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| Google, AOL Widen Alliance | Thu, Sep 2 12:00 PM |
| Google and AOL agreed to extend their search partnership for five years and expanded their pact into mobile search and online video. | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| Ping Could Be Apple's Social Networking Backdoor? | Thu, Sep 2 11:47 AM |
| rsmiller510 writes "Could Apple's announcement about Ping, a music-based social network be Apple's social networking trojan horse? Facebook might want to be concerned." Of course it is. Jamie points out this post on Daring Fireball, according to which Steve Jobs blames the non-integration on "onerous terms" suggested by Facebook.  
Read more of this story at Slashdot. 
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| AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do | Thu, Sep 2 11:47 AM |
| pickens writes "David Pogue writes in the NY Times that when you buy a new Windows PC, it comes festooned with stickers on the palm rests: one for Windows, one for Skype, one for Intel, one for the laptop company, maybe an Energy Star sticker and so on. 'It's like buying a new, luxury car — and discovering that it comes with non-removable bumper stickers that promote the motor oil, the floor mat maker, the windshield-fluid company and the pine tree air freshener you have no intention of ever using,' writes Pogue. But the worst thing is that when you peel them off, they shred, leaving adhesive crud behind. 'When you've just spent big bucks on a laptop, should you really be obligated to spend the first 20 minutes trying to dissolve away the sticker goop with WD40?' But AMD has a solution. Starting next year, AMD will switch to new stickers that peel off easily, leaving no residue; after that, it's considering eliminating the sticker program altogether." Read more of this story at Slashdot. 
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| Factbox: U.S. Energy Disasters in 2010
(Reuters)
| Thu, Sep 2 11:32 AM |
| Reuters - Energy production and distribution in the United States can be a dangerous pursuit, in spite of strict safety regulations for oil, gas and coal producers and processors. | Yahoo! News: Science News |
| New German Government ID Hacked By CCC | Thu, Sep 2 11:32 AM |
| wiedzmin writes "Public broadcaster ARD's show 'Plusminus' teamed up with the known hacker organization 'Chaos Computer Club' (CCC) to find out how secure the controversial new radio-frequency (RFID) chips were. The report shows how they used the basic new home scanners that will go along with the cards (for use with home computers to process the personal data for official government business) to demonstrate that scammers would have few problems extracting personal information. This includes two fingerprint scans and a new six-digit PIN meant to be used as a digital signature for official government business and beyond." That was quick. Earlier this year, CCC hackers demonstrated vulnerabilities in German airport IDs, too. Read more of this story at Slashdot. 
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| Mass Extinction Threat: Earth on Verge of Huge Reset Button?
(LiveScience.com)
| Thu, Sep 2 11:30 AM |
| LiveScience.com - Mass extinctions have served as huge reset buttons that dramatically
changed the diversity of species found in oceans all over the world, according
to a comprehensive study of fossil records. The findings suggest humans will
live in a very different future if they drive animals to extinction, because
the loss of each species can alter entire ecosystems. | Yahoo! News: Science News |
| The mystery of the disappearing Facebook-Ping integration | Thu, Sep 2 11:12 AM |
| On Wednesday, Apple said users of its music social network could find friends via Facebook. But the feature has vanished, apparently over a tiff between the companies. | CNET News.com |
| New AOL search deal with Google includes mobile
(AP)
| Thu, Sep 2 11:08 AM |
 AP - Google Inc. will continue to provide the search results on AOL Inc.'s websites under a new, five-year deal the companies signed this week.
| Yahoo! News: Technology News |
| Dell Pulls Out of 3PAR Bidding War With H-P | Thu, Sep 2 11:01 AM |
| Dell said it will pull out of the bidding war for 3PAR after rival Hewlett-Packard raised its offer for the data-storage company yet again to $33 a share, or roughly $2.1 billion. | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| Hands-on with iTunes Ping, sans Facebook Connect | Thu, Sep 2 10:59 AM |
Because we all need another social network in our lives, Apple introduced "Ping" as part of iTunes 10 during its big media event this week. Described by Steve Jobs as "Twitter and Facebook meet iTunes," Ping aims to let the already-existing (and quite massive) audience of iTunes users friend each other, stay up-to-date on their friends' musical tastes, and like/comment on things found around iTunes.
