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  • Jul 28, 2010

    Cow Clicker

    …is a very stupid game on Facebook but it's okay because it's actually a satire of how stupid Facebook games are even while it is itself…

  • Like a lot of people, I thought it was a bit odd how there was absolutely no talk of Mac computers at Apple's World Wide Developers' Conference in…

  • Jul 28, 2010

    LASER CHIPS!

    Not from Frito-Lay, tragically, but from Intel. They say they've built a new chip that uses lasers instead of electronic signals and it can…

  • Yesterday the Library of Congress said that if you own a smart phone, you should be able to run any kind of software that works on that phone even…

  • Sure, you have to pay tuition. But freshmen at Illinois Institute of Technology will each get a free iPad this fall. Which makes me think it must…

  • Jul 27, 2010

    JAILBREAK!

    The Library of Congress issued a decision on Monday that lets you run software on your smart phone even if Apple or HTC or whoever made the phone…

  • Roger Ebert recently called 3D movies "a waste of a perfectly good dimension" and moviegoers may be agreeing with him. The Daily Telegraph reports…

  • Chatroulette is this web site where you can have random (thus the roulette part) chats with strangers via the webcam on your computer. It was…

  • The trade group CTIA represents Apple, Verizon, AT&T, Motorola, and Verizon is upset over a law passed in June in SF requiring any business…

  • Google wants to be more than a consumer company. They want to get into businesses as well, the space where Microsoft has basically been printing…

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