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Nintendo Developing DS Apps For School Systems: MojoKid writes Shigeru Miyamoto, who has had a hand in some of Nintendos most popular titles, recently offered that he is working hard to turn Nintendos DS line of handheld gaming machines into tools for schools. The DS already has

Novell Rejects "Inadequate" $2B Takeover Bid: alphadogg writes Novells CEO wrote to customers Saturday telling them that the software company has rejected a $2 billion bid by hedge fund Elliott Associates to take it private. He called the offer inadequate and said Novell will review alternatives.

Autoscanning The Names People Choose For Their Wireless APs: MichaelSmith writes I code on the tram, going to and from work and I noticed that there are a lot of wifi access points along the way. So one week I made it my job to write an automatic scanner

Every British Citizen To Have a Personal Webpage: Hugh Pickens writes The Telegraph reports that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is about to announce that within a year everyone in Great Britain will be given a personalized webpage for accessing Government services as part of a plan to

Mozilla Labs To Bring Address Book To Firefox: suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: Mozilla has announced the availability of an experimental new add-on for Firefox that is designed to import information about the users contacts from a variety of Web services and other sources. The

5 Reasons Tablets Suck, and You Won't Buy One: Crazzaper writes When the iPad launched, a lot of people who didnt care about tablets came out to bash Apples new device. These same people said I would have bought it if it had a full OS, but in reality

Memorizing Language / Spelling Techniques?: NotesSensei writes My kids are learning Chinese in school. While the grammar is drop-dead simple, writing is a challenge since there is no relation between sound and shape of the characters. I would like to know if there good techniques

Sci-Fi Writer Peter Watts Convicted of Assault: SJrX writes CBC news is reporting that Peter Watts has indeed been convicted of Assaulting border guards, (discussed here). He will be sentenced April 26th. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Baffled By the Obsession With Pretend-Business Games: theodp writes Newsweeks Daniel Lyons confesses to being mystified by all the people tending to their virtual farms and virtual pets on Facebook. Even stranger, he says, is their willingness to spend real money to buy virtual products, like pretend

Canada's Top Court Quashes Child Porn Warrant: m.ducharme writes The CBC is reporting that the Supreme Court of Canada has handed down a decision quashing a search warrant used to obtain the computer of a man accused of possession of child porn. Urbain P. Morelli maintained his

Amazon Battles Apple By Arm-Twisting Publishers: bizwriter writes Apple has upset the e-book pricing cart by agreeing to a so-called agency model, where the publisher sets the price and the seller takes a cut. This goes contrary to the degree of control Amazon likes, so although

Mozilla Plans Fix For Critical Firefox Vulnerability In Next Release: Trailrunner7 writes A month after an advisory was published detailing a new vulnerability in Firefox, Mozilla said it has received exploit code for the flaw and is planning to patch the weakness on March 30 in the next release of

IRS Security Faults Leave Taxpayer Data At Risk: coondoggie writes In this tax season, when billions of dollars and tons of personal information is relayed to and from the government, its more than disconcerting to hear that the Internal Revenue Service is still struggling to keep private information

Madoff's Programmers Indicted: jason8 writes with news that two programmers who worked at Bernie Madoffs investment firm have now been indicted on charges of conspiracy, falsifying records of a broker-dealer and falsifying records of an investment adviser, for their role in hiding the

Naming and Shaming 'Bad' ISPs: An anonymous reader writes Brian Krebs takes a provocative look at ISP reputations, collecting data from 10 different sources that track badness from a multitude of angles, from phishing to malware to botnet command and control centers. Some of the

Business-Suitable Document Authentication System?: ram.loss writes The company I work for has decided to go paperless for all memos and internal correspondence. In addition to the central administration, the company has three more or less autonomous, physically separated divisions; that means we do not

Internet Explorer 9 Will Not Support Windows XP: MojoKid writes As it turns out, news this week is that the same features that made IE9s hardware-acceleration possible probably arent compatible with Windows XP. Microsoft initially dodged giving a straight answer to the question of XP support but has

Google Launches 3D Driver Project For Chrome: CWmike writes Google has launched a new project for Chrome that will let the browser run a wider range of 3D graphics content without downloading additional drivers. The open-source project, called ANGLE (Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine), seeks to let

"Moot" Working On Reboot of 4chan Platform: Hugh Pickens writes Nick Bilton has an interesting interview with Christopher Poole, known online as Moot, founder 4chan, a jumble of content, hosting anything from pictures of cute kittens to wildly disturbing images and language. Poole, now 22, started 4chan

ISC Releases the First Look At BIND 10: Ethanol writes Internet Systems Consortium, producers of BIND 9 (the most popular DNS implementation on the internet), have spent the past year working on a successor, BIND 10. Its entirely new code, redesigned and rewritten from the ground up, and

Digg Technology

ZeuS Botnet Code Keeps Getting Better...for Criminals: New capabilities are strengthening the ZeuS botnet, used to steal financial credentials and execute unauthorized transactions in online financial systems.

20GB in 1980 vs. 32GB in 2010 (PIC): 2,000,000 Grams Vs. 0.5 gram.

20GB in 1980 vs 32GB in 2010 (PIC): *****

Mozilla Labs builds add-on to bring address book to Firefox: Mozilla Labs is developing a new contacts add-on that will integrate an address book into the Web browser and make it possible for users to share their contact data with Web services.

Palm: this is your survival guide: Oh Palm. Just a little over a year ago your future seemed so bright, so renewed. You walked away from CES 2009 reborn, held aloft by a completely innovative new mobile operating system, a striking piece of hardware, and a

Beautiful...powerful...feminine.. WHAT THE...!!!???: Indian temple decorations and design

Massive Protest Against UK Anti-Piracy Bill: As Feargal Sharkey, head of UK Music, speaks of his confidence that the massively controversial Digital Economy Bill will be passed before the general election, the Open Rights Group has revealed that in the last 3 days more than 10,000

Students Invent a "Smart" Vest That Detects Air Pollution: Designed and developed by Genevieve Mateyko and Pamela Troyer, the Detectair uses an Arduino microcontroller and sensor technologies to analyze ambient air quality. By “translating” the data in the form of flashing lights and vibrating inserts, the vest eliminates the

More Theaters to do 3D: Five years into the digital 3D revolution, the race to corner the market on theatrical systems is proving to be more of a marathon than a sprint.

Facebook 'considering installing panic button': Facebook is considering installing a panic button on its site to allow users to report suspected paedophiles, it has confirmed.

Are You Addicted To Your iPhone & Does It Screw Up Your Life: Do you reach for your iPhone first thing before giving your wife a good morning kiss? Do you spend more time looking at your shiny new 3GS in bed than reading one of the growing pile of great books next

Facebook's All-Out Assault on Google's Numbers: The headline around the Web was that, for the first time, Facebook had eclipsed Google as the most-visited site in the U.S. for a full week. Seeing the numbers in a chart is staggering.

10 Must-Have Free Palm WebOS Apps: A smartphone is only as good as its apps. Here are 10 free ones to supercharge your shiny new Palm phone.

Apple is now accepting iPad app submissions: Do you believe in miracles? If you clap your hands, will Tinkerbell appear? Are you willing to submit an application developed solely in a simulator and hope that it will work on real hardware? With real customers? In a real

Seagate 'Cuda XT, 2TB and 6G SATA For Your Por...err Movies: One of the more interesting hard drives to hit the scene recently is the Seagate Barracuda XT. Its 2TB capacity, 64MB of cache, and 7200 RPM spindle speed will automatically pique the interest of many enthusiast and file hogs. Couple

3,000 TVs, one stadium: If the team were as awesome as this network, the Cowboys would have won the Super Bowl.

