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Cosmopolitan Teaches Girls How to Break DRM & Pirate Music

I have new respect for this magazine.

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Internet fraud has taken a sinister new turn

Organised crime has identified the web as a goldmine – providing opportunities to launch cyber attacks that will earn large amounts of money at a relatively low risk. Learn more.

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Software Notebook: This Dream Home comes with a Mouse

The Dream Home is a modern-day sequel to the Monsanto House of the Future, a Disneyland attraction from 1957 to 1967. The new Dream Home project, in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland, includes some futuristic technology concepts, like its predecessor. Microsoft Surface computers are currently being deployed in commercial settings, so that scenario is

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XP era ends: Will Vista step up?

The Windows XP era ends June 30 and soon hardware vendors will be shipping you all Vista all the time (in most cases). The save XP effort failed. The whining should cease. And now it
’s time for Vista to sink or swim. Ina Fried has a good overview of where Windows XP will stand with PC manufacturers. And Matt Asay highlights a report from Evans Data

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What We’ll Miss About Bill Gates — A Very Long Good-Bye

Bill Gates, we’ll miss you. Not just because you’re the ultimate geek-villain-pioneer-entrepreneur-monopolist.But because you’ve always been there for us.To love. To hate. To envy. To pick on. So this month, your last as a full-time Microsoft employee, we realized it was only right and proper to look back on your storied career.

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Why You Should Download Firefox 3 Right Now

Firefox 3 — available for download at 10am PDT Tuesday — is the culmination of a two-year quest to build the best browser ever. And while it’s not perfect, it comes pretty close.

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Google Street View Car Gets Pulled over by U.S. Park Police

It appears that a mounted member of the United States Park Police briefly detained a Google Maps camera car for some sort of driving infraction this morning.

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NVIDIA’s New GeForce 9600 GT is a WINNER for Many

The new GeForce 9600 GT is poised to deliver high performance for under $200. We take the new BFGTech GeForce 9600 GT OC for a spin in Crysis, COD 4, and UT3 to test its mettle. Is your hard earned cash better spent on a Radeon HD 3850, Radeon HD 3870, or GeForce 8800 GT. Just how far under $200 will this card go is the key to its success!

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[PICS] The Sad Final Days of a CompUSA

It’s always sad when a store you used to frequent goes out of business, how about when that store used to mark up its prices like mad? Things become slightly less sad. Nevertheless, this desolate scene at a Portland CompUSA definitely brings a slight tear to our eye

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MetaRAM quadruples DDR2 DIMM capacities, launches 8GB DIMMs

No, MetaRAM is not a modern-day version of “Memory Doubler” from the DOS days. Instead, the new fabless semi company has some hardware tricks up its sleeve that let it massively increase DDR2 DIMM capacities.

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