A porn studio based out of Los Angeles has reportedly created an app for Google TV that grants access to its naughty movies, celebrity sex tapes, and other adult content in HD. Provided by Vivid Entertainment, the new channel is now available at no extra cost to current Vivid.com members. Vivid is a 25-year veteran in adult entertainment and currently plays host to titles like Spider-Man XXX, Sister Wives XXX, Superman XXX and even The Incredible Hulk XXX.

“Vivid for Google TV gives our fans a new way to enjoy Vivid movies in high quality HD and with other benefits that provide a very appealing, highly enjoyable, and user friendly experience,” said Steven Hirsch, co-founder and co-chairman of Vivid. “We spent more than a year developing a code base for a robust, standalone Internet-TV channel with a friendly interface for the consumer that can be used with the current Google TV technology and other Internet protocol presentation methods now in development.”

According to CNET, Vivid isn’t providing an actual Google TV app, but an HTML5-based website optimized for Google TV set-top devices. A Vivid spokeswoman reportedly said the company set up the service without any help from Google, and has yet to receive any feedback from the Android mastermind on the new adult-oriented offering.

In fact, Google refused to discuss the subject with CNET save for saying that anyone can build a website optimized for televisions. Google also added that users can block offensive material by accessing the Application Lock feature under Privacy and Safety in Google TV’s system settings. Customers can also use the Safe Search feature in Google TV’s Chrome browser under the Privacy and Safety setting.

So why is Vivid using Google’s floundering TV service to launch a porn channel? “It is a central part of our making Vivid available everywhere concept, which gives fans unified access to our content through their personal computers, mobile devices, tablets, television sets and DVD players,” Hirsch said.

Who knows, maybe the new Vivid channel will actually boost Google TV sales.

September was something of a rough month for Google, what with it having been hauled in front of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights to answer for accusations that they engage in anti-competitive business practices. Its dominance of the search engine world remains secure, for now, but if their responses to questions posted to them by that Senate Committee are any evidence, Google may be preparing for a post-Google rules everything around us world. Those responses have now been posted to Google Docs, revealing the position Google took in its own defense. In short: we are totally vulnerable, honest!

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According to Denver-based security consultant Charlie Miller, the Apple App store is vulnerable to infiltration by malware apps that can pose a significant risk to Apple customers. Miller, 4-time winner of the Pwn2Own hacking contest and an employee of security consulting firm Accuvant, managed to submit and gain Apple’s approval to sell an app that exploited a previously unknown iOS bug.

The app, a fake stock ticker called “Instastock”, works by exploiting an exception Apple made for the Safari browser with iPhone 4.3. Previously, all apps had to be signed in to its e-mart; any code not signed is subsequently rejected by iOS. With iPhone 4.3, the Safari browser itself  – functionally similar to any other app – was excluded from that requirement in order to expedite the execution of Javascript execution. Miller’s fake stock ticker app spoofed Safari code, tricking iOS into waving it through customs, so to speak. Once installed, “Instastock” pings a server at Miller’s home and requests to download additional software, proving that the App Store can be used to distribute malware to unsuspecting customers with surprising ease.

Though Miller may have done Apple an enormous favor by identifying an enormous vulnerability and making it public, a move likely to help Apple avoid the fate of the Android market, which has had a notorious problem with malware apps in the last year, Apple isn’t having it. Yesterday, Miller tweeted that he’d been kicked out of Apple’s iOS developer program. Miller claims to have informed Apple of the flaw in October, but didn’t warn them about putting the App for sale (a move he insists was necessary to prove the flaw’s seriousness).

He has now been officially banned from the iOS developer program for one full year. Probably for the best, as not having to worry about people helping to identify potential threats to their customers will give Apple more time to pursue vicious legal action against tiny competitors.

We’ve seen them in movies and video games for quite some time now, but it looks like the military is getting closer and closer to developing real life insect drones. Insect-sized surveillance drones could be quite dangerous seeing as how they will be virtually undetectable and indistinguishable from real life insects. Along with the fact that their sheer size would make them difficult to shoot down, it’s no surprise that the military is pouring resources into miniaturization.

After fitting the walls with ultra-precise motion capture sensors capable of tracking the position of small aircraft within a tenth of an inch, scientists at the base have been able to create tiny, flapping-wing vehicles such as the robotic dragonfly pictured above. Although the dragonfly doesn’t appear to be much more than a pair of robotic wings and a circuit board, it is just one of many prototypes being developed at the base which will eventually be equipped with surveillance technology.

No official photos were released yet, but we can imagine future applications of this technology turning into swarms of insects invading enemy territory and capturing sensitive information disguised in plain sight. No additional information was given on availability or pricing, but seeing as how the applications are meant for military use; it’s likely to remain classified.

Nokia has shown to the world their first ever Windows Phone, the Lumia 800, and now Nokia’s going to show you what kind of magical mayhem went into the making of the Lumia 800. It’s an eight-minute long clip discussing the decisions behind the company’s “first Windows Phone,” with Nokia calling it “as much a story about collaboration and taking risks as it is about design.” Taking risks, indeed. It’s a good watch regardless of your platform affiliation, and it can be found just after the break.

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When Apple announced the iPhone 4S in October of this year, many were disappointed that the phone was just a follow-on to the iPhone 4 and not a completely new device. Apple has done this before, with the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS, and it looks like this trend of releasing an updated version of last year’s device is spreading to other Apple products.

According to a report in Digitimes, while Apple’s newest iPad will hit the market in March of next year, this won’t be the ‘real’ iPad 3. Instead, the iPad we see early in 2012 will be an updated iPad 2. The website cites supply chain sources that say the ‘real’ iPad 3 won’t be launched until the third quarter of 2012, at the earliest.

It wouldn’t be at all surprising if this turns out to be true, after all, it wouldn’t be the first time Apple has put off a full upgrade in favor of minor upgrades to last year’s model. Add to that the fact that the iPad 2 was already a pretty major upgrade from the iPad 1, including a whole new design, and it seems pretty likely. According to the Digitimes report, the iPad 2 upgrade will have a longer battery life and a slightly slimmer design.

SandForce-equipped SSDs are seemingly all the rage nowadays, but lest we forget that others, like Marvell, have some peppy controllers of their own. Step up Corsair, who’s just announced its new Marvell-equipped line of SATA 3 Performance Pro Series 6Gb/s SSDs. These 2.5-inch storage slabs can achieve 515 MB/s read and 440 MB/s sequential write speeds, and sports a TRIM-like “built-in advanced background garbage collection,” which company deems helpful for RAID setups. Notably, desktop users will be pleased to know that the drives will mount into 3.5-inch slots via an included adapter. If you’re interested, $280 will snag you a 128GB version, while $530 doubles the capacity to 256GB.

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