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Bright orange Acer G24 LCD claims highest contrast crown
Art & Design – Acer has introduced a new 24" monitor, with a 1920 x 1200 widescreen resolution and a truly revolting bright orange bezel. But do the claims of it being the world's first LCD to support a contrast ration of 50,000:1 stand up?
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The Seven7h Day Halo 3 fun begins
Video Games – Monday 7th July is Bungie Day, and to celebrate Xbox LIVE has a new Halo 3 multi player map called Cold Storage available to download for free. If that were not enough to get Halo 3 fans salivating, there are new gamer pics and dashboard themes as well for one day only...
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Leather clad robots will only pogo to punk rock
Science – A computational neuroscientist and a punk performance artist have built three robots which, courtesy of neural networking and some adaptive resonance theory, have learned to love the musical genre and show their appreciation through the magic of dance...
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Leather clad robots will only pogo to punk rock
Science – A computational neuroscientist and a punk performance artist have built three robots which, courtesy of neural networking and some adaptive resonance theory, have learned to love the musical genre and show their appreciation through the magic of dance...
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Viacom defends itself over YouTube data disclosure
Do No Evil – Viacom has issued a statement regarding the US court ruling over disclosure of those YouTube video viewing logs. Here is the statement in full:
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Update: Windows Update gets update
Gadgets & Tech – Just to keep you up to date with Windows, thought you might want to know that Windows Update is getting updated - even if you have Windows Update to ask before you update it will still update to keep your system up to date. Got that? Good, explain it to me will you...
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Google Street View could meet Privacy Road Block in UK
Do No Evil – The privacy related problems just pile up for Google as the first Street View vans are spotted in the United Kingdom and European Data Protection laws are rolled out to greet them...
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Apple slow to patch iPhone security holes
Gadgets & Tech – Apple is failing to keep iPhone software up to date with security patches. This despite the iPhone 1.1.4 software being nothing more than a "pared-down version of Mac OS 10.5" - the Jesus Phone is said to be vulnerable to a number of exploits which have been patched pretty damn quickly in desktop software.
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No appeal from Google on YouTube data ruling
News – An appeal by Google against the decision of a federal judge in New York that it must hand over details of every video ever viewed on YouTube to Viacom was not only widely expected, but thought to be pretty much a given. A comment by Google's senior litigation counsel seems to suggest otherwise...
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President pays for Internet porn
Love & Personals – President Bush gives US taxpayers $600 each, free, to spend as they like in order to stimulate the economy. He ends up stimulating something else, a 30 percent growth in subscriptions to Internet porno pay sites! ROFL.
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12,000 laptops lost in US airports, EVERY WEEK
Travel – Asking questions of 800 business travellers at some 106 major airports in the US, the Ponemon Institute also discovered that on average only 30 percent of those lost laptops are recovered. Which is worrying as just under half the people taking part in the survey admitted their laptops are full of confidential business data.
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12,000 laptops lost in US airports, EVERY WEEK
Travel – Asking questions of 800 business travellers at some 106 major airports in the US, the Ponemon Institute also discovered that on average only 30 percent of those lost laptops are recovered. Which is worrying as just under half the people taking part in the survey admitted their laptops are full of confidential business data.
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Worried about rising oil prices? Microsoft is giving gas away for free
Autos – As headlines go it is an unusual one, but true nonetheless. Microsoft is giving its small business customers who supply their contact data the chance to win 5,000 gallons of gas. Conditions do, of course, apply...
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UK Museum of Computing shuts up shop and puts history into storage
Gadgets & Tech – As the UK Museum of Computing puts its exhibits into storage, and the National Museum of Computing starts welcoming visitors at the home of the wartime code breaking Colossus machines, does this mean the battle of the geek museums is over?
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The UK's most spammed man
News – An anti-spam outfit in the UK has compiled a list of the top five most spammed individuals in the UK. Three of them use Orange as their Internet Service Provider, and the most spammed man gets an average of 44,001 junk emails on a daily basis. But just who is the most spammed man in the UK?
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