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Microsoft Employees Love Their iPhones: portscan writes There is an entertaining and telling article in the Wall Street Journal about iPhone use by Microsoft employees. Apparently, despite it being frowned upon by senior management, iPhone use is rampant among the Redmond rank and file. The

Obama Backs MPAA, RIAA, and ACTA: boarder8925 writes In a move sure to surprise no one, Obama has come out on the side of the MPAA/RIAA and has backed the ACTA: Were going to aggressively protect our intellectual property, Obama said in his speech, Our single

What Aspects of Open Source Projects Do You Avoid?: paulproteus writes Im a Debian developer and a part-time contributor to a few smaller projects. I do a lot of free software-y and open source-y things. Sometimes, though, I dont do them. I figure some other Slashdotters might have similar

How To Make Your Own iPhone RFID Reader: andylim writes Its been rumoured for some time now that Apple will include RFID technology in a future iPhone. An RFID-packing iPhone could interact with various objects including opening doors and it could even be used in shops to register

Classmates.com Settles Lawsuit Over Phony Friends: Hugh Pickens writes Techflash reports that Classmates.com has agreed to pay up to $9.5 million to its users to settle a lawsuit that accused the social network of sending deceptive emails that made people believe their old friends from high

How Sony and Microsoft Hope To Crack the Motion Control Market: An editorial at Eurogamer delves into what Sony and Microsoft hope to achieve with their upcoming console motion control systems, despite entering the market several years after Nintendo set the standard. The cards Sony has placed on the table this

Venezuela's Chavez To Limit Internet Freedom: terets1 writes Reuters reports that Venezuelas leader, Hugo Chavez, issued a call on Saturday for internet controls to prevent rumors and inaccurate reporting from spreading. He specifically cited a case in which a website incorrectly reported that a senior minister

Google Makes Apps Script Available To All: theodp writes Formerly only available to Apps Users, Google has made Apps Script available to everyone (sample script), including you Google Docs low-lifers. Apps Script lets you automate actions across spreadsheets, sites, calendars, and other Google services. No spamming, kids!

Air Force Spaceplane Readying For Launch: FleaPlus writes The US Air Force is currently preparing for the launch of the secretive X-37B OTV-1 (Orbital Test Vehicle 1) spaceplane, which was transferred from NASA to DARPA back in 2004 when NASA opted to focus its budget on

Mozilla Foundation Begins Redraft Process For MPL: Barence writes Mozilla has announced plans to redraft the open-source license underpinning projects such as Firefox. The Mozilla Public License 1.1 has been used to distribute numerous projects including Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenSolaris and Flex for over a decade. In the

Pi Day and an Interview With a Pi Researcher: JoshuaInNippon writes In honor of Pi Day, March 14 (or 3.14 for those who may need a hint), readers may be interested in reading an interview with Professor Daisuke Takahashi, the Japanese researcher who found 2.5 trillion digits of Pi

A Skeptical Comparison of HTML5 Video Playback To Flash: gollum123 writes Think wed all be better off if HTML5 could somehow instantly replace Flash overnight? Not necessarily, according to a set of comparisons from Jan Ozer of the Streaming Learning Center website, which found that while HTML5 did come

Long-Running Underwater Robot Lost At Sea: this_boat_is_real writes Somewhere off the coast of Chile a pioneering underwater robot named Abe lies in a watery grave today. The Autonomous Benthic Explorer was one of the first truly independent research submersibles, being both unmanned and un-tethered to its

Pharma Marketing Faces a Character-Count Conundrum: this_boat_is_real writes Theres growing concern over how pharmaceutical companies use social media and the Internet to market their products. Last November, the US Food and Drug Administration held a hearing on the topic, and many were worried over how marketing

OpenBSD 4.7 Preorders Are Up: badger.foo writes The OpenBSD 4.7 pre-orders are up. That means the release is done, sent off to CD production, and snapshots will turn -current again. Order now and you more likely than not will have your CD set, T-shirt or

Former Astronauts Call Obama NASA Plans "Catastrophic": krou writes Talking to the BBC at a private function held at the Royal Society in London, former astronauts Jim Lovell and Eugene Cernan both spoke out about Obamas decision to postpone further moon missions. Lovell claimed that it will

Programming the Commodore 64: the Definitive Guide: Mirk writes Back in 1985 it was possible to understand the whole computer, from the hardware up through device drivers and the kernel through to the high-level language that came burned into the ROMs (even if it was only Microsoft

Former Astronauts Call Obama NASA Plans "Catastrophic": krou writes Talking to the BBC at a private function held at the Royal Society in London, former astronauts Jim Lovell and Eugene Cernan both spoke out about Obamas decision to postpone further moon missions. Lovell claimed that it will

GPS Log Analysis Uncovers Millions In NYC Taxi Overcharges: Hugh Pickens writes The NY Times reports that New York Citys Taxi and Limousine Commission is using GPS data collected in every cab to review millions of trips in New York City over the past 26 months and has discovered

GPS Log Analysis Uncovers Millions In NYC Taxi Overcharges: Hugh Pickens writes The NY Times reports that New York Citys Taxi and Limousine Commission is using GPS data collected in every cab to review millions of trips in New York City over the past 26 months and has discovered

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Digg Technology

The iPad paradox: Less is more: A strange trend has emerged that violates the more-is-better ethos of American consumer culture. Some products and services are touting limitations as desirable features. And consumers are loving it.

