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1. Steam bans Modern Warfare "grey market" keys

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   ... defends airport "massacre" scene 
Call of Duty grosses half a billion dollars in five days Activision denies Russian ban of Modern Warfare 2 
Russian airport massacre prompts Modern Warfare 2 ban CoD:MW2 ...

2. Microsoft: No backdoor in Windows 7

   (Security/Security Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... director of the Electronics Privacy Information Center (EPIC). "The key problem is that NSA has a dual mission, COMPUSEC, computer security, now called cyber security, and SIGINT, signals intelligence, ...

3. Xbox modders unite in class action suit

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... of Xbox consoles is arguably against the terms of use for Xbox/Xbox Live, Microsoft 'conveniently' timed the Xbox console ban to coincide with the release of the new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 game ...

4. 'Hobbits' really are a new human species

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   New analysis shows Homo floresiensis is a genuine ancient human species and not a  genetically flawed version of modern humans.  Using statistical analysis of one skeleton, researchers from ...

5. Mammoths weren't killed off by meteor

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... about 14,800 years ago, and was virtually complete a thousand years later. "About 13.8 thousand years ago, the number of [fungus] spores drops dramatically," said co-author Jacquelyn Gill. These dates ...

6. Brain boffin calls for schools to get back to books

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   Unplug that PC now A brain expert says that concentration on computers in schools is a waste of time and money and has called for a return to books. Edinburgh University brain scientist Professor Sergio ...

7. Modern Warfare scriptwriter defends airport "massacre" scene

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   "A risk we had to take" Veteran scriptwriter Jesse Stern has defended a controversial airport "massacre" scene in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. According to Stern, the Moscow airport level was a "risk" ...

8. Tech Economy in the Hands of Nude Entrepreuners

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   Privacy is dead as is shame, self awareness, and common sense.... OPINION: Some guy in England called Milo Yiannopoulos is the mastermind behind a charity calendar that exposes the bare flesh of 24 so-called ...

9. Space walkers will drink their own urine, dammit

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   ... their own pee, but they have to put up with all sorts of toilet problems. (God, they can't even call it a toilet -- it's the "Waste and Hygiene Compartment.") When the station's urine disposal system stopped ...

10. The world waits for Google's Chrome OS

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    Conference call today Google will hold a conference call today outlining its plans for the operating system. It has invited journalists to a webcast that starts at 10:00AM and goes on to 11:00PM Pacific. ...

11. Chinese court halts Microsoft OS sales

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... ironically, this is largely because, thanks to piracy, its legitimate sales in the country are tiny. Microsoft says it is appealing the ruling. It says it "respects intellectual property rights" and believes ...

12. Lab-on-a-chip provides instant disease diagnosis

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... than previous tests. It uses capillary forces to draw blood or serum through the chip and checks for the presence of disease markers - typically proteins specific to particular diseases. It can test for ...

13. Microsoft accelerates JavaScript with IE9

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... benchmarks, calling them nothing more than a 'browser drag race' that doesn't accurately portray real-world use," wrote Keizer. "Instead, Microsoft has used download tests of the 25 most popular Web destinations ...

14. TechCrunch crucified over Google phone rumor

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... based on rumor and not call it that, he can do it. If he wants to make logical and illogical leaps in his articles, he can do that, too. The point is there are no rules for Arrington." PC World columnist ...

15. Call of Duty grosses half a billion dollars in five days

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    Shoot em up Activision Blizzard said that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has sold $550 million worth in five days. It didn't say how many units this represented and the figure is an internal estimate, ...

16. EU ombudsman slams Intel antitrust ruling

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... gave AMD access to information contained in the Commission's investigation file. The Ombudsman did find that the Commission 'failed to make a proper note of a telephone call between the Commission and ...

17. Phuggers are like chuggers

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    Punters badgered by phuggers Phugging hell - these are the words of thousands of victims of cold-calling up and down the UK, according to Veritape, the phone conversation tracking software provider.  ...

