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US Considers Some Free Wireless Broadband Service: gollum123 writes US regulators may dedicate spectrum to free wireless Internet service for some Americans to increase affordable broadband service nationwide, the Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday. The FCC provided few details about how it would carry out such

US Gamers Spend $3.8 Billion On MMOs Yearly: eldavojohn writes A new report from Games Industry indicates that MMO gamers in the United States paid $3.8 billion to play last year, with an analysis of five European countries bringing the total close to $4.5 billion USD. In America,

The World's First Commercially Available Jetpack: ElectricSteve writes Its been a long time coming. While Arthur C. Clarkes geosync satellites have taken to space, and James Bonds futuristic mobile technology has become commonplace, still the dream of sustained personal flight has eluded us — until now.

Google's Computing Power Refines Translation: gollum123 sends an excerpt from the NY Times on how Google has taken a lead in language translation, in one of the companys few unqualified successes as it attempts to broaden is offerings beyond search. ...Googles quick rise to the

Jeff Jaffe Named CEO of W3C: blozza2070 notes the news that Jeff Jaffe has been appointed CEO of the World Wide Web Consortium. Until January Jaffe was CTO at Novell and, while his name hasnt come up very often in this community, he is one of

NewEgg Confirms Shipping Fake Core i7s: adeelarshad82 writes After originally rejecting the story, online retailer NewEgg confirmed that a shipment of Core i7s were indeed fake, and apologized for the affair. NewEgg has also broken off its relationship with IPEX, the supplier of the phony lot.

Dot-Com Craze Peaked 10 Years Ago This Week: netbuzz writes When the NASDAQ stock index hit its all-time high of 5,133 on March 10, 2000, it had more than doubled in a year and the dot-com bubble was already leaking in a big way. A week later the

Best Resource For Identifying Legit Applications?: bjb writes While helping a somewhat computer illiterate person figure out a problem recently, they mentioned that PDF files had recently stopped working. Upon investigation I found something installed called PDF Suite. Never having heard of it, I Googled it

Cisco Introduces a 322 Tbit/sec. Router: CWmike writes Today Cisco Systems introduced its next-generation Internet core router, the CRS-3, with about three times the capacity of its current platform. The Internet will scale faster than any of us anticipate, Ciscos John Chambers said while announcing the

Doctors Skirt FDA To Heal Patients With Stem Cells: kkleiner writes For many years countless individuals in the US have had to watch with envy as dogs and horses with joint and bone injuries have been cured with stem cell procedures that the FDA has refused to approve for

The Secret Origin of Windows: harrymcc writes Windows has been so dominant for so long that its easy to forget Windows 1.0 was vaporware, mocked both outside and inside of Microsoft — and that its immediate successors were considered stopgaps until OS/2 was everywhere. Tandy

Open Data Needs Open Source Tools: macslocum writes Nat Torkington begins sketching out an open data process that borrows liberally from open source tools: Open source discourages laziness (because everyone can see the corners youve cut), it can get bugs fixed or at least identified much

HTC Android Phones Found With Malware Pre-Installed: Trailrunner7 writes Security researchers have found that Vodafone, one of the worlds larger wireless providers, is distributing some HTC phones with malware pre-installed on them. The phone, HTCs Magic, runs the Google Android mobile operating system, and is one of

Cybercrooks Surpassed Old School Bankrobbers In '09: krebsonsecurity writes Organized cyber-criminal gangs stole $25 million in the 3rd quarter alone last year, by pilfering the online bank accounts of small to midsized businesses, the FDIC reported last week. In contrast, traditional bank robbers hauled just $9.4 million

European Parliament Declaring War Against ACTA: An anonymous reader writes The European Parliament is preparing to take on ACTA. A joint resolution (DOC) has been tabled by the major EP parties that threatens to go to court unless things change. The EP is calling for public

Apple's iPhone Developer License Agreement Revealed: nigham writes The EFF is publicly disclosing a version of Apples iPhone developer program license agreement. The highlights: you cant disclose the agreement itself (the EFF managed to get it via the Freedom of Information Act thanks to NASAs recent

US Immigration Bill May Bring a National Biometric ID Card: schwit1 sends this quote from the Wall Street Journal:Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be

50% Efficiency Boost From New Fuel Injection System: chudnall notes a Technology Review story on a new gas engine injection system that promises increased efficiency of up to 50%. The key is heating and pressurizing gasoline before injecting it into the combustion chamber, says Mike Rocke, Transonics vice

Making Sense of CPU and GPU Model Numbers?: b4dc0d3r writes How do you make sense of the various model numbers or naming schemes for CPUs, graphics cards, and the related chipsets? All I want is something that will run Oblivion and output full 1080 video to a TV.

NSA Still Ahead In Crypto, But Not By Much: Hugh Pickens writes Network World summarizes an RSA Conference panel discussion in which former NSA technical director Brian Snow said that cryptographers for the NSA have been losing ground to their counterparts in universities and commercial security vendors for 20

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Nokia Files Patent for Self-Charging Phone: Kinetically powered cell phones have been relegated to futuristic concepts..or have they? Nokia files a patent that could lead to the first real piezoelectric mobile phone.