Google's Matt Cutts Clarifies "Delusions": Valleywag used a recent podcast I did as material for two points in Six Delusions of Google’s Arrogant Leaders. The two assertions that used my comments as material were “Google’s wealth means Google ‘gets it’” and “Google must sacrifice user

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Pi Day: Google Doodle Celebrates Math Nerds Everywhere: Google’s new logo, which you can see on the top right, contains not only the famous πr2 formula, but five other uses of π: measuring the volume of a sphere (V = 4⁄3 πr3), computing the circumference of a circle

U.S. to Roll Out Major Broadband Policy - Yahoo! News: U.S. regulators will announce a major Internet policy this week to revolutionize how Americans communicate and play, proposing a dramatic increase in broadband speeds that could let people download a high-definition film in minutes instead of hours.

Dear Mozilla, please fix this. Thank you.: *****

Google Street View: Survey Raises Privacy Concerns: Google Street View, which has now been expanded to cover more than 95 per cent of Britain’s roads, is being seen as a “service for burglars”, according to new research.

iPhone browsing to be faster with Opera -- if Apple approves: The company behind the Web browser Opera is weeks away from submitting it to Apples iPhone store for approval, a spokesman said Friday. The result, according to the Norwegian company, would be a browser up to six times faster than

What to Expect at SXSW 2010: SWSW Interactive opened on Friday in Austin, Tex., drawing a crowd of thousands and a collection of speakers that includes director Quentin Tarantino, Twitter founder Evan Williams, and Microsoft Researcher Danah Boyd. Heres what you can expect from it.

Obama Sides with RIAA, MPAA; Backs ACTA: No copyright and/or patent reform for you, American citizens!

An invitation to crime: How a friendly click can compromise: Hey Alice, look at the pics I took of us last weekend at the picnic. Bob. That Facebook message, sent last fall between co-workers at a large U.S. financial firm, rang true enough. Alice had, in fact, attended a picnic

Could GPS devices create a world without signs?: These tools are inexorably changing the way we navigate highways. Its true that we use signs in tandem with personal navigation systems today, but that may not always be the case. Experts envision a future in which we trust digital

How Apple Blew Its Chance To Own AdMob For $600 Million: Apple had a chance to own mobile advertising company AdMob for $600 million, but blew it, the New York Times reports.

Leo Laporte crowd surfing while live streaming @ Diggnation: Leo Laporte crowd surfing while live streaming on the Internet at Diggnation Live case. As seen at SXSW 2010 at Stubbs BBQ in Austin, TX!

New Version of Digg Revealed: At the “Bigg Digg Shindigg” event at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference (SXSWi), Digg CEO Jay Adelson revealed that the popular social bookmarking site is getting a major overhaul, teasing the audience about new features such as personalized feeds

When malware strikes via bad ads on good sites: Who is responsible for malware in ads, Web site owners or ad networks and delivery firms? Matt Drudge and Michael Arrington found themselves this week in an unpleasant position when visitors to their respective Drudge Report and TechCrunch sites were

Seven Improved Security Features in Windows 7: While no operating system is perfect, Microsoft appears to have made significant security improvements with the release of Windows 7.

Top 10 Google Apps Marketplace Apps: Googles Apps suite for domain owners and businesses has finally received some star treatment with the launch of the Apps Marketplace. Which Google-friendly apps are free, worth the cost, and entirely useful? These 10 are definitely worth a look.

Comcast-NBCU merger: how the regulators will decide: Representatives from the Department of Justice and FCC were low-key about what they thought about the proposed Comcast-NBC Universal merger at yesterdays Senate hearing. But they offered a road map of how theyre going to evaluate the deal. Weve got

Epic Lego ‘Crawler Town’ Creation by Dave DeGobbi: Dave DeGobbis mind-blowing Crawler Town should have its own moviewritten around it. If there are any fans of Borderlands out there,its heavily reminiscent of Baron Flynts massive rig-turned-city, theThor.

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CNET News.com

At SXSWi, Facebook flexes its gaming muscle: The social networks annual developer get-together as part of the South by Southwest Interactive Festival was focused on how it can bring its Facebook Connect technology to gamers on disparate platforms.

Fiorina follows 'Demon Sheep' with heavenly hot air: A new ad for former HP CEO Carly Fiorinas campaign for the Senate takes the extremes of her Demon Sheep ad to even more exalted levels.

Venezuelan president calls for Internet regulation: Hugo Chavez says the Internet cannot be something open where anything is said and done and demands crackdown on a critical news site.

How to make Chatroulette a useful video network: There is a way that Chatroulette could become a lot more than a place for people to show off their private parts

Shirky: Napster tapped into our primate instincts: We dont want to share goods, but we want to share information, the NYU professor said at a SXSWi talk, and Napster transformed music into information.

