Sat, Nov 07 2009
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10:05 am
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Naked teen steals car with 2 children inside »
digg Michelle Allery said she had buckled her 4-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter into their car seats Thursday morning in Dunseith and went back to her house to get her baby. She said she came out to see the car taking off with the children inside. |
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10:03 am
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Should I Buy Her A Drink? (Flowchart) »
digg If you end up hitting the bars tonight, we'd like you to be prepared. Sometimes knowing when and who to buy a drink for can be a challenging task for young men. We’ve developed an extremely basic reference guide to help you step up the plate and sco... |
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10:02 am
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The Country is Bleeding (MAP) »
digg While the recession is "over" the unemployment rate rose to 9.8% in September from 9.7% in August. That's 214,000 more people who are jobless in the United States. The last time unemployment was this high was back in June 1983 when it was 10.1%. |
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10:00 am
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Evergreen Solar To Move Jobs To China »
digg A solar panel company that received $58 million in state aid to build its factory in Massachusetts is now moving jobs overseas.Evergreen Solar is shifting some of its production, currently done at a plant in Devens, to China next year, after posting an... |
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10:58 am
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Wall Street bonuses to rise 40% »
digg A new compensation survey described in The Wall Street Journal predicts that Wall Street incentive pay will rise 40% this year. For those in the fixed-income part of the industry, the increase could be closer to 60%. |
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10:57 am
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Want to buy 5,000 leftover Beijing Olympics condoms? »
digg The words “leftover” and “condoms” are not typically combined to start a sales stampede, but one Chinese collector of Olympic memorabilia is hoping he will be able to unload his 5,000 condoms from the 2008 Olympics at an auction. |
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10:55 am
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Chickenhawk Tancredo storms off set after Markos confronts »
digg Chickenhawk Tancredo storms off set after Markos confronts him on veterans health care |
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10:57 am
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Elgato DTT Deluxe world's smallest USB TV tuner »
the register (uk) Digital telly from a unit the size of a postage stamp
Review Elgato's previous EyeTV DTT Deluxe, which we reviewed in September 2008, was heralded as the world's smallest USB TV tuner. Just over a year on, and the company has launched a second record... |
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08:50 am
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Aftershocks from Slow Faults May Arrive Centuries Later »
digg Models and data suggest that mid-continent earthquakes may well have been aftershocks from earthquakes that occurred more than 100 years earlier. have a deep and rather personal interest in earthquake and volcano prediction. This comes from spending most... |
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08:49 am
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American woman suffers amnesia after intercourse »
digg An American woman suffered a sudden attack of amnesia after having sex with her husband. |
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08:46 am
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Guillermo Del Toro On Making The Hobbit. »
digg The cult director exclusively updates us... |
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08:45 am
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Modern Warfare 2 Expected To Set A New Record In Sales »
digg Game expected to be holiday entertainment blockbuster |
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08:43 am
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Resurrecting Newton to do away with dark matter »
digg A review paper in this week's issue of Science looks at the current state of MOND theories, which seek to resurrect Newtonian gravity and are the chief competitors to the ΛCDM cosmological model, which relies on dark matter and dark energy. The verdict... |
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08:40 am
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UFOlogy Hits a New Low With The Fourth Kind [Spoilers!] »
digg The Fourth Kind's unconvincing UFOlogy gives this reviewer chills. The movie stumbles directly into the biggest problems facing UFOs debates: missing evidence, too many coincidences, cover-up conspiracies and aliens that, given their high-tech know-how,... |
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08:37 am
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5 American Fast Food Items You Can't Get in America »
digg Pizza Hut pork stew? While America may be known around the world as a fast food paradise, there are actually some menu items you can't get stateside. Here are our Top 5 oddities from abroad. |
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08:32 am
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Some of the Universe's First Galaxies Discovered »
digg A new survey has found 22 of the earliest galaxies to form in the universe, confirming the age of one at just 787 million years after the theoretical Big Bang. These and other galaxies from the universe's childhood could help shed light on the conditions... |
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08:24 am
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The 5 Best and 5 Worst NHL Jerseys of the Last Decade »
digg It's been an exciting and confusing 10 years for NHL fashion, and not just because hockey fans' Jersey Fouls have become the subject of academic discourse on blogs. |
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08:19 am
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Large Hadron Collider stalled again... thanks to a baguette »
digg The rehabilitation of the beleaguered Large Hadron Collider was on hold tonight after the failure of one of its powerful cooling units caused by an errant chunk of baguette. |
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08:16 am
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Chilling Letter From a Witness at the Fort Hood Massacres »
digg "We signed up to be shot at but not at home. Not unarmed." Firsthand account of yesterday's tragedy at Fort Hood, from a reader who witnessed it happen. |
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08:13 am
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Dow Chemical finally agrees to clean up dioxin pollution »
digg U.S. EPA and Dow announced a deal they contend will finally address dioxin contamination from the company's chemical complex in Midland, about 200 miles from Chicago. Records show Dow has known since at least the mid-1960s that dioxins could sicken or... |
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08:09 am
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Video Games That Time Forgot: Jet Li: Rise to Honor 2004 »
digg You wouldn't know it from the "Expendables" trailer and the extremely low profile he's keeping now, but five years ago Jet Li was put forth as the Next Big Kung-Fu Crossover Star. |
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08:12 am
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Mozilla aborted IE in Firefox clothing »
the register (uk) Google we're not
At one point, Mozilla considered building a plug-in that would turn Microsoft's Internet Explorer into a decent browser. But unlike Google, it quickly abandoned the idea.…Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work |
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08:07 am
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Skype's Legal Situation Clears »
slashdot chill writes "Skype's co-founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, have agreed to transfer ownership of the remaining Skype technology that eBay didn't own, paving the way for eBay to complete its sale of a majority stake in Skype to an investor... |
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08:36 am
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Rite of Passage (COMIC) »
digg That's how it always starts... |
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08:35 am
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MacHeist Offers NanoBundle Worth $154, for FREE! »
digg The biggest Mac software bundle makers are offering a what appears to be prelude to their christmas bundle, for free. The list includes: Shovebox, Twitterrific, Writeroom ,TinyGrab, Hordes of Orcs, MarinerWrite. There is no catch, just register and... |
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08:34 am
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Everything You Need to Know About Android 2.0 »
digg Android 2.0 (formerly codenamed Eclair) is the latest evolution of the mobile OS developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance. This version is a chunky upgrade, superseding the current Android 1.6 software (dubbed Donut), which was actually... |
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06:10 am