18. Chrome OS: Lame Copy or Amazing new OS?

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... Steve Jobs is CEO of the decade; he could likely sell something called the iPotty and convince folks Apple had invented indoor plumbing.   Speaking of potties, I’m wondering this week if the Chrome OS ...

19. AMD debuts ATI Radeon 5970 GPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... OpenGL titles," said Nekechuk. 

"In addition, gamers can radically expand their field of view with up to three displays (simultaneously) at a resolution of 7680x1600. The card also supports CrossFireX ...

20. Electronic Arts closes Pandemic Studios

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... President, wrote in an internal memo obtained by Kotaku. "This type of change can be difficult. But the situation calls for us to act decisively, to take control of our destiny and to run a stronger, more ...

21. Nvidia showcases Fermi-based Tesla GPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... calls and recursive functions. The Tesla C2050 and C2070 GPUs (520GFlops - 630 GFlops) are expected to retail for $2,500 and $4,000, while the Tesla S2050 and S2070 (2.1 TFlops - 2.5 TFlops) will have ...

22. Activision denies Russian ban of Modern Warfare 2

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... was recalled due to a controversial scene in which the protagonist participates in a deadly Moscow airport terrorist attack. "Reports that Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been banned in Russia are ...

23. Google tarts up its Translate tool

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... Arabic and Persian. There's also a neat function that lets you transliterate features typed phonetically, if you don't know the particular script. And when you translate into English, you just need to ...

24. McAfee indulges in bout of cyber scare mongering

    (Security/Security Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... commissioned 20 so-called "experts" for its Virtual Criminology Report 2009. "War is not a term to be tossed around lightly. That is why the growing debate over cyber war has caught our attention," CEO ...

25. Obama meets polar bears, the Riemann Hypothesis, and Enermax

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... Sapphire and Microloops are being sued by a company called Convergence for alleged patent violation. Read about the said violation, here. Over at Eureka Alert, there's a piece about a mathematics tool ...

26. How to stop the Feds tapping your phone

    (Security/Security Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... in Chicago last week. The researchers say that wiretaps can be rendered useless by a simple denial of service (DoS) attack due to the limited bandwidth - 64Kbps - used by call tracking devices to store ...

27. YouTube launches tool for 'citizen journalists'

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    Please don't put us all out of business YouTube is launching a tool allowing so-called 'citizen journalists' to submit clips to news media companies and PR firms to deluge them with even more uninteresting ...

28. ARM accelerates Android mobile development

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ...  "Remember, Android was specifically written for ARM architecture, while Android 2.0 was launched on our high-performance Cortex-A processor designs. We have a great ecosystem and are taking it further ...

29. Phenom II overclockers shatter 7GHz barrier

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ... of the vastly under-appreciated overclocking community," AMD spokesperson Simon Solotko told TG Daily. "These people do lots of great work, but unfortunately, overclockers typically make less in a year ...

30. Russian airport massacre prompts Modern Warfare 2 ban

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    Back in the USSR The Russian government has reportedly imposed a de-facto ban on sales of CoD: Modern Warfare 2. 

According to Hellforge, "every copy" of the console version has been recalled due to ...

31. Intel would like to give AMD a Glaswegian kiss

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    Opinion Nothing's really changed When AMD and Intel held their journalist conference calls last week, the contrast between the two companies could not be greater. AMD talked as though the $1.25 billion ...

32. Intel claims it's driving supercomputers. Not AMD

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ... has fired out a statement claiming that 402 systems on the Top 500 list use Intel microprocessors. And, it said, three of those are in the top 10 systems. It's using this call to announce a High Performance ...

33. High Court rules out website libel

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ... 'cynically and greedily indulged in self-enrichment at the expense of, and contrary to the interests of, shareholders.' But the court threw out the lawsuit, saying the claimants had failed to establish ...