Digg 2.0 unveiled at SXSW, 'faster,' 'instant': At Diggs packed South by Southwest party Saturday night, CEO Jay Adelson surprised the audience by announcing a revamped version of the service with a big slate of new features.

#OMGConan: The big Digg party Twitter hoax: At about 8 p.m. central time Saturday night, the word spread on Twitter like wildfire that Conan OBrien was joining Internet TV network Revision3. But it was actually a hoax that hundreds participated in.

Systems engineer deemed best job in America: A deep and detailed survey by Focus.com concludes that the best job in the United States is a tech job: systems engineer. No. 2: physician assistant. No. 3: college professor.

Privacy is not dead: SXSWi keynoter Danah Boyd: Recent PR debacles surrounding Google Buzz and Facebooks privacy settings have put the spotlight on basic misunderstandings by tech companies about how people use social media.

A 257 degree panorama from the Game Developers Conference expo floor: A view of the expo floor from on top of the Sony booth at the Game Developers Conference in the South Hall of Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Why people really do care about privacy: When Facebook changed its privacy settings, Zuckerberg took pictures off his Facebook pages. Googles Schimdt is reportedly trying to take down his ex-lovers blog. No one cares about privacy? Really?

Selling a car the iPod way: Chevy is hoping to tap into the same sentiments that spark gadget fandom with its new Volt electric car. But is the crowd at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival the right audience?

AT&T's network up to SXSW iPhone onslaught: After last years network meltdown at the hands of thousands of iPhone-toting geeks at the interactive confab in Austin, Texas, AT&T promised it would do better. People were skeptical, but theyve been won over.

Google '99.9 percent' sure to shutter Google.cn: Google, now 99.9 percent certain it will shutter its Chinese search engine amid conflict over censorship, has in-depth plans to do so, according to a Financial Times source.

Behind the wheel of the Chevy Volt: Eager to court the fans of cutting-edge tech who show up at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSWi), General Motors sent a Chevy Volt over to the annual Austin, TX festival. CNETs Caroline McCarthy got a chance to drive

Social gamers accept marketing for virtual currency: A ComScore-Offerpal Media survey shows that social gamers are willing to be marketed to in order to get free virtual currency. Avoiding scams will be key to making this trend last.

Apple loses key chip executive: Sources say Dan Dobberpuhl, PA Semis founder and pre-acquisition chief executive, has jumped ship to work at chip-related start-up Agnilux.

Top-rated reviews of the week (photos): Here are a few of CNET Reviews favorite items from the past week, including the 2010 Mini Cooper S, Falcon Northwest Mach V, and the Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS7.

Work hard, play hard at GDC (audio slideshow): At the 2010 Game Developers Conference, artists, programmers, and designers are sharing their best ideas on the future of gaming.

Wheelie robot brings dinner on the double: Toshiba shows off a two-wheeled autonomous robot than can roll over ramps and balance a tray of food. Wheelie might make a decent waiter.

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ZDNet

Next Firefox to drop Mac OS X 10.4 support: Mozilla has officially decided that the next major version of Firefox will require at least Mac OS X 10.5 when running on Apple computers. by Stephen Shankland CNET News

Microsoft re-releases Blue Screen of Death fix: Microsoft is re-releasing the patch that caused Windows systems to crash in February with a Blue Screen of Death. by Richard Thurston ZDNet UK

Cray, Microsoft join forces on cloud datacenters: Supercomputer maker Crays custom engineering group has teamed up with Microsoft Research to look into lowering the costs of running cloud-computing datacenters. by Matthew Broersma ZDNet UK

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

Three arrested over 12.7m PC botnet: Authorities in Spain have arrested three men accused of operating a massive botnet which stole credit card and bank log-in data and infected computers in half the Fortune 1,000 companies. by Elinor Mills CNET News

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

Google boosts Chrome privacy in new beta: Google has improved privacy features and introduced automated translation of foreign-language web pages in a new version of its Chrome 4.1 beta browser for Windows. by Tom Espiner ZDNet UK

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

EMC, Intel team up on cloud security, compliance: EMC, RSA, VMware and Intel have announced a new collaboration to introduce a framework encompassing security and compliance for cloud computing in the enterprise space. by Kevin Kwang ZDNet Asia

LHC to restart following break and glitches: The The Large Hadron Collider, the worlds largest particle accelerator is to restart on Monday following a technical break and glitches in the machine. by Tom Espiner ZDNet UK

Google launches people finder for Chile earthquake: Google has launched a tool to help people locate friends and loved ones who might have been affected by the 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile on Saturday. by Steven Musil CNET News

Skype drops Windows Mobile and Skype Lite: Skype has announced it is pulling Skype for Windows Mobile phones and Skype Lite for Java handsets, including Android. by Jessica Dolcourt CNET News

Mozilla patches critical Firefox bugs: Mozilla has released fixes for five security holes in older versions of Firefox, while a security company has warned of a zero-day flaw in the latest version of the popular browser. by Matthew Broersma

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

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

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Wired Technology

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

Desperate Efforts to Save Endangered Bats May Fail: A desperate attempt to keep endangered Virginia big-eared bats alive in captivity has shown just how difficult that noble task may be.The effort was prompted by the discovery of White Nose Syndrome, an extremely virulent disease that has killed more