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Nov. 6, 1944 & 1971: A Double Nuke Anniversary »
digg 1944: Weapons-grade plutonium, for the very heart of the Fat Man atomic bomb used to obliterate Nagasaki, Japan, is first produced at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in south-central Washington state. 1971: The Atomic Energy Commission detonates the... |
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06:08 am
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Portrait of a Polluted Land: Huge Smog Bank Covers China »
digg NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of a massive smog bank smothering huge portions of China today. This blanket of pollution has been hovering over the country for over a week now, exacerbated by cool air and smoke from fires. |
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06:06 am
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Mass Effect 2: Gritty Details And New Trailer »
digg New enemies, info on downloadable content, and much more. |
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06:04 am
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20 Ways to Get Your "Arrested Development" Movie Fix* »
digg Until they actually make the movie |
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06:02 am
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Horror Movies: Why People Love Them »
digg If horror movies scare us so much, why do we watch them? |
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06:58 am
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Urban Decay in Los Angeles: An Insider Look at "Casitas" »
digg Secret speakeasies filled with Mexican and other Central American legal and illegal immigrants. They operate in what appear to be shuttered, recession-emptied storefronts or hollowed-out homes. But inside, after entering, patrons can get almost anything... |
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06:57 am
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Desiree Jennings "cured" of her "vaccine-induced dystonia"? »
digg You remember Desiree Jennings? She's the young woman who received a seasonal flu vaccine in August and later developed what is being represented as dystonia but is almost certainly not. |
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05:08 am
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El Reg shrinks seven days into webpage »
the register (uk) Attention span not required
Week in Review As a service to our with readers with (particularly) short attention spans, we at The Reg have squeezed the week that was into a single webpage. Or at least most of it. Before your attention drifts elsewhere, we... |
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05:04 am
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Norwegian Court Rules ISP Doesn't Have To Block The Pirate Bay »
slashdot C4st13v4n14 writes "In a sudden outbreak of uncommon sense yesterday, a Norwegian District Court handed down the decision that Telenor, Norway's largest ISP, will not have to block access to The Pirate Bay. Telenor was sued earlier this year by the IFPI... |
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05:00 am
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Microsoft tops Google, Yahoo, Facebook in worldwide Web use (Nick Eaton/The Microsoft Blog) »
techmeme Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft tops Google, Yahoo, Facebook in worldwide Web use — Windows Live Messenger led Microsoft's Web properties in capturing 14.5 percent of total time spent online in September worldwide, handily... |
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04:00 am
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Can You Smell Me Now? The Human Body’s Telltale Emissions »
digg You make an impression. Not personally - who cares about that? But your body emits a thermal signature. Your breathing is loud. You smell (sorry). |
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04:59 am
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Characters we wish we knew LESS about »
digg The more we learn, the more we desperately want to forget |
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04:54 am
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Deadliest Drugs: Deaths vs. Media Coverage [INFOGRAPHIC] »
digg Cannabis is no more harmful than alcohol. And horse-riding is riskier than taking ecstasy. |
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04:53 am
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Michele Bachmann reveals her info sources »
digg Yes, Bachmann's "wider background of knowledge" goes from the conservative blog RedState -- led by a guy whose idea of a brilliant political tactic is sending fake dog poop to a Democratic congressman |
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04:51 am
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Weight of the World (INFOGRAPHIC) »
digg The types of foods and the amount of daily calories an adult chooses to consume can have a significant impact on their health, as you can see by the distribution of calories in diets around the world. |
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04:50 am
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BALLS: This Iranian Student Has Them »
digg A college math student has become an unlikely hero to many in Iran for daring to criticize the country's most powerful man to his face. Mahmoud Vahidnia has received an outpouring of support from government opponents for the challenge — unprecedented in... |
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04:48 am
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"Law & Order" Will Have a Letterman Scandal Episode »
digg Things go from tawdry to deadly when an Internet scandal sheet catches wind of the bedhopping, an extortion plot is hatched, and somebody winds up in a body bag. (Thankfully, at least Dave managed to avoid that last part.) |
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04:45 am
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Lego Cheeseburger Combo is Brickalicious! »
digg In case you wanted a complete Cheeseburger combo with all the fixings, french fries and Coke but without the calories, then this Lego Cheeseburger combo looks really brickalicious. The only thing is that it isn’t edible, but it sure could get a Ge... |
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04:43 am
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Toronto awarded 2015 Pan American Games »
digg The 2015 Pan American Games are going to Toronto. The Pan American Sports Organization awarded the games in a secret vote on Friday with Toronto receiving 33 votes to win on the first ballot. Lima, Peru, received 11 votes and Bogota seven. One vote of the... |
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04:42 am
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Gunmen again target army officer in Pakistan »
digg Gunmen on a motorcycle wounded a senior army officer and soldier in the Pakistani capital Friday, the third such attack in about two weeks as militants retaliate against a new military offensive along the Afghan border. |
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04:41 am
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Droid Launch: Is This The Start of The Android Revolution? »
digg the Motorola Droid hits the shelves today, ready for the Android-hungry masses. The question everyone wants to know is, is this the start of a revolution in the mobile space? |
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04:38 am
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Top 10 Dumbest Evil Geniuses Of All Time »
digg Attention evil geniuses! Do you know the ten terrible mistakes that can doom your brilliantest imbroglios to bitter failure? Study the examples of the ten most moronic super-geniuses of all time, and avoid their dreadful fates! |
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04:37 am
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The 10 Most Ho-Ho-Horrifying Christmas Movies »
digg If you think A Christmas Carol looks scary, check out these 10 holiday frights |
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04:36 am
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Marijuana Could Treat PTSD »
digg Many millions have been made in Hollywood by lampooning the acute effects of marijuana on memory but Israeli researchers suggest that they might one day be harnessed to prevent or treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). |
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04:34 am
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Unemployment Rate Jumps to 10.2% »
digg The October unemployment rate has just been released and it has jumped to double digits at 10.2%, the worst rate since 1983. Any higher unemployment rate would make this the worst recession since the Great Depression. So how is the Associated Press... |
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03:08 am
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KDE Founder Receives Highest German Honor »
slashdot Jiilik Oiolosse writes "KDE founder Matthias Ettrich was decorated today with the German Federal Cross of Merit for his contributions to Free Software. The Federal Cross of Merit is both the most prestigious as well as the only general decoration awarded... |
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03:05 am
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Apple Retail Stores Roll Out 'Reserve and Pick Up' Purchasing for Holiday Season (Eric Slivka/MacRumors) »
techmeme Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Retail Stores Roll Out ‘Reserve and Pick Up’ Purchasing for Holiday Season — Apple has rolled out a new Reserve and Pick Up purchasing program for its retail stores, allowing customers to select... |