Apple's Long History of Lousy First Reviews: Though the iPad has drawn some harsh reviews, its hardly the first Apple product to get trashed (at first). A look back at 25 years of flops

Cisco's New Router To Delivers 322 Terabits per Second: Cisco Systems, has announced the launch of a super-fast and effeciency-focused router technology which will be at the heart of the next generation of the Internet.

If Old Spice Made Commercials For Apple (VIDEO): Hello, Geeks. Look at your phone. Now back to mine. Now back at your phone. Now back to mine. Sadly, yours isnt from Apple, but if you stopped buying those girly phones from Sprint and Tmobile and...

Apple's Secret iPhone Developer Agreement Goes Public: The first rule of the iPhone developer program is: You do not talk about the iPhone developer program...

The Rise of Netbooks (Infographic): 2009 saw dramatic growth in the popularity of netbooks. This trend is expected to continue in 2010 as they become increasingly affordable.

10 awesome yet forgotten CD-ROMs from the 90's: Before the Internet provided instant access to vast stores of reference information, news, entertainment, and the like, there were CD-ROMs.

Jen-Hsun Huang is 'looking forward' to court date with Intel: Sometimes companies spar out their differences behind closed doors, and sometimes they have guys like Jen-Hsun Huang at their helms and the whole world gets to know how they feel and what they intend to do about it. He has

Bump Technologies closes in on 10 million downloads!: Sequoia-backed Bump Technologies Inc. is closing in on 10 million downloads for its nifty contact and data-sharing app.

Facebook killer's monitoring referred to IPCC: The police force monitoring serial sex attacker Peter Chapman before he fled to kidnap, rape and murder Ashleigh Hall has referred itself to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

25 Weird Ways to Enjoy National Umbrella Month (PICS): Usually, we just hope they dont break or we dont leave them on the bus. But theres more to umbrellas. Lots more.

Crowd-sourced Toshiba Satellite Notebook = Thin & Sexy: If you could design a perfect laptop, what features would you include or leave out? Best Buy asked its customers, then channeled the info back to laptop manufacturers. The Satellite E205 is Toshibas offering and it weighs in at a

The World's First Commercial Brain-Computer Interface: The worlds first commercial effort at a patient-ready brain computer interface is on display over at CeBIT 2010, but dont go throwing out your keyboard and mouse just yet.

US softens Internet export rules for Iran, Sudan & Cuba |: Looking to facilitate what it calls free speech rights in countries that dont look favorably at such liberties, the US government Monday said it would ease the regulations around exporting Internet-based applications such as e-mail, blogging and social networking software

Dutch Pirate Party Joins Election Race: Following in the footsteps of the Swedes and Germans, the Dutch Pirate Party has decided to join the national elections being held this spring. The Pirate Party booked a surprising victory by scooping two seats in the European Parliament last

Energizer Duo battery charger hides a Trojan: The Energizer Duo USB battery charger has been hiding a backdoor Trojan in its software that affects computers using Windows. According to Symantec the Trojan has probably been there since 10th May 2007.

EFF: All Your Apps Are Belong to Apple: The entire family of devices built on the iPhone OS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad) have been designed to run only software that is approved by Apple..Software developers who want Apples approval must first agree to the iPhone Developer Program License

Apple axes iPhone apps that simply reproduce: Following reports that Apple began rejecting App Store software with minimum user functionality, the iPhone maker has now set its sights on applications that employ a cookie cutter formula.

HP Windows 7 Slate Strikes at the iPad With Flash Demo (VID): The Apple iPads Oscar debut on millions of TVs may have been the talk of the town Monday morning, but not for long. Rival PC maker HP has launched a sneak

Google Buzz Logo vs UNO Logo!!: Google Buzz is undoubtedly the latest hype on the social media network. Ever since I saw the Buzz logo, I have constantly pondered on its mysterious logo design. It was one day while playing UNO that I finally figured why

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Google Maps to add bike maps, directions: Cyclists will be able to use Google Maps to plot directions around 150 U.S. cities when bike directions go live on Google later on Tuesday.

Lindsay Lohan sues E-Trade over Super Bowl spot: The troubled actress is suing E-Trade, claiming that it mocked her in one of its cute baby ads. She is asking for $100 million.

How Epic fit the Unreal Engine into the iPhone: The Unreal Engine 3 is on its way to the iPhone, though creators Epic Games have had to make some compromises to get there.

Google announces business app store for Google Apps: Software developers can cater to Google Apps customers through a new application store announced at Googles Campfire One event in Mountain View.

Rock Band 3 confirmed for holidays: Harmonix and MTV Games are getting the band back together, with Electronic Arts handling distribution once more.

Online dating finally recognized by restaurant guide: A new restaurant guide has a section specifically dedicated to the difficult area of online dating. Its author believes only certain very specific places are suitable for an online date.