Getting started with Ping is fairly easy, although it takes some time to figure out how to do all the things you would want to do with the service. Ping requires iTunes 10 and is not turned on by default—it looks as if Apple is trying to head off complaints about privacy by making users turn it on themselves. Once you install iTunes 10, you can click on "Ping" in the everything-is-now-gray left-hand sidebar to get started.
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 | Ars Technica |
| NASA launches iPad application
(AFP)
| Thu, Sep 2 10:57 AM |
 AFP - NASA has landed on the iPad.
| Yahoo! News: Technology News |
| Nations meet on climate cash, U.N. sees long haul
(Reuters)
| Thu, Sep 2 10:56 AM |
 Reuters - About 45 nations met on Thursday to seek ways to raise billions of dollars in aid to help the poor combat climate change as the United Nations warned them of a long haul to slow global warming.
| Yahoo! News: Science News |
| Survey: E-mail eats up your time off | Thu, Sep 2 10:51 AM |
| Outlook add-in maker Xobni finds Americans and Britons are having trouble getting away from the workplace because of the reach e-mail has into their lives. | CNET News.com |
| Facebook Post Juror Gets Fined, Removed, Assigned Homework | Thu, Sep 2 10:36 AM |
| eldavojohn writes "A Michigan judge removed a juror after a Facebook comment and also fined her $250 and required her to write a five-page paper about the constitutional right to a fair trial. The juror was 'very sorry' and the judge chastised her, saying, 'You violated your oath. You had decided she was already guilty without hearing the other side.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot. 
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| Focus EV to use liquid thermal battery control | Thu, Sep 2 10:35 AM |
| Car will take its battery pack temperature, then automatically cool or warm it to optimal temperature range before charging or engaging the battery. | CNET News.com |
| Motor City getting in on electric fever | Thu, Sep 2 10:28 AM |
| Coulomb Technologies installs free public electric-charging station in downtown Detroit as part of ChargePoint America program to encourage EV adoption. | CNET News.com |
| Nigerian scam tops list of decade's online cons | Thu, Sep 2 10:16 AM |
| Notices of winning the lottery and requests from Russian women who want to know you better are also up there on Panda Security's ranking of decade's top Net swindles. | CNET News.com |
| Chinese Tech Firms Plan More Android Devices | Thu, Sep 2 10:13 AM |
| ZTE and Huawei Technologies, China's two biggest telecommunications hardware makers, said they will offer new mobile devices that use Google's Android operating system, with ZTE planning a tablet computer. | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| PSP Go straightens tie, knocks on death's door | Thu, Sep 2 10:08 AM |
Playing games on the PSP Go was one of the most annoying experiences possible in a job that can be full of annoying experiences; if it takes you hours to play a game on a portable system out of the box there is something tragically wrong with your product. After only a year on the market, it looks like Sony's experiment in digital distribution is on its last legs.
Finding any sort of sales information on the system for the US has been difficult, although Media Create does track the hardware sales for Japan... and its performance has been abysmal. The PSP has long come in last place in the US sales numbers, and breaking that number down between the PSP and PSP Go doesn't give Sony the possibility of a happy ending.
We called a local GameStop to see what they were offering for trade-in credit on the hardware. Even though you can still buy the PSP Go for $250, the trade-in value was only $50. Just to rub salt in the wound, the latest model of the standard PSP will get you $80 in trade-in credit, and is eligible for a $20 promotional bump. The PSP Go is specifically exempt from that offer.
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep is coming to the PSP on September 7 and should be one of the platform's largest releases this year. The bad news? Square Enix currently has no plans to release the game on the PlayStation Network; the company doesn't seem to care about missing out on digital sales, which means PSP Go owners will not be able to play the game. Sony leaves decisions about digital sales up to the publishers, and there is no way to tell in advance whether a game will be made available to Go owners.
There's nothing wrong with the idea of a gaming system with no physical media—Apple seems to be doing just fine in the gaming space without requiring carts or discs—but Sony's implementation has been disastrous. It may be a while before any company has the gonads to step up and take another crack at the idea.
