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No gravity, one gun, no problem: Shattered Horizon interview
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Shattered Horizon is a weird beast. The $20 first-person shooter features four maps, one gun, and takes place in space. That means there is no gravity—you can attack from any angle by using your boosters. Turn them off and move with just your inertia to become harder to spot. Its a heady, tense form of combat. Its ...1 day ago -
Weird Science consumes its young
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A taste of fatherhood: The males of many species get away without any involvement whatsoever with the raising of their young. On the opposite end of the spectrum, various sea horses and pipefish have a specialized brooding sack in which they carry their developing eggs around, providing them nutrients via a male ...1 day ago -
AT&T Wants to Charge Heavy Data Users
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Jacqui Cheng reporting for Ars Technica on AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega’s remarks at the UBS conference: Heavy data users may soon find themselves paying more for service if they’re AT&T customers. […] noting that a mere three percent of smartphone users suck up some 40 percent of the company’s traffic. ...1 day ago -
New Internet Bill of Rights contender comes from... pirates?
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New Internet Bill of Rights contender comes from... pirates? : Via Law & Disorder Section - Ars Technica . Pirates arent generally known for taking inspiration from Americas Founding Fathers, but the lone Pirate Party member in the European Parliament is calling for an Internet "Bill of Rights." Two weeks ago, ...3 days ago -
FTC drags out old, tired ideas for protecting kids online
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The Federal Trade Commission is always on the lookout for what could be improved " for the children !" and a recent report highlights the newest areas of concern: virtual worlds. In its report released Thursday, the FTC announced the downright shocking news that there is sexually explicit and often violent content in ...4 days ago -
Microsoft: sure, you can use Apple products at our events
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Microsoft has cleared the air on a poorly translated quote by confirming that people have always been able to, and are still allowed to, use Apple products at their events. The source of the misinformation was supposedly a representative at a Windows Mobile 6.5 demonstration in Munich, Germany and the statements ...4 days ago -
Adobe warns that the Flash train is leaving G3-land forever
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Buried deep within a bulletin announcing a security update to Flash is a dire warning for Mac users somehow saddled with a G3-equipped machine. Adobe Flash Player 10.1, the unifying 端ber-Flash that wont be available until some time early next year, will be the very last version to support the mostly forgotten ...4 days ago -
Microsoft licenses out exFAT file system
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Microsoft has announced a new licensing program for its Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT) technology. For certain device categories, such as cameras, camcorders, and digital photo frames, the software giant is charging a flat $300,000 license fee, while companies that want to use the format in devices such as ...4 days ago -
"So, Verizon, about those doubled early termination fees..."
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"So, Verizon, about those doubled early termination fees..." : Via Law & Disorder Section - Ars Technica . The FCC has been asking plenty of "innocent questions" lately about the mobile space. It doesnt threaten any direct action against companies like AT&T and Apple , it just wants "a more complete ...4 days ago -
A second look at the Nvidia Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition
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For anyone who does 3D graphics, the high-end NVIDIA Quadro cards are the shiniest of red bicycles. At the top-end, they’ve got more memory than most gaming cards, but theyve got a price to match their premium features. At $1799 retail, the Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition is over $1300 more than the 1GB Geforce GTX 285 ...4 days ago -
AT&T wants to “educate,” charge heavy data users more
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Heavy data users may soon find themselves paying more for service if theyre AT&T customers. AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega reiterated the companys idea charge heavy network users more for their activities at the UBS conference on Wednesday, noting that a mere three percent of smartphone users suck up some 40 ...5 days ago -
Bing ads over 75% more likely to be clicked than Google ads
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A month after Bing launched in May 2009 , Chitika Research reported that Bings click-through rate (CTR) was 50 percent better than Googles. We thought this wasnt much of a big deal, as Bing was only one month old, but new data from Chitika shows that little has changed even six months after the decision engines ...5 days ago -
Premier Chat 003: Stardock’s Brad Wardell
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Recently, we launched Ars Premier 2.0 , our new and improved subscriber program that offers some fantastic new benefits for subscribers. Tonight sees our fourth insider-only feature: a live, moderated webchat with president and CEO of Stardock, Brad Wardell.5 days ago -
Apple now offers digital gift cards via Facebook
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With the holiday season approaching at a breakneck pace, Apple is looking to cash in on procrastinators, unoriginal gift givers, and whats left of relationships you once shared with friends you havent seen since high school. The company has unveiled a system powered by Gift Card Mall that allows Facebook users to ...5 days ago -
How to be the world’s greatest ISP
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Internet Service Providers are a modern day necessity, but that doesnt stop many of us from hating them sometimes. In many nations, broadband providers top the consumer complaint charts. If complaints arent about delivering the promised speeds, theyre about the crappy customer service, billing problems, frequent ...5 days ago -
Seagate jumps into the SSD market with enterprise line
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After taking a relatively strong anti-SSD stance that moderated last year in the face of the technologys inevitable advance, Seagate has finally climbed aboard the SSD bandwagon with the release of its new Pulsar line of drives. Of course, as Seagate indicated when it telegraphed this move in the middle of last ...5 days ago -
Microsoft security product confusion to continue till 2011
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One of our readers recently wrote in to ask about the difference between Windows Live OneCare and Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE). We explained that OneCare has been on its way out the door since Microsoft announced the for-pay solutions death in November 2008 . The company also noted in March 2009 that ...6 days ago -
IEEE will push next 802.11 to 1Gbps speeds, two-letter designations in 2012
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IEEE will push next 802.11 to 1Gbps speeds, two-letter designations in 2012
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WiFi, you’ve come a long way, baby. Since those groovy days of plain ‘ol 802.11, to your first single-letter designation, all the way up to your latest 802.11n ratification you’ve gotten faster, broader, and almost everywhere. Best of all, you’ve still got room to grow. The rest is here: IEEE will push ...6 days ago -
How to build and maintain a tiered WSUS infrastructure
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Windows updates have historically been a constant annoyance for IT staff. Manual updates were a huge pain, and, while the advent of the Automatic Update feature improved the situation, it brought with it problems of its own. Specifically, Automatic Updates are simply too automatic. Automatic Updates grabs the latest ...6 days ago