Pink Floyd sues EMI over iTunes payments: One of the most imposing (and wealthiest) bands of all time sues EMI over online royalties. EMI is reportedly arguing that an album-unbundling ban applies only to physical products.

iPhone 4G: 25 most-wanted features: Apples fourth-generation iPhone will most likely arrive in June. Heres a look at some of the feature and design upgrades wed most like to see, including the odds of their implementation.

Cyberbullying hits LGBT youth especially hard: One in two lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender youth report being cyberbullied about their sexual identities, according to a new Iowa State survey of 444 youths.

McAfee: A million 'scareware' victims a day: Security firm McAfee is warning consumers to beware of scareware programs that appear to be antivirus software but are actually scams that can steal data and infect your computer.

Analyst: PlayStation 3 to win console war in the end: Sonys PlayStation 3 has suffered from poor sales over the past few years. But the console is making a resurgence and at least one analyst firm believes it will triumph.

Foursquare gets down to business: Location-aware social site Foursquare is introducing tools that make it easier for businesses to target users. This is a smart business move.

FileMaker 11 delivers charting, 'on-the-fly' reporting: Apple-owned company on Tuesday releases next major version of its database product, FileMaker Pro 11.

Putting TiVo Premiere in context: After all the hype, the TiVo Premiere was greeted by disappointment by many gadget fans. But is there more to the story?

ScatterTunes sells digital albums with a visual twist: But will consumers be willing to download and install yet another media player to play ScatterTunes V-Albums?

Google-China flap spurs federal plan to bypass censors: Democratic and Republican members of Congress announce the Global Internet Freedom Caucus and a bill to spend federal dollars on research to defeat Internet suppression and censorship.

Eliminate's 3G multiplayer: How'd they do that?: Ngmocos Eliminate was one of the first games to offer 3G multiplayer on the iPhone. But how did they do it?

Is the Kindle finally ready for the Web?: If you own a Kindle, you also own a mobile Web browser. But chances are you never use it. That may be about to change.

Malware found on HTC Android phone from Vodafone: HTC mobile device running Android was distributed by Vodafone with a botnet program on it, as well as Conficker and a password-stealing Trojan, Panda Labs says.

CNET News Daily Podcast: Tuesday's top headlines: Cisco finally makes its big announcement--and its a router. Plus, Sony 3DTVs are on the way, and is the Drudge Report spreading malware?

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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

Zeus Trojan infects 74,000 PCs in global botnet: More than 74,000 PCs at nearly 2,500 organizations around the world were compromised over the past year-and-a-half, in a botnet infestation designed to steal login credentials to bank sites, social networks and email systems. by Elinor Mills CNET News

Google Buzz gets security fix: Google has fixed a security flaw that had the potential to allow a hacker to compromise Google Buzz accounts. by Tom Espiner ZDNet UK

U.S. trade body investigating Apple, RIM over patents: The US International Trade Commission said it will launch an investigation into whether Apples iPhone and Research In Motions BlackBerry infringe on a Kodak patent. by Daniel Terdimann CNET News

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

Google donates $2 million to Wikimedia: Google has made a $2 million donation to the Wikimedia Foundation, the group behind the widely used Wikipedia reference site. by Stephen Shankland CNET News

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

Cisco embarks on media-centric Internet thrust: The Internet is moving away from being a data transportation and messaging platform, into a space filled with integrated rich-media content, according to Cisco Systems. by Kevin Kwang, ZDNet Asia

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

Google execs convicted in YouTube Italy case: An Italian court handed out guilty verdicts on Wednesday for three of four Google executives charged a case concerning a YouTube video posted of a teenager with Down Syndrome. by Stephen Shankland CNET News

Reducing the high cost of low-value applications: The speed of technology advancements and rapid pace of today?s business environment often force companies to rely on an application long after it has ceased to provide maximum value, says Keanes Walid Farha. by Walid Farha, Keane, Special to ZDNet

The growing need for a flexible governance and risk management framework: Neither regulations nor security threats are going away but the right approach to compliance and risk management can be less expensive than the way most organizations tackle these situations today, says Novells Jay Roxe. by Jay Roxe, Novell, Special to

Uncovering hidden mobile costs: Today, with a lagging economy, those charged with finding savings within their organizations wonder if opportunities to reduce costs still exist; and if so, where they can be found, says Al Subbloie CEO of Tangoe, Inc. by Al Subbloie, Tangoe,

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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

Chile Earthquake Moved Entire City 10 Feet to the West: The magnitude 8.8 quake that struck near Maule, Chile Feb. 27 moved the entire city of Concepcion 10 feet to the west.Precise GPS measurements from before and after the earthquake, the 5th largest ever recorded by seismographs, show that the

How Big Waves Go Rogue: An extra-tall wave struck a cruise ship off the Mediterranean coast of Spain this week, claiming two lives and injuring one person on board. Though the wave may not qualify as a “rogue wave,” it could have been created by

Animation of Giant Iceberg Collision as Seen From Space: The collision in early February of the 60-mile-long B-9B iceberg with the protruding tongue of the Mertz Glacier in East Antarctica is captured here in a series of satellite radar images.The crash created a second massive iceberg nearly 50 miles