Exoskeletal glove gives motorcyclists an iron fist: You cant help it. Its a reflex. You stick out your hand when you fall - its better to stop the descent with your palm than your face, right? Thats fine when youre ambling down the street, but add an

LaDiDa iPhone App Let’s Anyone With Voice Make Music: LaDiDa a “reverse karaoke” app that makes it simple for anyone with an iPhone or iPod Touch to make songs with full instrumentation using only their voice in seconds.

Unprecedented 25 Year Sentence Sought for TJX Hacker: Computer hacker Albert Gonzalez deserves a quarter-century behind bars for leading a gang of cyber-thieves that stole tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers from a transaction processor and giant retail chains, federal prosecutors argued in a court

Naming and Shaming ‘Bad’ ISPs: I polled some of the most vigilant sources of this information for their recent data, and put together a rough chart indicating the Top Ten most prevalent ISPs from each of their vantage points.

CNET News.com

Novell rejects Elliot takeover bid as 'inadequate': But company says its committed to enhancing value for stockholders and will explore alternatives including a stock repurchase, joint ventures, and a sale.

Images: At long last, The Plastiki sets sail: After months of anticipation, banking heir David de Rothschilds boat, made buoyant by 12,000 soda bottles, set sail for Australia.

Message from the grave, straight to your cell phone: RosettaStone products use near-field communication to stream personal information, photos, and even messages from the deceased lying beneath to any mobile device.

Weekend Webware: Dailymotion video slideshows: Dailymotion users looking to create video slideshows out of photos and their music can now make pretty snazzy-looking ones with a built-in tool from Stupeflix.

Engineering a massive cleanup of toxic waterways (photos): Boats, barges, and buildings dumped in a San Francisco Bay Area delta are leaching toxic chemicals into local drinking water, but a huge effort to clean it up is under way.

Top-rated reviews of the week (photos): Here are a few of CNET Reviews favorite items from the past week, including the X-Mini Happy Speaker MP3 player, LG BD590 Blu-ray player, and the Origin Genesis gaming PC.

Barge-scale cleanup in California waterways (photos): A handful of oversize photos from a tour CNET took of a large-scale effort to pull polluting boats, barges, and buildings out of a San Francisco Bay Area delta.

Calendar app and sailboat-racing game: iPhone apps of the week: This weeks apps include a simple calendar app for viewing more months at a time and a sailboat-racing game thats more than meets the eye.

Why Wrapsol's new gadget skin is a happy accident: A new gadget skin promises to keep your phone and other tech toys safe from six foot drops. The technology behind it turns out to be a happy accident.

Trial of human retinal implants quite successful: German company Retinal Implant unveils the results of its first human clinical trial, which involved retinal implants of 11 patients since 2005.

Reasons to care about Viacom v. Google (FAQ): It may sound like two big companies fighting over who gets what. But theres plenty at stake in this court fight for other content creators and Web site operators.

Reporters' Roundtable podcast: Maps and mapping: This week: Mapping! Well discuss how maps are made, who owns the aerial image of your back yard, and how to crowdsource mapmaking.

iPad ad goes viral: Apples launch ad for its magical and revolutionary product succeeds in attracting 2.4 million views online, making it the second-most-watched online ad.

Report: Vodafone says 3,000 phones exposed to virus: Malware found in HTC Magic phones has been traced back to memory cards that shipped in about 3,000 phones, according to report citing Vodafone.

Cloak of invisibility becomes more foreseeable: Scientists in Germany successfully cloak a bump in a layer of gold. The new cloaking device, made of seemingly light-bending crystals, even works in three dimensions.

Inside Xobni for BlackBerry (video): The new premium Xobni for BlackBerry is the latest tool for the mobile workforce and weve got to say, its a handy one. Check it out in our First Look video tour.

Premiere of 'Hubble 3D': Natali Del Conte talks to astronaut Mike Massimino and Toni Myers, the director of the IMAX 3D film Hubble 3D.

Firm denies hacking, stock manipulation charges: BroCo Investments says the account at the heart of an SEC complaint was opened on behalf of a client and that it is cooperating with authorities to clear its name.

Nestle mess shows sticky side of Facebook pages: Food companys Facebook fan page became a lesson in how not to deal with social-media backlash this week, when a company rep snapped back at environmentally motivated critics.

Desperate times for Palm: With sales of the Palm Pre sagging amid fierce competition, financial analysts are starting to wonder when--not if--Palm is forced to give up.

ZDNet

Obama lines up with copyright owners: As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama was a young technology fan who appeared to be an establishment outsider. But he now appears to have lined up on the side of copyright owners. by Greg Sandoval CNET News

Why no one cares about privacy anymore: Google co-founder Sergey Brin adores the companys social network called Google Buzz. We know this because an engineer working five feet from Brin used Google Buzz to say so. by Declan McCullagh CNET News

Judges uphold Word patent-infringement ruling: A US Court of Appeals panel has upheld a judgement that Microsoft infringed on another companys patent with its custom XML tags in Word 2003 and Word 2007. by David Meyer ZDNet UK

LHC reaches highest power levels - so far: The Large Hadron Collider has reached its highest power so far, taking Cern closer to its goal of using the particle accelerator to conduct experiments that will discover new physics. by Tom Espiner ZDNet UK

Target offers mobile coupons: Mobile coupons are coming to mega-retailer Target, which will allow shoppers all over the U.S. to use their mobile handset to get discounts on all kinds of products. by Marguerite Reardon CNET News

Browser choice not coming to Asia: Microsoft rivals have indicated that they will not be pushing for a similar action in the Asia-Pacific region. by Liau Yun Qing ZDNet Asia

Beware the new Facebook password reset scam: If you get an e-mail that appears to be from Facebook saying the company reset your password and urging you to open an attachment, it is a scam. Repeat, it is a scam. by Elinor Mills CNET News

Twitter aims to filter out malicious links: Twitter is launching a new service designed to stop users of the social-media site from getting duped by phishing links that steal their login credentials and other attacks. by Elinor Mills CNET News

Potential console killer OnLive to go live June 17: OnLive, a streaming video game service that, if properly implemented, could threaten traditional console makers. by Daniel Terdiman CNET News

Social media better than sex?: Its not surprising that so many people rely on social media, for both work and play, every day - a statistic highlighted in the latest Retrevo Gadgetology Report on social-media usage. by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore CNET News

3D glasses: One for each set: With the coming of 3D television comes the invasion of 3D glasses. The problem is that there are no standards so they will work only with the brand of TV with which theyre shipped. by Erica Ogg CNET News

Drudge Report accused of serving malware: For the second time in less than six months, visitors to the Drudge Report say they got malware in addition to the Web sites usual sensational headlines. by Elinor Mills CNET News

Curt Schilling's 38 Studios, EA in Big Huge game deal: Ex-baseballer Curt Schillings developer 38 Studios has struck a deal with EA to publish an upcoming single-player role-playing game. by Tor Thorsen GameSpot

Study: Businesses start to embrace Windows 7: A new survey shows that businesses are increasingly planning their move to Windows 7, with more than half of those questioned planning to have some machines running the operating system in their corporations by the end of the year. by