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| Cisco Planning To Acquire Skype | Thu, Sep 2 10:04 AM |
| rexjoec writes "Cisco is making a bid for Skype. The deal, if successful, would derail a planned initial public offering from Skype and redraw the battle lines in the lucrative market of video communications." The rumored price is $5B. Read more of this story at Slashdot. 
 | Slashdot |
| Space Luminaries Petition Against House Version of NASA Bill
(SPACE.com)
| Thu, Sep 2 10:00 AM |
| SPACE.com - NASA needs more funding for commercial spaceflight,
technology development and robotic missions. So said a group of Nobel
laureates, former astronauts and former space agency officials in a recent letter
to Congress. | Yahoo! News: Science News |
| India wants local servers from RIM, Google, Skype | Thu, Sep 2 09:45 AM |
| India plans to ask the three companies to set up local servers in the country so that security agencies can monitor customer communications. | CNET News.com |
| AP Interview: UN telecoms chief urges data sharing
(AP)
| Thu, Sep 2 09:40 AM |
 AP - BlackBerry's Canadian manufacturer should give law enforcement agencies around the world access to its customer data, the U.N. telecommunications chief said, adding that governments have legitimate security concerns that should not be ignored.
| Yahoo! News: Technology News |
| Samsung fires first Android-powered salvo at iPad with Galaxy Tab | Thu, Sep 2 09:30 AM |
Apple became the biggest fish in the very small touchscreen tablet pond when it launched the iPad this past spring. But more fish will arrive starting mid-month when Samsung launches its Galaxy Tab mobile device in Europe (US and Asia will get it "in the coming months"). After being rumored and teased for weeks, Samsung officially unveiled its entry into the burgeoning market at the IFA show in Germany on Thursday.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab is a 7" widescreen touch tablet powered by Android 2.2. The Tab will use the same TouchWiz UI used on Samsung's line of Galaxy S smartphones, which gives it a very iOS-like look and feel. Also following the iPad's lead, the device has a metal back, black bezel, bottom speakers, and even a 30-pin connector.
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 | Ars Technica |
| Another Gulf Oil Rig Explodes | Thu, Sep 2 09:25 AM |
| A few readers have noted that another gulf oil rig has exploded. This one is off the coast of Lousiana. So far all the workers are accounted for, but they are in immersion suits waiting for rescue. Read more of this story at Slashdot. 
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| Open Source PS3 Jailbreak Released | Thu, Sep 2 09:16 AM |
| tlhIngan writes "Despite all the lawsuits and injunctions by Sony to keep the PS3 Jailbreak out of modder's hands, it appears that a third party has made a clone. The best part is, it only requires a cheap (approximately $40) development board by Atmel, and the requisite software is open-source. Get the Atmel code from GitHub and apply a small patch which will enable backup play (the code by itself only lets you run unsigned code, the patch allows for BD backups). The code is GPLv3. It would be highly ironic if someone ported this to Linux USB Gadgets, then you could use a Linux device to jailbreak your PS3, to which Sony removed Linux functionality. An Android phone would be suitable." Read more of this story at Slashdot. 
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| Scammers using fake copyright infringement notices for profit | Thu, Sep 2 09:03 AM |
HADOPI, meet the internautes. The French "high authority" that oversees the country's three strikes anti-P2P file-sharing campaign is now being used by spammers and scammers who attempt to trick people out of their cash by accusing them of copyright violations.
The e-mails have appeared in recent days, purporting to come from France's Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des œuvres et la protection des droits sur Internet (HADOPI). This is the government group that will accept file-sharing complaints from movie and music rightsholders, then issue sanctions and fines to users, with Internet disconnection and blacklisting the ultimate penalty.
Scammers hope to capitalize on the publicity surrounding HADOPI, which has pledged to start sending out its first warning letters soon. The e-mails purport to come from HADOPI, charging that the recipient was detected sharing files, and they direct the user to website to make a payment.
"As expected, this is classic Internet," said HADOPI's Secretary General Éric Walter to Agence France Press yesterday. He advised recipients to exercise caution and not to turn over bank details or personal information.
