Up to the Minute News in Technology
SXSW Scenes: Hot Dogs, Hare Krishna and Rock
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Characters of every stripe fill the streets of Austin, Texas, during the annual South by Southwest music festival. Oh, and there are some bands, too.
Palm Can Still Win: Here Are Five Things They Need To Do
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Palm tanked after turning in a dismal 3Q earnings report driven by bad smartphone sales. The good news? The phone is becoming just an app on a smart, portable device. The disruptive contours of that smart, portable device is still in flux, and about to get buffeted again by the release of Apple’s iPad in about two weeks. This is still anybody’s game — heck, if even Google is worried about the next Google, why can’t Palm be the next Palm?
Review: 'Hubble 3D' Takes You on Beautiful, Brief Space Journey
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Immerse yourself in vivid interstellar visuals as Imax brings extraterrestrial wonders down to Earth.
Tesla's Roadster Sport Zips the Light Fantastic
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Zero to 60 in 3.7 seconds. 80 mph feels more like 50. Grips roads like a junkie to a crack pipe. This is what it's like to drive the Tesla Sport Roadster.
Bad Magic Comic Mysterius Makes Good Tech Satire
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Magic and tech in the 21st century combine in Jeff Parker and Tom Fowler's hilarious comic Mysterius, released this week as a paperback collection from DC's Wildstorm imprint.
Artists Get Their Geek On to Celebrate Yuri's Night
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A group of Washington, D.C., artists create outer space-inspired art in honor of Yuri Gagarin, the first astronaut.
Lenovo Ultralight Combines High-Grade Looks, Low-Octane Performance
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It takes a lot to build a thin and light notebook with such a low price tag. The only sacrifice the X100e makes is executive-level power.
SXSW: Scenes From a Musical Madhouse
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Thousands of shows turn Austin into a giant musical maelstrom each year during the South by Southwest festival. See photos of bands that performed Thursday, including Ringo Deathstarr, Weekend and The Happy Hollows.
6 Cars So Alluring They're in an Art Museum
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The High Museum of Art in Atlanta launches an exhibition celebrating the beauty of the automobile.
iPad Developers Code Their Apps in the Dark
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Apple's iPad is set to launch April 3, but most developers making apps for the device haven't even touched it.
Rich Get Richer in 'Hot News' Stock-Tip Fight
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The rich are getting richer by a federal judge ruling that a financial news site must delay broadcasting buy-and-sell research to enable the major banks and their wealthy clients to profit from that research.
Shark-Bitten Crocodile Poop Fossils Found (No, Really)
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Two coprolites, the scientific name for fossilized feces, have been discovered with shark bite marks in them. How'd that happen? Scientists think they've got an answer.
Large Hadron Collider Triples Its Own Record
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The Large Hadron Collider broke its own energy record in the wee hours of the morning in Switzerland today.
Lucasfilm's 'The Clone Wars' Best Political Cartoon Ever?
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The dark second season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars wraps with a three-week stand starting Friday night.
Unprecedented 25-Year Sentence Sought for TJX Hacker
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Prosecutors dispute a defense claim that 28-year-old Albert Gonzalez suffers from Asperger's disorder, and ask federal judges to throw the book at the former Secret Service informant turned mass identity thief.
Scenarios: What's Next for Google's Operations in China?
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Two months after Google shook the world with its threat to leave China on censorship and hacking concerns, there are increasing signs that an exit is imminent as the two sides refuse to back down. Following are the possible paths the world’s largest search company could take -- and the possible reactions from Beijing.
The Jackson 5 Appear at SXSW ... as an iPhone App
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Zooz Mobile's new $5 app comes with remixable stems for five of the band's classic songs. Bonus: Buyers can win up to $1,500 in a remix contest.
SXSW: 'Reverse Karaoke' App Turns Bad Singing Into Good Songs
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LaDiDa takes even the worst vocal performance and sweetens it, then instantly creates full-band backing tracks in a variety of musical styles. The end result is a batch of DIY songs that sound pretty amazing.
Feds Deem Pedestrians, Cyclists and Motorists Equals
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The transportation secretary makes it clear when he says, "This is the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of non-motorized."
March 19, 1979: House Proceedings Air Live on C-SPAN
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A new cable network creates transparency in the House of Representatives' proceedings, broadcasting to 3.5 million households.
How I Survived My SXSW Keynote Interview
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Twitter has taken out South by Southwest presenters in the past, leading to very public — and very embarrassing — onstage meltdowns. Here's how you can avoid a similar disaster.
Alt Text: 'Final Fantasy,' Then and Now
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What's new in the latest installment of the venerable RPG franchise? Oh, only just about everything. A look back at Final Fantasy's fantastic roots and the current state of affairs in Pulse and Cocoon.
Review: Squishy 'Repo Men' Sticks Shiv in Organ-Extraction Action
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Even with Jude Law, Forest Whitaker and a perfect sci-fi setup, this movie sputters a bit in the middle, and the whole bloody affair suffers from a lack of black humor. But that's one hell of a knife fight that first-time director Miguel Sapochnik pulls out of his bag of tricks.
Evolution of Fairness Driven by Culture, Not Genes
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Scientists find that the human tendency toward fairness is a product of institutions, not innate psychology. Most studies conclude that basic behaviors like fairness originated in life on the savannah.
Boeing Completes Design of Shipboard Superlaser
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Defense giant Boeing now says it has completed the preliminary design of the Free Electron Laser: a shipboard laser powerful enough to destroy anti-ship missiles.
Accusations Fly in Viacom, YouTube Copyright Fight
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The Viacom-YouTube copyright battle heated up Thursday. Viacom told a federal judge that Google-owned YouTube turns a blind eye to wanton copyright infringement on the video-sharing site. Google says Viacom uploaded many of the videos that are subject of its suit.
SXSW: Dick Jokes, '80s Action Tropes Power 'MacGruber'
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How can a simpleton skit from Saturday Night Live serve as the basis for an entertaining feature film? Director Jorma Taccone seems to have cracked the nut, serving up a sharply written comedy with a not-so-secret weapon: the amazing Kristen Wiig. A report from the movie's star-studded South by Southwest premiere.
Court: Cyberbullying Threats Not Protected Speech
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A California appellate court rules that cyberbullying threats made by high school students against another student are not protected free speech.
Pay or Fail: Some iPhone App Sites Demand Money for Reviews
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A number of websites ask iPhone developers for money in exchange for "expedited" reviews of their apps. One site even refuses to review apps unless developers pay them a fee. The FTC says paid reviews aren't illegal, but the practice should raise questions about a publication's credibility.
Watch Out, Ferrari. McLaren Is Back With Another Supercar
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A company synonymous with Formula 1 wants to get into the road car biz in a big, big way.
