we continued to hear, from some users a desire to have a simpler experience that was less resource intensive."

The Vuze Leap offers built-in search, allowing you to search without having to go to individual sites or ever leaving the software. The search appears to bring back mainly results that could be done with a Google search but will likely integrate more torrent trackers in the future.

During Microsoft's recent quarterly earnings report, new CEO Satya Nadella made headlines by stating that "we will streamline the next version of Windows from three operating systems into one single converged operating system for screens of all sizes."

The news would have certainly been massive, given that Windows is currently available in multiple iterations depending on what type of device you have. Phones have Windows Phones, tablets have Windows RT or Windows 8/8.1 and desktops have Windows 8.1 (not to mention all iterations of Windows before that).

Later in the conference call, however, Nadella clarified what he meant, and the announcement is no longer as spectacular as it could have been.

In his clarification, the CEO says "one Windows" means that moving forward a single team will work on all Windows iterations, including Windows Embedded and the Xbox One OS. That team works under the unified Operating System Group. Each version of Windows will be built on a "common core," otherwise known as the NT core. Each OS will be built on top of the core to make best use of form factor/screen size.

Apple reported their latest earnings yesterday and the company had another standard if not mundane quarter.

The company had $37.43 billion in revenue for the quarter, and $7.7 billion in profit.

iPad sales were the biggest disappointment, with the company selling 13.3 million tablets compared to an expected 13.8 million. Sales of the device were down 9 percent year-over-year.

The sales slowdown was mainly in the U.S., but sales of the iPad saw over 50 percent growth in China and over 60 percent in the Middle East. Thanks to the new partnership with IBM, Apple expects tablet sales to continue to grow around the world, especially in the enterprise market.

iPhone sales were in-line, up 13 percent year-over-year to 35.2 million with the iPhone 5C overtaking the old iPhone 4S for low-end sales.

Macs saw some of the best growth, up 18 percent to 4.4 million as the company continues to lower prices on popular items like the Macbook Air. iPod sales are down to 2.9 million, down 36 percent year-over-year, although the amount of units sold were more than expected.

Flurry, well known in the mobile industry for its in-depth analytics, has been acquired for over $200 million by Yahoo.

Yahoo continues to eat up startups in its ongoing efforts "to re-imagine users' daily habits" and focus on mobile.

As the company says of the acquisition: "Analytics are critical for all mobile developers to understand and optimize their applications. Yahoo and Flurry are reinvesting in developers and continuing to build great analytics products. The combined scale of the two companies will accelerate revenue growth for thousands of developers and publishers across the mobile ecosystem."

Flurry posted some of their more impressive data points, including the fact that 170,000 developers use Flurry Analytics, the company sees over 5.5 billion app sessions per day, app activity from 1.4 billion devices per month and the fact that Flurry works in 150 countries gaining extensive reach. Flurry Analytics are seen in 7 apps per device, quite a high number.

"Yahoo's growth in mobile traffic comes from great people and great products," said Scott Burke, SVP Advertising Technology. "Flurry's success is the result of years of committed investment by a passionate team to create an indispensable platform for mobile developers. We want to harness our collective innovative spirit and bolster the mobile ecosystem by providing developers the analytics and monetization solutions to drive their success."

Aereo became a household name over the past year as the tiny startup took on broadcast giants like CBS, Fox and Disney in an effort to stay alive.

The Supreme Court recently stomped on that dream, ruling that Aereo, which offers cloud DVR access to the broadcast channels in HD anywhere for $8 per month, violates the copyrights of the content providers. Aereo then tried to become a cable company, but that was rejected, as well, as the company awaits its final fate via a lower court ruling.

Even though the company was famous, it does not appear that the brand recognition really helped sales, at least not as of December 31, 2013.

According to a U.S. Copyright Office letter, as of the end of last year Aereo only had 77,596 subscribers, with over 30 percent coming from New York City where Aereo first launched. The company expanded significantly in 2014, so the figures could conceivably be much higher now, but even with 100 percent growth the numbers will still be low when compared to popular streaming services.