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02:26 am
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Vet School 2.0: Stick Your Hand Up a Virtual Cow Butt »
digg There's nothing tidy about sticking your arm deep into a cow's backside, getting up to your elbows in warm and gooey bovine innards. But for new vet |
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02:24 am
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In Guantanamo Film Premieres on BitTorrent »
digg With support from the three largest BitTorrent sites and many other well known file-sharing partners, the VODO project offers a novel distribution platform for indie filmmakers. Today VODO presents its second release, the world premiere of In Guantanamo,... |
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02:23 am
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The Search Market Created Microsoft's Worst Enemy »
digg Microsoft has earned a reputation for tenacity when entering markets created by innovative startups. But search is where Microsoft's doggedness has failed to pay off, not only from a revenue perspective but from failing to fend off a competitor who... |
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01:42 am
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New Digital 'Electronics' Concept Could Continue Moore's Law »
digg Computers of the future could be operating not on electrons, but on tiny waves traveling through an electron "fluid," if a new proposal is successful. The new circuit design, recently introduced by Dr. Héctor J. De Los Santos, CTO of NanoMEMS Research... |
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01:41 am
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Five Things to Like About the Droid (and a Few Not to Love) »
digg The Droid is a fierce phone. Motorola's newest smartphone has a number of features that match and even best its biggest competitor, Apple's iPhone. |
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01:40 am
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Sacked UK Drug Czar David Nutt: 'The population is with me' »
digg The man at the heart of the row over the relationship between politics and science appeared relaxed and unrepentant. |
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01:38 am
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New Rules May Force Banks to Acknowledge Losses »
digg A controversial change in accounting rules this year has allowed banks to claim billions of dollars in additional earnings simply by tweaking their bookkeeping, greatly enhancing the appearance that the industry is returning to health. But accounting rule... |
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01:37 am
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Military Suicides are On the Rise »
digg New Army figures indicate that seven active-duty soldiers are believed to have taken their lives in September. That brings to 117 the number of reported Army suicides, from January to September, of troops serving in Afghanistan and Iraq. That's up from... |
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01:35 am
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“Michael Jackson,” taken 1999, printed 2000 »
digg Crazy cool image(s) by Albert Watson. This image is on display as a 96″ x 58″ C-print as part of the exhibition “Who Shot Rock & Roll” at the Brooklyn Museum through January 31, 2010. |
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01:34 am
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How Arlington National Cemetery Came to Be »
digg The fight over Robert E. Lee's beloved home -- seized by the U.S. government during the Civil War -- went on for decades. |
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01:33 am
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Awkward Internet Family Photoshops »
digg As Awkward Family Photos and My Parents Were Awesome have shown us, family portraits should be cherished. You can look back at photos years from now and say, "I can't believe I'm so depressed that I'm looking at old photos. Of other people's families."... |
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01:32 am
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Will Ferrell and Adam McKay Talk YouTube »
digg Will Ferrell and Adam McKay announce the Funny or Die channel on YouTube. |
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01:30 am
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Babies 'cry in mother's tongue' »
digg German researchers say babies begin to pick up the nuances of their parents' accents while still in the womb. |
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01:29 am
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How Everything Goes to Hell During a Zombie Apocalypse (PIC) »
digg An funny depiction of what NOT to do during a zombie outbreak |
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01:24 am
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Sun's surviving staff hit with 'motivation' missive »
the register (uk) Code: Your solace, our savior
Exclusive Sun Microsystems has set software engineers seven goals in the wake of new layoffs, hoping to keep them focused amid uncertainty but to also hit existing corporate objectives.…Offloading malware protection to t... |
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01:23 am
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Animal lovers say no to radioactive NASA monkeys »
the register (uk) Appeal irradiated monkeyshines
Animal rights groups are apparently not pleased with NASA's plan to zap squirrel monkeys with repeated doses of radiation for science.…Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work |
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01:22 am
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Vint Cerf: 'Google doesn't know who you are' »
the register (uk) Identifiers don't identify
Interwebs founding father and Google evangelist Vint Cerf has insisted that when you search Google, the company doesn't know who you are.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud |
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01:17 am
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Sony Demos Natal-Like Control System »
slashdot An anonymous reader writes "It's not just Microsoft investigating full body, markerless motion capture. Sony has enlisted the help of Swiss firm Atracsys to develop similar technology. Sony has openly discussed the technology with New Scientist, and has... |
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01:14 am
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October 2009 OS stats: Windows 7 passes Snow Leopard, Linux (Emil Protalinski/Ars Technica) »
techmeme Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
October 2009 OS stats: Windows 7 passes Snow Leopard, Linux — In less than two weeks of general availability, Windows 7 has already captured a market share that is greater than Snow Leopard and... |
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00:37 am
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Telecoms Announce "One Voice" Initiative To Promote LTE Wireless Broadband Stand »
slashdot suraj.sun writes to mention that Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks may have just gotten a boost over WiMax in the battle for wireless broadband dominance. A group of telecom companies has created the "One Voice" initiative, designed to promote a standard... |
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00:33 am
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China Bans Physical Punishment For Net Addicts »
slashdot gimmebeer writes to tell us that months after a teen was beaten to death in an Internet boot camp, China has banned the use of physical punishment to help teens kick their net addiction. "The death of 15-year-old Deng Senshan, just hours after he checked... |
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00:32 am
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AMD Graphics Chip Shortage Hits PC Vendors »
slashdot CWmike writes "An offshore AMD foundry is having trouble ramping up production of a new 40-nanometer GPU, forcing PC makers to delay shipments of desktop and laptop computers, AMD confirmed today. TSMC is struggling to get up to speed manufacturing AMD's... |
Fri, Nov 06 2009
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23:00 pm
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The 7 levels of a Bar Hook-Up »
digg There are those nights when you truly just want to grab a beer (or seven), hang out with your friends, and complain about work. But then there are the other nights when you use up all your hair gel, iron your jeans, and truly just want to get laid. |
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23:59 pm
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Zach Galifianakis Set to Star as Humpty-Dumpty »
digg Funny-man Zach Galifiankis is set to play Humpty-Dumpty in the fifth installment of the Shrek series. You heard correct, the fifth Shrek movie |
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23:57 pm
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Land Mass vs Population Size by Country (INFOGRAPHIC) »
digg Countries come in all shapes and sizes, and so do their populations. Below is a graphic representation of selected countries, based on land mass and population |
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23:55 pm
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7 Most Massive Single Meteorites on Earth »