The ’70s Photos That Made Us Want to Save Earth: << previous image | next image >>Two years after Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency, the new institution sent out 100 photographers to document the nation’s environment writ large.Now, those photos have made it out of the root cellar

You Are a Tamagotchi: Turning Your Health Into a Game: In the mid 1990s, a craze swept Japan and crested its way onto American shores: Kids were going crazy for the Tamagotchi, an egg-shaped digital pet. Every few hours, users would press a couple buttons to feed their Tamagotchi, play

Quantum Computing Thrives on Chaos: Embracing chaos just might help physicists build a quantum brain. A new study shows that disorder can enhance the coupling between light and matter in quantum systems, a find that could eventually lead to fast, easy-to-build quantum computers.Quantum computers promise

Your Chilean Sea Bass Dinner Deprives Killer Whales: A one-of-a-kind killer whale population appears to be threatened by human appetites for Antarctic toothfish, better known to restaurant-goers as Chilean Sea Bass.As fishing fleets patrol their waters, catching what was their primary source of food, the whales are vanishing.

Arctic Reindeer Go Off the Circadian Clock: Reindeer adapt to the Arctic’s endless summer light and winter dark by silencing their circadian clock. The adaptation may be a general one that helps Arctic animals make the most of their weird environment.“If you are being driven through a

Ear Infections Could Cause Long-Term ‘Lazy Ear’: Some folks who don’t seem to listen may just have a lazy ear. A new study in rats shows that short-term hearing impairments at any stage of life can lead to rewiring in the part of the brain that processes

Gulf War Syndrome Shows Up in Brain Scans: SALT LAKE CITY — Nearly two decades after vets began returning from the Middle East complaining of Gulf War Syndrome, the federal government has yet to formally accept that their vague jumble of symptoms constitutes a legitimate illness. Here, at

Half-Cocked? Hermaphrochickens Challenge Gender Identit: Chicken sex doesn’t work like ours. No, not that sex — but the process by which an embryo becomes a recognizably male or female animal.Unlike mammals, it’s not hormones that dictate a chicken’s sex. It’s fundamental property of the cells

Bottled Wind Could Be as Constant as Coal: Wind power has made incredible inroads into the U.S. energy system thanks to big, efficient machines standing hundreds of feet tall. But the future of wind power may be underground.In the abandoned mines and sandstones of the Midwest, compressed-air storage

Better Than Apollo: The Space Program We Almost Had: SAN FRANCISCO — In the late 1950s, American space companies jumped into a headlong race to build an aerospace industry that could launch missiles across the world and rockets above it.In her new book Another Science Fiction, archivist Megan Prelinger

Your Computer Really Is a Part of You: An empirical test of ideas proposed by Martin Heidegger shows the great German philosopher to be correct: Everyday tools really do become part of ourselves.The findings come from a deceptively simple study of people using a computer mouse rigged to

Mile-High Mega-Kites Could Pull Giant, Floating Power-Plant Ships: Take a huge oceanic catamaran, stick a hydroelectric turbine underneath it, and hitch it to a 6.5 million-square-foot parafoil flying nearly a mile in the air. That’s a Korean research team’s new proposal for generating gigawatts of clean energy.As the

Low Tolerance for Pain May Be Genetic: One form of a common genetic variant may ratchet up pain sensitivity in people who have it, researchers report online March 8 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.The discovery could lead to more powerful pain treatments that

All of Life’s Ingredients Found in Orion Nebula: The ingredients for life as we know it have been found in the Orion Nebula.By finely separating the spectrum of incoming light, astronomers are able to detect the chemical fingerprints of molecules like water and methanol. The spectrograph that their

Kindness Breeds More Kindness, Study Shows: In findings sure to gladden the heart of anyone who’s ever wondered whether tiny acts of kindness have larger consequences, researchers have shown that generosity is contagious.Goodness spurs goodness, they found: A single act can influence dozens more.In a game

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Tom's Hardware

In Pictures: GDC 2010, Day 2: Loyds second day on the floor of GDC 2010 comes back to us in the form of a picture story. Real-time motion capture, virtual reality, stereoscopic showings from Nvidia and Sony, plus a brain wave detector kit were all on

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GDC 2010, Day 1: The Missing Middle: This years Game Developer Conference is in full swing, and Loyd Case is on the ground, reporting the latest goings-on. His Day 1 coverage includes AMDs push for open-standard physics, Windows Phone 7, Playstation Move, real-world gaming, and Surface.

Efficiency Explored: Core i7-980X Versus Core i7-975: Intel is preemptively launching the first hexa-core desktop CPU weeks ahead of actual availability. But how does this 32nm monster perform

Intel Core i7-980X Extreme: Hello, Six-Core Computing: Already the performance leader in desktop processing, Intel is following its quad-core Bloomfield design up with Gulftown, a hexa-core design sporting 12MB of shared L3 cache. Is the lone Gulftown model, Core i7-980X Extreme, worth a $1,000 asking price?

Four Compression And Archiving Solutions Compared: Would you rather use 7-Zip, FreeArc, WinRAR, or WinZip? We put four of the most popular file archiving tools to the test, analyzing compression ratios and performance. Spoiler alert: WinZip 14, the latest version of this popular title, gets creamed.

