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Innovation Brings New Amazing Gadgets to the Poor

March 11, 2010 - 2:10am
A nonprofit called Kopernik hopes to connect the creators of the low-cost, innovative and life-saving inventions with the people who need them most.


Intel's Core i7-980X Launches with a Bang

March 11, 2010 - 1:32am
The new Core i7-980X Extreme Edition (codenamed "Gulftown") is a six-core CPU that promises a whole new level of performance.


Top free troubleshooting tools for Windows

March 11, 2010 - 1:30am
No computer runs perfectly forever. Somewhere along the line, something will go wrong. While each successive version of Windows has been that much more reliable and self-healing, that's never been an argument to forgo a good collection of software tools.


Greatest Decal Ever? (PIC)

March 10, 2010 - 10:40pm
Just click through and check it out.


11 Things You Didn't Know You Could Watch on Webcam

March 10, 2010 - 10:30pm
It's a fact that everyone loves the PuppyCam, except for those few people with an abnormal hatred of puppies. (And, frankly, we don't speak to those people.)


iPhone Developer Ngmoco Justifies the Freemium Model

March 10, 2010 - 9:20pm
While Ngmoco has emerged as one of the iPhone's top original developers, they've also lost a lot of fans by sticking with a model they call "freemium," even to the detriment of some of their most popular games.


Government No-Fly List Includes the Dead

March 10, 2010 - 8:00pm
You may be dying, figuratively, to get off the government's no-fly list, but death won't guarantee removal. The government's no-fly list includes the names of dead suspects, according to government officials who spoke with the Associated Press, to help catch people who may try to assume the suspect’s identity...


Digg: Saying Yes to NoSQL; Going Steady with Cassandra

March 10, 2010 - 6:40pm
Digg is committed to the use & development of open source software & we're keen to avoid the cost of proprietary large-scale storage solutions. We were inspired by Google & Amazon's broad use of their non-relational BigTable and Dynamo systems. We evaluated all the usual open source NoSQL suspects. After considerable debate, we decided to go with


Free wireless broadband plan is déjà vu all over again

March 10, 2010 - 5:20pm
The NBP will ask the government to "consider use of spectrum for a free or very low cost wireless broadband service.'' That's odd, we thought, since the FCC and Congress have been considering such an idea for years.


Facebook Announces Plans To Take Over The Internet w/Pages

March 10, 2010 - 5:10pm
The Open Graph API will allow any page on the Web to have all the features of a Facebook Page – users will be able to become a Fan of the page, it will show up on that user’s profile and in search results, and that page will be able to publish stories to the stream of its fans.


Battlestar Galactica To Get Its Own MMO

March 10, 2010 - 4:30pm
The game is going to be browser based and developed with the Unity3D engine. Call me skeptic, but this sounds like a bad idea to me.


Consumers found vulnerable to e-mail threats

March 10, 2010 - 3:20pm
Tens of millions of Web users in North America and Western Europe have clicked on spam at least once - and many of them did it on purpose - according to preliminary results of an online survey that are indicative of the widespread lack of consumer awareness of e-mail threats.


The Size of the Mobile Market (Infographic)

March 10, 2010 - 3:10pm
In Taiwan, there are more cellphones than people. About 7% of all mobile data goes to movie information. And Google owns nearly 100% of the mobile search market. These, and more fun facts in this handy infographic!


HTML5 - New Old Semantics

March 10, 2010 - 3:00pm
Huge deal! The revolutionary modifications in HTML5 semantics bring the whole new coding (and indexing) experience. But is it really all that new?


Google launches advertising on YouTube mobile

March 10, 2010 - 2:50pm
Google today announced that it will now be adding banner dvertising to its YouTube mobile sites. According to the company’s blog, the ads will appear on U.S. and Japanese mobile websites for home, browser and search pages.


6 Technologies that will make your jaws drop at E3

March 10, 2010 - 2:20pm
There’s a lot of movement in the rumor mill about technology waiting to be unveiled at E3, so lets take a look.


3-D Can Be Explained [infographic]

March 10, 2010 - 2:00pm
It’s not just a red and blue glass that makes things fly at you! Well sort of but its much cooler than that.


Twitter Routing All Links Through New Anti-Phishing Service

March 10, 2010 - 12:30pm
Today, we’re launching a new service to protect users that strikes a major blow against phishing and other deceitful attacks.


How does a parent handle cyberbullying?

March 10, 2010 - 12:20pm
What's a parent to do when their child is being bullied relentlessly by peers on Facebook? School administrators say they have no control over what happens outside of school.


How mobile apps enable meaningful human relationships [VID]

March 10, 2010 - 12:10pm
The digital world's top thinkers share their visions of the future. Ge Wang, co-founder of Smule and assistant professor at Stanford University speaks about the power of mobile apps - and how they can enable meaningful human relationships.