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Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Posted: 24 Apr 2009 06:10 PM PDT Del.icio.us / Okhiro'sBookmarks Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope  —

NKorea starts reprocessing spent fuel rods Posted: 24 Apr 2009 05:16 PM PDT YahooBuzz / Yahoo!News NKorea starts reprocessing spent fuel rods   — AFP - North Korea announced it has started reprocessing spent fuel rods from a pilot nuclear power plant, in protest at international condemnation ...

Google's New "What's Popular" Feature Aims to Clone Digg Posted: 24 Apr 2009 02:45 PM PDT Techmeme / Micropersuasion Google's New "What's Popular" Feature Aims to Clone Digg   —  Google's New What's Popular Feature Aims to Clone Digg Google's personalized home page, iGoogle, added a new feature that basically clones the co...

T-Mobile Sells Millionth G1 Android Smartphone Posted: 24 Apr 2009 02:33 PM PDT Google News: Technology / Dailytech T-Mobile Sells Millionth G1 Android Smartphone  — Google and many consumers and analysts had high expectations for the open source Android operating system when it launched on the T-Mobile G1 about...

Googler Defects To Twitter, He Tweets Posted: 24 Apr 2009 02:00 PM PDT TechCrunch / TechCrunch Googler Defects To Twitter, He Tweets  — Last month, Douglas Bowman, the design lead at Google, left to become the creative director at Twitter. Today, a former co-worker joins him. Dustin...

Dropbox: Now Effortlessly Syncing Files For 1 Million Members Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:28 PM PDT HackerNews / Techcrunch Dropbox: Now Effortlessly Syncing Files For 1 Million Members  —

The 5 Things I’d Tell My 21 Year Old Entrepreneurial Self Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:03 PM PDT HackerNews / Jonbischke The 5 Things I'd Tell My 21 Year Old Entrepreneurial Self  —

ASUS P565 apparently available, unboxed Posted: 24 Apr 2009 12:52 PM PDT Engadget / Engadget ASUS P565 apparently available, unboxed  —  Lazarus be praised! The last time we heard about ASUS' P565 was back in February, when we mourned its sad and supposed demise . Turns out that's n...

Judge Opens Hearing On RealDVD Legal Battle Posted: 24 Apr 2009 12:45 PM PDT Slashdot / Slashdot Judge Opens Hearing On RealDVD Legal Battle  — FP writes "On Friday morning, lawyers urged a federal judge to bar RealNetworks from selling software that allows consumers to copy their DVDs to c...

Why Email Clients Need to Change Posted: 24 Apr 2009 12:37 PM PDT GigaOM / Gigaom Why Email Clients Need to Change  — My inbox is broken. Not in an I-can't-check-my-messages kind of way, but in a fundamental, inboxes-will-never-be-the-same-again kind of way. With e...

Daring Fireball: Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground Posted: 24 Apr 2009 12:08 PM PDT Twitter / Daringfireball Daring Fireball: Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground  —

Official: Windows 7 RC publicly available May 5th Posted: 24 Apr 2009 12:07 PM PDT Engadget / Engadget Official: Windows 7 RC publicly available May 5th  —  We've seen plenty of speculation on this date, but thanks to a quick email from Microsoft reps -- and a handy post on the Windows Blog -- we now h...

inFamous pre-order box reveals Uncharted 2 multiplayer beta Posted: 24 Apr 2009 11:28 AM PDT Newspond / Joystiq inFamous pre-order box reveals Uncharted 2 multiplayer beta  — Looks as though Sony's "electrifying announcement" may have been leaked a bit early. A Best Buy pre-order box features this promo for an Uncharted ...

Murder brings scrutiny to fast-growing Craigslist Posted: 24 Apr 2009 11:16 AM PDT YahooNewsTechnology / Reuters Murder brings scrutiny to fast-growing Craigslist  — Reuters - When Marissa decided to switch jobs from nursing to prostitution a year ago, the online classified site Craigslist was pivotal, she said....

CrunchGear Exclusive: Sit-Down With Rob Spence Posted: 24 Apr 2009 11:15 AM PDT TechCrunch / TechCrunch CrunchGear Exclusive: Sit-Down With Rob Spence  — Remember Rob Spence? You know, the Canadian filmmaker dude with a camera prosthetic eye AKA Eyeborg ? We just sat down with him for a few minutes a...

