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The fight for HTML5: 'Keep DRM out' lobby steps up standards battle
ZDNet - 25 Apr 2013 23:28
A group of 27 organisations - including the Free Software Foundation and the Electronic Frontier Foundation - have written to the web standards body W3C urging it to reject proposals that would make it easier to support ...
@BillClinton Officially Joins Twitter, Ditches @PrezBillyJeff
TechCrunch - 25 Apr 2013 06:28
The 42nd President of the United States and the man with the most endearing lip bite in the world, William Jefferson Clinton, has officially jumped into the 21st century by joining Twitter. The Prez has already racked up...
Iceland Supreme Court upholds Wikileaks win, orders Visa to process donations or face fines again
The Verge - 25 Apr 2013 05:20
In December 2010, Visa, MasterCard and PayPal abruptly cut off donation payments to WikiLeaks, crippling its source of funds. Today, however, some more of those donations may be returning due to a decision at Iceland's S...
Rackspace plugs event monitoring into its servers
The Register - 25 Apr 2013 02:46
Expands cloud monitoring tech with "Virgo" agent project Rackspace has broadened the capabilities of its cloud monitoring technology by letting admins put an agent on their servers to get a clearer idea of how apps are u...
NASA releases tracker to help show when Voyager leaves the solar system
The Verge - 25 Apr 2013 01:27Senate Commerce Committee suggests CISPA may be dead in the water
The Verge - 25 Apr 2013 23:56
CISPA, the controversial cybersecurity legislation passed by the House of Representatives last week, may be effectively dead for now. US News has reported that the Senate Commerce Committee, headed by Senator Jay Rockefe...
Sony revises its 2012 earnings forecast, doubles expected net profits
Engadget - 25 Apr 2013 23:54
Just like last year, we're reporting on a revision Sony's making to its expectations for last year's profits, but this time around there's some positive news. According to Sony, selling some of the buildings it owns and ...
Sun fires off 3 solar flares; spacecraft at risk
NBC News - 25 Apr 2013 23:52
By Denise ChowSpace.comThe sun has unleashed a trio of solar eruptions toward the planet Mercury in recent days, solar storms that may pass one NASA spacecraft while dealing a glancing blow to another, NASA officials say...
No lunar eclipse in your locale? You can watch the moon darken online
NBC News - 25 Apr 2013 23:52
Looking for a darkening moon? Thursday's partial lunar eclipse will be particularly subtle, and it won't be visible at all from North America -- but you can still catch the show, such as it is, on the Web.Lunar eclipses ...
New ABC News app asks viewers to 'clap' or 'boo' while watching
The Verge - 25 Apr 2013 22:17Einstein Right Again! Rapidly Spinning Pulsar Follows General Relativity
Universe Today - 25 Apr 2013 20:23Insert Coin: Lightpack turns your computer display into an ambient backlight (video)
Engadget - 25 Apr 2013 10:02
While Philips did eventually bring its Ambilight technology to PC monitors, it wasn't before others had decided to roll their own. Now you can add ambient backlighting to any computer display without any of the attendant...
Apple Submits Revised Campus 2 Plans, Delays Tantau Development to Cut Costs
Mac Rumors - 25 Apr 2013 03:59
Earlier this month, a report revealed that Apple's upcoming "spaceship" campus in Cupertino is both behind schedule and $2 billion over budget. Apple was said to be looking to cut costs on the project, which is apparent ...
Google Tests Search Without Instant Previews, Moves Sharing Tool, Cached And Similar Pages To New Drop-Down Menu
TechCrunch - 25 Apr 2013 01:36
Back in 2010, Google launched Instant Preview to provide users with a quick way to get a graphic preview of a webpage before you click on the actual link. Now, as first spotted by Alex Chitu from the Google Operating Sys...
Do people actually read Out of The Office messages?
Life Hacker - 25 Apr 2013 00:00
Great discussions are par for the course here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you may have missed. Ch...
U.S. council warns of threat of cyber attacks, market runs
Reuters - 25 Apr 2013 23:59
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Android notebooks? Yep, Intel says, and they'll only cost $200
CNET - 25 Apr 2013 23:58
Dadi Perlmutter, Intel's chief product officer, also tells CNET that devices running Intel's mainstream Core line of processors could sell for as low as $399 to $499.
Why an Internet sales tax is such an incomprehensibly bad idea
ZDNet - 25 Apr 2013 23:58
If the economy is to get stronger, charging consumers more when they're already struggling to afford goods and services is not a wise move. Even brick-and-mortars won't win. Here's why.
Mobile Apps Are the New Network TV, Without the Ad Dollars
Mashable - 25 Apr 2013 23:55
Researcher Flurry reported on Thursday that the audience for mobile apps has hit 58 million in primetime -- 8 p.m. -- a figure that rivals that of the top three TV networks on a very good night, but revenues are still ju...
The end of plasma?
CNET - 25 Apr 2013 23:53
Panasonic is not ceasing plasma development. But what happens when they do?
That exotic British cat? It came from Canada
NBC News - 25 Apr 2013 23:52
By Tanya LewisLiveScienceAn exotic cat that prowled the British countryside a century ago was a non-native lynx from Canada, a new study finds.The feline's skeleton and mounted skin have been tucked away for years in the...
Matter and antimatter behave differently in atom smasher
NBC News - 25 Apr 2013 23:52
By Clara MoskowitzLiveScience Matter and antimatter particles are behaving differently inside a giant atom smasher in Switzerland, physicists announced Wednesday. The discovery could help solve the riddle of why the univ...