Video game designer Peter Molyneux has a proven track record of successful games (Fable and Black and White are the biggies) and a style unique enough to inspire a hilarious parody account on Twitter. Molyneux was recently the head of Microsoft's gaming division, but left the company earlier this year to form his own game shop, 22Cans. Yesterday, 22Cans released its first game (or "experiment") for iOS and Android: Curiosity, a massively multiplayer puzzler that promises a "life-changingly amazing" secret to the one (and only one) gamer who can make it to the middle of a huge, pixelated cube.

At first glance, Curiosity seems like a cross between Minecraft and Cow Clicker. After installing and launching the game, you'll be presented with some teaser text ("Are you curious?"). Click on through, and you'll eventually get to the game world: a giant, rotating cube that when zoomed in upon, displays millions and millions of pixelated squares. Tapping those pixelated squares, or "cubelets," destroys them, displaying the cube layer beneath. The game started with a black cube. That outer layer has since been completely destroyed since yesterday, showing the full green layer and the next red layer beneath any destroye... [Read more]

Many Web sites collect data about you on each visit. This data is used for serving ads that meet your interests, or finding out which demographic is frequenting a specific type of content. In an effort to help you protect your online privacy, Google has added a new feature to Chrome: Do Not Track.

It's important to remember that this option is not going to protect you from Web sites that ignore the Do Not Track request, but it is a small step in the direction of protecting your personal details online. Read on to find out how to enable this option:

(Credit: Screenshot by Nicole Cozma/CNET)

Step 1: Click on the drop-down menu in the top right-hand corner of the toolbar and choose Settings.

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Step 2: At the bottom of the page that loads, click on Show advanced settings.

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Step 3: Step 3: Under the Privacy heading, check the box next to Send a "Do Not Track" request with your browsing traffic.

Message about Do Not Track from Google.

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Google's mobile OS is five years young today -- Androids don't age, they just get updated and replaced -- and my colleagues at Crave UK have the full story of how Android began. I, however, wanted to look at the numbers that tell us how far it's come.

First let's take a look at the favorite metric of Andy Rubin and other Googlers -- the total-Android-activations number. The Googleplex tells us the total number hit a half billion back in mid-September, around the same time Google Chairman Eric Schmidt was quoted as saying there were 1.3 million new activations each day. Doing some quick math on the Android calculator app, I get just over 570 million total activations up to the current day. That's almost two Android devices per U.S. citizen, and quickly approaching one for every 10 people on Earth.

At the current rate of growth (taking Schmidt's word for it, of course), Android will reach a billion activations before its sixth birthday next year. That's a few years less than it took Facebook to reach a billion active users, which is pretty impressive considering that all Facebook accounts are free to set up, but few Android devices come without a price or carr... [Read more]

iOS 6.0.1 users can now jailbreak their devices, but there are some bumps in the road.

The latest version of the iPhone Dev Team's Redsn0w can jailbreak iOS 6.0.1 devices, Redmond Pie confirmed today after testing the update.

However, not everyone can take advantage of the effort at this point.

The jailbreak works only on iOS devices powered by an A4 chip or lower. People who own the iPhone 5, the newest iPads, or the latest iPod Touch are out of luck. The jailbreak takes advantage of the Limera1n exploit, which can't handle the A5 or later chips.

That leaves just the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and the iPod Touch 4G as prime candidates. The iPod Touch 3G and the original iPad don't support iOS 6.0 or higher.

The jailbreak is also a tethered one. So after you shut down or reboot your device, you'll need to connect it to your computer to return it to a jailbroken state.

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