How the butterfly botnet was broken: A joint operation by researchers from Canadian security firm Defense Intelligence and Spains PandaLabs led to the arrest of three men in Spain earlier this month in connection with the Mariposa botnet. by Tom Espiner ZDNet UK

HP sues Asian firms over patents: Hewlett-Packard has filed a suit against four companies based in Hong Kong and Taiwan, accusing the defendants of patent infringement, according to various reports. by Vivian Yeo ZDNet Asia

Apache bug prompts update advice: IT security company Sense of Security has discovered a serious bug in Apaches HTTP web server, which could allow a remote attacker to gain complete control of a database. by Colin Ho,ZDNet.com.au

Wikileaks poses 'security threat' to US Army: A leaked US Army intelligence report, classified as secret, says the Wikileaks website poses a significant operational security and information security threat to military operations. by Declan McCullagh CNET News

Companies' outsourcing spend to increase: A recent Gartner survey found that 85 percent of organizations anticipate their spending with external service providers ESP to increase or stay the same when the economy returns, pointing to a return to growth in the IT services market in

Drudge Report, TechCrunch hit by ad malware: Matt Drudge and Michael Arrington found themselves in an unpleasant position last week when visitors to their sites were targeted by malware that appeared to have come from ads. by Elinor Mills CNET News

Wired Technology

Shark-Bitten Crocodile Poop Fossils Found (No, Really): Paleontologists have stumbled across a scientific first that’s sure to inspire both fascination and disgust: coprolites, or fossilized fecal matter, bearing the distinct impressions of a creature’s teeth.The coprolites — one chunk of rock is fist-sized, the other is about

Large Hadron Collider Triples Its Own Record: The Large Hadron Collider set a new record for the creation of energetic particle beams this morning. The particle accelerator, which surpassed Fermilab’s Tevatron in December as the baddest atom smasher of them all, smashed its own record, charging particles

Evolution of Fairness Driven by Culture, Not Genes: Human behaviors are often explained as hard-wired evolutionary leftovers of life on the savannah or during the Stone Age. But a study of one very modern behavior, fairness towards total strangers whom one will never meet again, suggests it evolved

Op-Ed: Why the Internet Should Win the Nobel Peace Prize: This year, a Chinese dissident and a Russian human rights advocate — recent nominees for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize — are joined by an unlikely, nonhuman contender: the internet. From the Fields is a periodic Wired Science op-ed series

Cosmic Dust Gives Millky Way a Fiery Mane: The Planck space telescope, which is surveying the entire sky in four massive sweeps, has nearly finished its first scan.Rotating in orbit, Planck takes data of the sky in strips, almost the reverse of a chef peeling an apple in

Controversy Erupts Over Captive Endangered Bat Colony: A bitter controversy is brewing over a captive colony of endangered Virginia big-eared bats, founded inNovember as a hedge against disease driving the species to extinction in the wild.Of 40 bats put in the colony, only 10 have survived. According

The Oldest Trees on the Planet: << previous image | next image >>Trees are some of the longest-lived organisms on the planet. At least 50 trees have been around for more than a millenium, but there may be countless other ancient trees that haven’t been discovered

Cool: New Exoplanet Is Near Habitable Zone: Extrasolar planet hunters are excited about a not-so-hot discovery. For the first time they’ve found a relatively cool extrasolar planet that they can study in detail. The finding is a milestone, says study coauthor Hans Deeg of the Instituto de

Seminal 70s Environmental TV Series Now Online: Every episode of what was probably the environmental movement’s first television series is now available on the Web.Our Vanishing Wilderness first aired almost 40 years ago. The eight half-hour episodes were broadcast by the New York public channel, National Educational

Quantum Physics Used to Control Mechanical System: By using a quantum device to control a mechanical object, researchers have linked the mind-bending laws of quantum physics to the tangible, everyday world.Until now, quantum physical behaviors were observed at atomic and subatomic scales, or in medium-sized molecules. Now

Red in Jupiter’s Spot Not What Astronomers Thought: The best thermal images of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot yet captured have revealed surprising weather and temperature variation within the solar system’s most famous storm.The darkest red part of the spot turns out to be a warm patch inside the

Methane May Be Building Under Antarctic Ice: BALTIMORE — Microbes living under ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland could be churning out large quantities of the greenhouse gas methane, a new study suggests.In recent years scientists have learned that liquid water lurks under much of Antarctica’s massive

Climate Quick-Fix Could Create Toxic Algae Blooms: Pouring iron into oceans may combat global warming by feeding carbon dioxide-gobbling algae, but those algal blooms could become fountains of neurotoxin.According to a small-scale test, iron-enriched waters favor the growth of Pseudonitzschia, an algae that pumps out brain-damaging domoic

Closest Ever Look at Martian Moon: The sharpest images yet taken by the Mars Express spacecraft of Mars’ tiny moon Phobos reveal features as small as 4.4 meters across, the European Space Agency announced March 15.Some of the new images taken March 7 during one of

You’re Leaving a Bacterial Fingerprint on Your Keyboard: The bacterial communities that live on human skin may form a bacterial fingerprint on the items that you touch. In a new study led by microbiologist Rob Knight at the University of Colorado, Boulder researchers swabbed three different keyboards and

Gene That Lets Snakes See Heat Helps You Taste Wasabi: Genes that make mustard hot and spicy on human tongues also let snakes “see” heat, explaining the remarkable ability of some species to strike prey in total darkness. Until now, scientists knew that snakes’ heat perception involved the pit organ,

Research Reveals Early Signs of Autism in Some Kids: BALTIMORE—Some infants headed for a diagnosis of autism, or autism spectrum disorder as it’s officially known, can be reliably identified at 14 months old based on the presence of five key behavior problems, according to an ongoing long-term study described

Big Earthquakes Cause Premature Births: A new study of a 2005 earthquake in Chile supports the surprising hypothesis that pregnant women who experience earthquakes during the first trimester of their pregnancies have increased risk of premature birth and slightly smaller babies.While the drops in birth

Video: Cold, Little Comet Is No Match for the Big, Hot Sun: A small, newly discovered comet will not get a chance to enjoy its fame for long.As you can see in this image sequence obtained by NASA’s Solar and Heliosopheric Observatory, the comet is on a collision course with the sun.

Solar Slumber May Have Been Caused by Magnetic Flows: Newly reported observations of gas flows on the solar surface may explain why the sun recently had such an extended case of the doldrums.From 2008 through the first half of 2009, the sun had a puzzling dearth of sunspots, flares

Tom's Hardware

Storage Trends In 2010: An Interview With Hitachi: Toms Hardware recently had the chance to interview Steve Pereira, vice president of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies in the EMEA region, who talked about SSDs and the future of the hard drive in 2010 and beyond.

System Builder Marathon, March 2010: System Value Compared: Budget enhancements to this month’s SBM finally reflect last year’s price increases, allowing the return of liquid cooling at

Mini-ITX: Two Cases And Four Motherboards Compared: Everyone cares about power consumption, so it’s important to realize that board-level integration has enabled a new breed of extremely small, power-friendly computers. Today we look at two mini-ITX cases and four motherboards for small form factor PCs.