Earth’s Magnetic Field Is 3.5 Billion Years Old: Evidence for the existence of Earth’s magnetic field has been pushed back about 250 million years, new research suggests. The field may therefore be old enough to have shielded some of the planet’s earliest life from the sun’s most harmful

First Microbes Colonized Land by Using Fat For Protection: The earliest microbes that survived on land may have synthesized fat molecules to prevent their death from dehydration.The molecules, called wax esters, could have helped the microbes colonize land by protecting them against the harsh environments that probably characterized the lifeless continents, scientists hypothesizes in the

Fears of Undersea Methane Leaks Already Coming True: Prodigious plumes of planet-warming methane are bubbling from sediments across a broad region of Arctic seafloor previously thought to be sealed by permafrost, new analyses indicate. The resulting increase of methane gas in the atmosphere may accelerate climate warming, scientists

Senator Proposes Shuttle Extension Hail Mary: The turmoil and political maneuvering over the future of NASA continues in the wake of the Obama administration’s cancellation of the Constellation program.Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson, a Texas Republican, proposed adding $3.4 billion to the agency’s budget between 2010 and

Gut Bacteria Cause Overeating in Mice: The connection between gut bacteria and obesity has gained some weight, with new findings demonstrating a mouse link between immune system malfunction, bacterial imbalance and increased appetite.Mice with altered immune systems developed metabolic disorders and were prone to overeating. When

Pharma Watchdog Needs Your Help With Incriminating Documents: Overwhelmed by thousands of documents describing the inner workings of pharmaceutical companies, the Drug Industry Document Archive wants to enlist the help of crowds.The documents are uncovered during lawsuits against drug companies, but can’t be searched until they’re processed.“In the

Research Calls Forensic DNA Technique Into Question: A DNA-matching technique often used in forensics has been called to the stand.Fine-grained analysis of DNA found in cell structures called mitochondria suggests that it can vary widely between tissues, making samples tricky to compare.“I wouldn’t say that it throws

How Black Holes Overcome Cetrifugal Force to Suck in Gas: Astronomers have finally gotten a firmer grip on how supermassive black holes in the centers of most galaxies gobble up gas from their surroundings. In a new study, two astronomers neatly explain how stars drag swirling gases toward a galaxy’s

Dinosaurs Arose at Least 10 Million Years Earlier Than Thought: Scientists have discovered 243-million-year-old fossils of dinosaurs’ closest relatives, which pushes back the origin of dinosaurs by at least 10 million years. The dinosaur-like creature, Asilisaurus kongwe, was about the size of a Labrador retriever and had teeth and jaw

10 Companies Reinventing Our Energy Infrastructure: << previous image | next image >>When most people think about changing the way America uses energy, they imagine new ways of generating electricity like solar farms or new nuclear reactors. But at an innovation summit organized by the Department

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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

Batman: Arkham Asylum: GPUs, CPUs, And PhysX Performance: Batman: Arkham Asylum is purported to be the definitive Batman game. Were testing it on a range of mainstream graphics cards, a number of CPU settings, and with PhysX on and off. Youll walk away from this one knowing whether

Picking A Hard Drive For Your NAS: New Green Beats Old Speed: When it comes to mechanical hard drive performance, 7,200 RPM drives are considered the fastest. But does that convention apply in a NAS environment as well? We compare network storage performance with a handful of Samsungs green drives to see.

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Best Graphics Cards For The Money: November '09: Theres actually a lot to discuss in this months column: the introduction of AMDs new Radeon HD 5000-series GPUs, Nvidias new GeForce GT 220 and GeForce 210, availability of previous-gen high-end cards, and the state of the graphics war in

Opinion: AMD, Intel, And Nvidia In The Next Ten Years: Say what you will about AMD, Intel, and Nvidias product lineups as they stand today. But all three employ undeniably-different philosophies in how they approach development and execution. Alan Dang explores how the next decade might look for this trio.

AMD's Eyefinity Technology Explained: Most of our graphics card coverage centers on 3D performance. But thats not the only reason enthusiasts buy new video cards. Eyefinity, ATIs technology supporting up to

High-Resolution Die Imagery Of Nvidia GPUs: Nvidias Fermi GF100 GPU is just over the horizon. With it, comes new technology as well as a new host of cards all vying for your dollar. But before that happens, we take an amazing photographic look into Nvidias GPUs,

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feature: True story: the making of the Terminator's laser-sighted .45 pistol: One of the most striking images from The Terminator was the weapon he carried and used in his first attempt on Sarah Connors life: the .45 Longslide, with laser sighting. Who can

HTC lawsuit came after warning by Apple to handset makers: Apple COO Tim Cooks warning from early 2009 wasnt the only one that handset makers received before Apple sicced the lawyers on HTC last week. According to a research note from Oppenheimer

MRI's successes put the brain on trial: A typical neuroscience paper (or a typical report on one) is a laundry list of structure:function relationships between brain regions and the mental tasks they perform. The amygdala deals with registering rewards,

Facebook's location feature expected to launch next month: Facebook is allegedly planning to roll out location sharing capabilities next month, once again playing catch-up to other services that have gained popularity thanks to location data. The rumor comes courtesy of anonymous sources who have been briefed on the

Microsoft browser ballot gives Opera, Firefox a boost: The Microsoft browser ballot released this month to Windows users in the EU is already doing Microsofts rivals a favor. Two of the major competitors to Internet Explorer have seen an increase in downloads, while the other two are not

The Internet of tomorrow: 100Gbps to your house by 2030: Googles recent announcement of a 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home testbed has communities across the US salivating—but imagine what the Internet might be like if that connection to your home were even faster. Say... 100Gbps.

