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Feb 26th 3:34am by drpizza@quiscalusmexicanus.org (Peter Bright)
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In a world that is slowly and surely moving away from depending on plugins to provide advanced features, the decision to release new browser plugins for Internet Explorer is surely a little surprising. Even the popular, widely used Flash is coming under...
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Feb 26th 2:37am by jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)
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Apple's retail plan for China, its massive stockpile of cash, and the environment were all topics of discussion during the company's annual shareholder meeting on Thursday. Though it was a fairly average shareholder meeting, these tidbits helped reassure...
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Feb 26th 1:40am by bkuchera@arstechnica.com (Ben Kuchera)
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The Bad Company 2 beta on the PC has been one of the larger time sinks for shooter fans in recent years. While the code is slightly rough, the mechanics and gameplay are polished and tight if played with a good group of players. If you hide inside a...
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Feb 26th 12:58am by drpizza@quiscalusmexicanus.org (Peter Bright)
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Botnets—large networks of malware-infected PCs remotely controlled by criminals—are a serious problem on the Internet. The spam, phishing attacks, and malware that these networks send accounts for a massive proportion, in excess of 80...
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Feb 26th 12:42am by jeff.smykil@gmail.com (Jeff Smykil)
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The iPhone is twice as popular as comparable smartphones among young'uns and older folks. This from a survey conducted by the analysts at mobile advertising firm AdMob, who polled a total of 963 iPhone, Android OS, webOS, and iPod touch users...
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Feb 26th 12:22am by segphault@arstechnica.com (Ryan Paul)
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Streaming video websites like YouTube face growing pressure from consumers to provide support for native standards-based Web video playback. The HTML5 video element provides the necessary functionality to build robust Web media players without having to...
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Dec 21st 7:33am by glenn@glennf.com (Glenn Fleishman)
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Anyone operating a server on any scale should want a digital certificate to encrypt data between clients and services, whether for personal, office, or public use. That's a broad statement, but it holds true no matter how you slice it. With so many...
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Dec 21st 3:00am by jeremy_reimer@hotmail.com (Jeremy Reimer)
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Did you, or anyone you know, ever work in game development for the Commodore Amiga? If so, I'd like to hear from you. In August 2007, I started writing the history of the Amiga computer for Ars Technica. Seven installments were published, starting with...
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Dec 20th 10:00pm by andrew.webster@arstechnica.com (Andrew Webster)
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In 1983, Electronic Arts released a game called M.U.L.E, a strategy game with a heavy focus on supply-and-demand economics. It was playable by up to four players on a single machine, and today it's widely regarded as one of the most influential games of...
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Dec 19th 11:00pm by bkuchera@arstechnica.com (Ben Kuchera)
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This week we had a chance to play the first few hours of Heavy Rain on the PlayStation 3. Our take? Many are going to be turned off by the pacing, but this is something new and interesting in gaming. We also have a review of Avatar (the film, that is),...
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Dec 19th 9:00pm by emil.protalinski@arstechnica.com (Emil Protalinski)
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Let's look back at the week that was in Microsoft news. Here were the top stories: Mozilla exec: Bing is not popular enough for Firefox: Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's director of community development, explains why an add-on is required to add Bing as a search...
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Dec 19th 7:00pm by jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)
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It has been a busy pre-holiday week, with our features on 3D on the Mac and a 27" iMac review. There's also news about a couple of Apple's lawsuits, rumors about the upcoming Mac Pro, and more. Read on for our top Apple news of the week: A review of the...
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Dec 19th 5:00pm by eric@arstechnica.com (Eric Bangeman)
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Ars Senior Editor Nate Anderson's new garage door opener comes with both DRM and a DMCA warning: don't even think about using a third-party remote. But didn't a federal court already say this sort of behavior was illegal years ago? Ars investigates....
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Dec 18th 11:51pm by segphault@arstechnica.com (Ryan Paul)
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Novell announced this week the official release of Moonlight 2, a new version of the company's open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet application framework. Moonlight 2 is compatible with content that is designed for...
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Dec 18th 10:22pm by bkuchera@arstechnica.com (Ben Kuchera)
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Avatar may be hurt by the curse of expectation, and it's hard to keep the message that MOVIE MAKING HAS BEEN CHANGED FOREVER out of your mind once your butt is actually in a seat in front of the thing. The trailers keep telling us how nothing will ever...