digg Like fugitives on the run from distant solar systems, meteors hurtle through the earth’s atmosphere, lighting up the eyes of observers on the ground. Often these fireballs of metal and rock burn up in a blaze of glory, and many do not survive their impa... |
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23:54 pm
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The Lion Quick Jump On To A JEEP »
digg Pictures of the day: 6 November 2009 |
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23:53 pm
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Republican Wins May Make Democrats Cautious on Obama Agenda »
digg Republican victories in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races may make some congressional Democrats more leery of backing key elements of President BarackObama's agenda because of the political price they could pay,analysts said. |
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23:51 pm
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Kirk Cameron links Charles Darwin to Hitler/racism/sexism »
digg In a video posted recently to YouTube, Cameron lays out a plan to subvert 'Darwin Day' on November 22, 2009 -- a date marking the 150th anniversary of the publishing of Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species." Cameron says that he and like-minded activists... |
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23:50 pm
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Show Me the Money: Wacky Facts About Music Royalties »
digg Writing a song ain’t easy, but getting paid for the music you create is even tougher. Recording artists depend on hit songs to sell records and generate income, and when they sign a record contract, they usually get a 7 to 10 percent cut of their album... |
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23:49 pm
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Is the Dollar Dying a Slow Death? »
digg The value of the greenback has resumed its downward spiral, but don't count out the world's reserve currency yet |
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23:48 pm
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Obama or JFK? »
digg I can't tell either |
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23:45 pm
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Scientology Employees Forced To Watch Tom Cruise Videos »
digg According to a former member of the church the eccentric star is used as inspiration to those working at the sprawling compound in Gilman Hot Springs California. |
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23:44 pm
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If You Can't Find The Book You Want [Pic] »
digg You're probably at the.... |
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23:43 pm
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Was the University of Maryland Built By Slave Labor? »
digg Researchers hoped to find a "smoking gun" that would link slavery to the construction and founding of the college. But records were wiped out by a fire that swept the campus more than 100 years ago. Slave labor was so intrinsic to business and... |
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23:41 pm
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Nancy Lieberman To Become the NBA's 1st Female Head Coach? »
digg If there ever will be a female NBA head coach in my lifetime, I'm thinking Nancy Lieberman has got a shot. Lieberman took the first step toward that Thursday when she was named head coach of the Dallas Mavericks' D-League team in Frisco, Texas, that will... |
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23:40 pm
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WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH »
digg "I don't see how he can do anything other than move aggressively to achieve victory," said the War Profiteer. |
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23:39 pm
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GLAAD Protesting SOUTH PARK 'F-Bomb' Episode (+ vids) »
digg The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation is coming out against Wednesday's episode that attempted to re-define the word 'fag'... |
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23:31 pm
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Lessons From the War Over Skype (Brad Stone/Bits) »
techmeme Brad Stone / Bits:
Lessons From the War Over Skype — The dust has settled, the ink on the deal has dried, and one of the biggest sideshows in Silicon Valley this year appears to be over. The litigation between eBay, the buyers of... |
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23:30 pm
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Report: Apple to launch Verizon iPhone in Q3 2010 (Prince McLean/AppleInsider) »
techmeme Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Report: Apple to launch Verizon iPhone in Q3 2010 — A new report citing sources in the Taiwan handset supply chain says Apple has contracted to produce a UMTS/CDMA hybrid iPhone due in the third quarter of... |
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23:58 pm
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Here's That Leaked Copyright Treaty Document »
digg Here's the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement document, as it appeared on Wikileaks today. It amounts to policy laundering at its finest -– that the United States is pushing the world to require ISPs to adopt “graduated response” policie... |
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22:41 pm
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Intel lampooned by Nvidia toons »
the register (uk) Graphic ridicule
If anyone needs any further proof that there's no love lost between chipmakers Nvidia and Intel, they need look no further than a cartoon collection linked from Nvidia's corporate blog, nTersect…Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legola... |
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22:37 pm
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Microsoft Research Shows Off New Projects On College Recruiting Tour »
slashdot In a recent college recruiting tour, Microsoft's Craig Mundie was able to showcase some of the experiments coming out of their Research division. Among some of the interesting projects were another pass at the Minority Report interface, eye-tracking,... |
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22:36 pm
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Multi-Button OpenOfficeMouse At OOoCon 2009 »
slashdot An anonymous reader writes "WarMouse has announced their new multi-button OpenOfficeMouse for OpenOffice.org at the 2009 OOoCon in Orvieto, Italy. The mouse, which features 18 buttons, a scroll wheel, and an analog joystick, has double-click functionality... |
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22:36 pm
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Drupal Multimedia »
slashdot coder4hire writes "Of the leading content management systems used by developers for creating websites, Drupal is highly regarded for many characteristics, including a much smaller initial footprint, compared to Joomla and other CMSs. Yet some developers... |
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22:33 pm
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Giz Explains: Android, and How It Will Take Over the World (John Herrman/Gizmodo) »
techmeme John Herrman / Gizmodo:
Giz Explains: Android, and How It Will Take Over the World — This week we met Motorola's Droid, the first handset with Android 2.0. To an outsider, it just looks like another Google smartphone, but 2.0 is... |
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22:32 pm
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Boxee Beta Coming December 7 (Dan Frommer/Silicon Alley Insider) »
techmeme Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Boxee Beta Coming December 7 — NYC-based Boxee will release the long-awaited beta version of its Web video-watching software on Dec. 7, MediaMemo's Peter Kafka tweets. — It'll be... |
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22:31 pm
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A new design for LinkedIn (Kevin Bury/The LinkedIn Blog) »
techmeme Kevin Bury / The LinkedIn Blog:
A new design for LinkedIn — Some of you may have noticed a new site navigation experience on LinkedIn. We are in the process of testing a new design. During this testing phase, some users will... |
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21:50 pm
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The Butcher, the Baker, or the Candlestick Maker? »
digg Anne Geddes' next top model. |
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21:49 pm
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New Firefox Plugin lets you "Dislike" stories on Facebook »
digg It’s highly unlikely that Facebook will ever add such a button, however that’s not stopping developers from coming up with creative solutions. One developer has created a Firefox plugin which lets users dislike feed stories. |
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21:48 pm
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About your lab results »
digg Mirror in the comments. |
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21:46 pm
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NASA's Chandra Xray Space Observatory images [PICS] »
digg Images sent to Earth by the Chandra Xray Space Observatory. |
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21:45 pm
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Digital TV Switch Causes 70% Rise in e-Waste »
digg This year, the council has recycled 50,000 analogue TVs thrown away by households, of which 30,000 could have been upgraded to receive digital TV signals |