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Updated: Tuning Cool'n'Quiet: Maximize Power And Performance: Think your Athlon or Phenom processor is already tuned to deliver the best balance between performance and power consumption? Think again.

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Best Graphics Cards For The Money: March 2010: With three new Radeon HD 5000-series cards launched last month, older models being put out to pasture. And an

3.5” Enterprise Hard Drive Development Analyzed: SSDs might be the fastest storage option today, but by no means is it the most popular. Magnetic media offers high throughput and

Two Portable 500GB Drives Benchmarked (And Dropped): If youre the sort of power user whos hard on technology, especially out in the field, then ruggedized mobile storage might be apropos. Today, were looking at a pair of portable disks that can take drops and spills, while serving

Web Browser Grand Prix: The Top Five, Tested And Ranked: Weve put Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla FireFox, and Opera through a gauntlet of speed tests and time trials to find out which Web browser is truly the fastest. How does your favorite land in our rankings?

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Intel Core i5-750S: Since When Does The S Mean Slow?: Intel has S-models for several Core 2 processors that offer lower power consumption and comparable performance. However, the first S-model in the Core i5 family is actually slower than its regular counterpart—and its even less efficient, overall!

AMD 890GX Unveiled: Three Motherboards Compared: AMD’s new chipset promises big performance increases with its Radeon HD 4290 graphics core and built-in SATA 6Gb/s controller. Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI sent their latest motherboards to help us find out how well 890GX and SB850 deliver on those

Perfect Consumer Backup With Seagate And Rebit: Seagate’s Replica is a portable hard drive with automatic backup, versioning, and disaster recovery features to make backup a no-brainer. The product works so well that it deserves our rare Best of Tom’s Award.

Value DDR3 For Intel's P55: Six 4GB Kits Rounded Up: The exceptional value of LGA 1156-based platforms demands memory modules equal in value. Testing Newegg’s six cheapest 4GB dual-channel kits revealed some surprisingly good parts. Were comparing them today, with a definitive winner youll want to see.

Enthusiast P55: Eight LGA 1156 Boards Between $150 And $200: Upper-range P55 motherboards cost around $100 less than similarly-equipped X58 products, but are these still good enough for enthusiasts? We take a closer look at eight different models, dissect their features, benchmark them, and come away with a winner.

Part 1: 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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Ars Technica

Marketing games: the art of the pole dance: Lets get one thing out of the way first: True Crime looks good. The game was demoed for me in a private suite, played live, and talked up by the developer. Mixing

The Weird Science of toilet plants and rhythmless reindeer: Well, thats one way to get a balanced diet: We all know that carnivorous plants have evolved in regions where the soil isnt very nutrient-rich, and they use their prey to supplement

A cheaper and more efficient solar-hydrogen system: As scientists continue to pursue alternative fuels that may enable us to break free of the fossil variety, a group of researchers has taken another step towards directly converting solar energy into fuel, in this case, hydrogen. A new system

iPad mania: hot presales, iBooks info, 3G model semipopular: iPad mania has hit since Apples answer to the tablet became available for pre-order on Friday morning. We already mentioned with glee that the mute switch has been transformed into an orientation

Week in Apple: iPad day looms, Mac gamers rejoice, and more: As St. Patricks Day draws near, Apple fans are counting themselves among the lucky. After all, Steam is finally coming to the Mac, the iPad finally has a ship date, and the

Week in tech: ad blocking, whitelisting, and privacy: The biggest story this past week on Ars was ad-blocking. You may not have realized it, but blocking ads truly hurts the websites you visit. We discussed why that is (diminished resources

Week in gaming: Ubisoft DRM, PlayStation Move, and God of War III: Those playing Assassins Creed 2 on the PC got a rude reminder of DRMs pitfalls when the servers that authenticate the game went down. Many complained on the companys official forum, and

Valve's Gabe Newell shares his thoughts on DRM: At this years Game Developers Choice Awards, Vavles Gabe Newell won the Pioneer Award, and he used the opportunity to share a slide show with the crowd of developers, press, and business people. His message? DRM is not good for

Surprise: iPhone app use heaviest at night and on weekends: Apple has made inroads into the professional market with the iPhone—the company has noted that some Fortune 500 companies have deployed them alongside or even replacing BlackBerrys. Despite this, analysis of app usage suggests that it remains a mostly personal

Netflix settles privacy lawsuit, ditches $1 million contest: Netflix has canceled its $1 million contest aimed at finding a better recommendation engine in the wake of a privacy lawsuit settlement. The company informed its users today via the company blog, noting that it had reached an understanding with

New Zealand relies on BGP router protocol to filter the 'Net: New Zealands government-run Internet filtering system is now running, and two ISPs are already using the system. Seven thousand websites are on the list, most dealing with child sexual abuse, bestiality, and

China and Google playing game of Chicken over censorship: Chinese authorities are pounding their desks over compliance with the law as Googles C-Day approaches. The C is for Censorship, of course, which Google plans to lift in China sometime in the near future. The company has been in talks

