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Dec 1st 2:20pm by emil.protalinski@arstechnica.com (Emil Protalinski)
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Late last week, a beta tester pointed out that Microsoft was planning to release its Office 2010 suite in June 2010, according to Fudzilla. Previously Redmond had only been quoted as saying "the first half of 2010" but more recently the company...
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Dec 1st 7:30am by editors@arstechnica.com (Chris Lee)
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Sometimes, even as a person pisses you off, they make a point that you can't ignore. In a recent forum discussion that I was involved in, scientists were accused of making pronouncements from on high. The argument was that scientists jump to a conclusion...
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Dec 1st 5:22am by hannibal@arstechnica.com (Jon Stokes)
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With the decade drawing to a close soon, we considered doing a "Decade in Technology" retrospective to cap it off, but that's an extremely broad topic. Instead, we decided to narrow it down to a look back at the ways in which we've come to use technology...
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Dec 1st 3:22am by nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson)
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Content industries are pushing "three-strikes" Internet disconnection laws around the world, but how accurate are the detection methods used to bust online infringers? Princeton computer scientist Mike Freedman says that there's still a big need for...
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Nov 30th 10:08pm by nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson)
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It's not just bloggers who are upset about both the content and secrecy surrounding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA); the Swedish government is displeased, the European Union has concerns, and 1,700 European ISPs have now expressed their...
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Nov 30th 7:41pm by chris.foresman@arstechnica.com (Chris Foresman)
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Apple looks to be already testing its next-generation iPhone hardware in the San Francisco area near its Cupertino headquarters, according to usage logs for the iBART public transit application. Usage logs like these revealed early testing of the iPhone...
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Nov 30th 3:00pm by segphault@arstechnica.com (Ryan Paul)
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Popular BitTorrent site Mininova is undertaking a drastic transformation in an effort to legitimize its services by purging all torrents that enable access to copyright-protected content. File-sharing enthusiasts view this as a major blow to the vitality...
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Nov 30th 7:34am by hannibal@arstechnica.com (Jon Stokes)
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Netbooks are likely to be a popular gift this holiday season—they're cheap, highly portable, and the kind of thing that you can give as a gift to a relatively novice computer user who needs a laptop but doesn't need the power or responsibility that...
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Nov 30th 5:00am by jtimmer@arstechnica.com (John Timmer)
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Writing about vaccines, evolution, and even dark matter has ended up setting off contentious discussions here at Ars. But no area seems to bring out impassioned arguments as reliably as climate change. Covering the latest scientific results can bring...
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Nov 30th 1:05am by iljitsch.vanbeijnum@arstechnica.com (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
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Earlier this week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published a draft of an "explanatory memorandum" for a proposed clause that prohibits the managers of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) as well as IDN country code...
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Nov 29th 4:30pm by jtimmer@arstechnica.com (John Timmer)
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Rats get road rage via gasoline, find unleaded stressful: Maybe some of the erratic behavior we see on the roads can be ascribed to people who've breathed a bit too deeply while filling the tank. Rats made to inhale gasoline vapors experienced...
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Nov 28th 4:30pm by hannibal@arstechnica.com (Jon Stokes)
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Version 5 of the popular Mac virtualization package, Parallels Desktop, has hit the streets, and Ars puts it through its paces. Gaming performance, Windows 7, content creation, Linux—it's all here, plus the inevitable comparisons to the most recent...
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Nov 28th 12:54am by chris.foresman@arstechnica.com (Chris Foresman)
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At PDC 2009, Microsoft demonstrated Silverlight video streaming to an iPhone. While Microsoft user experience platform manager Brian Goldfarb said that Microsoft "worked with Apple" to make it happen, don't expect plug-ins for Mobile Safari to start...
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Nov 27th 11:38pm by chris.foresman@arstechnica.com (Chris Foresman)
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It appears the hubbub over iTunes LP production fees was indeed unfounded. As promised last month, Apple has released the complete specifications for its Cocktail extended digital content format, aka iTunes LP for music and iTunes Extras for video...
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Nov 27th 10:40pm by mike.thompson@arstechnica.com (Michael Thompson)
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These days, video games and controversy are old friends. Unsurprisingly, the biggest controversies seem to arise whenever the topic of sex in video games appears in the public forum. Whenever the topic rears its ugly head, critics come teeming out of the...