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Top 10 Smartest Mammals »
digg Elephants have much heavier brains than we humans, but when it comes to a neuron count, we tie with the pachyderms. |
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Shooting reported at Orlando high-rise - CNN.com »
digg A gunman was at large after firefighters and police responded to a reported shooting Friday at a high-rise building in Orlando, Florida, authorities said. |
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21:40 pm
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Steven Chu: The Nerd in the Cabinet »
digg The current Secretary of Energy is also a Nobel Laureate and former physics professor at UC Berkeley, and a self-described 'energy conservation nut.' |
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21:37 pm
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The Real Men Who Stare at Goats »
digg Psychic Spies, Acid Guinea Pigs, New Age Soldiers: the True Men Who Stare at Goats. - WARNING : Minor Spoilers |
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21:36 pm
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Fort Hood shooting: police woman hailed for bravery »
digg An American police woman has been hailed a heroine after taking on the lone gunman who went on a shooting spree at a huge military base in the United States, killing 13 people and wounding 30 others. |
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21:34 pm
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6 People Who Faked Their Own Death (For Ridiculous Reasons) »
digg We can admit that sometimes it might make sense to fake your death. You know, like if you're on the run from the mob, or something. Or you could go a totally different route and fake your death for a really asinine reason. Kind of like these people... |
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The Myth of '08, Demolished »
digg Obama's 2008 sweep was a historical anomaly...The same conventional wisdom that proclaimed the dawning of a new age last November dismissed the inevitable popular reaction to Obama's hubristic expansion of government, taxation, spending and debt—the t... |
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21:31 pm
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Born-Again Christian Tries to Burn Down his Church 4 times »
digg Thirty-year-old Izad Chavoshan could get up to 20 years in state prison if he is convicted of the three felony counts of arson, one felony count of attempted arson and a hate crime sentencing enhancement against him. What the hell happened? |
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21:38 pm
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Will Ferrell's Funny Or Die links up with YouTube »
digg YouTube has announced it is to partner Will Ferrell's comedy website Funny Or Die, offering up a channel featuring a boatload of the site's comedic content.Funny Or Die has been around since 2007 and is the brainchild of Will Ferrell and writer Adam... |
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Big cable: move millions from phone subsidies to broadband »
digg Why is the FCC still funding rural phone companies in areas where unsubsidized cable operators offer IP telephone service? The cable industry is proposing a sweeping measure to simplify the nation's subsidy system for rural phone service providers |
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20:17 pm
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Boinkfest clicks 'Delete' on woman's memory »
the register (uk) Orgasmic amnesia
If your weekend plans include a frisky horizontal mambo, you might want to first tape your ID card to the bedstead.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud |
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20:16 pm
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Doctor sentenced for massive online Rx factory »
the register (uk) Over 100,000 served
A Virginia doctor has been sentenced to serve a year in prison on charges he wrote as many as 100,000 internet prescriptions over a three-year span.…Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing |
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20:12 pm
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National Data Breach Law Advances »
slashdot Trailrunner7 writes "Two separate bills that would require organizations to notify consumers when their personal information has been compromised have made their way out of committee in the Senate, a critical step toward the creation of a national... |
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20:10 pm
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Cable Exec Suggests Changing Consumer Behavior, Not Business Model »
slashdot Techdirt has pointed out yet another cable exec that just doesn't quite get it. Comcast's COO, Steve Burke, recently urged the TV industry to find ways to "get consumers to change" rather than figure out better methods to cater to demand. "'An entire... |
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20:10 pm
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What Does Google Suggest Suggest About Humanity? »
slashdot CNETNate writes "You'll laugh, but mostly you'll cry. Some of the questions Google gets asked to deliver results for is beyond worrying. 'Can you put peroxide in your ear?', 'Why would a pregnancy test be negative?', and 'Why can't I own a Canadian?'... |
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18:38 pm
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10 Heavyweight Boxing Classics »
digg Take a look at ten of the best heavyweight boxing bouts of all time. |
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18:37 pm
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Vets baffled by bald bears »
digg Dolores, a spectacled bear at a zoo in Leipzig, has gone bald. Not just on her head but all over her body.Vets are baffled about what has caused the sudden hair loss which has affected all female bears at the zoo. |
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18:35 pm
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Obama Faces His Anzio »
digg President Obama chose a cautious approach rather than bold action on the economy, and the decision may haunt Democrats for years to come. |
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18:33 pm
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Mandatory sex lessons for every 15-year-old »
digg Sex education is to be made compulsory for all pupils, prompting fury from faith groups which said that the move would contravene the right for children to be educated in accordance with their parents’ beliefs. |
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18:32 pm
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Jobless rate tops 10 pct. for first time since '83 - Yahoo! »
digg The unemployment rate has surpassed 10 percent for the first time since 1983 — and is likely to go higher. |
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18:31 pm
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Rhode Island teens left homework at the home they robbed »
digg A Rhode Island high school student is facing charges for leaving his homework at home. Except it wasn't his own home, but a house he and a classmate allegedly robbed. |
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18:29 pm
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Fraternity Steals 10,000 Newspapers to Hide Date Rape Story »
digg You may be wondering "why the hell would anyone steal 10,000 free student newspapers?" If you ask the editorial staff at the Daily Wildcat, it was to keep people from reading about the latest fraternity date-rape story. |
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18:27 pm
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Man attempts drive-by shooting, forgets to roll down window »
digg Sheriff's deputies examining the area found broken auto glass in the street, and, later that day, contacted area auto glass repair shops and found Burwitz had his car window replaced after filing an insurance claim. |
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18:26 pm
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Milky Way Over Californian Mountains (Awesome Timelapse VID) »
digg This brilliant timelapse video captures the Milky Way and countless shooting stars travelling across the sky over Yosemite and the White Mountains, California. |
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18:24 pm
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Emmerich's Disaster Movie 2012 Will Be A TV Series: 2013 »
digg As speculated, the new series will be called 2013, and will focus on the aftermath of the cataclysmic events of the film. With the world in disarray, it's time to rebuild. Emmerich says it's "not the bright happy future everyone was imagining" when the... |
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18:23 pm
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Can Humans Infect Pets With H1N1? »
digg Until this week, many veterinarians asserted that it was a myth that house cats could catch the deadly H1N1 flu from their owners. |
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18:21 pm
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APOD: Ring Nebula Deep Field »
digg A familiar sight to sky enthusiasts with even a small telescope, the Ring Nebula (M57) is some 2,000 light-years away in the musical constellation Lyra. |
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18:19 pm
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Undercover Narc and Judge Back Drug Legalization on Fox News »
