Archive for February 14, 2007

The Pirate Bay, Featured in Vanity Fair

The Pirate Bay and its young owners have reached a new level of fame. They’re no longer just Internet personalities, they’re now mainstream celebrities. The March issue of Vanity Fair is carrying a 6 page article on BitTorrent, movie piracy, torrent sites, and in particular, The Pirate Bay.

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Ars Technica reviews the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet

Nokia takes a second shot at building an Internet Tablet you’ll actually want to use. Ars takes the new and improved N800 out for a spin, checking out all the software including the web browser, its secret FM radio, and VNC (among other things). How does it stack up against its predecessor?

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Halo 3 Alpha Video Leaked

A guy named Bip Chizzle has leaked a video showing off many of the weapons from the Halo 3 Alpha. These weapon animations are most likely placeholders, but it’s nice to see what some of the weapons look like in first person…..

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Viva Pinata for the DS?!

“A Kameo or a Viva Pinata on a DS makes a lot of sense in a lot of ways from a franchise perspective,” says Shane Kim, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Game Studios. Do Kim’s comments mean that Nintendo and Microsoft are entering some partnership to publish portable games for the DS?

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PICTURES: Insane New Unreal Tournament 3 Screenshots!!!

Unreal Tournament 3 has been getting a lot of coverage lately and these new screen shots should hold people off for a little while. The best part about these screens isn

Plans for the Next Linux Kernel Revealed

Linux kernel maintainer Andrew Morton last week revealed some of his plans for the next kernel version, a few days after the final release of Linux 2.6.20.

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BIG IRON - IBM’s Power6

When it comes to hulking server designs, IBM’s forthcoming Power6 chip one-ups its predecessor’s multiprocessor abilities by a factor of two.

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Can-cooling soccer ball conceals your secret stash

While it might not as, um, USB-powered as another snazzy can cooler, this soccer ball chiller keeps a six “holiday five pack” on ice without anyone knowing what contents reside within the sphere… very cool ! (pun intended)

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Jobs gains support from Yahoo, Monster on DRM issue

Executives from both Yahoo and Monster Cable are the latest industry figures to throw their weight behind Apple chief executive Steve Jobs when it comes to DRM-wrapped audio tracks.

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NPR: Wii offers “a false sense of what it’s like to compete in the world”

Parents often get a bad rap when it comes to video games. If they aren’t complaining about how violent games are and then ignorantly buying their children the same games, they’re on a crusade to get their children to go outside and enjoy the real world. However, nothing you’ve seen, heard, or read before will prepare you for the latest concern…

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Leaked letter shows RIAA pressuring ISPs, discounts for early settlements

A leaked letter from RIAA the to a US ISP shows the lengths the record labels are going to get further cooperation from ISPs in identifying and extracting settlements from those suspected of file sharing.

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How To Replace your iPod’s Battery

Simple steps to replace the battery yourself and save big bucks.

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