Ubuntu 9.10: The Karmic Koala Benchmarked And Reviewed: Is Ubuntus latest release, the Karmic Koala, any good, or just a bunch of hype? Weve had a solid month to check it out and are ready to publish our review. Were even debuting our brand new cross-platform benchmark suite

Watch Blu-ray And Burn DVDs: Three Low-Cost Solutions: Combo drives have a long history of bringing value to people with simple burning needs. As prices for expensive Blu-ray media drops, we review three low-cost drives that can read high-priced content and write to the most value-oriented formats.

Part 2: Building A Balanced Gaming PC: What does it mean to build a truly-balanced PC? How great would it be to piece together a machine bottlenecked by

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CPU Charts, An ATI Update, And Zotac's Mini-ITX Board: Chris checks in with an update on our 2009 CPU Charts, pricing on ATIs Radeon HD 5800/5900s graphics cards, news of official bitstreaming support, an interesting tidbit on power consumption in Eyefinity mode, and Zotacs second-gen mini-ITX board.

Which Networking Technology Is Right For Your Home?: Powerline, MoCA, 802.11 wireless, or conventional Ethernet--which networking technology is right for your home? Netgear sent us product based on all four technologies and we ran them through their paces to help you decide which works best in your home.

Eight Computing Advancements At IBM Research: The spirit of innovation lives on at IBMs research facilities all around the world. We were given the chance to chat about eight of the companys most promising upcoming projects (some near-term, others further out there).

Are Premium Gaming Peripherals Worth Your Money?: Will the right gaming peripherals make you a better gamer? There are a number of high-end mouse, keyboard, and headset vendors

Tom's Hardware's 2009 Gift Guide: Part 1, For System Builders: Welcome to Part One of Toms Hardwares Holiday Gift Guide. This first episode is geared toward those system builders planning to pool some Christmas cash to construct a powerful (yet value-oriented) system. This year, Sarah is back to show off

Radeon HD 5770, Radeon HD 4890, And GeForce GTX 275 Overclocked: Can you hit the performance level of the next-fastest GPU by overclocking your graphics card? What is the impact on power consumption? Can your cooler take the extra heat? We overclock three modern graphics cards to their limits for some

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Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: November '09: Welcome to another edition of our Best Gaming CPUs for the Money. This month we have a handful of

Asus' G51J: Affordable Core i7 Mobile Gaming?: Mobility and gaming have been at odds for a long time, but Asus thinks its G51J could be the solution. With Intel Core i7 Mobile CPU technology and Nvidia’s recent GeForce GTX-260M, is this mid-sized, mid-priced notebook too good to

ATI Radeon HD 5970 2GB: The World's Fastest Graphics Card: Despite the successful launches of its Radeon HD 5870, 5850, 5770, and 5750 DirectX 11-class

GeForce GT 240: Low Power, High Performance, Sub-$100: While the GeForce G 210 and GT 220 lacked inspiring performance, this newest model boasts enough of a punch to make us sit up and take notice. We have a detailed look at the first Nvidia graphics card to be

System Builder Marathon, March 2010: $750 Gaming PC: The last machine in this quarters System Builder Marathon, Pauls $750 Gaming PC certainly isnt least. A triple-core Athlon

System Builder Marathon, March 2010: $1,500 Enthusiast PC: In this System Builder Marathon, we get to make a great $1,500 Core i7-920 enthusiast PC and then pit it against the Core i5-750 system from our previous series. Is the extra money for the Core i7-920 worthwhile, or can

Ars Technica

Ubuntu 10.04 beta 1 is looking good, less brown: Canonical has announced the availability of the first Ubuntu 10.04 beta release. The new version of Ubuntu, codenamed Lucid Lynx, is scheduled to arrive in April. It will be a long-term support

Week in tech: easter eggs, pirates aren't cool, and thinking robots: People love easter eggs. There are a number of humorous yet undocumented features hiding beneath the surface of some of the most popular open source software applications. We ran down five of

Week in Apple: Macs, iPods see sales boost, more iPad news: The iPad launch is drawing near, so its not surprising that much of our most popular Apple news for the week was about the highly anticipated device. However, we also saw some

Week in Microsoft: Windows Phone 7 and Internet Explorer 9: Lets look back at the week that was in Microsoft news. Here were the top stories:Microsoft shows off Windows Phone 7 Series dev tools at MIX10: Microsofts MIX10 Developer Conference kicked off

Week in gaming: PlayStation Move, Metro 2033, pole dancing: What a week! Post-GDC we share our thoughts on the PlayStation Move after playing with a bunch of the games Sony showed the press, we are pleasantly surprised by a top-down Tomb

Apple to iPad devs: on your mark, get set, submit!: Apple is alerting developers that they have just over a week to prepare iPad apps and get them submitted for review if they want them to be in the App Store on April 3.Developers must build their apps using beta

What's fair? Societal structures, not human nature, teach us: Rousseau, Hobbes, and Locke all meditated on the development of social contracts that they considered necessary for people to operate in large societies. Game theory gives scientists a chance to test some

Not all plants will respond equally to climate change: As the climate continues to change, some studies suggest that warmer temperatures may help plants bloom earlier and longer. However, that may not be the whole story. An article published in Science details how different plants respond to different indicators

12-core Mac Pros, 27" Cinema Display may be coming soon: Apple has been very busy on the mobile front, with the iPad launching in two weeks and iPhone OS and hardware upgrades expected this summer. However, Apple hasnt forgotten about its Mac business--sources for AppleInsider report that long overdue updates

Your life will some day end; ACTA will live on: The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) isnt just another secret treaty—its a way of life. If ACTA passes in anything like its current form, it will create an entirely new international secretariat to

Google reportedly to part ways with China on April 10: April 10: General Robert E. Lees last address to Confederate troops, the Titanics departure from Southampton, England, my friend Jakes birthday, and now, Googles rumored pull-out date in China. The company is preparing to announce its decision as soon as

Mozilla Labs builds add-on to bring address book to Firefox: Firefoxs flexible XUL framework and sophisticated add-on system offer a rich platform for enhancing browser functionality. Mozilla Labs takes advantage of this capability as it experiments with new concepts for augmenting Web

iPhone will be first mobile device to fall at Pwn2Own 2010: The fourth annual Pwn2Own contest—which takes place at the CanSecWest security conference every year—kicks off next week. Like last year, 2010s contest will offer security experts and hackers the chance to pwn a number of mobile platforms in addition to

IE9, standards, and why Acid3 isn't the priority: Microsofts development direction of Internet Explorer 9 is unambiguous: implementing HTML5 web standards is the name of the game, with the intent of letting developers use the same markup to work everywhere.

Here's your chance to play StarCraft 2 this weekend: Its Friday, and if youre like me there is some question of what game youre going to play over the weekend. Or maybe youre looking forward to playing with your children or

Aliens in the garden: the secret origin of Plants vs. Zombies: It goes without saying that we love Plants vs. Zombies here at Ars Technica, especially the pocket-sized iPhone version of the game that was just released. If you havent played it, you

Amazon threatens more publishers with freeze-out over prices: Earlier this year, Amazon found itself in a showdown over e-book pricing with publisher Macmillan, which wanted the ability to set pricing for its works. Amazon initially pulled all of Macmillans titles

feature: How Amsterdam was wired for open access fiber: The city of Amsterdam has been involved for several years in building Citynet, a partnership between the city and two private investors to wire 40,000 Amsterdam buildings with fiber. And its not

Microsoft starts to talk SP1 for Windows 7, Server 2008 R2: Microsoft began to talk about Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 today, though the company wasnt yet ready to announce a beta or release timeline for the service pack. Rumors pegged SP1 beta for arrival this month.