digg Retired undercover narcotics detective Jack Cole and Judge Andrew Napolitano discuss their support for legalizing drugs after spending careers sending countless drug offenders to jail. |
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18:18 pm
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Russian Photo Contest: Guns and Balconies Required (pics) »
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18:15 pm
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Casino Denies Man $166 Million Jackpot (w/Video) »
digg A Florida man, Bill Seebeck hit one hell of a jackpot. Playing the $4 slots, he hit the biggest jackpot in the history of the state of Florida: $166,666,666.65. Now the Casino will not pay him due to computer error. |
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18:14 pm
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Family Wind Turbines Gain Momentum (Vid) »
digg Part of a growing trend, a Danish family of seven has installed its own wind turbine to produce all the electricity the family needs while reducing its carbon footprint. |
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18:12 pm
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Speedy Germ Detector Works in Minutes »
digg NASA scientists have developed a speedy new technology that can detect pathogens in 15 minutes flat. Developed for the planetary science division at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the new device is designed to minimize contamination of other... |
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18:10 pm
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The Dirtiest Player In Women's Soccer »
digg Pittsburgh Steelers tough man Hines Ward recently won a peer-conducted poll giving him the title of "dirtiest player in the NFL," but the 6-foot, 204-pound wide receiver looks like a choir boy next to New Mexico University women's soccer defender... |
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Perfect Wedding Photobomb (PIC) »
digg Bravo! that guy deserves an award. |
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How your brain sees virtual you »
digg The way the brain regards the virtual you may help explain why some people spend large chunks of their life online playing immersive games. |
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18:05 pm
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9 Eye-Popping Optical Illusions »
digg We love looking at illusions that challenge our minds (and our eyes), but that doesn’t mean we can even fathom how they are created, let alone how they work. |
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18:03 pm
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Jon Stewart's Pitch-Perfect Glenn Beck Impression (Video) »
digg There's a war going on in America, and the stakes are nothing less than Glenn Beck's internal organs. |
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18:02 pm
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Stuck in Sandy Soil for 6 Months, Mars Rover Plans Escape »
digg After being stuck in soft soil on Mars for six months, Spirit, one of two NASA rovers on the red planet, is about to attempt an escape. |
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Tendulkar achieves 17,000 one-day runs »
digg India's Sachin Tendulkar became the first batsman ever to surpass 17,000 runs in one-day internationals during the fifth match against AustraliaTendulkar, 36, achieved the landmark when he reached seven runs with a three off paceman Ben Hilfenhaus past... |
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18:58 pm
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Fictional Characters Who Stopped by Sesame Street »
digg Hundreds of celebrities have appeared as themselves on Sesame Street, but plenty of popular fictional characters have made cameos as well. Here are some of our favorites, from R2-D2 to GOB Bluth (well, kind of). |
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18:54 pm
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The Real Road Trip Of South Dakota »
digg Stunningly beautiful sights, abundant wildlife, sturdy mountains, striking roads and amazing parks with a rich history is what the southwest segment of South Dakota is all about, when it comes to a long drive. |
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18:24 pm
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Enzyme Found To Help Formation of New Axons »
slashdot Greg George writes "Researchers at Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology have announced that they have found an enzyme that helps nerves to grow in areas damaged after trauma. In typical injuries, scar tissue forms around the damage point... |
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18:23 pm
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AT&T's City-By-City Plan To Up Wireless Coverage »
slashdot alphadogg writes "AT&T has created different mobile calling models for every major city in America as it tries to improve a network that has come under fire for poor performance as the data-friendly iPhone has proliferated, an executive said Thursday.... |
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18:18 pm
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Fever Pitch: It's Droid Day, Enjoy The Moment. (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch) »
techmeme Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Fever Pitch: It's Droid Day, Enjoy The Moment. — If you are a tech lover, there is nothing quite like the launch day of a much hyped new gadget. Expectations run high. And since those... |
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18:35 pm
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Developer finds major coding errors in Facebook, MySpace »
digg Social networking sites MySpace and Facebook have apparently fixed coding errors that could have allowed an attacker access to all of their users' data and photos. The simple coding errors are alarming considering the extent to which social networks have... |
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17:28 pm
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Eat my dust - it's time for Comment of the Week »
the register (uk) Bring your conjecture to the slaughter
CoTW Good afternoon, parasites. I expect after a long hard week of aggravating wittering on the Reg threads you'd like nothing better than to sit back and enjoy a nice hot drink and a bit of a blowback of said... |
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17:27 pm
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T-Orange puts names on dotted lines »
the register (uk) Very nearly on schedule, too
T-Mobile and Orange have signed their merger agreement, paving the way for the new operator to come into existence next year.…The power of collaboration within unified communications |
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17:26 pm
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Mossad hacked Syrian laptop to steal nuke plant secrets »
the register (uk) Evil Maid attack led to air raid
Mossad reportedly used a Trojan to hack into a Syrian official's laptop while he stayed in a London hotel.…What is your recession sales strategy? |
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17:23 pm
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Google CEO: Hopefully we won't repeat Microsoft's past mistakes (Todd Bishop/TechFlash) »
techmeme Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Google CEO: Hopefully we won't repeat Microsoft's past mistakes — Eric Schmidt appeared on Fox Business Network tonight for an extensive interview with host Neil Cavuto, who pressed the Google CEO a couple times... |
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16:24 pm
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EMI Sues the Beatles Off the Net »
slashdot blackest_k sends along a Wired piece on EMI's successful suit to get Beatles music off the Net. Here is the judge's ruling (PDF). "A federal judge on Thursday ordered a Santa Cruz company to immediately quit selling Beatles and other music on its online... |
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15:47 pm
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Finding Parking in Miami Can be a Matter of Life or Death »
digg Though old-timers will tell you parking in this city was once a breeze, rampant development and a scheming homeless contingent have turned securing a spot into a Mad Max-esque adventure. Finding a spot usually isn't violent — but nowadays it's rare... |
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15:46 pm
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Recession tales: The workplace is changing forever »
digg When the 15 million unemployed Americans do find jobs again, they'll return to a workplace that is likely to have grown accustomed to less pay for more work, or at least working less hours in a week. The raises that were once part of an annual employee... |
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15:44 pm
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5 Abandoned Wonders of the USSR »
digg Once mighty communist empire spared no means on defense and science, leaving behind wonders people forgot about nowdays. |
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15:42 pm
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Flu Threat Looms As Mecca Readies For Pilgrims »
digg The H1N1 virus is a major concern for Saudi Arabian authorities, who are gearing up to host millions of Muslims on the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Health officials are making recommendations and monitoring pilgrims, but otherwise can do little to mitigate... |
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15:13 pm