34. Open Book Alliance slams Google Book Settlement

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ... Most critically, the settlement proposal must not grant Google an exclusive set of rights (de facto or otherwise) or result in any one entity gaining control over access to and distribution of the world's ...

35. AMD powered Jaguar wins supercomputer race

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ... potatoes are dead Global Foundries will bash up Intel's process lead AMD discovers several Fusion mantras, disses Larrabee AMD: The netbook category is all a bit of a blur AMD calls for more realistic ...

36. British man given bionic butt

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Sunday, 15 November 2009

    ... activates the electrodes. "It’s like a chubby little mobile phone," he told the Daily Telegraph. "You switch it on and off, just like switching on the TV. "They call me the man with the bionic bottom, ...

37. Getting paid to watch porn

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Saturday, 14 November 2009

    ... lowliest career-nonce, has a photo in his My Pictures folder called 'my nob.jpg'. I'm sick of the way people search Google images for stuff like 'Eskimo porn' or 'busty Polish girls on roofs'. Specialized ...

38. Churchill, Hemingway and Golding were failures

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 13 November 2009

    ... their exams today they would be failed for their 'terrible writing style'. Churchill's rousing call to "fight them on the beaches" was too repetitive, with the text using the word "upon" and "our" too ...

39. Google buys VOIP company Gizmo5

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 13 November 2009

    ... Current Gizmo5 users will still be able to use the service, which is basically similar to Skype, but is based on open standards. It also includes a client for cellphone users. However, new signups will ...

40. YouTube goes hi-res

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 13 November 2009

    ... from the current maximum of 720p. And on the upside, videos already uploaded at 1080p will automatically be converted to play back at their original quality, says YouTube. YouTube director of product ...

41. CoD:MW2 Will Not End Recession

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    $310 million of sales for a game and we're still looking for a better paycheck.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has done stellar business at the box office, sorry, at retail. It's not a movie, and it isn't ...

42. Intel maintains innocence despite $1.25 billion cash payoff

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... become even more so," Intel CEO Paul Otellini stated during a conference call. "[But] we have not wavered in our conviction that Intel operated within the bounds of the law by competing fairly and legally." ...

43. Intel-AMD deal doesn't end the bitter war

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... escape from being accused of antitrust agreement somewhere or other in the world. Dirk Meyer, AMD' CEO, said in a conference call today that there are three components to the agreement. It's agreed to ...

44. How TG Daily is put together

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... Good Spinola: Hey! I'm using skype on crackberry [09:39:15] Evil Spinola: Style victim [09:39:48] Good Spinola: no, very cheap phone calls [09:57:05] Evil Spinola: Write me a bloody letter. You've still ...

45. HP has $2.7 billion to buy 3COM

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... note, according to AOL's Daily  Finance blog, the news of the deal may have leaked out prematurely: "There was an abnormally massive spike in activity for November and December call options, which ...

46. Google slashes price on Picasa storage

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    Picture this Google said it's dramatically reduced the price of Picasa storage - that's where your cherished family pictures are all in a cloud. In a blog posting, Google said that it's "dramatically" ...

47. Comedians fail to see the funny side of the web

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... weeping uncontrollably. "There's a guy called FunnyJoker on Twitter with over 60,000 followers, and I've seen jokes from my club set on his page that I've never posted being retweeted everywhere, all without ...

48. Group takes control of dozens of Facebook sites

    (Security/Security Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    Aims to highlight privacy issues A group called Control Your Info has hijacked a number of Facebook sites, aiming to call attention to privacy issues. "We have seen too many examples where friends and ...

49. Nintendo poised to "regain control" of console market

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    ... through the holidays, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves will only be the third first-party title on the PlayStation 3 to sell over 1 million units domestically. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves marks the beginning ...

50. EU at odds with US over Oracle antitrust probe

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    ... 'unusual' that the US Department of Justice had chosen to comment on the European investigation. "I cannot recall any instance when the Commission has remarked on an on-going investigation in another ...