The NBP and ISP competition: this fight's just beginning: For a plan that puts competition as its number one goal, the National Broadband Plan is remarkably light on policies that will produce much of it in the wireline space. Talk of

Hard OCP

DRM is Dead, RIAA Says: The RIAA says DRM is dead. Wait. What? Who are you people and what have you done with the real RIAA?For years the RIAA has defended the use of DRM, much to the dislike of millions of honest customers who

Undercover Cop Arrests Undercover Cop: You have to wonder how effective an undercover operation is when one undercover cop arrests another undercover cop for trying to sell him drugs. Regardless, once the newspaper ran this story, everyone’s cover was blown. If either police department bothered

Apple Approves Marijuana App: Let’s see, you can’t get an iPhone app showing boobies but you can get an app to help you find weed. I guess I’m not surprised by an iToke app, we are after all talking about Apple here. You now

Microsoft Responds to Obama’s Xbox Criticism: Damn you Xbox machine for making our kids stay up late and be stupid. If my kid ends up being a high school drop out, we know who to blame now! For our kids to excel, we must accept our

New Pirate Bay to Be Based on Give-And-Take Models: Does anyone seriously think this is going to work? Remember how much everyone loved Napster? Remember how much they liked it once it became a legit site? Yeah, that’s what is going to happen here too. The more you give,

Creating Font Using a Car: Here is your creative font of the day (its free too). A group of people made a new font using a computer, a sophisticated camera tracking system and a car. I use my car all the time to make fonts

Ping Pong Table-Door: From the why didn’t I think of that files comes the amazing ping pong table/door! From the looks of it, this amazing product not only makes you popular, it gets you chicks too! Comments

Company Offering "Buy-Back" Program For Electronics?: This is either the greatest idea in the world or the most retarded, I’m not sure which one it is just yet.Here’s how the program works: For prices ranging from $19.99 to $249, depending on the electronic gadget, customers can

Intel 34-nm 320GB SSD Coming Soon: Engadget has the scoop on Intels Postville-family progress and has some good news for people that want an Intel SSD but dont want to fork over the big bucks for the X25 line. Check out the article for more details.Still,

Distracted Driving is Dangerous... and People Don't Care: The New York Times takes a look at distracted driving and found that many people just dont seem to care. Its a long article but well worth the read. Earlier today my wife had to get out of the way

Amazon Deletes Illegal Orwell Books from Kindles: Much has been made about Amazon deleting copies of George Orwells 1984 and Animal Farm books from Kindle devices and refunding the owners for those purchases. However, this CNET blogger takes them to task by checking facts and finding that

Big Week Coming as Tech Companies Report Earnings: IBM & Google got things rolling last week by reporting their most recent quarterly earnings for 2009 and next week has more coming. The Associated Press has an article about other earnings reports that are due next week and what

Urine-Powered Cars Coming Soon?: A scientist has developed a catalyst that can extract hydrogen from urine and says it could be used to power hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in the near future. Garadine Botte hasn’t received much federal funding for her project, though she’s

Microsoft Changes IE8 Default Settings: While Microsoft battles the European Union over antitrust allegations, eWeek reports that MS went ahead and changed the default browser settings for IE8 to allow users to more easily change the default browser on a system. Sounds like they’re just

VisionTek Responds to Rumors of Bankruptcy: The below statement is a response to our earlier posted rumors of VisionTeks possible bankruptcy. As was later explained to us by credible sources, VisionTek has received an infusion of venture capital money in order to move its business forward

Verizon Wireless Introduces New Novatel EVDO Card: Verizon Wireless and Novatel Wireless announced that the PC770 2-in-1 PC Card and Express Card will be available on Sunday at www.verizonwireless.com, through business sales channels and by calling 1-800-2 JOIN IN. The PC770 gives customers access to Verizon Wireless

EVGA Launches InterView Dual-Display: EVGA Corporation announced the availability of the InterView, with two rotatable super-thin high resolution 17 TFT LCD displays supported by one desktop stand. Designed for business presentations, researchers, physicians, financial consultants or creative professionals, the 1440 x 900 resolution screens

IBM Reports 2009 2Q Results: IBM announced second-quarter 2009 diluted earnings of $2.32 per share compared with diluted earnings of $1.97 per share in the second quarter of 2008, an increase of 18 percent. The earnings per share results were the highest for any first,

Google Chrome Update Fixes Flaws: I just wanted to let all you Chrome users know that version 2.0.172.37 has been released. This latest build fixes a handful of minor bugs as well as two serious security flaws. A compromised renderer (tab) process could cause the

Riot Police Raid Facebook Party: If you are planning a BBQ with friends and family, do not…I repeat…do not make a Facebook post alerting everyone or SWAT will show up (helicopter and all). I don’t know why this guy is complaining, in Texas, it’s not

AnandTech

Windows Phone 7 Series: The AnandTech Guide: With a launch several months away, Microsofts Windows Phone 7 Series smartphone OS begins with a clean slate. Finally learning from Apples success, does Microsoft have what it takes to compete in the next generation of smartphones?...

Intel's X25-V & Kingston's 30GB SSDNow V Series: Battle of the $125 SSDs: Both Intel and Kingston are shipping $125 SSDs, find out which one is worth your money!...

Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview: Investigated: Yesterday, Microsoft launched the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview at MIX10. Though the current release of the platform preview is very rough around the edges, it promises to bring Internet Explorer into full web standards compliance, partially erasing the web-standard

Asus Eee PC 1001P—A Matte Seashell Netbook: ASUS has an updated Pine Trail netbook that cuts the price to $330 and includes one of the nicest looking LCDs weve seen in a netbook. If youre after a $330 netbook and cant spend a penny more, this is

The Intel Xeon 5670: Six Improved Cores: The new Xeon “Westmere” 5600 series, has arrived. ...

Windows Phone 7 Series at MIX10: Microsoft answered nearly all of the questions we had about Windows Phone 7 Series after Mobile World Congress at this years MIX. 7 series is quickly shaping up to be one of the more impressive things weve seen from Microsoft

ASUS N61J-X2: Optimus GT325M Meets Arrandale: Mobile users that actually use their laptop unplugged for any extended amount of time should absolutely love NVIDIAs Optimus technology. The ASUS N61J pairs a higher spec GT325M GPU with an Arrandale processor to bump performance to the next level.

Designing Our Next GPU Test Suite: In keeping with our desire to refresh our GPU test suite periodically, we’re going to be redoing our GPU test suite to rotate in some more modern games, along with rotating in some DirectX11 games capable of taking advantage of

Intel Core i7 980X Overclocking Update: Breaking 4GHz With 6 Cores: Our initial 980X overclocking results were bad, so we put in more time and managed to push the chip past 4GHz....

The Core i7 980X Review: Intel's First 6-Core CPU: Its got 6 cores, 12 threads and its good. Meet Intels Core i7 980X, the first Gulftown CPU. If youve got the money, theres nothing better....

ASUS M4A89GTD Pro - A Core Unlocking 890GX for $140: With less than a week of public release mileage under its belt, how close have ASUS come to hitting a home run with the M4A89GTD Pro? ...

