Microsoft & Yahoo: Knee-deep in the dead

Seeded on Mon Feb 4, 2008 8:22 AM EST (Ars Technica)

...which is worse? Is it more depressing to think that Microsoft, seemingly alone among industry observers, truly believes that there's some legitimate "synergy" (ugh) here, or that it is consciously leveraging its bank account to crush a competitor? In one case, Microsoft looks …

technology, microsoft, yahoo, google, web2-0

Under pressure from EMI, RIAA could disappear

Seeded on Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:04 PM EST (Ars Technica)

Is the RIAA as we know it about to disappear? As rumors continue to swirl that EMI will pull its funding from music trade groups like the RIAA and IFPI, an IFPI spokesman tells Ars that the group is in the middle of a major internal review of its operations.

us-news, music, emi, riaa, drm, dmca

Update to Parallels 2.5 for Leopard support

Seeded on Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:10 PM EST (Ars Technica)

Parallels 2.5 has finally been updated to support Leopard. Now you don't have to upgrade to 3.0 to get official Leopard support.

technology, mac, osx, leopard, parallels, virtualization, apple

An Inconvenient Need

Seeded on Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:34 PM EDT (burnsidewriterscollective.com)

Today I was sitting in my Jeep, eating my salad while a man walked up to me and asked me if I had any spare change. He was wearing a ragged tee shirt and torn jeans. He had shoulder length black hair with a slight curl and a little scruff on his face. He was missing a few teeth.

social-justice, homeless, food

Warming in the Age of Pangaea: A Prequel?

Seeded on Sat Sep 8, 2007 6:51 PM EDT (Discovery.com)

The emerging story of a global climate shift a third of a billion years ago seems to be a prequel to what climate scientists expect from the current trend in global warming.

science, global-warming, climate, paleozoic, pangaea

Porn - Just Junk Food

Seeded on Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:57 PM EDT (xxxchurch.com)

I spent seven nights on a bus with the hardest working man in the adult industry. Joining me for the trip was my family made up of my wife Jeanette and my two kids, Nolan (4 years) and Elise (2 years). Prior to the tour and in every city, I was bombarded with questions.

religion, christianity, pornography, ron-jeremy, jesus

Voyager 2 marks its 30th year in space

Seeded on Tue Aug 21, 2007 9:06 AM EDT (Ars Technica)

Voyager's cameras brought the strange worlds of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune into my family's living room (and later my dorm rooms) over the years, taking close-ups of the seemingly innumerable rings of Saturn and the explosive eruptions of sulfur volcanoes on Jupiter's m …

science, voyager-2, nasa, space, solar-system

Why does Apple ignore the enterprise market?

Seeded on Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:49 PM EDT (Ars Technica)

As Jobs proudly reported this Tuesday, the Mac is doing well. Quibbling over exact numbers aside, the iPhone launch was also a success. Despite stagnating for a bit, design-wise, the iPod continues to be a mass-market monster.

technology, apple, mac, enterprise, it

Kent officer tickets man for 'Impeach Bush' sign

Seeded on Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:37 AM EDT (Cleve-Blog)

A soft-spoken teacher posted the words "Impeach Bush" in a public garden, and Kent police cast him as an outlaw.

us-news, free-speech, bush, impeach

Fake Steve Jobs unmasked

Seeded on Mon Aug 6, 2007 8:39 AM EDT (Ars Technica)

Well, it took a while, but it turns out that Fake Steve Jobs is in fact Daniel Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes Magazine. Responsible for outing FSJ is Brad Stone of the New York Times.

technology, apple, computers, forbes, fake-steve

Coffee drinkers rejoice: your liver and skin thank you

Seeded on Thu Aug 2, 2007 8:09 AM EDT (Ars Technica)

We tend to view habits that are referred to as addictions as necessarily bad things.

science, coffee, caffeine, exercise, skin, liver, cancer

Mac OS X Leopard receives UNIX certification

Seeded on Wed Aug 1, 2007 3:21 PM EDT (Ars Technica)

One of the big draws of OS X has always been the UNIX-like, BSD heritage of the operating system. Apple has always touted OS X as UNIX-based and played up the security, stability, and compatibility that comes with the BSD foundation.