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Three critical fixes in store for MS November Patch Tuesday »
the register (uk) Has another crack at some October uberpatch flaws
Microsoft plans to deliver six updates - three critical - as part of its November Patch Tuesday cycle.…Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing |
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15:12 pm
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EMI saves world from unauthorised Beatles downloads »
the register (uk) Takes Old Brown Shoe and kicks BlueBox with it
EMI appears to have recleansed the internet of Beatles music, forcing Bluebeat.com to ditch the 25 cents per Fab Four song offer it launched this week.…What is your recession sales strategy? |
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15:11 pm
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Legendary McLaren F1 designer talks up e-car plan »
the register (uk) And gets £4.5m of Govt money to build it
Leccy Tech Mention the phrases 'Gordon Murray' and 'electric car' in the same sentence and images of gold-plated battery powered hypercars probably spring to mind.… |
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15:11 pm
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Skype founders drop licence threat against eBay »
the register (uk) Bluff pays off for European duo
A legal row that threatened the existence of Skype has been settled, with the free net phone service's founders regaining a significant portion of the firm from eBay.…The power of collaboration within unified communications |
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15:10 pm
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Google countersues in Android Specht-spat »
the register (uk) Punitive damages and attorney's fees, please
Google has come out fighting against Erich Specht who sued the search giant over the Android name, launching a countersuit demanding damages and "disgorgement of ill-gotten gains".…Case Study: WhatsUp kee... |
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15:09 pm
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Sony to bring Risk to the big screen »
the register (uk) Coming soon... Ludo: The Motion Picture
Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired the rights to produce a movie based on Hasbro's classic strategy boardgame Risk, offering the delicious possibility that the company might follow it up with Ludo: The Motion... |
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15:05 pm
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CDC Adopts Near Real-Time Flu Tracking System »
slashdot CWmike writes "The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched an effort this week to better and more easily track for H1N1 and other seasonal influenza activity throughout the US. The CDC said it is now tracking data on 14 million patients... |
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15:04 pm
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Vint Cerf Plugs Android Into Interplanetary Net »
slashdot Several readers sent in an update on DTN, the interplanetary Internet protocol that Vint Cerf has been working on for many years (and we have been discussing for nearly as long). The news now is that Cerf has added a DTN stack to the open source Android... |
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15:31 pm
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'Secret Knock' Lock defends home from rhythmically-impaired »
digg Steve Hoefer has taken his microcontroller and, along with a piezoelectric speaker, a gear reduction motor, and some PVC pipe, programmed it to listen for a preset sequence of knocks -- a secret knock, if you will -- and unlock the deadbolt upon hearing... |
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15:30 pm
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Ask the Artist: How Windows 7's Iconic Home Screen Evolved »
digg Chuck Anderson, creator of Windows 7's laid-back, cerulean-cool default wallpaper and login screen, showed me the evolution of his work --including Easter eggs, avoiding Mac tropes and why flaming skulls didn't make the final design. |
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15:28 pm
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MySpace Traffic Drop Costs News Corp About $100 Million »
digg The MySpace social media network’s traffic has dropped so much that it will fail to satisfy a minimum traffic level crucial to parent company News Corp’s three-year $900 million advertising deal with Google, inked in 2006, that made Google the exclu... |
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14:35 pm
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The Desktop refresh »
the register (uk) Should I? Shouldn't I?
On demand For those of you who missed our recent live webcast on refreshing the desktop estate, the panic is over. Here it is, recorded it in full colour, for your viewing pleasure.…Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyl... |
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14:35 pm
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Non-Intels rally 'round LTE spec »
the register (uk) Speaking with 'One Voice'
A gaggle of LTE proponents have released a tech spec for voice and SMS over that 4G wireless standard, moving LTE one more step ahead of its Intel-championed competitor, WiMAX.…Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn... |
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14:34 pm
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Anna Friel spectator brings up his Breakfast at Tiffany's »
the register (uk) Pukes from upper balcony during musical number
Plucky* Anna Friel has proved she got the thesp Right Stuff by battling on with a performance of Breakfast at Tiffany's, despite the fact that a punter puked over six fellow Haymarket Theatre audience... |
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14:33 pm
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US unemployment rate breaks ten per cent »
the register (uk) Telcos and IT services add jobs
There may be signs that the Great Recession in the US is on the wane, but employers didn't get the memo and another 190,000 people lost their jobs in October.…Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work |
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14:30 pm
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Windows 7 sales exceed Vista sales by 234% (Brandon LeBlanc/The Windows Blog) »
techmeme Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Windows 7 sales exceed Vista sales by 234% — It has been quite amazing to watch the global excitement build around Windows 7, especially during a tough economic climate. It was just a few short... |
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14:30 pm
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Confirmed: Skype Founders Settle With eBay And Others, Get 14% Stake ... (Robin Wauters/TechCrunch) »
techmeme Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Confirmed: Skype Founders Settle With eBay And Others, Get 14% Stake In Skype, Not 10% — eBay has just announced that it has reached a settlement with the founders of Skype, clearing the way for the sale of... |
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14:29 pm
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Midnight Droid madness in Manhattan (Marguerite Reardon/CNET News) »
techmeme Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
Midnight Droid madness in Manhattan — NEW YORK—More than a hundred people were lined up at midnight Thursday outside a Verizon Wireless store in midtown Manhattan to be among the first people to buy... |
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13:06 pm
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Intel replicates 'bricked SSD' bug, pledges fix »
the register (uk) Says solution a 'high priority'
Intel has once again promised a fix for the glitchy firmware update tool it released for its 34nm solid-state drives last month. But it still can't say when the new version will arrive.… |
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13:05 pm
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Is this the world's dirtiest PC? »
the register (uk) Reader snap reveals Quatermass-style horror
We're obliged to reader Danny Lee for forwarding evidence of what appears to be a Quatermass-style lifeform, which has attached itself to a PC and pretty well explains why the thing had ceased to... |
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13:05 pm
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Controversial email blocklist SORBS sold »
the register (uk) GFI confirms purchase of reputation service
GFI Software has confirmed the purchase of sometimes controversial spam blocklist provider SORBS for a reported $451,000.…What is your recession sales strategy? |
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13:04 pm
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Booze shops get ID card lessons »
the register (uk) More shops than cards
Government workers have hit the streets of Manchester to promote the ID cards scheme to shop owners, who currently outnumber members of the public who have volunteered for a card.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud |
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13:03 pm
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The decentralisation effect »
the register (uk) Server architectures and their impact in operations
Workshop This week’s poll spawned some very interesting responses. We asked you where you keep your servers, and how these relate to the kinds of issues you face.…Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Lego... |
