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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:45:04 MST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[GoogleTV, AppleTV and the Battle For The Living Room]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=googletv-appletv-and-the-battle-for-the-living-room</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:45:04 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader pointed us to an article talking about Google TV and AppleTV challenging the major networks and taking their place in your living room. It'll be a tough battle, amusingly waged on cable company wires in many major markets. Read more of this story at Slashdot.<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rackspace Shuts Down Quran-Burning Church's Sites]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=rackspace-shuts-down-quran-burning-churchs-sites</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:15:04 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[theodp writes "In response to a complaint, Rackspace has shut down the websites of the Dove World Outreach Center, a small 50-member church which has received national and international criticism for a planned book burning of the Quran on the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. The center 'violated the hate-speech provision of our acceptable-use policy,' explained Rackspace spokesman Dan Goodgame. '<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[IOS 4.1 Jailbroken Already]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=ios-4-1-jailbroken-already</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:15:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[mspohr writes "Just hours after Apple released iOS 4.1 to great fanfare, hardware hackers found a way to jailbreak devices that run the new operating system. More surprising still, there doesn't appear to be anything Steve Jobs can do to stop them in the near future. The exploit in the boot ROM of iOS devices was first announced by iPhone Dev-Team member pod2g. It was soon confirmed by other hack<br/><br/>16 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Scientists Cut Greenland Ice Loss Estimate By Half]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=scientists-cut-greenland-ice-loss-estimate-by-half</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:45:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[bonch writes "A new study on Greenland's and West Antarctica's rate of ice loss halves the estimate of ice loss. Published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the study takes into account a rebounding of the Earth's crust called glacial isostatic adjustment, a continuing rise of the crust after being smashed under the weight of the Ice Age. 'We have concluded that the Greenland and West Antarctica <br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[DARPA Wants Extreme Wireless Interference Buster]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=darpa-wants-extreme-wireless-interference-buster</link>
<comments>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=darpa-wants-extreme-wireless-interference-buster</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:15:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[coondoggie writes "This month the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will begin looking for technology that will let wireless communications work through the most extreme interference. From the article: 'The CommEx program will assess next generation and beyond jamming threats and then develop advanced interference suppression and avoidance technologies to successfully communicate in the p<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Film Industry Hires Cyber Hitmen To Take Down Pirates]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=film-industry-hires-cyber-hitmen-to-take-down-pirates</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:15:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[thelostagency writes "Girish Kumar, managing director of Aiplex Software says his company is being hired by the film industry to attack online pirates. He says if a provider did not do anything to remove the link or content hosted on its site, his company would launch what is known as a denial-of-service (DoS) attack on the offending computer server. From the article: 'Kumar said that at the mome<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Real "Stuff White People Like"]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=the-real-stuff-white-people-like</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:45:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Here's an interesting and funny look at 526,000 OkCupid users, divided into groups by race and gender and all the the things each groups says it likes or is interested in. While it is far from being definitive, the groupings give a glimpse of what makes each culture unique. According to the results white men like nothing better than Tom Clancy, Van Halen, and golfing. Read more of this story at S<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Big Brother In the School Cafeteria?]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=big-brother-in-the-school-cafeteria</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:15:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[AustinSlacker writes "An Iowa school district's lunch program asks children as young as 5 years old to memorize a four-digit PIN code so it can monitor what they eat in the school cafeteria - prompting some parents to claim it's an unhealthy case of 'Big Brother.' An over reaction by parents or an unnecessary invasion of privacy?" Read more of this story at Slashdot.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Biometric IDs For All India's Citizens]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=biometric-ids-for-all-indias-citizens</link>
<comments>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=biometric-ids-for-all-indias-citizens</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:45:04 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[wiedzmin writes "This month, officials from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), armed with fingerprinting machines, iris scanners and cameras hooked to laptops, will fan out across the towns and villages of southern Andhra Pradesh state in the first phase of the project whose aim is to give every Indian a lifelong Unique ID (UID) number for 'anytime, anywhere' biometric authenti<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Viking Landers Might Have Missed Martian Organics]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=viking-landers-might-have-missed-martian-organics</link>
<comments>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=viking-landers-might-have-missed-martian-organics</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:15:04 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sonny Yatsen writes "A new study suggests that the Viking Landers might have found organic compounds on Mars, but failed to recognize them because of the methodology used to detect organics. The findings may suggest specific strategies that would improve on the way organic compounds are detected on the red planet." Read more of this story at Slashdot.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How 6 Memorable Tech Companies Got Their Names]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=how-6-memorable-tech-companies-got-their-names</link>
