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The First (Physical) Site of the Internet

Brad — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:41:12 +0000

Finding ARPANET: The First (Physical) Site of the Internet

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Why women quit technology careers

Brad — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:51:26 +0000

More than half of the women in science, engineering and IT leave the field at midcareer. Here’s the reason.

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Cosmopolitan Teaches Girls How to Break DRM & Pirate Music

Brad — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:48:32 +0000

I have new respect for this magazine.

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Internet fraud has taken a sinister new turn

Brad — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:47:56 +0000

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

Brad — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:47:14 +0000

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?

Brad — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:33:38 +0000

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

Brad — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:33:14 +0000

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

Brad — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:32:21 +0000

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

Brad — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:24:53 +0000

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

Brad — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:09:26 +0000

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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