FileMaker Pro goes to 11, admits people like spreadsheets: Apple subsidiary FileMaker has released version 11 of its flagship FileMaker Pro database. The updated software purports to make building and maintaining databases even easier, while acknowledging that many users are accustomed

European Parliament unites against 3 strikes, ACTA secrecy: The European Parliament is fed up with the secrecy surrounding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Today, representatives from all the major parliamentary coalitions introduced a resolution demanding that the European Commission release

Microsoft begins rolling out redesigned MSN homepage: Microsoft today began rolling out its new MSN homepage, but not everyone will be getting it at once: the update will trickle out over the next few weeks to the sites 100 million US customers. The software giant is touting

Plans for .xxx top-level domain pop up again: The .xxx domain is back on the table. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will reconsider the top-level domain during a meeting in Kenya this week, nearly three years

"PowerPoint is evil" author to monitor stimulus spending: Government and industry bureaucrats addicted to spewing out mind-numbing PowerPoint presentations, be very afraid; Edward Tufte is coming to Washington, DC. The Obama administration has appointed Tufte to serve on the Recovery

Mozilla borrows from WebKit to build fast new JS engine: Mozillas high-performance TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which was first introduced in 2008, has lost a lot of its luster as competing browser vendors have stepped up their game to deliver superior performance. Firefox

Engineering a parasite to tell you where it has been: Many of the parasites that plague humans have life cycles that are positively baroque, hopping between species and hiding out in tissues for years before setting off a damaging infection. These habits can make them extremely difficult to study, since

Mozilla previews new feature to guard against Flash crashes: Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch claims that the companys ubiquitous Flash plug-in doesnt ship with any known crash bugs. One can only assume that he has never used the software. As Adobe representatives

Amazon kills affiliate program in Colorado thanks to taxes: Amazon has pulled the plug on its affiliate program in Colorado thanks to a new state regulation on sales tax collection. The company sent a notice to its Colorado-based affiliates Monday morning

Low-metal star suggests Milky Way grew by gobbling dwarfs: An unresolved question in astronomy is how the Milky Way reached its current state. One theory is that the Milky Way grew, at least in part, by cannibalizing smaller dwarf galaxies thathappened to get too close. If this was the

Cisco: Internet to change forever Tuesday (place your bets!): Cisco today said that after the close of markets on Tuesday, the company will announce a major acquisition which will forever change the Internet and its impact on consumers, businesses and governments. We first learned of the news from MarketWatch.Cisco

US eases restrictions on Web services exports to Iran, Cuba: The US Treasury Department today relaxed export regulations against Iran, Sudan, and Cuba, allowing US companies to provide instant messaging, e-mail, and social networking services to those countries. The goal is to

Valve: full "Steam" ahead on Mac OS X with free syncing: Valve has stopped with the teasing and has officially announced that its online gaming service Steam is coming to the Mac. As a bonus, the company also plans to make the Mac a tier-1 platform, promising simultaneous release of games on

reMail iPhone app re-released under Apache 2 license: Two weeks ago, we reported that Internet search giant Google had acquired third-party iPhone mail application reMail. At the time, Google rehired reMail CEO and programmer Gabor Cselle to work as a product manager on the Gmail team. reMail was then

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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

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

NVIDIA's GTX 400 Series Gets A Launch Date: March 26th: On the heels of a rather unusual (and poorly received) announcement this morning that theyd be showing off the GTX 400 series at PAX East this year, NVIDIA has made a second and much more to-the-point announcement today. The GTX 400

Windows Phone 7 Series Takeaway: Microsoft has finally unveiled its platform to return to feature competition in the smartphone space. Is it enough to hang with the likes of Android, iPhone OS and webOS?...

Choosing the Best H55/H57 Motherboard, Part 2: As promised, were back with part 2 of our H55/H57 coverage. Find out which boards come out on top in our user experience based review....

