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Mar 11th 5:05pm by ars@lasarletter.net (Matthew Lasar)
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Federal Communications Commissioner Mignon Clyburn solidified her role as the agency's tail gunner on Wednesday with a warning to the big ISPs that the FCC's patience with rising broadband subscription rates is wearing thin. "When prices rise across the...
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Mar 11th 2:28pm by ars@lasarletter.net (Matthew Lasar)
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A newly revised version of a House bill requiring the government to inventory the nation's radio spectrum would give Federal agencies and private license owners a national security pass on publicly disclosing information about their spectrum holdings or...
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Mar 11th 7:30am by peter.bright@arstechnica.com (Peter Bright)
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A rather surprising article hit the front page of the BBC on Tuesday: the next generation of hard disks could cause slowdowns for XP users. Not normally the kind of thing you'd expect to be placed so prominently, but the warning it gives is a worthy one,...
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Mar 11th 6:23am by segphault@arstechnica.com (Ryan Paul)
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Amazon's patent on one-click shopping has survived the scrutiny of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). In an official notice published this month, the USPTO declared its intent to issue a reexamination certificate affirming the validity of...
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Mar 11th 5:20am by bkuchera@arstechnica.com (Ben Kuchera)
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There is a point when playing rhythm games such as Rock Band or Guitar Hero where you hit a kind of wall; there is only so much to learn hitting buttons as notes flow down the screen. Power Gig: Rise of the Six String—in addition to having a...
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Mar 11th 4:33am by jeff.smykil@gmail.com (Jeff Smykil)
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Not too long ago, David Finland built a device capable of communicating with just about any model of iPod via the dock connector using an Arduino Nano, PodGizmo breakout board, an old USB iPod connector, and a momentary switch. While it may not sound...
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Mar 11th 3:00am by bkuchera@arstechnica.com (Ben Kuchera)
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SAN FRANCISCO — At a GDC event today, Sony showed off its new PlayStation Move controller, along with a number of games. The audience response was positive, but the demos shown, including sports games and sword-and-shield-style battles, seemed both...
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Mar 11th 1:17am by jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)
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By now, it's practically a mantra that the biggest problem with corporate IT security is the employees themselves. However, we usually assume that's due to ignorant users or poorly enforced policies. Not so for a chunk of the US working...
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Mar 11th 12:27am by zeotherm@gmail.com (Matt Ford)
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Plastics became ubiquitous during the 20th century. They were hot topics of industrial and academic research, and saw innumerable consumer applications. While plastics can have a wide variety of mechanical properties, they are almost universally good...
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Mar 10th 10:41pm by jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)
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Two Azerbaijani bloggers will remain in jail after using a donkey to represent their government in a satirical YouTube video. Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli lost an appeal Wednesday asking for them to be released from their respective 2 and and 2.5 year...
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Mar 10th 8:55pm by chris.foresman@arstechnica.com (Chris Foresman)
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Though the 3G-equipped version of the iPad will only be able to get data services from AT&T, Verizon apparently sees the introduction of Apple's tablet device as "an opportunity" for the company to sell data services. A supposed internal sales...
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Mar 10th 6:48pm by casey.l.johnston@gmail.com (Casey Johnston)
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A paper published in Nature Materials this week details a new method for using nanotubes to generate significant amounts of power, at least for their size. When multi-walled carbon nanotubes are covered with a material that produces an exothermic...
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Mar 10th 4:52pm by jtimmer@arstechnica.com (John Timmer)
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President Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971 and, since then, the National Cancer Institute (part of the NIH) has funded research on prevention, surveillance, and treatments. But, despite the effort, progress has been elusive, leading to press reports...
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Mar 10th 7:30am by bkuchera@arstechnica.com (Ben Kuchera)
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One of the most striking images from The Terminator was the weapon he carried and used in his first attempt on Sarah Connor's life: the .45 Longslide, with laser sighting. Who can forget the scene in the gun shop? The gun was likewise such a striking...
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Mar 10th 5:25am by chris.foresman@arstechnica.com (Chris Foresman)
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Apple COO Tim Cook's warning from early 2009 wasn't the only one that handset makers received before Apple sicced the lawyers on HTC last week. According to a research note from Oppenheimer analyst Yal Reiner, Apple began warning top executives at...