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Google coughs up $8.5 million to settle Buzz privacy suit - Ars Technica

New York Times (blog)

Google coughs up $8.5 million to settle Buzz privacy suit
Ars Technica
The fallout from Google's Buzz social networking aggregator continues: the company has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit over concerns that the service...


iOS 4.1 Launch Set for Sept 8 - The Mac Observer

The Age

iOS 4.1 Launch Set for Sept 8
The Mac Observer
Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled iOS 4.1 during the company's iPod and music-related media event on September 1, and it looks like his nebulous ?available next week? release window will actually be ...


Craigslist stops offering links to 'adult services' ads - Washington Post

USA Today

Craigslist stops offering links to 'adult services' ads
Washington Post
Craigslist, the Internet's iconic ad bazaar, has stopped allowing US users to access its "adult services" ads. On Saturday morning, the link to those ads - which had be...


Can Ping be saved? - Fortune

Telegraph.co.uk

Can Ping be saved?
Fortune
Apple (AAPL) announced Friday that less than 48 hours after its launch more than 1 million people had signed up for Ping, its new social network for music. That's not necessarily a good thing, given how many...


Why God Did Not Create the Universe - Wall Street Journal

ABC News

Why God Did Not Create the Universe
Wall Street Journal
According to Viking mythology, eclipses occur when two wolves, Skoll and Hati, catch the sun or moon. At the onset of an eclipse people would make lots of noise, hoping to scare the wol...


Pigs Fly! Duke Nukem Forever To Ship in 2011 - PC World

MTV.com (blog)

Pigs Fly! Duke Nukem Forever To Ship in 2011
PC World
To paraphrase Mark Twain, there are lies, damned lies, and Duke Nukem Forever stories. The game's been vaporware for over a decade. Leaked screens and gameplay videos from so-called...


Sales of 'Medal of Honor' video game blocked on US military bases - San Jose ...

DailyTech

Sales of 'Medal of Honor' video game blocked on US military bases
San Jose Mercury News
"Small victory,'' was all it said on the subject line of Karen Meredith's e-mail. But for the Silicon Valley military mom, who lost her son in the Iraq ...


Samsung Launches Galaxy Tab - PC World

The Guardian

Samsung Launches Galaxy Tab
PC World
Samsung has finally revealed the Galaxy Tab, a tablet computer running Android 2.2 that will begin shipping in October in Europe. A launch date for the US was not revealed. The tablet can be used to s...


The Struggle for What We Already Have - New York Times

CNET (blog)

The Struggle for What We Already Have
New York Times
For something that seems so simple and straightforward, ?net neutrality? has sure created one big mess. Trying to force net neutrality on Comcast, the FCC under Julius Genachowski seems...


Happy 25th Birthday to the Buckyball! - Wired News

The Guardian

Happy 25th Birthday to the Buckyball!
Wired News
Carbon is a remarkable little atom. When it's arranged in sheets, it's soft as pencil lead. Arrange it in crystals, and it's hard as diamonds. On September 4, 1985, three scientists trying...



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