It hasn't even been three months since the iPhone 5 released and already rumors about an iPhone 5S, or even an iPhone 6, are starting to spread on the Internet.

Apple comes out with a new version of its smartphone each year, so these rumors are expected on an annual basis. But typically the off-season for iPhone rumors feels like it lasts longer than this -- I mean, the iPhone 5 hasn't even come out in most countries yet. 

Regardless, they have begun, and there's nothing we can do about it. So what exactly is all the buzz about the seventh-generation iPhone?

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Well, one of the rumors originates from a post on a forum website called iPhone5parts.net that claims to have some pictures of the back cover on the upcoming iPhone.

You can see that post and the attached pictures here. The pictures show the rear cover looks almost the same as the iPhone 5's except for the location of a few screw holes.

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Is Facebook starting a proxy war with Twitter?

It sure seems like it after Instagram, Facebook's photo-sharing social network, announced it will no longer support a feature that allows its photos to show up on Twitter.

The announcement came after Twitter posted on its status website about "Instagram photo-rendering issues." The San Francisco-based social network said some users are having problems seeing Instagram photos display correctly. That's because Instagram stopped using Twitter's card integration -- which lets some tweets to expand to show additional content such as an Instagram photo.

"Issues include cropped images," Twitter said, explaining that some users are only seeing parts of an image when they click on a tweet containing a link to an Instagram photo.

The latest issue comes just a few months after Twitter began blocking Instagram from using its software development tool. That move kept Instagram users from importing their Twitter contacts.

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Children of the '80s, this one is for you: The beloved kids' show "Reading Rainbow" and its host LeVar Burton are the latest PBS icons to get the remix treatment, thanks to the efforts of PBS Digital Studios and the Auto-Tune song maker John D. Boswell, a.k.a. Melody Sheep.

PBS Digital Studios started its remixing project in June with its most popular (and I'd argue best) video, "Garden of Your Mind," featuring Fred Rogers (i.e., Mister Rogers). It's weird and almost creepy, but also wonderful and magical. I'm going to embed it right here.

That video was followed by a remix of everyone's favorite TV painting teacher, Bob Ross. It was called "Happy Little Clouds" (of course) and was also borderline creepy, while also being totally awesome.

Then came a remix featuring Julia Child. And finally, "Reading Rainbow."

Flavorwire blogger Caroline Stanley said she wishes Boswell would incorporate "Reading Rainbow's" classic sticks-in-your-brain...

Many of us interact with one of Google’s products everyday -- whether navigating with the help of Google Maps, watching a video clip on YouTube, or searching for anything you can think of on the Internet using the company’s search engine. But how much do you actually know about the company with the colorful logo and silly sounding name? Take our quiz to test your Google knowledge.

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Facebook on Wednesday announced it will begin to change its terminology for profile "subscriptions" to "follows," using the same phrasing as social network rival Twitter.

Currently, you can allow people you are not friends with to "subscribe" to your Facebook profile and see your public posts, but in the future, that feature will be referred to as "follow" instead.

"Today we are updating the term "Subscribe" to become "Follow" across the site, as we found it is a term that resonates better with people using the service,” a Facebook spokeswoman told The Times in an email.

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The move changes Facebook's terminology to the same one used by many other social networks, including Facebook-owned Instagram.

Of course, the term "follow" was made famous by Twitter, Facebook's biggest rival in the social network market.

The company said the change will roll out slowly to all users over the coming weeks.

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Amazon.com announced a new monthly subscription service called Freetime Unlimited that gives Kindle owners access to a variety of content for their kids without fear that they may run up the bill.

Freetime Unlimited gives kids free access to thousands of books, apps, movies and TV shows, according to Amazon. The service is geared toward children ages 3 to 8, and it is available for Amazon's line of Kindle Fire tablets.

The Seattle-based online retailers said Amazon Prime members can get Freetime Unlimited for a discounted rate of $2.99 per child or $6.99 for the whole family. Non-Prime members can also get Freetime Unlimited buy paying $4.99 per child or $9.99 for the whole family.

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The service gives users access to a variety of apps including Cut the Rope and Fruit Ninja and books such as "Shrek" or "Kung Fu Panda."