Science journo quits writing to fight chiropractic libel suit: The UKs libel laws, which place the burden of proof onto those who have published inflammatory statements, have had a chilling effect on journalism in that nation, and have led to a

Bed readers rejoice: iPad gains last-minute rotation lock: When Apple first introduced the iPad in late January, we noted with much disappointment that the device had no way to lock the screen orientation. This is apparently no longer the case, however—according to an updated iPad specs page, there

Firefox 3.6 sees 100M downloads, now pushing notifications: Firefox 3.6—the latest version of the popular open source Web browser—was officially released in January, but there are still many users who have not yet updated. In an effort to increase awareness about the availability of version 3.6, Mozilla announced

Five insights into the behaviors of social media users: We do a decent amount of social media coverage here at Ars, but not everything that happens with Facebook, Twitter, and the like is worth its own story. Sometimes, though, we happen

New WMAP data can't erase "dark flow": About 18 months ago, we discussed a mysterious darkflow that was seen in early releases of the data from theWilkinsonMicrowave Anisotropy Probe data. At that time, we remarked that it waslittle more than a cosmic curiosity and possibly a statistical

Comcast-NBCU merger: how the regulators will decide: Good morning, this hearing will come to order, and we welcome all. I notice that there are a few people in the room, declared Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV). Were here to discuss

Hands on with Bit.Trip Runner: don't watch, listen: The bit.trip series of games combines simple graphics with catchy songs, and then blends both together into an addictive soup. The past games in the series for the Nintendo WiiWare service have all been gold, and at GDC we were

Beautiful innovation: the first 20 hours of FF XIII: Final Fantasy games often seem like a mixed bag. One one hand, they tend to take too long to get into; the first ten hours or so always feel like something you

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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

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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?...

NVIDIA's Next Generation ION: Next generation products are always better... just look at Star Trek! At least, thats the theory behind the new NVIDIA ION platform, and it looks like the best thing for your netbook woes starting later this month....

Intel DH57JG “Jet Geyser” - Intel's First Mini-ITX H57: Intel delivers mini-ITX without the frills and fuss......

Zotac H55-ITX Review - The World's First mini-ITX H55 Motherboard: Zotac unleashes the first H55 based mini-ITX board on the market, we take a look......

OWC Mercury Extreme SSD - First Look at a 50GB SandForce Drive: OWC sent us its 50GB Mercury Extreme SSD based on the same SandForce controller in OCZs Vertex LE. We try to find out if the 50GB drive is really significantly slower than the 100GB Vertex LE....

AMD’s Radeon HD 5830: A Filler Card at the Wrong Price: To close the 5850/5770 gap, today AMD is introducing the 5830, a further cut-down Cypress. Today well see why this card embodies the idea that there is no such thing as a bad card, only a bad price...

New MSI Classic Notebooks: MSI, best known for their PC components, have launched their latest Intel Arrandale equipped notebook offerings. We discussed some of the initial products in our CES coverage, and these are now shipping and available at retailers like Newegg and Amazon.The

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Inside the E Wars: Apple's iPad: Been awhile since a post, been out enjoying the real world. Wanted to post about the iPad, which ships/shipped on April 3, 2010. iPad was big news at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Didnt talk much about it....

PyMOTW: Parsing XML Documents with ElementTree: Pythons xml.etree.ElementTree library makes it easy to use XML data in your application or library.

NoSQL: Staying for the feature presentation: I left the NoSQL Live conference in Boston with the impression thatfeatures rather than architecture drive the adoption of NoSQLprojects.

Personalization and the future of Digg: I recently talked to Joe Stump, CTO of SimpleGeo, about a number of topics related to location and databases. However, in the course of the interview, we also got around to discussing Digg. Previous to launching SimpleGeo, Joe was the

Lookup Performance in R: Recently, I became interested in maximizing lookup performance in R. Many problems require looking up values in tables. I decided to perform some tests to show how different lookup mechanisms performed in R. If youre not familiar with R, heres...

Four short links: 12 March 2010: Flickr Flow -- a season wheel, showing the relative popularity of colours in Flickr photos at different times of the year. Beautiful. (via gurneyjourney) Light Peak -- optical peripheral cabling and motherboard connections. (via timoreilly on twitter) British Museum Pilots

End every helpdesk request on a good note: One thing weve learned from the (relatively) new field of behavioral economics is that people tend to remember the pain towards the end of something, not the total pain. Thus if a painful surgery ends with a long period of...

NHIN Direct: Open Healthcare and Government as a Platform: In my advocacy around Government 2.0, Ive been focused on the idea that government should act like a platform provider rather than a complete solution provider. That is, government should lay down rules of the road, create core functionality that

How crowdsourcing helped Haiti's relief efforts: Tech-minded volunteers quickly pitched in with a variety of communication and data services in the days following the Haiti earthquake. One company -- crowdsourcing platform CrowdFlower -- repurposed its service as a text-message translation tool to aid Mission 4636. CrowdFlower

Four short links: 11 March 2010: Digital Inclusion: How Do You Tell? -- either means nor skills are simple binary states. A while ago, I was talking to a young man looking for a job, and asked him why he didn’t look online. Because it’s two

Selfishness and Rubies - Two steps forwards and one back?: CSS selectors, WebKit, HTML5 and Ruby Annotations.