Former Facebook executive to be MySpace CEO Posted: 24 Apr 2009 11:08 AM PDT AskNews / MSNBC Former Facebook executive to be MySpace CEO  —  MSNBC - Found 28 minutes ago Even so, MySpace may be making more money, at least for now. Research firm eMarketer estimates that the ...

The Week in iPhone Apps: ONE BILLION APPS Posted: 24 Apr 2009 11:07 AM PDT Gizmodo / Gizmodo The Week in iPhone Apps: ONE BILLION APPS   — Can you believe it? If this weekly column didn't exist, Apple would only be at about 999999233. I can now die happy: I've made a difference in this...

OQO Model 2+ Production Is Unlikely, Company Not Doing So Hot Posted: 24 Apr 2009 10:52 AM PDT Gizmodo / Gizmodo OQO Model 2+ Production Is Unlikely, Company Not Doing So Hot   — OQO's pre-order cancellation and recent trouble lead us to believe that the company's not doing so well, which SVP Bob Rosin confirms by saying tha...

Troys: One Twitter Script to Rule Them All Posted: 24 Apr 2009 10:45 AM PDT ReadWriteWeb / ReadWriteWeb Troys: One Twitter Script to Rule Them All  — Over the past year, all the major tech blogs have done round-up articles of great Greasemonkey scripts to use with Twitter ( including us ). What t...

Bill Gossman is social network hi5's new chief executive Posted: 24 Apr 2009 10:37 AM PDT VentureBeat / Venturebeat Bill Gossman is social network hi5's new chief executive  — Bill Gossman, a serial entrepreneur who most recently was the chief executive of Revenue Science, is now the new CEO of social network hi5. More co...

Ask HN: Do you like reading about startups more than doing one? Posted: 24 Apr 2009 07:23 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / NewsYcombinator Ask HN: Do you like reading about startups more than doing one?  —

Ask HN: Learning to tune a database Posted: 24 Apr 2009 07:23 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / NewsYcombinator Ask HN: Learning to tune a database  —

Spider "Resurrections" Take Scientists by Surprise Posted: 24 Apr 2009 07:23 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / Nationalgeographic Spider "Resurrections" Take Scientists by Surprise  —

Communism and IT Posted: 24 Apr 2009 07:03 PM PDT RedditTechnologyUpcoming / 7412577132 Communism and IT  —

Google's New "What's Popular" Feature Aims to Clone Digg Posted: 24 Apr 2009 07:03 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / Micropersuasion Google's New "What's Popular" Feature Aims to Clone Digg  —

Reporter's notes: Cloud Computing conference Posted: 24 Apr 2009 07:00 PM PDT CNETNews.com / CNETNews Reporter's notes: Cloud Computing conference  — The Under the Radar: Cloud Computing conference was abuzz with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. Is this where the startup money is gathering?

How would you change Nokia's 5800 XpressMusic? Posted: 24 Apr 2009 06:52 PM PDT Engadget / Engadget How would you change Nokia's 5800 XpressMusic?  —  Nokia's first ever full touchscreen S60 phone has had quite the bumpy ride into reality. After launching here in North America, it was on the rec...

Sports Business: Actor Remembers Announcer Who Shared Struggle Posted: 24 Apr 2009 06:45 PM PDT NYTimesMedia / NYTimes Sports Business: Actor Remembers Announcer Who Shared Struggle  — At the taping of a public service announcement to raise awareness of Parkinson's disease, Michael J. Fox and Joe Buck remembered Buck's father, Jack.

Whole House Softeners, and UV Sterilizers Posted: 24 Apr 2009 06:43 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / Isopurewater Whole House Softeners, and UV Sterilizers  —

The content-based image retrieval problem Posted: 24 Apr 2009 06:43 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / Papersincomputerscience The content-based image retrieval problem  —

A Vision For a World Free of CAPTCHAs Posted: 24 Apr 2009 06:30 PM PDT Slashdot / Slashdot A Vision For a World Free of CAPTCHAs  — An anonymous reader writes "Slate argues that we're going about verifying humans on the Web all wrong: 'As Alan Turing laid out in the 1950 paper t...

jkOnTheRun on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Posted: 24 Apr 2009 06:24 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Jkontherun jkOnTheRun on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope  —  Has Ubuntu Quietly Caught Up To Windows? "Kevin C. Tofel says: Wow. Right after the install and first boot, I connected to WiFi with no problem. I...