Freetime Unlimited also has various movies, including ones from Barney, Thomas & Friends and Bob the Builder, and TV shows like...

Galaxy S III AT&T devices got an update to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, leaving Verizon as the last major network to not release an update for the popular Samsung device.

AT&T told its GS3 customers Tuesday that they could get the update by going to this page and connecting their device to their computer. Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is the second new update for the Google mobile operating system.

Two months ago, Sprint became the first major U.S. network to roll out the update for its users, followed by T-Mobile a few weeks ago.

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That leaves Verizon as the only major carrier to not release a Jelly Bean update for the top Android device on the market.

Fortunately for GS3 users on Verizon, the New Jersey-based carrier reassured The Times that a Jelly Bean update is on its way for the devices. But no time frame was given.

One of the most notable features on Jelly Bean 4.1 is Project Butter, a term Google uses to describe improved and more fluid...

First, the good news for Apple: The tablet market continues to surpass all projections as the iPad and iPad Mini are exciting consumers. That's according to IDC, which on Wednesday released its latest projections for tablet shipments this year Wednesday. 

The research firm raised its 2012 forecast for the worldwide tablet market from 117.1 million units to 122.3 million units.

"Tablets continue to captivate consumers, and as the market shifts toward smaller, more mobile screen sizes and lower price points, we expect demand to accelerate in the fourth quarter and beyond," Tom Mainelli, research director for tablets at IDC, said in a news release.

Now the not-so-good news for Apple: Android-based tablets continue to gain momentum. IDC projected that market share for Android tablets would rise from 39.8% in 2011 to 42.7% in 2012. Apple is expected to see its market share for tablets decline, from 56.3% to 53.8%. 

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The numbers that dot your Facebook page may be small, but boy are they powerful.

We feel supported when a lot of people like the picture of last night's dinner, or comment on how cute our children are. And when an update gets no comments we feel desolate, unloved, boring.

But what if you could take the numbers off of Facebook? What if, for example, you could see that you have friends, but not how many friends, or that you have messages, but not how many messages, or that people liked your photo, but not how many people?

Would that change what you look at, what you post, and how you feel when you interact with the social network?

That's the question at the heart of Facebook Demetricator, a downloadable browser plug-in created by new media artist Benjamin Grosser that removes all the numbers from your Facebook page.

"By removing these numbers, I am trying to draw people's attention to their existence in the first place and how much we rely on them," said Grosser. "The way Facebook is...

Where's John McAfee?

After a whirlwind of confusion about his whereabouts in recent days, the quasi-fugitive surfaced Tuesday in Guatemala for a news conference, dapper in a trim pinstripe suit and flanked by a newly attained lawyer and the 20-year-old girlfriend he says he intends to wed.

For nearly a month, McAfee has evaded officials in Belize, after he was named a “person of interest” in the death of his neighbor, Gregory Faull, who was found face-up in a pool of blood on Ambergris Caye, a tiny island where McAfee had moved to retire.

Belize officials maintain that the antivirus software mogul is merely wanted for questioning and is not a suspect. McAfee insists that if captured, the Belizean government would kill him.

The stranger-than-fiction events that have unfolded over the weeks following Faull’s murder have provided plenty of fodder for drama-starved tech journalists -- guns, drugs, poisoned dogs, plenty of young women, a body double and a North Korean...

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said her top priority is to get the company serious about mobile. And she was clearly not joking.

On Tuesday, Yahoo snapped up a five-person mobile start-up called OnTheAir. It was the second deal Mayer struck to beef up Yahoo’s ability to target smartphones and tablets. The acquisition, like that of New York mobile start-up Stamped before it, was mainly aimed at picking up engineering talent.

OnTheAir, a San Francisco start-up, enables users to hold live online video chats. Yahoo did not say how much it paid for the company.

Mayer has said she wants at least half of Yahoo’s technical staff to focus on mobile devices.

"Hiring the most talented mobile product thinkers and engineers is a big priority for us moving forward," Adam Cahan, Yahoo's senior vice president of emerging products and technology, said in an emailed statement.

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