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Nov 4th 10:55pm by chris.foresman@arstechnica.com (Chris Foresman)
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Google is improving its service aimed at providing websites with social networking features by making it easier for users with shared interests to connect with one another. The company has announced a number of new features for its Google Friend Connect...
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Nov 4th 9:13pm by segphault@arstechnica.com (Ryan Paul)
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Red Hat expanded its virtualization product portfolio this week with the launch of its Enterprise Virtualization for Servers platform. The company touts it as an end-to-end solution which includes management tools and a bare-metal standalone hypervisor...
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Nov 4th 7:31pm by bkuchera@arstechnica.com (Ben Kuchera)
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We're edging closer to Black Friday, the magic shopping day where people literally kill and die over low prices on all manner of things they don't need. Expect long lines at stores, advertisements leaked online, and at least a few trampled grandmas...
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Nov 4th 4:20pm by jeff.smykil@gmail.com (Jeff Smykil)
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If you are Paul Haddad of TapBots, LLC, it isn't unusual to get requests for contract work. When your applications are as eye-catching and functional as his, you garner attention. So when he received an e-mail earlier this month with a subject line of...
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Nov 4th 7:31am by nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson)
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William Patry might not look from the outside like a man with a fire in his belly. A copyright lawyer for 27 years, Patry has written one of two definitive accounts of US copyright law (all 5,500 pages of Patry on Copyright can be yours for the low, low...
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Nov 4th 5:19am by hannibal@arstechnica.com (Jon Stokes)
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It's the NVIDIA rumor that won't die: no, not the one where the GPU maker buys tiny VIA, but the other one, where it jumps feet-first into competition with both Intel and AMD by producing an x86 processor of its own. The idea has cropped up again in an...
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Nov 4th 3:28am by andrew.webster@arstechnica.com (Andrew Webster)
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Last week, some footage leaked from the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Though it has since been taken down—with Activision claiming "copyright infringement"—the short video left a lasting impression. It depicted Russian terrorists...
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Nov 4th 1:40am by jtimmer@arstechnica.com (John Timmer)
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In our last installment on DNA sequencing, we brought you up to speed on the Sanger method of sequencing (named after its dual-Nobel-winning inventor, Fred Sanger), which was state-of-the-art around the time of the completion of the human genome. That...
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Nov 3rd 11:58pm by segphault@arstechnica.com (Ryan Paul)
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Ryan Harris—known by the alias DerEngel—is an expert on cable modem hacking, an art that he describes at length in a 2006 instructional guide that was published by No Starch Press. He runs a small company that sells unlocked cable modems with...
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Nov 3rd 4:13pm by segphault@arstechnica.com (Ryan Paul)
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Mozilla announced the availability of the first Firefox 3.6 beta last week. Firefox 3.6, codenamed Namoroka, is an incremental update that introduces a handful of new features, enhanced performance, and some noteworthy improvements to web standards...
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Nov 3rd 2:18pm by ars@lasarletter.net (Matthew Lasar)
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In the next three years, most of the European Union's member nations will make the analog-to-digital television switch. Now the organization is looking to the future with new plans to develop the spectrum left available by the move. The EU's PR...
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Nov 3rd 5:40am by eric@arstechnica.com (Eric Bangeman)
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I may be in a minority at the Ars Orbiting HQ, but I've been a big fan of the Apple Mouse (formerly known as the Mighty Mouse) since its introduction. I like the styling and the mouse's functionality, and unlike some of my relatives, I can remember that...
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Nov 3rd 3:33am by nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson)
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Radio broadcasters and music labels are at each other's throats over the question of whether radio ought to pay "performance rights" to rightsholders when it plays their music on the air (currently, only songwriters get paid, not artists or labels). And...
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Nov 3rd 1:44am by bkuchera@arstechnica.com (Ben Kuchera)
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Sometimes it seems like your friends list on Steam is completely taken over by a game, and right now PC gamers are enamored with a new, $20 take on the Diablo formula called Torchlight. This is a game with bright, attractive graphics, enough looting to...
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Nov 2nd 10:32pm by chris.foresman@arstechnica.com (Chris Foresman)
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The line between online and offline life continues to blur as yet another lawsuit is being brought against a school that punished students over pictures posted to an online social media website. Two sophomore girls at Churubusco High School in Fort...