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 | Ars Technica |
| AOL renews search deal with Google
(AFP)
| Thu, Sep 2 08:48 AM |
 AFP - Google will power Internet search across AOL properties and AOL video will appear on YouTube under an agreement reached on Thursday between the Web companies.
| Yahoo! News: Digital Video/TV Technology |
| All Apple news | Thu, Sep 2 08:41 AM |
| A new streaming Apple TV arrives with Netflix as predicted, iOS 4.1 comes with HDR photography and GameCenter, and new iPod Nanos drop the iconic clickwheel. | CNET News.com |
| Dell cedes data-storage maker 3Par to HP
(AP)
| Thu, Sep 2 08:30 AM |
 AP - Dell Inc. is walking away from a bidding contest with rival Hewlett-Packard Co. for data-storage maker 3Par Inc.
| Yahoo! News: Technology News |
| Feature: Compromising Twitter's OAuth security system | Thu, Sep 2 08:25 AM |
Twitter officially disabled Basic authentication this week, the final step in the company's transition to mandatory OAuth authentication. Sadly, Twitter's extremely poor implementation of the OAuth standard offers a textbook example of how to do it wrong. This article will explore some of the problems with Twitter's OAuth implementation and some potential pitfalls inherent to the standard. I will also show you how I managed to compromise the secret OAuth key in Twitter's very own official client application for Android.
OAuth is an emerging authentication standard that is being adopted by a growing number of social networking services. It defines a key exchange mechanism that allows users to grant a third-party application access to their account without having to provide that application with their credentials. It also allows users to selectively revoke an application's access to their account.
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 | Ars Technica |
| Google, Skype targeted in India security crackdown
(AP)
| Thu, Sep 2 08:00 AM |
 AP - India has widened its security crackdown, asking all companies that provide encrypted communications — not just BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion — to install servers in the country to make it easier for the government to obtain users' data. That would likely affect digital giants like Google and Skype.
| Yahoo! News: Technology News |
| Google and AOL renew their partnership | Thu, Sep 2 07:27 AM |
| The companies say they'll keep their worldwide partnership going for five more years, in an arrangement that now factors in YouTube and mobile search. | CNET News.com |
| UN: Climate funds shouldn't divert poverty aid
(AP)
| Thu, Sep 2 04:22 AM |
| AP - The U.N.'s climate chief says poor countries are right to expect that any funding they receive to combat global warming be kept separate from development aid or poverty relief. | Yahoo! News: Science News |
| Exclusive deals make 3D TV audience even smaller | Thu, Sep 2 04:00 AM |
| More and more sporting events are being broadcast in 3D, but exclusive distribution deals limit who can see what. | CNET News.com |
| Google to Power AOL Search for the Next 5 Years
(Mashable)
| Thu, Sep 2 03:56 AM |
| Mashable - Google and AOL have signed a deal that extends the search and advertising partnership between the two companies for another five years. The agreement also includes mobile search and adds a content sharing partnership with YouTube. | Yahoo! News: Digital Video/TV Technology |
| Samsung HMX-T10 Camcorder: Full HD with Comfort-Tilted Lens
(Digital Trends)
| Thu, Sep 2 03:52 AM |
| Digital Trends - Samsung Digital Imaging has announced its new HMX-T10 high-definition camcorder, which aims to put high-definition video shooting comfortably in consumers’ hands: the camcorder’s lens features a 20-degree tile so users can hold the unit more naturally while shooting video. | Yahoo! News: Digital Video/TV Technology |
| Google and AOL Ink Five-Year Search Deal
(Digital Trends)
| Thu, Sep 2 02:54 AM |
| Digital Trends - Internet giant Google and struggling online portal AOL have announced a new five-year deal that will see Google continue to provide search results for AOL’s network of content and services; however, the new deal will be expanded to include mobile search capabilities and YouTube. | Yahoo! News: Digital Video/TV Technology |
| Apple Tries Again at TV | Wed, Sep 1 11:42 PM |
| Apple is making another push to bring Internet-delivered TV to the living room, but CEO Steve Jobs's plan to offer 99-cent TV-show rentals is getting limited support from media companies. | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| Sony Set to Compete with iTunes | Wed, Sep 1 06:56 PM |
| Sony announced a new digital-music service that would work on Internet-connected Sony TVs, Blu-ray disc players, and PlayStation 3's, entering a competitive space dominated by Apple. | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| FCC Still Weighing Broadband Plan | Wed, Sep 1 06:35 PM |
| The FCC is still considering a proposal to re-regulate broadband access under rules designed for telephone service, contrary to speculation that the agency had abandoned the effort in the face of industry opposition. | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| Thanks to high-tech, storm track easier to predict
(AP)
| Wed, Sep 1 06:12 PM |
 AP - Sophisticated computer models that replaced instinct with cold, hard math have helped forecasters predict where a storm like Hurricane Earl is going about twice as accurately as 20 years ago.