OCZ’s Vertex Limited Edition Review & SSD State of the Union: The first SandForce SF-1500 SSD has arrived in the form of OCZs Vertex Limited Edition. Only 5,000 drives are being made with MSRPs starting at $399. We pit it up against newcomers from Crucial and Toshiba as well as the

O'Reilly Network

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

Simple Log Review Checklist Released!: The log cheat sheet presents a checklist for reviewing critical system, network and security logs when responding to a security incident. It can also be used for routine periodic log review. It was authored by Dr. Anton Chuvakin and Lenny

Three lessons from the Chipotle iPhone app: The iPhone app from Chipotle, the restaurant chain best known for its burritos, is an interesting mix of simple design, e-commerce functionality and location tools. Digging into the apps development reveals three aspects that could prove useful for businesses and

Four short links: 8 March 2010: Chinas Cyberposse (NY Times) -- is vigilante justice ok if the cause is right? Is it okay if there wouldnt be justice without it? Does the end justify the means? Many interesting questions raised by this large-scale Internet-based human-flesh-search in

Amazon Fires Its Colorado Associates: I just got interesting email from Amazon: the Colorado government recently enacted a law to impose sales tax regulations on online retailers We and many others strongly opposed this legislation, known as HB 10-1193, but it was enacted anyway. Regrettably,

PyMOTW: tabnanny - Indentation validator: Consistent use of indentation is important in a langauge like Python, where white-space is significant. The tabnanny module provides a scanner to report on ambiguous use of indentation.

Teamwork: It's About Trust, Not A Technique: Building a great software team requires more than just a good tool, technology, or technique. Thats something we learned time and again from the many brilliant people who contributed to Beautiful Teams (OReilly, 2009). Its an idea that seems to

Meet the Scanners!: The International Amateur Scanning League is off to a roaring start, newly equipped with official Government ID badges and starting to rip.

Lightroom Gets The Red Out!: Aside from Halloween shots those glowing red eyes in images dont belong. Of course, the best way to deal with red-eye is to avoid it altogether. So how does it happen? When the light from your flash enters your subjects

GIW Day Five: We End with Lansing and Boulder: Introduction to Hyperbolic Geometry by Amber Case | Ignite Portland 8View more presentations from Amber Case at Ignite Portland 8. Today is the last day of Global Ignite Week. We are still pulling together the number of speakers and attendees,

Open government examples from the ONC: With the sea change caused by the Open Government Directive I know that many federal agencies might be struggling with how to actually implement this new policy. This is a major cultural shift in government and there are always challenges

Yammer: Will Viral Work in the Enterprise?: Yammer is getting viral adoption in the enterprise, but will it convert to sales?

MySQL migration and risk management: Ronald Bradford has been guiding DBAs through key aspects of database integration for years. In this Q&A, he discusses the pros and cons of migrating from Oracle to MySQL (hint: its not just about cost savings). He also weighs in

Four short links: 5 March 2010: Rapportive -- a simple social CRM built into Gmail. They replace the ads in Gmail with photos, bio, and info from social media sites. (via ReadWrite Web) Best Practices in Web Development with Django and Python -- great set of

Report from HIMMS Health IT conference: building or bypassing infrastructure: lectronic record systems need all kinds of underlying support. Yourpatient doesnt want to hear, You need an antibiotic right away, butwell order it tomorrow when our IT guy comes in to reboot thesystem. Your accounts manager would be almost as

Reflections on RSA - Security is Really a Control and Data Management Problem: This week, I spent some time at RSA, an event where security vendors and professionals connect. As I have mentioned in past blogs, security is paramount to the sustainability of the network. If we are to leverage the network as...

Cell phones in the classroom: Guest blogger Marie Bjerede examines field projects that are studying the educational use of cell phones. In one limited example, 50 percent of students doing lessons by cell phone had higher math proficiency than classmates who learned the same material

Four short links: 4 March 2010: Achievement Design 101 -- advice from the guy who designs the site-wide achievement awards for Kongregate. 7. Achievements will thrust their subject matter into the spotlight; make sure its worthy. This can be good or bad. In most cases on

VNU Net

AeroThermal outlines advanced anaerobic digestion vision: BusinessGreen.com staff, BusinessGreen, Wednesday 10 March 2010 at 00:15:00Latest funding round to drive forward waste-to-energy commercialisation planThe British developer of a new advanced waste-to-energy technology designedto turn both food waste and mixed household waste

Exclusive: Capgemini preps carbon consultancy push: James Murray, BusinessGreen, Wednesday 10 March 2010 at 00:15:00Company aims to tackle Wild West carbon accounting marketConsultancy giantCapgeminiis preparing a range of new carbon accounting and management services designedto tap growing demand from firms

Cisco promises world changer with CRS-3: David Neal, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 9 March 2010 at 17:55:00New Carrier Routing System to power the next-generation internet, saysChambersCisco has launched its Carrier Routing System 3 (CRS-3), which it claims is avery important addition to

Nominet consults on short .uk domain names: Dan Worth, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 9 March 2010 at 17:42:00Registry gears up for one-letter, two-letter and single-number domainsNominet has announced athree-monthconsultation to decide how it should release one-letter, two-letter andsingle-number domains for registration.The organisation, which

ISPs escape further Digital Economy Bill burdens: Rosalie Marshall, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 9 March 2010 at 17:30:00Amendment concerning web filtering to protect children dropped for the timebeingInternet service providers (ISPs) escaped being saddled with furtherregulation yesterday when the Digital Economy Bill completed

