The Internet up for Nobel Peace Prize March 11, 2010
Thats right, The internet is among 237 individuals and organisations nominated for the prize, advocated by the Italian version of Wired magazine for advancing "dialogue, debate and consensus"
2010 tech industry graveyard off to fast start March 11, 2010
Ongoing list of IT companies, technologies and ideas killed off or headed for the end of life (with maybe an occasional one that comes back to life). Microsoft, Google, Red Hat and others already contributing
Facebook Threatens to Sue Over Daily Mail Article March 11, 2010
Facebook may sue the Daily Mail over a story published on Wednesday which claimed that 14 year-old girls are likely to be subject to abuse from paedophiles while using the social networking site.
Physicists Build Basic Quantum Computing Circuit March 11, 2010
Exerting delicate control over a pair of atoms within a mere seven-millionths-of-a-second window of opportunity, physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison created an atomic circuit that may help quantum computing become a reality.
New MySpace Chiefs Plan Major Relaunch March 11, 2010
In their first interview since the shock departure of Owen Van Natta, MySpace’s former chief executive, Mike Jones and Jason Hirschorn, the company’s new co-presidents, say they will be ready to “win back old users” by the end of this year.
New Rendering Method Claims Unlimited Detail, Kills Polygons March 11, 2010
This technology may be the future of computer graphics, and while this video may not look up to par with the most recent of games, remember it was designed by engineers, not artists. Can someone more technical elaborate on this?
Screw Facebook: Suicide Machine to live on... in open source March 11, 2010
Mortally wounded by legal assaults from Facebook, the “Web 2.0 Suicide Machine” is no longer helping users of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace automatically dump their friends and wash their hands of those services. However, those behind the site are planning a last great act of defiance: Soon they’ll be giving away their code.
It's Time to Declare War Against Apple's Censorship March 11, 2010
The App Store censorship horse may have been beaten to dead, but the German media --now under Apple's fire-- isn't surrendering. Hopefully, their blitzkrieg will be successful, and the European Union will open an investigation that the US would follow.
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