| Yahoo! News: Science News |
| Amazon Cuts Some TV Shows to 99 Cents | Wed, Sep 1 06:02 PM |
| Amazon.com cut the price on some downloaded TV shows to 99 cents from $2.99 in the wake of Apple's announcement it will begin streaming some shows for 99 cents. | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| New Apple TV: Living Room as Tech Battleground
(PC World)
| Wed, Sep 1 04:20 PM |
| PC World - Todayâs unveiling of a smaller, cheaper Apple TV set-top box is the latest in a long line of tech industry efforts to conquer the living room. Recent reports and rumors have Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Sony all developing low-cost entertainment devices that would stream entertainment bitsâmovies, TV shows, music, photos, and so onâfrom the Internet to your HDTV. | Yahoo! News: Digital Video/TV Technology |
| Apple Seeks Its First Apple TV Success With New $99 Device, 99-Cent Rentals
(Investor's Business Daily)
| Wed, Sep 1 04:13 PM |
| Investor's Business Daily - Apple (NMS:AAPL) — after big success with computers, phones and music players — is taking another swing at its hobby, the tough-to-crack market for providing streaming video content to TVs. | Yahoo! News: Digital Video/TV Technology |
| iTunes song-sample plan runs into music publishers | Wed, Sep 1 02:56 PM |
| Trade group approaches Apple on the eve of Wednesday's media event to inform company publishing rights must be secured first. | CNET News.com |
| Gambling app coming to BlackBerry OS | Wed, Sep 1 01:41 PM |
| A new application from a Vegas company is making its way to BlackBerry devices to provide users with free gambling functionality. | CNET News.com |
| Welcome to the social, Apple | Wed, Sep 1 11:38 AM |
| The Ping social-music feature in iTunes 10 is what Microsoft imagined when it launched the Zune with one critical difference: an addressable user base of more than 100 million. | CNET News.com |
| Target to be first to sell Facebook Credits | Wed, Sep 1 11:07 AM |
| The megaretailer plans to sell $15, $25, and $50 Credits cards in its brick-and-mortar stores and on its site, the company announces. Sales will start on Sunday. | CNET News.com |
| Panasonic Unveils 3D Camcorder, Blu-ray Home Theater Systems
(PC Magazine)
| Wed, Sep 1 09:56 AM |
| PC Magazine - Panasonic on Wednesday unveiled a new consumer-friendly 3D camcorder, and two new Blu-ray home theater systems. | Yahoo! News: Digital Video/TV Technology |
| Windows 7 continues to gain ground on Vista | Wed, Sep 1 09:39 AM |
| Usage of Microsoft's Windows 7 outpaces that of Vista for the second month, though XP remains the dominant operating system, Net Applications says. | CNET News.com |
| Research supports longer iTunes song samples | Wed, Sep 1 08:02 AM |
| Two researchers reported that the sweet spot for digital music sampling is around 60 seconds. Apple is expected to boost length of iTunes samples to possibly 90 seconds. | CNET News.com |
| Famed Tasmanian devil euthanized after tumor found
(AP)
| Wed, Sep 1 12:44 AM |
 AP - A Tasmanian devil named Cedric, once thought to be immune to a contagious facial cancer threatening the iconic creatures with extinction, has been euthanized after succumbing to the disease, researchers said Wednesday.
| Yahoo! News: Science News |
| Report: FCC close to finalizing white space rules | Tue, Aug 31 01:36 PM |
| Wall Street Journal reports the commission has been meeting with TV broadcasters, others to finally hammer out details for opening up unused spectrum for unlicensed use. | CNET News.com |
| Why Skype is perfect for Cisco | Mon, Aug 30 05:47 PM |
| Skype and Cisco Systems could be a match made in heaven. Cisco is reportedly courting Skype, which plans to go public sometime this fall. | CNET News.com |
| Is Cisco chatting up Skype? | Mon, Aug 30 01:10 PM |
| TechCrunch reports that it has heard a rumor that Cisco Systems has made a bid to buy the company's voice over Internet Protocol service. | CNET News.com |
| Able to unplug from work while you’re on vacation?