Telephony sales continue to slump: Doug Woodburn, CRN, Tuesday 9 March 2010 at 17:23:00Global shipments down 10 per cent in Q4Despite the recent rebound in PC sales, figures fromMZA reveal the embattled telephonymarket continued to shrink in the final

Probrand claims NHS spending win: Caroline Donnelly, CRN, Tuesday 9 March 2010 at 17:03:00VAR attributes NHS savings to e-procurement strategyVAR Probrand claims to have helped the NHS save £2m on the cost of USBdevices.The Birmingham-based VAR is the only

China joins India with formal backing for Copenhagen Accord: BusinessGreen.com Staff, BusinessGreen, Tuesday 9 March 2010 at 16:54:00All major greenhouse gas emitters bar Russia have now formally endorsedCopenhagen dealChina has today joined with India in formally signing up to the CopenhagenAccord, making it

Vodafone ships handset riddled with malware: Dan Worth, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 9 March 2010 at 16:34:00Spanish customer buys HTC Magic preloaded with Mariposa botnet clientVodafone has shipped a handset in Spain that contained data-stealing malware,according to new revelations from Panda Research.The

HP workers picket for a second day: Nicola Brittain, Computing, Tuesday 9 March 2010 at 16:34:00But the company and union will have further talks at the end of the weekSome 200 HP employees and members of the Public and Commercial Services

Opera users baffled by vulnerability warnings: David Neal, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 9 March 2010 at 16:32:00Security vendors sending out misleading information, claims SecuniaConfusion about the severity of anewlyreported Opera flaw could be harming efforts to mitigate the threat,according to experts.Secunia claimed

Cut science funds and damage economic prospects warn influential science pros: IWR News Desk, Information World Review, Tuesday 9 March 2010 at 16:06:00If the UK does not invest heavily in science and research, it will facedecades of slow economic decline, warn experts including former ministers,researchers, and business info prosA report published

Icann to revisit .xxx adult domain plans: David Neal, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 9 March 2010 at 15:48:00Internet body to discuss project this weekThe Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) will lookinto the feasibility of offering a .xxx domain for adult

Companies ignoring datacentre best practice: David Neal, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 9 March 2010 at 15:43:00CIOs missing out on big cost savings, claims IDCA new report from IDC accuses chief information officers and IT managers offailing to implement new datacentre management

Black week for HP as troubles mount: Rosalie Marshall, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 9 March 2010 at 15:27:00Company beset by lawsuits, strikes and huge compensation payoutHPs public image suffered several blows across the globe this week, with anintellectual property lawsuit against Asian print

E.ON debuts no win, no fee carbon saving service: BusinessGreen.com Staff, BusinessGreen, Tuesday 9 March 2010 at 15:25:00E.ON promises to cover the up-front cost for businesses onsite renewablesinstallations as part of Energy Performance Guarantee serviceEnergy giant E.ON has this week announced the launch

MPs want PFIs included in IFRS government reporting: Our Parliamentary Correspondent, Accountancy Age, Tuesday 9 March 2010 at 15:11:00Treasury committee urges government to include PFIs on the book whenreporting whole of government accountsMPs are demanding the Treasury publish Public Sector Net Debt

Two third of shoppers less likely to return goods online: Parliamentary reporter, Computing, Tuesday 9 March 2010 at 14:55:00and most arent aware of their on-line consumer rightsA Business, Innovation and Skills Department survey has revealed almosttwo-thirds of consumers are less likely to return goods

New study reveals scale of "outsourced emissions": James Murray, BusinessGreen, Tuesday 9 March 2010 at 14:51:00Around a third of industrialised countries carbon emissions are exported todeveloping nationsThe extent to which the UK and other industrialised nations are outsourcing their carbon emissions

Clipper chief exec resigns as company braces for 2009 losses: Rachel Fielding, BusinessGreen, Tuesday 9 March 2010 at 14:06:00Firm behind flagship Britannia Project changes CEO for the second time inunder two yearsThe company behind plans to build the worlds largest wind turbine yesterdayannounced its

Kuro5hin

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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

Transmedia Storytelling... With A CwF+RtB Twist: Ross Pruden points us to the news that Zen Films, a decade old production house, is launching a new storytelling project, which they admit is partly inspired by the CwF+RtB model that we talk about here. One of the cool

Rescuecom Declares Victory... In Dropping Its Lawsuit Against Google: Weve covered some of Rescuecoms bizarre lawsuit against Google for selling Adwords based on Rescuecoms trademarks. The lawsuit has been going on for a while, without Rescuecom getting very far. At almost every turn it was pointed out that what

EU Politicians Get Serious Demanding ACTA Transparency And No Three Strikes: Last week, there were reports that the EU trade policy folks had decided to stand up for ACTA transparency, and now it looks like theyre really doing it. As various reports are noting, a joint resolution was put forth by

White House Cyber Security Guy: There Is No Cyberwar: We recently wrote how some special interests have been playing up the idea that theres some sort of cyberwar going on that the US is losing. Of course, there have been similar claims going back for a decade, without anything