AVA Direct Clevo X8100 SLI Gaming Notebook: AVA Direct, the custom computer manufacturer, has announced their most powerful notebook for gamers. The powerhouse notebook is an update of the older Clevo M980NU, replacing the Intel Core 2 Duo and NVIDIA GTX 280M SLI with a Core i7

Dell M6500: A Precision Strike on Bling: The Dell Precision M6500 is what we expect from a mobile workstation: high on quality and low on fluff. It’s also very expensive, but the cost of the hardware likely pales in comparison to the software it’s designed to run....

10Gbit Ethernet: Killing Another Bottleneck?: More cores (32 to 48) in medium-range servers results in 20 to 50 VMs on one virtualized server. We investigate if 10Gbit Ethernet is finally ready to solve the NIC I/O bottleneck. Is 10Gbit Ethernet still a technology for the

NVIDIA 196.75 Driver Alert: As many of you are aware, NVIDIA has hit some snags with their latest round of WHQL drivers. The drivers have been interfering with the fan operation on certain NVIDIA video cards, resulting in the GPU overheating. NVIDIA has taken

THX Certified HDTVs - Useful or Just Marketing?: THX is well known for its audio standards. But when you see THX on an HDTV panel, what does that mean? Loyd digs in to find out....

Dell Inspiron 1564: Mobile i3/i5 for the Masses: Dells 15-inch Inspiron line has evolved over the years; gone are the bulky grey-and-white monstrosities, replaced by sleeker, more colorful designs. The latest Inspiron 1564 also sports an i3/i5 CPU, providing a powerful platform thats not as heavy as the

Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue Review: WD Enters the Consumer SSD Market: Late last year Seagate announced its first SSD, and today Western Digital is introducing its first SSD for the mainstream consumer market. We find out who makes the controller and how well it performs....

AnandTech Giveaway: Win a Lenovo ThinkPad X100e Powered by AMD!: Were giving away a brand new ThinkPad X100e! Enter to win!...

AMD's 890GX Chipset - Same Graphics, Better South Bridge: AMDs 8-series chipsets are upon us and despite the name, all of the innovation is in the south bridge. Graphics performance and feature set are unchanged but are the new South Bridge and SATA controller enough to make this interesting?...

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Architecture is Destiny: A Tale of Two Cities and Lessons for the Social Business: About three years ago my wife and I made the rash (and wise) decision to buy a 17th century home in Southwestern France . Puy L’Eveque is a 13th century medieval town situated on a hill overlooking the Lot River.

Current activities at the Electronic Information Privacy Center: A few of the recent campaigns of Electronic Information Privacy Centerinclude whole-body imaging at airports, the Smart Grid, and cell phoneprivacy in the workplace. EPIC demands that institutions takeresponsibility for privacy, designing it into their systems.

Writing Beyond Tech: Bugville Critters: A fun follow up to my previous post about writing outside of technology. This one focuses on my childrens picture books and a series called Bugville Critters. All 16 of my original Bugville Critters books have been published. The latest...

Trapping content on the iPad won't work, even if it's pretty: Wired is leading the magazine-to-iPad charge with a great looking app, but its also reverting to some back lock-in habits. Instead of trapping content and readers within a space -- a true exercise in futility -- Wired and other publishers

Four short links: 19 March 2010: Tsung -- GPLed multi-protocol (HTTP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, WebDAV, SOAP, XMPP) load tester written in Erlang. Myth of Chinas Manufacturing Prowess -- The latest data shows that the United States is still the largest manufacturer in the world. In 2008, U.S.

W3C XML Security RELAX NG Schemas: I see that the W3C XML Security Working Group has updated the Working Draft of their non-normative XML Security schemas in RELAX NG Compact Syntax. RELAX NGs creator Murata-san made a comment on the schemas on the DSDL-comment mailing list:...

Making HTML more like print - Things are improving, but so slowly: Can HTML rival print for quality? I took a fresh look at hyphenation, body text fonts, sidebars, and dynamic layout.

Writing Beyond Tech: Results Unexpected: Last year Microsoft published my 100th book; it was a huge milestone in my professional writing career. When you give yourself to the craft of writing and have spent your life helping others and helping the communities youve lived in,...

What's New in O'Reilly Answers: Do I need to learn Objective-C to program the iPhone?How to get started with Windows Phone programmingAn introduction to genetic algorithms in PythonHow to recover lost, damaged, and deleted files and folders in Windows 7How to link to a specific

How to Get Started with Processing: Are you a creative type that would like to get started with designing and prototyping with Processing? In this excerpt from Visualizing Data Ben Fry introduces the Processing Environment and quickly gets you sketching with Processing. Processing is a simple

Four short links: 18 March 2010: Newspaper Club Launches (BBC) -- the uses it has been put to make for good reading: Among the Newspaper Clubs first clients were the BBC, Wired UK and Last.fm. Penguin used it to debut a preview of the fifth chapter

Launchpad SF Submissions Are Open Until 3/31: Startups! The Web 2.0 Expo is in two months. We want to highlight your work. Each year we put five of you onstage in a Launchpad session. The deadline for submitting your company is 3/31. The criteria is below. Entrants

Don't Click That Link! Net & Email Mistakes 101: Get a strange email from an account you think you recognize? You might want to take a closer look. Recently, an email told me, I just won a cool $1,000,000 from an account with the address award@microsoft.co.uk. A quick look...

Find Your Inner Leprechaun - A St. Patrick's Day Limerick Contest: Since our limerick contest was such a hit last year, we decided to host it again! Today, were encouraging you to write a limerick that is either tech-themed or that references OReilly Media or one (or more) of our books,

Google Buzz and hybrid blogging: A couple Google Buzz experiments with long-form posts hint at a new use for the service. Its emerging as a hybrid option in the social/publishing space; a spot thats well equipped for deeper inquiry and conversation.

Google's New Marketplace Has over a Thousand Apps: One week† into its public launch, the Google Apps Marketplace has just under 1,500 (enterprise) apps. Combined with Salesfore.coms app exchange (also with over a thousand apps), enterprises interested in moving to cloud apps have an increasing number of software

Four short links: 17 March 2010: Common MySQL Queries -- a useful reference. MySocietys Next 12 Months -- two new projects, FixMyTransport and Project Fosbury. The latter is a more general tool to help people organise their own campaigns for change. riak -- scalable key-value store

SkyHook and SimpleGeo Present SpotRank, Now You Can Always Find Where The People Are: In an under-appreciated announcement Skyhook Wireless released a huge set of location trend data. SpotRank, as the data is called, shares out ranking trends for locations around the world. The maps above show the SpotRanks of those locations. Skyhook has

NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge Winners to Be Announced Live On Stage at Where 2.0: The Where 2.0 Conference has its traditions, but we also bring in new activities and participants to inform and inspire. This year, one of the shows highlights is a mash up of the new with the traditional in the form

Google Fiber and the FCC National Broadband Plan: Ive puzzled over Googles Fiber project ever since they announced it. It seemed too big, too hubristic (even for a company thats already big and has earned the right to hubris)--and also not a business Google would want to be

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Google set to improve Analytics privacy: Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Saturday 20 March 2010 at 15:38:00Web giant to offer opt-out option for its flagship web analytics productGoogle is developing a plug-in for its flagship web analytics productdesigned to allow users to

Royal Navy launches iPhone app: Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Saturday 20 March 2010 at 15:27:00Web 2.0 tools used in an effort to recruit new membersThe Royal Navy has become the latest venerable institution to enter the bravenew world of Web

Google Street View under fire again: Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Saturday 20 March 2010 at 15:16:00Web giant criticised for showing images of secret SAS base and murderedteenager Ashleigh HallGoogle’s controversial Street View service has been in trouble once again,following thenationwideroll out