<comments>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=how-6-memorable-tech-companies-got-their-names</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:15:02 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[itwbennett writes "If Larry Page and Sergey Brin had stuck with the first name for their search engine, we'd be 'BackRubbing' instead of Googling. But the fun doesn't stop there. The unforgettable Go Daddy was first saddled with the eminently Seussian moniker 'Jomax Technologies.' And as for Yahoo!... its original name just rolled off the tongue: 'Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web.'" <br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Online Ads, Privacy Remain In FTC Crosshairs]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=online-ads-privacy-remain-in-ftc-crosshairs</link>
<comments>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=online-ads-privacy-remain-in-ftc-crosshairs</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:45:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[AC95 writes "The FTC wants to give users a browser-based tool for opting out of online behavioral tracking, a proposal that has privacy advocates cheering and online advertisers up in arms. A key issue, says FTC attorney Loretta Garrison, is that while most consumers know they're tracked online, they don't fully appreciate how much information is collected. Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reil<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Solar Cells Made From Bioluminescent Jellyfish]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=solar-cells-made-from-bioluminescent-jellyfish</link>
<comments>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=solar-cells-made-from-bioluminescent-jellyfish</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:15:02 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader writes "Swedish researchers have devised a way to turn bioluminescent jellyfish into solar cells. It works like this: the green fluorescent protein (GFP) that makes the Aequorea victoria glow is simply dripped onto a silicon dioxide substrate between two electrodes. The protein works itself into strands between the electrodes. When ultraviolet light is shined on the circuit, v<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Anti-Product Placement For Negative Branding]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=anti-product-placement-for-negative-branding</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:45:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader writes "Product placement to promote your brand just isn't enough any more. These days, apparently, some companies are resorting to anti-product placement in order to get competitors' products in the hands of 'anti-stars.' The key example being Snooki from Jersey Shore, who supposedly is being sent handbags by companies... but the bags being sent are of competitors' handbags a<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Suspends Gamer For Being From Fort Gay]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=microsoft-suspends-gamer-for-being-from-fort-gay</link>
<comments>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=microsoft-suspends-gamer-for-being-from-fort-gay</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:15:02 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[maclizard writes "The town's name is real. But when Josh Moore tried to tell Seattle-based Microsoft and the enforcement team at Xbox Live that Fort gay was a real place, they wouldn't take his word for it. Or Google it. Or check the U.S. Postal Service website for a ZIP code. I personally feel for those of you from Big Bone Lick, KY" Read more of this story at Slashdot.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[School Swaps Math Textbooks For iPads]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=school-swaps-math-textbooks-for-ipads</link>
<comments>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=school-swaps-math-textbooks-for-ipads</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:45:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[MexiCali59 writes "Four of California's largest school districts will be trying something new on eighth-grade algebra students this year: giving them iPads instead of textbooks. The devices come pre-loaded with a digital version of the text, allowing students to view teaching videos, receive homework assistance and input assignment all without picking up a pen or paper. If the students with iPads<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Narcissists, Insecure People Flock To Facebook]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=narcissists-insecure-people-flock-to-facebook</link>
<comments>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=narcissists-insecure-people-flock-to-facebook</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:45:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Meshach writes "A study out of Canada claims that Facebook is a magnet for narcissists and people with low self-esteem. The theory is that these people use the site as a means of self promotion or to feel important." Read more of this story at Slashdot.<br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Lo-Fi Phones and the Future]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=lo-fi-phones-and-the-future</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:15:12 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[bossanovalithium writes "Back in 1936 &mdash; 74 years ago &mdash; boffins accepted that about 3.3Khz was the accepted frequency that telephone calls are going to run on and it's been like that, generally, ever since. Call quality is reasonable but leaves a lot to be desired. Think calls from Skype to Skype where quality is often crystal clear." It's crazy to me that (for people with decent mics <br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Instant Announced]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=google-instant-announced</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:45:03 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[GCPSoft writes with this quote from a Google announcement: "Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type. We are pushing the limits of our technology and infrastructure to help you get better search results, faster. Our key technical insight was that people type slowly, but read quickly, typically taking 300 milliseconds between keystrokes, but only 30 milliseconds (a<br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cooking For Geeks]]></title>
<link>http://tekkrap.com/story.php?title=cooking-for-geeks</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:15:05 MST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[jsuda writes "You've got to have a lot of confidence and nerve to write and try to sell a nearly 400 page book on cooking to the take-out pizza and cola set. No cookbook is likely to turn many geeks into chefs or take them away from their computer screens. However, even though Cooking for Geeks contains a large number of recipes, it is not a conventional cookbook but a scientific explanation of t<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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