Where Are The European Regulators In Charge Of Protecting Freedom Of Expression?: Michael Scott points us to a blog post by Peter Fleischer, the Global Privacy Counsel for Google -- perhaps better known as one of the three Google execs to be convicted on criminal charges due to a video some kids

Record Labels Put Out Misleading Study Trying To Get ISPs To Setup Broken Music Streaming Services: The record labels have been trying out all sorts of schemes for a while now to try to get ISPs over to its side in propping up their old business models, and the latest is pretty laughable. BPI at the

US Government Working With Pharma Companies To Raise Drug Prices In Other Countries: A series of stories from Jamie Love at KEI highlight the troubling cozy relationship between pharmaceutical companies and the US government in trying to raise drug prices in other countries -- which very likely will come at the expense of

White House Can't Stream Biden's Speech; So Uses Justin.tv Instead: Heres a nice surprise. Apparently Vice President Joe Biden is visiting Israel, and giving a speech at Tel Aviv University. However, without the official White House television crew, they didnt think theyd be able to stream the speech live on

Lindsay Lohan Sues E*Trade For $100 Million; Says Baby Was Based On Her: If you thought the guy suing because he thought Hurt Locker was based on his life story (but also made him look bad) was going too far, heres an even more ridiculous lawsuit. Dave Barnes was the first of a

Can You Still Say DRM Is Effective When It Creates Security Vulnerabilities, Performance Degred(...): Modplan alerts us to a developer at Wolfire games who wrote a blog post claiming that DRM can be effective, and giving the example of StarForces DRM on Splinter Cell 3: Chaos Theory, which supposedly took over a year to

Columnist Claims Italy's Google Verdic Makes Sense: Ted Rall is a columnist/cartoonist, who, a couple years ago, wrote one of the most ridiculous opinion pieces weve seen in a long time -- suggesting that the answer to newspapers current economic woes is that they should all take

A Look At Twelve Years Of Dangerous Unintended Consequences From The DMCA: The DMCA has been in place for a dozen years now, and the harm done by its provisions has become quite clear. The framers of the DMCA did not take into account the unintended consequences of the law -- and

Print Mindset vs. Internet Mindset: Do You Link? Do You Credit Sources?: We recently wrote about how the NY Post was caught taking a bloggers story and rewriting it for itself -- noting the hypocrisy of a News Corp. newspaper copying from someone else, after Rupert Murdoch and his top execs have

US Eases Sanctions On Communications Software For Cuba, Iran And Sudan: Realizing that better communications tools would probably help spread important ideas and efforts against totalitarian regimes, the US has finally eased sanctions against providing communications software in Cuba, Iran and Sudan. In the past, economic sanctions against those countries were

Justice Department Decides To Break Up E-Voting Company: As was rumored at the end of last year, the US Justice Department has decided to break up Election Systems & Software (ES&S), the dominant e-voting provider in the country. You may recall that just a few months earlier, ES&S

Indiana County Decides Not To Charge Redbox After Public Outcry: Last week we wrote about how prosecutors in Indiana were threatening to file criminal charges against Redbox execs unless the company agreed to remove R-rated movies from its kiosks. The whole thing was instigated by brick-and-mortar video stores who didnt

Computer Science Degrees Still In Demand: This post is part of the IT Innovation series, sponsored by Sun & Intel. Read more at ITInnovation.com. Of course, the content of this post consists entirely of the thoughts and opinions of

Vision Media's Attempt To Silence Critic May Be Exposing More Questionable Activities: Earlier this year, we wrote about a company called Vision Media TV that was suing the operator of 800Notes.com, a site where users had complained about Vision Media. Vision Media, of course, has been criticized in the NY Times and

Latest ACTA Text Seems To Conflict With Hard Fought New Language On Damages In Patent Reform Bill: Remember how the USTR and various lobbyists keep insisting that ACTA wont change US law? Or even limit its flexibility in changing the law? Well, if you take the latest leak and the fact that the USTR is now admitting

Amazon Shutting Down Colorado-Based Associates Over Sales Tax Issue: You may remember last summer that Amazon shut down its affiliate programs in North Carolina, Hawaii and Rhode Island in response to new laws being put in place in those states, which would effectively make any Amazon affiliate an official

X-bit labs

New Blu-Ray Licensing Organization Initiates Operations: BD4C Licensing Group Begins Operation

Intel Readies Dual-Core Atom Processor for Netbooks: Intel Preps Atom N500 Microprocessor

Contemporary Graphics Cards Performance in Battlefield: Bad Company 2: One of the most anticipated game titles - Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - has just hit the market. X-bit labs decided to take a closer look at this game in order to help you pick up the right graphics card

Dell Adamo XPS Still Available - Company: No description.

Microsoft's Chief Exec Predicts New Xbox 360 Form-Factors: Microsoft Promises Different Xbox 360 Form-Factors

Prices of Blu-Ray Optical Disk Drives Drop to $70 - Media Report: Costs of Blu-Ray ODDs Still Much Higher Compared to DVD

Nvidia Warns: Latest Drivers May Damage Graphics Cards: Nvidia Withdraws Faulty Drivers for Graphics Cards

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