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Submission + - Apple named 'least green' tech company (winbeta.org)

Submitted by

BogenDorpher

on Sunday April 24, 2011 @05:50PM

BogenDorpher writes: "In a recent report by Greenpeace, Apple's reliance on highly polluting coal power at its data centers that house its servers has given the company the title of being "least green.""

Submission + - BRAIN – The First PC Virus [Video] (itmaverix.net)

Submitted by ITMaverix on Sunday April 24, 2011 @05:09PM

ITMaverix writes: BRAIN – The First PC Virus [Video]

Submission + - The Art of the Animated GIF

Submitted by theodp on Sunday April 24, 2011 @04:53PM

theodp writes: Some artists work in oils, some in pastels, some in acrylics. Photographer Jamie Beck and motion graphics artist Kevin Burg? Their medium of choice is animated GIFs. 'We wanted to tell more of a story than a single still frame photograph but didn't want the high maintenance aspect of a video,' said the two of their unusual collaboration. Needless to say, these are not your father's GeoCities 'Under Construction' GIFs — it can take several hours of manual editing for Beck and Burg to breathe the whisper of life into each image.

Submission + - World of Warcraft and Information Week deploy IPv6 (gmane.org)

Submitted by ptudor on Sunday April 24, 2011 @01:01PM

ptudor writes: A post to NANOG mentions the 4.1 software update to World of Warcraft, arriving Tuesday, will support IPv6. Information Week is now serving IPv6 AAAA DNS records for public websites, joining sites like Heise and nixCraft that have already deployed IPv6 well in advance of World IPv6 Day on June 8th. Still notably absent? Slashdot. Lame.

Submission + - Sony "rebuilding" PlayStation Network after attack (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg on Sunday April 24, 2011 @11:21AM

alphadogg writes: The outage of Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity service, now in its fourth day, looks set to continue after the company said on Sunday that it is "rebuilding" its system to better guard against attacks. Sony said on Saturday that the outage was caused by an "external intrusion" into the network, but has yet to detail the problem. The PlayStation Network is used for PlayStation 3 online gaming and sales of software to consoles and the PlayStation Portable. The Qriocity service runs on the same network infrastructure and provides audio and video to Sony consumer electronics products.

Submission + - SPAM: Countries ranked in terms of internet freedom

Submitted by msum on Sunday April 24, 2011 @08:32AM

msum writes: Freedom House has just published a report that ranks 37 nations around the would in terms of their internet freedom. Estonia was ranked as the most free. See who else is listed.
Link to Original Source

Submission + - Apple: We 'must have' comprehensive location data

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 23, 2011 @05:38PM

An anonymous reader writes: Apple's iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, the iPhone 4, and iPad models are also keeping track of consumers whereabouts. Mac computers running Snow Leopard and even Windows computers running Safari 5 are being watched. But the question is why? "To provide the high quality products and services that its customers demand, Apple must have access to the comprehensive location-based information," Apple says.

Submission + - Father of CD's, Norio Ohga dies at 81 (time.com)

Submitted by kaptink on Saturday April 23, 2011 @05:36PM

kaptink writes: Former Sony president and chairman Norio Ohga, credited with expanding the company from electronics hardware to software and entertainment and developing the compact disc, died Saturday at age 81. Ohga, who led the company from 1982 to 1995, died of multiple organ failure in Tokyo, Sony said.

Submission + - EC2 outage shows how much the Net relies on Amazon

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 23, 2011 @11:56AM

An anonymous reader writes: Much has been written about the recent EC2/EBS outage but Keir Thomas at PC World has a different take: it's shown how much cutting-edge Internet infrastructure relies on Amazon, and we should be grateful. FTA: "Amazon is a personification of the spirit of the Internet, which is one of true democracy, access to the means of distribution, and rapid evolution."

Submission + - Stop being duped by the 3D scam (techrepublic.com)

Submitted by

Phoghat

on Saturday April 23, 2011 @07:17AM

Phoghat writes: "The entertainment and electronics industries keep trying to push 3D on consumers, even though a lot of smart people have caught on to the fact that it is a scam and not innovation as the industry would like you to believe."

Submission + - Windows 8 will come with a built-in App Store (smashingpost.net)

Submitted by

gia9211

on Friday April 22, 2011 @07:55AM

gia9211 writes: "Screenshots from the Windows 8 beta posted on cnBeta seem to have revealed why Microsoft went to the extent of hiring a linguist to protest Apple’s trademark application for the phrase ‘App Store’.

These screenshots show an app with the name Windows App Store, and it bears a similar format to those stores already out in the wild — like Apple’s Mac and iOS app stores minus the polish. Here’s one shot, complete with an obligatory Angry Birds inclusion:

"

Submission + - Linux Kernel violates patent (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by doperative on Friday April 22, 2011 @07:44AM

doperative writes: A jury has found that in using Linux on its back-end servers, Google has infringed a patent held by a small Texas-based company and must pay $5m in damages.

In 2006, Bedrock Computer Technologies sued Google and several other outfits – including Yahoo!, Amazon.com, PayPal, and AOL – claiming they infringed on a patent filed in January 1997. The patent describes "a method and apparatus for performing storage and retrieval...that uses the hashing technique with the external chaining method for collision resolution", and the accusation is that companies infringed by using various versions of the Linux kernel on their servers.

Submission + - Fukushima: Day 42: How is a core cooled? (nuclearpoweryesplease.org)

Submitted by DrKnark on Friday April 22, 2011 @07:26AM

DrKnark writes: Tepco has released more information about their plan to stabilize the Fukushima reactors(link 1, link 2).

They are basically facing 4 problems, ensuring long term cooling of the cores, ensure cooling of the spent fuel pools, prevent release of radioactive material and mitigate the consequences of the releases that will continue for a while. I want to speak a bit more about cooling in this blog post since it is the most crucial problem.

This is a blog by people very knowledgeable about nuclear power. It contains a somewhat day-to-day account of the events in Fukushima, as well as a lot of other info.

Submission + - CERN, LHC sets new luminosity world record (web.cern.ch)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 22, 2011 @06:46AM

An anonymous reader writes: Since last night, the Large Hadron Collider is officially the most powerful accelerator in the world. While the record energy level has been reached last year, the new luminosity level, surpassing Fermilabs achievements, happened recently. “Higher intensity means more data, and more data means greater discovery potential.”, as CERN Director General Rolf Heuer says.

Submission + - Selling Pixels - History Of Virtual Economies (stormdriver.com)

Submitted by

StormDriver

on Friday April 22, 2011 @06:41AM

StormDriver writes: "Today, virtual economies are much larger than those of many countries. In 2010 people worldwide spent $7 billion real dollars buying pixels of various shapes and sizes. That’s more than GDP of Mongolia, Malta or Haiti. And some of those pixels are really expensive. The highest amount paid for a virtual item is currently $635,000 dollars – that’s how much an anonymous person paid for the virtual night club on a virtual planet in massively multiplayer Entropia Universe game. I wonder if he got some virtual booze and virtual strippers to sweeten the deal?"

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