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13:02 pm
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US woman to drop sprog live on internet »
the register (uk) Promises 'tasteful' birthing coverage
A 23-year-old US teacher has decided to broadcast the drop of her first sprog live on the internet, thereby becoming a human "textbook" for those seeking birthing enlightenment.…What is your recession sales strategy? |
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13:01 pm
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Sun's Facebook-slapping hits wrong target »
the register (uk) Paedo-threat coverage risks more restrictions for all
Comment A series of negative stories about Facebook by The Sun newspaper could lead to yet more government intervention directing how individuals are allowed to interact with the internet.…The power ... |
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13:00 pm
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H Ross Perot Jr fails to grab rhino by the horns »
the register (uk) Denied hunting trophy following 'bungled' shot
H Ross Perot Jr, the son of former US presidential hopeful H Ross Perot, has been told he can't after all have the head and skin of a white rhino he shot back in July in KwaZulu-Natal's Mkhuze game reserve,... |
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13:58 pm
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HP plans a trillion-sensor global stethoscope »
the register (uk) Hearing the heartbeat of the Earth
Getting the vision thing right is important for technology announcements and HP has it nailed, twinning a great vision with advances in its sensing technology.…The power of collaboration within unified communications |
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13:57 pm
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'Something may come through' dimensional 'doors' at LHC »
the register (uk) Attack of the Hyperdimensional Juggernaut-Men
A top boffin at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) says that the titanic machine may possibly create or discover previously unimagined scientific phenomena, or "unknown unknowns" - for instance "an extra... |
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13:56 pm
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Firefox and Chrome updates spike stability bugs »
the register (uk) Bonfire Night alternative browser fixes
Mozilla has pushed out a new version of Firefox that fixes a number of stability bugs that pose possible security concerns.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud |
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13:55 pm
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Memory maker to sell films on Flash »
the register (uk) Kingston Technology partners with Paramount
Memory specialist Kingston Technology is to sell movies on memory cards.…Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work |
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13:55 pm
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LibDem backs IBM staff in pension row... »
the register (uk) ...with call for mass firings
Hampshire MP Sandra Gidley has intervened in the row over IBM closing its final salary pension scheme, but hers is a confusing brand of support staff might rather do without.…Offloading malware protection to the cloud |
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13:54 pm
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ6 compact camera »
the register (uk) Super-zoom for the cost-conscious
Review Panasonic’s DMC-TZ6 could be considered the little brother or, if you want to be a little less charitable, a stripped-down version of the DMC-TZ7 we looked at in August. Both models are super-zoom compacts ... |
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13:53 pm
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Net hasn't isolated Yanks - they've just misplaced their friends »
the register (uk) Net chums replace some neighbours
Americans have not become more isolated thanks to the advent of mobile phones and the internet - it's just that they've mislaid a third of their closest friends in the last few years.…Offloading malware protection to t... |
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13:52 pm
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Web hosts lunches its clients' emails for a week »
the register (uk) Hardware blamed for snafu
British web hosting company UK2.net is still trying to restore emails to customers almost a week after it first reported problems.…Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing |
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13:47 pm
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Fear Detector To Sniff Out Terrorists »
slashdot Hugh Pickens writes "Evidence that the smell of fear is real was uncovered by US scientists last year who studied the underarm secretions of 20 terrified novice skydivers and found that people appear to respond unconsciously to the sweat smell of a... |
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12:36 pm
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Alan Grayson Reads Names Of Dead In Republican Districts »
digg Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) took to the floor Wednesday night to read the names of those who had died from lack of health insurance in Republican districts. |
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12:35 pm
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Senate Blocks Citizenship Question from Census »
digg Senate Democrats have blocked a GOP attempt to require next year's census forms to ask people whether they are a U.S. citizen. |
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12:33 pm
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New Twitter Retweets Take A Little Peek Around »
digg Twitter has just activated the retweet button a a small number of accounts, according to a blog post. The new retweet functionality was ... |
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12:32 pm
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What Game Made You Cry The Most? »
digg Japan's Oricon Life polled 500 males ranging in age from teen to 40-something, asking them which games have made them cry the most. Then they compiled a list of the top five. Weepy drumroll please... |
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12:30 pm
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Unveiled:Britain's1st Underground Mansion Designed 4 Privacy »
digg Proving just how much the housing market has gone through the floor, the go-ahead has been given for Britain's first underground mansion. Developers have announced plans for a £2m subterranean property, which will be entered via an unassuming door a... |
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12:27 pm
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Defense Bill Features Less Waste »
digg The defense spending bill that President Obama signed last week eliminated several programs deemed wasteful, including a presidential... |
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12:26 pm
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When Is It Legal To Frame A Man For Murder? »
digg On Nov. 4, the U.S. Supreme Court listened to oral arguments not over whether prosecutors had framed two men for murder, but whether they could be charged for it |
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Inmates come to guard's aid in jail attack »
digg Hillsborough County, Florida, Deputy Kenneth Moon was alone at his station at a county jail facility near Tampa when an inmate attacked him with no warning. |
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12:23 pm
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Microsoft's Project Natal Could Out-Wii the Wii »
digg An early prototype of Microsoft’s Project Natal makes the once astonishing Wii seem crude. Microsoft and Sony’s new gaming consoles are bound to take a greater share of the massive videogame market. |
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12:21 pm
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'2001' Geeks, Rejoice! World Learns Why HAL Sang 'Daisy' »
digg We're sure many of you are familiar with the death-of-HAL scene from the Kubrick classic '2001: A Space Odyssey,' in which the rebellious computer slowly, and childishly, drones the lyrics to 'Daisy Bell.' It's one of the most memorable scenes in a film... |
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12:19 pm
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Johnny Depp Joining Angelina Jolie In The Tourist »
digg The thriller remake "The Tourist," has run into another set of hiccoughs, with major players moving around like luggage on a conveyor. Male lead Sam Worthington has fallen off, and Johnny Depp is in negotiations to replace him. Additionally, director... |
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12:18 pm
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Pelosi Breaks Pledge to Put Final Health Care Bill Online »
digg Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the speaker will not allow the final language of the health care to be posted online for 72 hours before bringing the bill to a vote on the House floor, despite her September 24 statement that... |
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Researchers Implant Neural-Monitoring RFID Into a Moth »
slashdot TechRev_AL writes "A team from the University of Washington has attached an RFID chip capable of sensing neural activity to a live moth, to pick up the spikes that occur as it beats its wings. Most neural implants are still relatively bulky, but the... |
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