(Ben Patterson)
| Mon, Aug 30 12:19 PM |
| Ben Patterson - Fighting the urge to check your work e-mail while you’re on holiday doesn’t exactly qualify as the worst problem in the world; after all, it’s pretty nice to have a job at all in this tough economy, right? Then again, the pressure to hang onto a job seems to be driving more and more connected workers to stay plugged in even while they’re trying to tune out. | Yahoo! News: Technology News |
| Samsung ships 1 million Galaxy S smartphones | Mon, Aug 30 10:14 AM |
| Company reaches a milestone in about six weeks with this line of Android-based smartphones, which have been available via AT&T and T-Mobile. Sprint is up next. | CNET News.com |
| Mobile users still wary of being found, survey says
(Ben Patterson)
| Mon, Aug 30 08:58 AM |
| Ben Patterson - Feel the need to "check in" on Foursquare or Facebook every time you saunter into a restaurant, browse the goods at your neighborhood grocery store, or cram into a rock concert? Well, if you, you’re still in the minority — and you’re also probably a guy below 40 — according to the latest research. | Yahoo! News: Technology News |
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| Fujitsu ScanSnap Counts Quality Over Quantity | Thu, Sep 2 11:33 AM |
| Fujitsu's scanner is your new (albeit bulky) buddy if you want high-quality images. The sturdy document feeder gets pages in straight, so you get them out right.
 | Wired Top Stories |
| String Theory Finally Does Something Useful | Thu, Sep 2 11:00 AM |
| String theory has finally made a prediction that can be tested with experiments — but in a completely unexpected realm of physics: quantum entanglement.
 | Wired Top Stories |
| Ancient Nubians Made Antibiotic Beer | Thu, Sep 2 10:30 AM |
| Chemical analysis of the bones of an ancient Sudanese Nubians who lived nearly 2,000 years ago shows they were ingesting the antibiotic tetracycline on a regular basis — likely from a special brew of beer. The find is the strongest yet to support that antibiotics were previously discovered by humans before Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928.
 | Wired Top Stories |
| Samsung Introduces Its 7-Inch Tablet to Rival iPad | Thu, Sep 2 10:06 AM |
| Samsung has announced the launch of a tablet that could become the first major Android-powered challenger to the Apple iPad.
 | Wired Top Stories |
| 'Earth One' Reboots Superman's Roots for the iGeneration | Thu, Sep 2 10:00 AM |
| Superman is a surly noob searching for reality in the digital age in J. Michael Straczynski and Shane Davis' update of the superhero's origin story. Who knew the Man of Steel would miss the musty Daily Planet more than the rest of us?
 | Wired Top Stories |
| Vets Get Ecstacy to Treat Post-Traumatic Stress | Thu, Sep 2 04:00 AM |
| Two psychiatric experts think the way to treat troops returning home with PTSD: Have them
undergo intensive psychotherapy while they're rolling on ecstasy.
 | Wired Top Stories |
| Sept. 2, 1969: First U.S. ATM Starts Doling Out Dollars | Thu, Sep 2 04:00 AM |
| Six weeks after landing men on the moon, Americans take another giant leap for mankind with the nation’s first cash-spewing, automated teller machine.
 | Wired Top Stories |
| FaceTime Lets You Share Your Point of View | Thu, Sep 2 04:00 AM |
| Video calls aren't for people to see you — they're for people to see what you see.
 | Wired Top Stories |
| Electric Kettles Are Steeped in the Future | Thu, Sep 2 04:00 AM |
| Blazing fast (four minutes and nine seconds!), streamlined and full of highlights, Cuisinart's PerfecTemp puts its kettle competition to shame.
 | Wired Top Stories |
| Blackjack Whiz Riffs on Fantasy Sports, Statgeeks and Yahoo | Thu, Sep 2 04:00 AM |
| A Q&A with Jeff Ma, the former leader of the infamous MIT Blackjack Team that took Vegas for millions in the mid-'90s. Now a successful entrepreneur and author, Ma talks about his love of fantasy sports, selling his company Citizen Sports to Yahoo (and why he didn't join them), and how young statgeeks can make their way in a sports industry dominated by traditionalists.
 | Wired Top Stories |
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