Ask HN: Best keyboard for programmers? Posted: 24 Apr 2009 06:23 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / NewsYcombinator Ask HN: Best keyboard for programmers?  —

1 Million Google Android Phones sold by T-Mobile Posted: 24 Apr 2009 06:03 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Tgdaily 1 Million Google Android Phones sold by T-Mobile  —  "Hey iPhone, I'm coming... uh... soon..." (Gadgets)

Vyatta Posted: 24 Apr 2009 06:03 PM PDT RedditTechnologyUpcoming / L2admin Vyatta  —

On Bots Posted: 24 Apr 2009 06:03 PM PDT HackerNews / Drunkmenworkhere On Bots  —

DPI reading your data is a privacy issue and congress should block it. But didn't we already decide gmail was OK since it's only machines analysing our email? Posted: 24 Apr 2009 05:28 PM PDT RedditTechnology / Arstechnica DPI reading your data is a privacy issue and congress should block it. But didn't we already decide gmail was OK since it's only machines analysing our email?  —

Linux : Benchmarked: Firefox 3.5 beta 4 Posted: 24 Apr 2009 05:24 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Tuxradar Linux : Benchmarked: Firefox 3.5 beta 4  —  Previously we've told you that Firefox performance on Linux sucks, and, worse, that even Windows Firefox running on Wine is faster than Linux Fire...

The New Yorker on mind hacks Posted: 24 Apr 2009 05:23 PM PDT HackerNews / Radian The New Yorker on mind hacks  —

Dissecting Today's Internet Traffic Spikes Posted: 24 Apr 2009 05:23 PM PDT HackerNews / Omniti Dissecting Today's Internet Traffic Spikes  —

What is Firefox iMacros? Good question... Posted: 24 Apr 2009 05:04 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Need-to-get-someBlogspot What is Firefox iMacros? Good question...  —  You either love this or you hate it (Gadgets)

Quake Engine source code review Posted: 24 Apr 2009 05:03 PM PDT HackerNews / Fabiensanglard Quake Engine source code review  —

Classification of the principal programming paradigms Posted: 24 Apr 2009 05:03 PM PDT HackerNews / AcBe Classification of the principal programming paradigms  —

The Two Strategies to Find Scoops and Break News Posted: 24 Apr 2009 04:48 PM PDT MixxTechnology / Dailyblogtips The Two Strategies to Find Scoops and Break News  — Publishing scoops and breaking news on your blog or website is certainly one of the most effective ways to attract traffic and back links. If the n...

Cringely on Sun's acquistion by Oracle Posted: 24 Apr 2009 04:48 PM PDT Twitter / Cringely Cringely on Sun's acquistion by Oracle  —

The story behind the rise and fall of America's master math teacher Posted: 24 Apr 2009 04:43 PM PDT HackerNews / Reason The story behind the rise and fall of America's master math teacher  —

ChicagoCon 2009 Final Schedule for May 8 Posted: 24 Apr 2009 04:04 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Chicagocon ChicagoCon 2009 Final Schedule for May 8  —  Awesome lineup for a small, regional con including keynotes, talks, free career counseling, CtF, lock picking, 2 meals, live podcast with Exotic L...

Should We Assume All Social Media is Paid? CenterNetworks Posted: 24 Apr 2009 03:48 PM PDT Twitter / Centernetworks Should We Assume All Social Media is Paid? CenterNetworks  —

Physics and Entrepreneurism Posted: 24 Apr 2009 03:43 PM PDT HackerNews / Stephenwolfram Physics and Entrepreneurism   —

Call for comments on most stressful decisions of your startup experience Posted: 24 Apr 2009 03:23 PM PDT HackerNews / K9ventures Call for comments on most stressful decisions of your startup experience  —

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