What is a Packrat Parser? What are Brzozowski Derivatives?: I see the upcoming Scala 2.8.0 comes with a packrat parser. Packrat parsing is an implementation technique where you have a backtracking parser with memoization. Derivatives are a technique used in RELAX NG validators. Here is a little example of

Velocity 2010: Fast by Default: O'Reilly Conference Opens Call for Participation: Sebastopol, CA, November 23, - Great engineers and developers recognize the big picture. They see web performance and operations as a whole organism, while still keeping their eyes on the smallest component. OReillys Velocity, the Web Performance and Operations Conference,

Gov 2.0 invades Harvard: A report from #gov20ne: Last Saturday, several hundred folks gathered at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government to spend the day discussing Open Government. I attended, and Laurel Ruma (OReillys Gov 2.0 Evangelist) was one of the organizers.

echotracker as an aggregation tool for different user integrations: A developer preview was just released of a new open source tool calledechotracker that aims tocollect interesting information about the people you communicate withand present it to you as youre reading your email.

We're about to scratch the real-world data itch: Folks in the web world are accustomed to granular information, yet brick-and-mortar businesses are still largely in the dark on the data front. But what if business owners could gather hard data? What if they could use that information to

Four short links: 10 March 2010: The Future of Book Publishing Business Models (Stephen Walli) -- some good thoughts about the book publishing industry and ebooks. When does Amazon create the iPhone/Android app and the programme that will allow bookstores to receive a cut of every

The state of open government in Canada: David Eaves, a public policy entrepreneur and a speaker at this weeks Gov 2.0 International online conference, discusses the rise of open government in Canadas cities. He also looks at the countrys federal inertia, and he explains how a beta

Four short links: 9 March 2010: Cooperative Behaviour Spreads Through a Group, But So Does Cheating (Not Exactly Rocket Science) -- Fowler and Christakis suggest that people tend to mimic the actions of those they played with. They could be directly imitating the actions of other

Truly Open Data: Im kicking myself. I have spent a non-trivial number of hours talking to government departments and scientists about open data, talking up an open source approach to data, pushing hard to get them to release datasets in machine readable formats

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VNU Net

Microsoft admits security update errors: Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Sunday 14 March 2010 at 09:15:00Redmond issues workaround for cosmetic issueMicrosoft has been forced to admit that a security update for its popularExcel application caused non-English text to appear on some

Barclays Bank programmer jailed for four years: Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Saturday 13 March 2010 at 15:15:00Humza Zaman goes down for part in TJX and other data heistsA former programmer for Barclays bank has been sentenced to four years inprison for his

Street View slammed as 'service for burglars': Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Saturday 13 March 2010 at 15:00:00New report finds most UK citizens are against the technologyGoogle Street View is seen by most UK consumers as an intrusive technologyand nothing more than a

Top 10 women of technology: Iain Thomson and Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Saturday 13 March 2010 at 09:49:00Women who have changed the course of computing historyTo celebrateInternationalWomens Day Shaun and I decided to devote the Top 10

China says Google must censor or “pay the consequences”: Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Saturday 13 March 2010 at 06:12:00Chinese minster starts talking toughGoogle must obey Chinese laws on censorship or “pay the consequences” asenior minister has warned.Google has said it willstopcensoring

FBI reports online crime losses double in 2009: Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Saturday 13 March 2010 at 05:46:00Fraudsters stole half a billion dollars last yearFigures from the FBIs Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) show that the cost ofinternet fraud more

ICANN puts off .xxx decision: Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Saturday 13 March 2010 at 04:24:00Adult content domain proposal will not be decided until JuneThe Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has decidedto delay its decision

Apple opens up iPad pre-orders: Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Saturday 13 March 2010 at 04:08:00Consumers begin online queue for tabletApple has officially opened up pre-ordering for itsiPadtablet system.Consumers can now place their pre-orders for the highly-anticipated device,which

Small firms demand better broadband speeds: Dan Worth, V3.co.uk, Friday 12 March 2010 at 17:51:00Survey finds a quarter of SMEs unhappy with their ISPInternet service providers (ISPs) should be obliged to deliver speeds of8Mbit/s to smaller firms, according to the

SAP back on track, says Infosys: Rosalie Marshall, V3.co.uk, Friday 12 March 2010 at 17:43:00Services firm confident that customers can trust SAP againIndian services firm Infosys has claimed that customers can now feel securethat German software giant SAP is on

Avanquest gears up for estate app push: Fleur Doidge, CRN, Friday 12 March 2010 at 17:38:00Vendor signs MD Technology to realise estate management and property salespotentialDocument management and CAD reseller MD Technology and vendor Avanquest areworking together to provide solutions for

Lehman administrators consider damning report: David Jetuah, Accountancy Age, Friday 12 March 2010 at 17:38:00PwC, the administrators of Lehman Brothers European arm, considers reportcriticising Lehman accounting and the banks auditors Ernst & Young.PwC, administrators of Lehman Brothers European business,

