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09-06-10 -
Feature: Review: Microsoft Hohm and a whole-house power monitor
Microsoft's Hohm energy efficiency and tracking service, still in beta, has a unique sense of style. Who expects a discussion about insulation R-values to involve pirate jokes? "What do pirates look for in attic insul...
09-06-10 -
Belgian broadcasters try kneecapping DVRs, demand compensation
Belgians are probably most interested in knowing whether their country will survive its strife between the French and Flemish-Dutch speaking groups, or whether it will break apart into separate nations. Here at Ars, however,...
09-06-10 -
60 darts, 4 clips, 6 D-batteries, full-auto: the Nerf Stampede is here
It's hard to pin down exactly when Nerf started going for broke with its gun designs, but it may have been around this time last year when the Vulcan was released. That gun featured a 25-dart, belt-fed design that handled bo...
09-06-10 -
A way with words: industry vets discuss writing in games
There are few examples of good writing in video games. The medium tends to tackle the same issues and genres, and only rarely steps outside of that comfort zone. At the recent Fan Expo in Toronto, a group of veteran writers ...
09-05-10 -
Quantum key distribution in superposition of "insecure" and "unneeded"
It's apparent that the physics lexicon has been dragged kicking and screaming out of the 19th century with a recent paper published in Nature PhotonicsĀ titled "Hacking commercial quantum cryptography systems by tailor...
09-04-10 -
Craigslist unexpectedly pulls adult services listings
After months of pressure from state attorneys general, Craigslist pulled its adult services listings offline over the Labor Day weekend. Visitors to the site were greeted with a black bar with the word "censored&quo...
09-04-10 -
AP: Yeah, we'd better cite pajama-wearing bloggers, too
The Associated Press didn't need any help from a bunch of unshowered bloggers pecking away at their keyboards from the basement offices in which they play "reporter," thank you very much. Now it knows better. At...
09-04-10 -
Week in Apple: Apple TV, iTunes 10, Delicious Library, oh my!
An Apple event means lots of new announcements. Almost the entire iPod line got updated, Apple TV got a serious makeover, and iTunes 10 got... something. But we also covered a patent suit, some lessons learned from Delicious...
09-04-10 -
Google coughs up $8.5 million to settle Buzz privacy suit
The fallout from Google's Buzz social networking aggregator continues: the company has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit over concerns that the service's original configuration violated users' privacy. While Google has...
09-04-10 -
Week in gaming: Move review, new 360 D-pad, console repair
Would it be sad to admit I was excited when our Move feature was pimped on the official True Blood twitter account? If so, chain me to the sad pole, because that was awesome. We went toe-to-toe with Sony's PlayStation Move f...
09-04-10 -
Week in tech: Android tablet army begins march, Chrome, OAuth fail
Samsung fires first Android-powered salvo at iPad with Galaxy Tab: Samsung is putting the iPad in its crosshairs with its new Android-powered Galaxy Tab touchscreen tablet. The well-specced device will launch in a few week i...
09-04-10 -
Week in Microsoft: here mousey mousey, best fake malware ever
Microsoft unveils shape-shifting Arc Touch Mouse: Microsoft has officially announced the $70 the Arc Touch Mouse. The device is available for presale now, starts shipping in December, and officially goes on sale in January. ...
09-03-10 -
Netgear offers 500Mbps powerline networking via next-gen standard
Even as the IEEE P1901 working group was set to meet this week to recommend its draftĀ standard forĀ broadband over powerline networks for official status, Netgear announced its line of Powerline AV 500 adapters that incorpo...
09-03-10 -
Ubuntu 10.10 beta arrives with new netbook UI
Canonical has announced the availability of the Ubuntu 10.10 beta release. The new version of the popular Linux distribution, codenamed Maverick Meerkat, is scheduled for final release in October. It brings some notewor...
09-03-10 -
Oil sands release pollutants, contrary to government study
The extraction of heavy crude oil from oil sands in Canada is releasing as many as 13 kinds of pollutants into the surrounding air and water, according to a study published in PNAS this week. The independent report directl...
09-03-10 -
Duke Nukem Forever is back: coming to both consoles and PC
The news of an upcoming announcement at PAX, followed by a tweet that showed the image of a flying pig. These were the hints pointed at a momentous occasion in gaming history: Duke Nukem Forever will see release late this ye...
09-03-10 -
Google sticks Wave in a box, puts a bow on top
Contrary to popular belief, Google Wave is not quite dead. Google plans to expand upon the open source code it has already released to form a more complete, standalone application known as "Wave in a Box." Wave wil...
09-03-10 -
Forgetful Facebook fanatics can remotely kill their other sessions
Forgetful Facebook users and wannabe-burglars can now rest a little easier at night knowing that they can remotely log themselves out if they accidentally left logged-in sessions in other locations. Facebook usersĀ wi...
09-03-10 -
Frustrated Nexus One owner sues Google over "sporadic" 3G speed
Imagine that your name is Nathan Nabors and that you live in the sunny climes of Orlando, Florida. Imagine further that, back when Google announced its own Android phone and called it the Nexus One, you realized that your Or...
09-03-10 -
iTunes 10 hands-on: snappier performance, questionable UI choices
By now, most iTunes users have already downloaded and installed iTunes 10. We've already given you the low-down on the biggest addition to the new version of iTunesā€”the Ping social networkā€”but we also wanted to giv...
09-03-10 -
Ivy the Kiwi on the Wii, DS is a wonderful, addictive surprise
Ivy the Kiwi was created by Yuji Naka, the co-creator of Sonic the Hedgehog. Sonic is a character that continues to enjoy a strong following, and the series gives any follow-up work a huge shadow to live under. Don't worry, ...
09-03-10 -
We're trudging down the long road to universal 4Mbps broadband
Judging by the Federal Communications Commission's latest survey, we're still pretty far away from the FCC's National Broadband Plan goal of 4Mbps Internet download speeds for everyone. The agency's newest statistics indicat...
09-03-10 -
The virtual play-by-play: talking StarCraft 2 with Mike Husky
StarCraft 2 has been doing some serious business: Blizzard has recently announced that the game has sold 3 million copies in the first month of availability. Mike Husky is certainly doing his part to keep the game popular; h...
09-02-10 -
Chrome reaches second birthday, version 6 goes stable
When Google launched its Chrome Web browser in 2008, it was clear that the product had considerable potential. Its emphasis on performance and its intriguing minimalistic user interface attracted a lot of well-deserved atten...
09-02-10 -
New malware detects browser, shows fake malware warning page
Microsoft is warning about a new piece of malware, Rogue:MSIL/Zeven, that auto-detects a user's browser and then imitates the relevant malware warning pages from Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome. The fake warning pages ...

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