Russians and SEC working together to shut down stock hacker: Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Saturday 20 March 2010 at 09:05:00Cooperative effort to shut down stock manipulatorsTheongoingcaseagainst hackers using stolen share trading accounts to manipulate stocks isseeing good cooperation between Russian business and

Top 10 computer games of all time: Iain Thomson and Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Saturday 20 March 2010 at 08:34:00The history of computing funYou know what they say about all work and no play. So this week weve decidedto

Google reportedly planning April shutdown in China: Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Saturday 20 March 2010 at 01:31:00Report claims that company preparing to close up shop in weeksGoogle is reportedly preparing to shut down its operations in China over thenext

Google unveils Skipfish security tool: Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Saturday 20 March 2010 at 01:29:00Free software scans web apps for flawsGoogle has released a new development tool aimed at uncovering security holesin web applications.The company said that

Google's Pacific Ocean cable close to completion: Dan Worth, V3.co.uk, Friday 19 March 2010 at 17:39:00Unity cable to increase trans-Pacific capacity by 20 per centGoogle is reported to be almost ready to start using a new high-speedinternet cable under the Pacific

Palm smacked by poor results: Dan Worth, V3.co.uk, Friday 19 March 2010 at 17:34:00Less than half of all devices shipped are sold, but analysts say firm couldturn things aroundPalm has posted net losses of $22m (£14.5m) for the third

Lib Dems would curb government “snooping”: Rosalie Marshall, V3.co.uk, Friday 19 March 2010 at 17:24:00The Liberal Democrats promise citizens more control over their dataThe Liberal Democrats will make the issue of privacy central to theircampaign at the next general election,

Picture caption: Sales staff Finnish up top for Comms-care: Fleur Doidge, CRN, Friday 19 March 2010 at 17:23:00Comms-care recently rewarded top sales staff with a four-day outdooradventure trip into the Arctic Circle, in Finnish Lapland.Comms-caresstaff in Finland enjoyed adventure activities including go-karting on

Reader's lives: Londoner calling: Martine Dodwell-Bennett, CRN, Friday 19 March 2010 at 17:19:00The city by the Thames will always have a special place in her heartGolf handicap?Not being able to play -- as my Scottish resellers will testify.How

Administrators unchallenged in Suits You CVA: Rachael Singh, Accountancy Age, Friday 19 March 2010 at 17:02:00CVA at retail group gets a green lightAdministrators from KPMG have been given the go-ahead for a company voluntaryarrangement (CVA) at clothing retailer, Speciality Retail Group (SRG) with ownsbrands such as

PwC lead audit partner at Barclays to step down: Kevin Reed, Accountancy Age, Friday 19 March 2010 at 16:07:00PwCs Philip Rivett to be replaced as audit engagement partner at clientBarclaysPwCs lead audit engagement partner at client Barclays is to be replacedafter five years

Government clueless over copyright costs: Rosalie Marshall, V3.co.uk, Friday 19 March 2010 at 15:42:00Ministers in the dark over economic impact of Clause 18The government has no idea how much impending copyright legislation is likelyto cost the UK economy.The economic

Giant BrightSource solar project edges closer to approval: Danny Bradbury, BusinessGreen, Friday 19 March 2010 at 15:41:00Desert tortoise fears allayed?Plans for one of Americas largest solar thermal projects edged closer toreality this week after the California state government gave nominal approval tothe

Kelway appoints new group sales director: Sara Yirrell, CRN, Friday 19 March 2010 at 15:02:00Nigel Webb joins the firm on an interim basis as predecessor Alan Thompsonleaves to set up homeless charityKelwayhas appointed an interim new group sales director to

B2Net sets its sights on the security market: Caroline Donnelly, CRN, Friday 19 March 2010 at 14:27:00Storage integrator launches push into security market with new divisionStorage integrator B2Net has lifted the lid on plans to establish itself as amajor player in the

State holds more data on citizens than necessary: BCS: IWR News Desk, Information World Review, Friday 19 March 2010 at 13:53:00There is an imbalance between people’s privacy rights and the state’s accessto individual information, according to BCS, the chartered institute for ITIts research showed that more than 60% of

New tools to ease e-retailer franchise management: Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Friday 19 March 2010 at 13:52:00Concrete set to add new capabilities to its flagship Connect franchisemanagement suiteDigital asset management and e-commerce software vendor Concrete is set toannounce two new solutions to

Kuro5hin

kitten: The Text Adventure: Location: Party You are at a great party. There are lots of people milling about. It is a lot of fun. You see several lines of cocaine here. You can: snort cocaine

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The Secret: A Review of Dulcinea Technologies Corporation's Debut Product: After weeks of e-mails and days of phone calls, yesterday I drove to San Jose for a demo of Michael David Crawfords secret project. Michael was eager to show off his work, but urged me not to share my interest

Cars, Value Engineering, and Bugs: Two trends in automotive development, value engineering and drive-by-wire have the potential to reduce driver safety. Toyotas recent travails provide some food for thought.

Hopeless romantic Chinese Ph.D candidate arrested: He did it for love and he is a model employee with his employer The Rutgers University according to his friends and colleagues And the TSA security officer that should have been stationed where the trespass occurred is on administrative

The Jarmidor, Part 3: Having discovered that Im not the only pipe-faggot on Kuro5hin I decided to see whether I could get my loose shag as moist as a 14 year old baptist girl at her first Jonas brothers concert. Unfortunately my girlfriend doesnt

15 Yards: The Unsportsmanlike Tax Evasion of the NFL: Superbowl XLIV approaches, pitting two potent offensive teams against one another. The inimitable Peyton Manning, this years winner of the National Football Leagues MVP award (his fourth, most of any player all time), will try to use his bottomless well

Obama The First Year: Hes accomplished quite a lot his first year. Heres my list of the most talked about on liberal blogs.

Our Trip to Cuba: Its next to impossible to get an objective opinion on Cuba. Most Americans cant go there and form their own opinion. We went there because it promised to be an affordable family vacation with a direct flight from Quebec that

Applying the First Amendment to Corporations: Well established and a good idea: Theres been much hang-wringing about the recent Citizens United U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down a ban on direct electioneering by corporations in a window before elections. Much of the buzz, especially from left-leaning corners, sees it as a

Tweaking K5: Some loosy penis has loads of fun shitting around page-lenghtening and/or widening comments or diar(rh)ies. I suggest Rusty fixes that annoyance by adding a tiny bit of code in K5.

Building Houses - One Bullet at a Time: I almost went to New Orleans back in 05. I feel like the guy who took the next train, only to realize the train is slowing down because theres a wreck ahead on the line. At the time, it was

Firefox Has Too Many Developers: In its last several releases, everyones favorite Open Source browser has become an unstable mess of add-ons, plugins, and other hacks that chew up memory like a fat kid with a chocolate-dipped corn dog. In fact, just last week, SecurityFocus

NetBSD: Bankrupt Software Distribution: Hot on the heels of their NetBSD 5.0.1 release, the NetBSD organization is gearing up for NetBSD 6.0, due in about half a year (The sixth major release for the six month of 2010!).To make that happen, NetBSD is asking

Time to Update the Ol' LARP Résumé: Eric poured the first of his new bottle of Jägermeister into a glass tumbler, making sure not to spill any drops of the precious thick brown liqueur.He was warm all over from drinking the last bottle and sweat formed like

Some lessons in online affiliate sales.: I recently read a thing about someone who made $200 a month through an Amazon affiliate store. This struck me as an interesting way to make some folding money. Could I do the same thing? The short answer: no.

