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Bogus Playstation emulators pack Trojan payload

The Register - 1 hour 13 min ago
'Will be around for a long time'

Retro gaming fans are being targeted in a new con designed to infect computers with a Trojan linked to scareware scams.…

The power of collaboration within unified communications

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Microsoft shows Bottom to Young Ones

The Register - 1 hour 15 min ago
Takes retro turn with video player

Microsoft was due to take the full fat version of its video player out of beta today, treating UK viewers to high-end entertainment such as Skins, Shameless and The Young Ones.…

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

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Blighty surrenders to Street View

The Register - 1 hour 31 min ago
95% coverage goes live

Blighty today surrendered to Sreet View's all-seeing eye as Google extended the service's coverage to encompass 95 per cent of the UK.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

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PayPal restores Cryptome for real

The Register - 1 hour 34 min ago
Now go away

PayPal has finally made good on its pledge to restore Cryptome's account many hours after the firm's head of global communications told Register readers it had already done so.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

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Exhausting the entire problem space of animated teddy-bears, cars, people and pigeons

Boing Boing - 1 hour 57 min ago

Animator/composer Cyriak just posted this surreal video featuring infinite giant teddy bears climbing out of the sea at the Worthing shore and crossing the road. You'd think that this would be thin gruel for three minutes' worth of animation, but you'd be wrong: it turns out that the number of variations on the themes of pigeons, people, teddies, cars and shore is a lot greater (and weirder and funnier) than instinct would suggest.

Cycles (Thanks, Arthur!) Previously:



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UK.gov OKs plan to flog digi dividend by end of year

The Register - 2 hours 2 min ago
Meek spectrum proposals triumphant

The government has asked Ofcom to implement Kip Meek's proposals for spectrum reform, with a view to getting shot of the digital dividend by the end of 2010.…

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

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Magic trick reverso: putting the tablecloth back on the table!

Boing Boing - 2 hours 4 min ago

Magician Mat Ricardo writes in regarding this morning's post showing a motorcycle (seemingly) pulling the tablecloth out from beneath a very long table's-worth of place settings: "Here's what I do - for 20 years-ish I've been finishing nmy cabaret act by putting the tablecloth back on the table, underneath all the stuff. Took me years to invent, and I'm the only person in the world performing this trick. Maybe I need to get out more, but what can I say - it's a living!"

You can see the gag around 2:15 in the video, but it's well worth watching the whole thing. I was gutted to learn that I missed Mat last weekend when I took the kid down to Covent Garden in London to see the performers, but I'm looking forward to catching his act next time we head down.

Mat Ricardo showreel (Thanks, Mat!) Previously:



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Bloggers spring 'baccy happy landlord from slammer

The Register - 2 hours 29 min ago
After a week of Paypal faffing

Just occasionally the blogosphere can be about more than just hot air – as it proved today by raising over £10,000 to pay off the fine of pub landlord Nick Hogan and to bring about his release from prison.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

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Historic IEEE 802 Group Looks Back and Forward

Slashdot - 2 hours 29 min ago
An anonymous reader writes "The IEEE MAN/LAN Standards Committee — better known as the people who brought us Ethernet, WiFi, and Bluetooth — is celebrating its 30th anniversary next week. This article has interviews with the original committee chairman and other veteran members, and reveals some of the inside situation. It also looks at some of the upcoming 802.x standards including one that sends data by modulating visible light."

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Computacenter sees profits up, revenues down

The Register - 2 hours 32 min ago
UK div sees 'encouraging signs'

Mega reseller Computacenter delivered on its forecast of better-than-expected profits for 2009, though revenues actually declined at the firm.…

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Google tries to make its RSS reader fun, too

from News.com - 2 hours 43 min ago
The Net giant unveils Google Reader Play, an attempt to put an easy-to-use, entertaining interface on its feed-reader Web application
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Carlos Slim is world's richest man, Bill Gates now number two

The Register - 2 hours 45 min ago
How's the recession been treating you?

Mexican telecoms bazillionaire Carlos Slim is the world's richest man, pushing Bill Gates into second place.…

What is your recession sales strategy?

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Sony to peddle trade-in scheme to speed upgrade cycle

The Register - 3 hours 53 sec ago
Incentives to encourage take-up of new tech, recycling

Exclusive Sony is planning to offer a trade-in scheme targeting Blu-ray Disc player owners later this year.…

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Microsoft Shows Full 3D XNA Games On Windows Phone

Slashdot - 3 hours 31 min ago
suraj.sun writes "Microsoft has shown off XNA games running on Windows Phone; full 3D is a go. From Engadget: 'Microsoft just showed us a pair of 3D games running on its ASUS Windows Phone prototype and built with its brand new XNA Game Studio 4.0 9. The two titles are The Harvest, a good looking touch-controlled dungeon crawler with destructible environments, being developed by Luma Arcade; and Battle Punks. Microsoft spoke to the ease of its Direct3D development platform, which was built by the same folks responsible for the first-gen Xbox. What we saw of The Harvest was built in "two or three weeks," mostly from scratch, and folks who've already built games for XNA in VisualStudio shouldn't have much trouble with a port from the sound of things: "very, very easy," said Microsoft. Right now developers can do their testing in Windows, but there should be a Windows Phone 7 Series emulator out for devs eventually."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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Opera Mini 5 betas on Google Android

The Register - 4 hours 52 sec ago
'No decision' on Opera Mobile

Opera has released an Opera Mini 5 beta for Google's Android platform.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

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Bowers and Wilkins Zeppelin Mini

The Register - 4 hours 52 sec ago
Blimp wristed?

Review Bowers & Wilkins' Zeppelin is undoubtedly the world's most iconic iPod speaker. Every one of its rivals, from the high end of the market downward, looks pretty much how you'd expect an iPod speaker to look. Not so the elongated ovoid that is the Zeppelin.…

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Android phones get Opera Mini 5 beta

from News.com - 4 hours 2 min ago
Opera adds Android to its updated browser lineup.
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LGBT researcher calls for action to combat cyberbullying (podcast)

from News.com - 4 hours 22 min ago
The co-author of a study on cyberbullying of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth says more than half of LGBT youth had experienced cyberbulling within the past 30 days.
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The Future of Wind Power May Be Underground

Slashdot - 4 hours 42 min ago
Hugh Pickens writes "When the wind is blowing, it is usually the cheapest peaking power available. However utilities need consistent always-on power from large, cheap coal and nuclear power plants that are the backbone of the electric grid. Wired reports that operators are looking at Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) using abandoned mines and sandstones of the Midwest to store compressed-air. This converts the intermittent motions of the air into a steady power source by using it to run air compressors to pump air into an underground cave where it's stored under pressure. The first CAES plant in the United States actually went online in McIntosh, Alabama in 1991 where engineers created a geological pocket 900 feet long and up to 238 feet wide in a dome by pumping water into it to dissolve the rock salt. When the (briny) water was pumped back out, the salt resealed itself and they had an air-tight container."

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Patent attack hits Apple, RIM, AT&T, Moto...

The Register - 5 hours 52 sec ago
Texas troll two-step

Apple, Research in Motion, and a gaggle of other deep-pocket firms have been slapped with a wide-ranging patent infringment suit by an obscure Texas firm.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

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