People happier voting on the web: parliamentary reporter, Computing, Friday 12 March 2010 at 17:23:00Vast majority of electorate say they would vote online and 13 per cent admitto having an MP as a friend on Facebook. says surveyMore than three-quarters

Cisco launches Intercompany Media Engine: Dan Worth, V3.co.uk, Friday 12 March 2010 at 17:21:00Networking giant continues to promote business video communicationCisco has unveiled itsIntercompanyMedia Engine (IME), claiming that the system will allow its unifiedcommunications (UC) tools to be used

Avnet seals LSI deal: Sara Yirrell, CRN, Friday 12 March 2010 at 17:17:00Distributor signs pan-European deal with storage and networking vendorAvnet Technology Solutions has signed a pan-European agreement with storageand networking vendor LSI.Under the terms of the agreement,

FPB offers smaller firms a helping hand: Sara Yirrell, CRN, Friday 12 March 2010 at 17:09:00Forum of Private Business aims to help SMEs handle issues on areas such asHR, finance, marketing, legal and health and safety with latest packageThe Forum of

GCHQ lost track of 35 laptops in 2008: Dan Worth, V3.co.uk, Friday 12 March 2010 at 16:33:00Intelligence and Security Committee attacks cavalier attitude to securityGovernment Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) lost track of 35 laptops in2008, including three classified as top secret, the Intelligence

Report claims E&Y knew about Repo transactions: Mario Christodoulou, Accountancy Age, Friday 12 March 2010 at 16:25:00E&Y said it did not set up or approve repo arrangementErnst & Youngs US arm was aware of Lehman Brothers practice ofoffloading liabilities, a central plank to the banks alleged attempts

IBM gets tough on ‘black sheep’: Doug Woodburn, CRN, Friday 12 March 2010 at 15:54:00Persistent sources of grey market kit could face expulsion from Big Bluespartner programmeIBM has vowed to come down hard on authorised partners found to haverepeatedly flouted

DECC awards undisclosed sum to energy giants to support CCS plans: James Murray, BusinessGreen, Friday 12 March 2010 at 15:48:00E.ON and ScottishPower receive funding to help complete design anddevelopment studiesPlans to build the UKs first Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) plant moved astep closer today

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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

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When You Try To Figure Out Who Owns Imaginary 'Property,' Things Get Confusing Fast: Weve discussed in the past how copyright isnt really property at all, and trying to compare it to regular property leads to all sorts of confusing problems. Take, for example, this lawsuit, found via Michael Scott, over who owns the

Williams Sonoma Nastygrams Blogger Who Helps People Build Their Own Furniture: Brad Hubbard writes I regularly read a blog called Knock Off Wood -- a site where a woman teaches readers how to build various designer-looking pieces of furniture at home for a lot less. Its the best kind of maker

Google, Facebook Sued Because Without Some Random Patent No One Would Ever Access A Social Netw(...): Wireless Ink was a company that I remember getting some buzz back in the 2005/2006 timeframe... and then they dropped completely off my radar. Honestly, I had thought they had gone out of business. So I was a bit surprised

Irony Alert: Hollywood Howard Berman To Introduce 'Internet Freedom' Bill: Earlier this year we noted this was likely, but now it appears that Rep. Howard Berman is getting ready to introduce an Internet Freedom Bill, that would limit how US companies could operate in internet-restricting countries. Now, weve already pointed

Viral Video Producers Want To Charge You To Embed Their Videos: You may have seen some of the rather popular videos by Common Craft, which has built a rather large following based on these videos about technology and social media using paper diagrams on whiteboards. What the videos are really good

Truncated RSS Is A Bad Business Decision: A few years back, I wrote about why we had found full text RSS feeds to be much more powerful and useful than truncated RSS feeds. The reason that many sites push truncated feeds is the belief that it will

Reuters Social Media Policy Gets It Half Right, Half Wrong: Just a couple of months ago, I wrote about something that I thought was really impressive by Thomson Reuters. A Reuters blogger wrote a blog post on his official Reuters blog questioning Reuters itself after rumors started spreading that the

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X-bit labs

Russian University Aims to Have PetaFLOPS Supercomputer: Russian Parliament, Government Voy to Fund PetaFLOPS Supercomputer

AAA Game Titles Soon to Be Available on Mobile Phones - Epic Games: Best Game Titles Incoming to All Devices Near You, Says Epic Games

Fantastic 4: Four AMATech Coolers Reviewed: A new company, new coolers with catching names and attractive exterior, but pretty average cooling efficiency and no breakthroughs in the acoustic performance. Read more about these new interesting solutions in our roundup!

Intel Has a Luxury of Releasing Larrabee in Its Own time - Larrabee Engineer: Intels Larrabee Set to Come Back with a Vengeance

Court Puts on Hold Legal Battle Between Apple and Nokia: Court Will Only Hear Apple Vs. Nokia Case in 2012

Coolink Corator DS: Cooler with Gapless Direct Touch Technology: The new air cooler for CPUs proves remarkably efficient at a low level of noise and costs less than the renowned leaders in this field. Read more in our new review!

Smartbooks with Google Chrome Will Be More Expensive than Windows Netbooks - Analyst: Analyst Expects Google Chrome to Fail on the Market

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