Perl, sed, grep, gawk, uniq, host and dig: another look: None of the above programs are sexy or buzzword compliant. Because of modern scripting languages they are largely ignored or at best under utilized. A number of years ago, I was mentored by a Unix guru who knew his way

Obama in China in Retrospect: Complete Fail: James Fallows is a stupid faggot, albeit probably more stupid than faggot. In a recent blog post he sarcastically writes that We All Know that Obama was humiliated and stonewalled by the haughty Chinese leaders, in contrast to the titanic

Techdirt

Irish Collection Society Wants Hotels To Pay Performance Fees For Music Played In Guest Rooms: Weve seen all sorts of ridiculous claims by performance rights collection societies trying to demand performance rights for things that clearly were not intended as performances. There was the woman stocking shelves in a store who was singing without paying.

Hot News Is Back: Court Blocks Website From Reporting The News: In the last few years, theres been a push by some companies to bring back the immensely troubling hot news doctrine, that appears to violate everything we know about the First Amendment and copyright law. Basically, the hot news doctrine

Would UK Politicians Support The Digital Economy Bill If It Applied To Offline Activities As Well?: The entertainment industry always likes to take the digital world and compare it to the physical world as if the two were the same -- often making claims like unauthorized downloading is just like stealing a CD from a store.

Nestles Discovers The Streisand Effect... But Only After Making Things Worse And Worse... And Worse: Earlier this week, reader Jorvay sent over the news of how food giant Nestle had massively overreacted to an (admittedly disgusting) anti-Nestle video put together by Greenpeace and posted to YouTube. The thing was, this video was getting no attention.

More ACTA Leaks: Would Create Special Organization To Manage Worldwide Copyright Laws: The more of ACTA that leaks, the worse it seems. KEI has the details on another portion of ACTA that had not leaked yet, which focuses on setting up new institutions that would manage ACTA after it was implemented. Basically,

People Realizing That Viacom's Filings Take YouTube Quotes Totally Out Of Context: I had pointed this out in a comment yesterday, but with so many press reports suggesting that Viacoms filing found some sort of smoking gun in the YouTube emails concerning founders talking about stealing videos, its worth pointing out that

The Onion Puts Out An Equally Accurate Report On Recording Industry Revenue Issues: Ah, leave it to The Onion to successfully encapsulate the state of the recording industry with a report that is basically as accurate as most of the reports that come out of the RIAA these days:The Recording Industry Association of

Too Little Too Late: Universal Music Finally Realizes That Maybe CDs Were Too Expensive: David Herron alerts us to the news that its finally occurred to the brain trust at Universal Music that, perhaps, CD prices were too high. Theyve introduced a new pricing structure, which effectively means theyve lowered the suggested retail prices

Despite Plenty Of Warning EA Still Decides To Follow Ubisoft Down The Wrong Path With DRM: Last summer, we wrote about some reports that EA was going to require a constant internet connection for Command & Conquer 4. At the time, many people argued that this was a bad, bad idea and would backfire greatly. Given

California Court Says Online Bullying Is Not Protected Free Speech: There have been plenty of efforts to try to curb cyberbullying, often through laws that try to make it illegal to be a jerk. Unfortunately, the concept of cyberbullying is so vague that this creates tremendous problems and unintended consequences.

Will YouTube Case Lead To FTC Investigation Of Viacom's Questionable Marketing Practices?: Heres one more point concerning the motions filed in the YouTube case by Google and Viacom. We had mentioned in our analysis that Google highlights the details of Viacoms rather large stealth marketing campaign to upload videos to YouTube, but

If ACTA Gets Approved, Expect China To Use It As Justification For Censorship: While one of ACTAs biggest supporters, Rep. Howard Berman, is now pushing for laws to stop companies aiding in Chinas censorship, he might want to consider that a better plan would be to back down on ACTA. If ACTA passes,

Tool Maker Loses Lawsuit For Not Violating Another Company's Patents: Patent system supporters regularly point (slightly misleadingly) to the claim that the patent system gives patent holders the right to exclude others from using their inventions. And, thus, most lawsuits we see around patents revolve around cases involving a company

YouTube Motions Highlight How Entertainment Industry Lawsuits May Have Slowed Useful Platforms: Weve already written up an analysis of the motions for summary judgment in the Viacom/Google YouTube lawsuit, suggesting that Googles arguments seem stronger. It still seems unlikely that either motion will persuade the judge to skip a trial altogether, but

Canon Becomes The Online Equivalent Of Madonna Or Prince, Becoming The First Single Word Domain(...): Its been a while now since ICANN announced plans to open up the top level domain space. While weve questioned for many years the utility of still requiring limited TLDs, ICANNs plan to open up top level domains appeared to

Ad Age Explains How Copyright Is The Buggy Whip Of The Digital Age: Michael Scott points us to a rather surprising (given the source) piece in Ad Age asking if copyright is the buggy whip of the digital age. Of course, most regular Techdirt readers will not be surprised to find that I

Legal Fight Over Design Of Disposable Coffee Cups: Whatever happened to actually competing in the market place? Copycense points us to a recent legal battle between Dixie and Huhtamaki over the design of their disposable coffee cups. Seriously. Dixie claimed that Huhtamaki violated its trade dress because its

Indie Artists Discuss Dealing With File Sharing: Unfortunately, I cant find who first sent this in, but the site Inieoma recently had an interesting multi-part discussion on how independent artists are dealing with the issue of piracy. Some of the parts are quite interesting. Simon Indelicate has

Courts Stretching Computer Hacking Law In Dangerous Ways: Michael Scott points us to a very interesting analysis of how to different appeals courts have very different interpretations of our federal anti-hacking law. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act was passed by Congress to create criminal sanctions for malicious

Verizon Figures If It's Already Involved In A Patent Lawsuit With TiVo, Why Not Sue Cablevision(...): Ah, the patent wars. As youre probably aware, TiVo spent years fighting a big legal battle with EchoStar/Dish Networks over some patents on DVR technology. TiVo won big, and then immediately turned its patent lawyers on some other companies including

X-bit labs

Nvidia Has "Tons of Exciting Opportunities" with Tegra - Company: Nvidia Excited About Tegra Prospects with Boosted System-on-Chip Team

Dell Returns Adamo XPS to Own Stores: Dell Adamo XPS Makes Reappearance

Sega Expects Microsoft's Natal to Bring "Brilliant Innovations": Sega Is Very Positive About Microsoft Natal and Sony Move

Specifications and Prices of Nvidia GeForce GTX 400-Series Graphics Cards Emerge on the Web: Nvidia GeForce GTX 480, 470 Alleged Specs and Prices Transpire

HTC Disagrees with Apple, Will Defend Itself in Court: HTC: We Have Consistently Driven Innovation

ATI Radeon HD 5670, Radeon HD 5570 and Radeon HD 5450: A Multimedia Ideal?: Not so long ago we talked about the multimedia capabilities of the new Budget solutions from Nvidia and they proved to be quite impressive. Today time has come to check out their competitors from the AMD camp: Radeon HD 5670,

World's Largest Book Seller Appoints E-Commerce Specialist as Chief Executive: Appointment of CEO May Point to Barnes & Nobles Future: Electronic Commerce

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