technology, apple, os-x, unix, the-open-group, osx

One Laptop Per Child: Let the train wreck begin

Seeded on Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:13 AM EDT (The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs)

The world-changing hundred-dollar laptop is going into mass production, which means that soon one of two things will happen.

technology, olpc, linux, africa, fakesteve, computers, laptops

The 10 Worst Celebrity Bands

Seeded on Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:24 PM EDT (Racked)

I won't spoil the list, but did you know that Bob Schieffer (the CBS anchor) was in a band? I didn't either.

entertainment, bottom-ten-list, celebrity, musician, music

Skulls confirm we're all out of Africa

Seeded on Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:09 PM EDT (Reuters)

An analysis of thousands of skulls shows modern humans originated from a single point in Africa and finally lays to rest the idea of multiple origins, British scientists said on Wednesday. The genetic evidence has always strongly supported the single origin theory, and now resul …

science, evolution, human, africa, origins, neanderthal, dna, skeleton

Diesels: What's all the clatter about?

Seeded on Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:45 PM EDT (Automobile Magazine)

Automotive Magazine shows why it's such a good thing that new ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel is bringing clean, powerful new diesel engines to the US.

us-news, cars, engines, diesel, gasoline, fuel, fossil-fuels, e85

Black Hole Paradox Solved?

Seeded on Fri Jun 22, 2007 4:50 PM EDT (Ars Technica)

Physicist Stephen Hawking's research shows that black holes are not completely "black." Rather they slowly and uniformly release thermal "Hawking radiation," so over billions or trillions of years, black holes will "boil away." This means that if you throw something into a black …

science, stephen-hawking, hawking-radiation, black-holes, physics, information-theory, quantum-theory

Ancient viral scourge left humans at risk for HIV

Seeded on Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:38 AM EDT (Ars Technica)

One of the ongoing mysteries of HIV is why it is so infectious against humans when it doesn't do very well against most other primates. It looks like in humans and a couple other primate species, a protein called TRIM5α evolved in response to a virus that was prevalent a long t …

science, aids, hiv, genetics, evolution, primates

Google named worst privacy offender in study

Seeded on Mon Jun 11, 2007 10:16 AM EDT (Ars Technica)

A new report puts Google in last place when it comes to privacy protection. Despite recent moves to anonymize server logs and other pro-privacy gestures, Privacy International called the company "an endemic threat to privacy."

technology, web, google, search-engines, the-internets, internet, privacy

Windows Vista: Under the Hood (Part 2)

Seeded on Thu Jun 7, 2007 9:14 AM EDT (Ars Technica)

This is part 2 of Ars Technica's (2-part) series on the technical, "under-the-hood" components of Windows Vista that aren't obvious just from use.

technology, windows, windows-vista, microsoft, computers, pc, computerey-type-people

Camino 1.5 released for OS X

Seeded on Wed Jun 6, 2007 8:57 AM EDT (Ars Technica)

While Safari is normally the web browser of choice for OS X users (simply by virtue of being bundled with the operating system), there are also a good number of competitors to Apple's browser.

technology, mozilla, camino, os-x, apple, mac, the-internets, internet-tube-viewer

Mahalo search engine augments algorithms with humans

Seeded on Thu May 31, 2007 2:47 PM EDT (Ars Technica)

Jason Calacanis has a new project that aims to create better search results by having real people comb through pages to decide what's the most relevant.

technology, mahalo, jason-calacanis, google, search-engines, web, internet, tubes

Facial recognition slipped into Google image search

Seeded on Wed May 30, 2007 2:43 PM EDT (Ars Technica)

Google upped its stalker factor this week by adding face recognition abilities to its image search. While currently unofficial and unannounced, users can now search for images that only contain faces by appending a query string onto the end of a search URL.

technology, facial-recognition, stalker, google, ai, artificial-intelligence

This Guy Can Get 59 MPG in a Plain Old Accord. Beat That, Punk

Seeded on Wed May 30, 2007 2:22 PM EDT (MotherJones.com)

Wayne Gerdes can get 59 miles per gallon in a Honda Accord. The lengths he goes to are rather absurd and, in some cases, unsafe. He drives at 50mph on 55mph highways, straddling the white line and watching other cars roar by going 25mph faster.

travel, greenvine, gas, cars, efficiency, automotive