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Tesla elbowing aside Edison among the geek gods-> 1

Submitted by i_want_you_to_throw_ on Friday January 15 2010, @02:02PM

i_want_you_to_throw_ writes "Decades after he died penniless, Nikola Tesla is elbowing aside his old adversary Thomas Edison in the pantheon of geek gods. Often thought to have never been properly credited in his time, what do slashdotters think?"
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SPAM: If New Movies had Retro Video Games 0

Submitted by kghapa on Friday January 15 2010, @11:25AM

kghapa writes "With Atari and NES games like ET and Friday the 13th, retro movies games were a special breed of awful. That being said, check out this hilarious album of modern blockbuster films, re-imagined as "retro" games, then thank the gods you will never be forced to play them."
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ABC Coming to Hulu-> 0

Submitted by Neeperando on Thursday April 30 2009, @01:01PM

Neeperando writes "ABC has announced that it will be joining NBC and Fox in putting its content on Hulu. They cite the growing popularity of Hulu and the fact that more Hulu users visit ABC.com than vice versa. According to the article, Hulu will get ABC's prime-time shows as well as some late-night and some shows from ABC Family and The Disney Channel."
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Chrysler Bankruptcy Plan Is Announced 0

Submitted by bsharma on Thursday April 30 2009, @01:00PM

bsharma writes "DETROIT — Chrysler, the third-largest American auto company, will seek bankruptcy protection and enter an alliance with the Italian automaker Fiat, the White House announced Thursday. The bankruptcy case, which officials envisioned as a swift, "surgical" process, was filed in United States Bankruptcy Court in New York, with the first hearing scheduled for Friday morning. It marks the first time a major American car company has tried to restructure under bankruptcy protection since Studebaker in 1933. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/business/01auto.html?_r=1&hp"

Swedish factory fined $3,000 for robot attack-> 0

Submitted by

rodrigoandrade

on Thursday April 30 2009, @12:38PM

rodrigoandrade writes "Maintenance worker was attacked by a robot. The robo-assault reportedly took place in 2007, when a man attempted to repair a defective machine used to lift rocks without properly checking the power supply beforehand. And unfortunately, the human head isn't all that different than a big juicy rock to such a robot."
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The Swine Flu Party in Cancun for Cinco de Drinko!-> 0

Submitted by

johnnyv33

on Thursday April 30 2009, @12:30PM

johnnyv33 writes "http://www.rantnation.com/w/?p=135

Show the federal government and the United Nations (WHO) that you don't EVER believe a word they say! Join RantNation for a swine flu party in Cancun over the Cinco de Drinko holiday next Tuesday. As this map shows, swine flu is working it's way around the world. The genie is already out of the bottle. You could stay home, miss out on all the fun, and die anyway."
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The Sewing Machine War-> 0

Submitted by lousyd on Thursday April 30 2009, @12:17PM

lousyd writes "Volokh has hosted a paper by George Mason University law professor Adam Mossoff on the patent fracas a century and a half ago surrounding the sewing machine. A Stitch in Time: The Rise and Fall of the Sewing Machine Patent Thicket challenges assumptions by courts and scholars today about the alleged efficiency-choking complexities of the modern patent system. Mossoff says that complementary inventions, extensive patent litigation, so-called "patent trolls," patent thickets, and privately formed patent pools have long been features of the American patent system reaching back to the antebellum era."
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Peer to peer app goes physical on college campus-> 0

Submitted by

Temitope

on Thursday April 30 2009, @12:13PM

Temitope writes "From their main headquarters, aka their two-bedroom apartment near the beaches of Santa Monica, two tech-minded friends ventured out to renovate the world as they sought fit. Having acquired the right artillery against the boundaries of boredom, ignorance and laziness, they used what they had learned from academia and decided to make a move.

That move would become the UCLA community's latest DVD rental site, flixoncampus.com."
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Apple Reportedly Considering Making Its Own Chips 0

Submitted by afabbro on Thursday April 30 2009, @11:29AM

afabbro writes "There are scattered reports today that Apple is building a team to design its own chips, with an eye towards reducing power consumption on iPods and iPhones."

SPAM: Good OS Announces Cloud For Netbook Market 0

Submitted by

MojoKid

on Monday December 01 2008, @11:51AM

MojoKid writes "Part of the challenge some netbook manufacturers face, is trying to find the right balance between keeping their price tag down while designing a system that is robust enough to be able to run a full-blown OS. Good OS might just have the answer to this challenge with its new, scaled-down operating system called "Cloud." Cloud is designed to use as small a kernel as possible, so as to allow the OS to fully boot up in only a few seconds. Cloud boots directly into the Google browser, which features an icon dock inside the browser. There are icons for Gmail, Google Apps, YouTube, and other online-based applications but it also supports the ability to install select client-side applications as well. You can also install Windows on a system that is running Cloud. Such a system would still boot into Cloud to give you quick, easy access to online-based functionality; but the icon dock also includes an icon for then booting into Windows as well."
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