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Submission + - Facebook Launches Ultra-fast Version Called Zero (itproportal.com)

Submitted by Arvisp on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @08:26AM

Arvisp writes: The company reported that the website, which will be in a text-only, low bandwidth version, will be easily accessible from the user’s mobile phone internet browser without putting load on the network connectivity.
The company also announced that the website was already online but users will be able to access it only when network operators approve it in the next few weeks

Comment Sell Through Amazon (Score 1) 2

by wkurzius on Tuesday February 16, 2010 @10:22PM (#31163670) Attached to: fake Amazon 1099 forms??

Have you sold items through Amazon?

Have you contacted them about the forms directly to make sure it's not a scam?

Submission + - $8 billion in loan guarantees for nuclear reactors (latimes.com)

Submitted by irockash on Tuesday February 16, 2010 @10:10PM

irockash writes: President Obama pledged $8 billion in loan guarantees for the construction of nuclear reactors.

Submission + - Warner bullies Redbox into 28-day release delay (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by wkurzius on Tuesday February 16, 2010 @10:00PM

wkurzius writes: DVD rental kiosks from Redbox will no longer have Warner Bros. new releases when they hit the market. Thanks to a new agreement between the companies, Redbox will offer Warner's DVDs and Blu-ray movies 28 days after release, just like Netflix.

Submission + - Broader Broadband (gigaom.com)

Submitted by hhawk on Tuesday February 16, 2010 @08:59PM

hhawk writes: Hey Buddy, can you spare 100 Mpbs hook up?

The US is lagging behind other countries in making high speed networking available to residential customers. You might think that market forces would be enough but the FCC has weighted in...

"Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communication Commission, has outlined his vision for broadband in America: 100 Mbps connections to 100 million homes. As part of an update on the National Broadband Plan due to Congress in mid-March, Genachowski sketched out a plan that would keep the U.S. competitive with other nations and enable 90 percent of the population to have and use broadband, up from about 65 percent today..."

Submission + - Woman Seeks Husband For Health Insurance (singularityhub.com) 3

Submitted by kkleiner on Tuesday February 16, 2010 @04:03PM

kkleiner writes: Terri Carlson is willing to marry you for your healthcare. This 45 year old woman suffers from a genetic condition, C4 Complement Deficiency, which causes her body to attack itself (similar to Lupus). Faced with skyrocketing health costs, and unable to get insurance (she’s currently on COBRA), Terri did the only thing she could do: she built a website and got on YouTube. Carlson’s situation challenges the courts under a statute already on the books: GINA. The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 keeps insurance companies from using genetic data to deny you coverage.

Submission + - Second Life in Educaiton: Fail (chronicle.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 16, 2010 @03:58PM

An anonymous reader writes: Colleges flocked to Second Life for years and celebrated their virtual classrooms there. Now they're feeling frustrated and looking for an escape plan.

Submission + - iTunes Ten Billion Song Downloads Visualization (eagereyes.org)

Submitted by Igor Ayes on Tuesday February 16, 2010 @03:37PM

Igor Ayes writes: Apple is counting down (or up?) to the ten billionth song download from its iTunes Store. To run a counter on their website, they have to provide current information about the number and rate of downloads. I have been scraping this data for a few days and have created an interactive visualization, using the fantastic JavaScript visualization library Protovis. Despite iTunes being available around the globe, it's interesting to see a clear pattern that shows the sleep/wake times in the US. They also peak at over 200 downloads per second.

Submission + - Virginia Tech researcher to track malware, more (vt.edu)

Submitted by smackay on Tuesday February 16, 2010 @03:31PM

smackay writes: A Virginia Tech College of Engineering researcher is seeking a way to track the spread of malware across wireless computer networks and pandemics among populations, as well as how a blackout occurring on one major power grid can cause a cascade of additional neighboring networks to fail. How? Math. (Mom was right: Algebra does pay off.)

Submission + - Tutankhamun died from broken leg and malaria (dailymail.co.uk)

Submitted by arnodf on Tuesday February 16, 2010 @03:08PM

arnodf writes: Scientists have finally discovered how King Tutankhamun died, nearly a century after the boy-pharaoh's tomb was unearthed in Egypt.

A DNA study revealed today the 19-year-old died from complications from a broken leg that was exacerbated by malaria.

It also found the famous king suffered from a cleft palate and club foot and was a 'frail king who needed canes to walk.'

Submission + - MIT Developing Body Heat-Powered Electronics (inhabitat.com) 1

Submitted by MikeChino on Tuesday February 16, 2010 @02:22PM

MikeChino writes: It’s a lot easier to change the batteries in a flashlight than to switch out the batteries in, say, a biomedical monitor. But eventually, such batteries might never have to be changed thanks to a new breed of heat-harvesting electronics developed by researchers at MIT. Professor Anantha Chandrakasan and alumnus Yogesh Ramadass have developed so-called “energy-scavenging systems” that can gather power from temperature differences between an object (like the body) and the air. The systems can’t produce much power yet — just 100 microwatts from a temperature difference of one to two degrees — but that could still be enough to power biomedical devices (i.e. heart rate and blood sugar monitors) or other low-power electronics located in hard-to-reach spots, such as air quality monitors in heating and ventilation ducts or exhaust gas monitors in the flues of industrial plants.

Submission + - FCC to Propose Higher Broadband Speeds (reuters.com)

Submitted by sarahbau on Tuesday February 16, 2010 @02:00PM

sarahbau writes: Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski on Tuesday said the agency will propose in an upcoming report a minimum Internet speed for American households. Dubbed the "100 Squared Initiative," Genachowski said that he hopes to bring speeds of 100 megabits per second to 100 million households, a speed that is significantly higher than what many households receive.

Submission + - Mininova Recovering from Torrent Index Loss (slyck.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15, 2010 @07:35PM

An anonymous reader writes: Last year, Mininova.org was forced to remove its torrent index pointing to copyrighted material. Three months after removing their torrent index, traffic plummeted by 75%. However, this has not spelled the end of the BitTorrent search engine. According to a new interview with Slyck.com, Mininova apears to be reinventing itself as a public domain tracker as traffic to the site has now stabilized...

Submission + - Gamers more danerouse than outlaw bikie gangs (abc.net.au)

Submitted by jyx on Monday February 15, 2010 @07:04PM

jyx writes: South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson (who is currently refusing to allow the Australian game industry from having an R18 classification) has stated in a televised interview that "I feel that my family and I are more at risk from gamers than we are from the outlaw motorcycle gangs".

Submission + - Gamers: more scary than bikie gangs (gamepron.com)

Submitted by UgLyPuNk on Monday February 15, 2010 @06:36PM

UgLyPuNk writes: In case you missed last night’s episode of Good Game, South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson likened gamers to bikie gangs,
“I feel that my family and I are more at risk from gamers than we are from the outlaw motorcycle gangs who also hate me and are running a candidate against me.”

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