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Google Launches Lively, Virtual World Across Social Networks
mashable.com — Google has just launched Lively, a new social network built around the concept of each user creating an avatar and a personal virtual room that can be embedded anywhere on the Web.More… (Tech Industry News)
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Nvidia supports PhysX effort on ATI Radeon
tgdaily.com — You gotta love this industry. 12 days ago, we reported about a website making progress in getting Nvidia’s CUDA platform and PhysX to run on ATI Radeon cards. Here is an update to a fascinating story that may soon bring PhysX support to your Radeon graphics card. More… (Tech Industry News)
stresslifeBank of America to support Firefox, finally
networkworld.com — What? Bank of America doesn't already support Firefox? No, at least not officially. Mozilla calls the situation "pretty unusual" when talking about "most major Web sites, and certainly major banks." BoA says it will be adding Firefox to its list of officially approved browsers soon, although even that promise remains somewhat vague.More… (Tech Industry News)
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US Pirate Party Study Shatters MPAA Claims
torrentfreak.com — While the Pirate Party might be well known in Sweden, and heard of elsewhere around Europe, it’s not really taken off in the country that prides itself as being ‘the land of the free’. Unperturbed, the US Pirate Party has soldiered on and with the preliminary release of data from it’s first study, it’s hitting back at the media lobbyists.More… (Tech Industry News)
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11 Powerful Firefox 3 Add-ons to Replace Standalone Apps
jasonbartholme.com — Firefox add-on developers have created some impressive applications that can replace larger, bloated programs. These add-ons can help if you have a small amount of precious hard drive space or you are on a tight budget and don’t have cash to fork out for applications.More… (Tech Industry News)
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Pirate Bay Cop Not to be Investigated
torrentfreak.com — The Pirate Bay, often attacked by the Swedish establishment, but never beaten. However, their faith in the judicial system has plummeted after prosecutors have stated that Jim Keyzer, a police official investigating the Pirate Bay, has done no wrong by working for Warner at the same time.More… (Tech Industry News)
FameMoneyDigg's Recommendation System: More Details on How it Works
technologyreview.com — To keep recommendations from being all over the map, the system calculates connections for each topic separately, so that two users who share an interest in video games won't be thought to have, say, like opinions on political stories. To keep recommendations diverse, the system shows only a certain number of stories from each compatible user.More… (Tech Industry News)
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MrBabyManThe Web As We Know It... Right Now
0at.org — Great illustration deatiling the current state of the web...More… (Tech Industry News)
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In the Future You Will Control Machines With Your Mind
popularmechanics.com — When you link the brain to a device, it could allow scaling in force and time—things that, today, your body can’t do. For sci-fi fans, the implications don’t need spelling out: prosthetics that are faster & stronger than normal limbs, with the same level of control as flesh-and-blood. The recent animal-robot trials are just the beginning. More… (Tech Industry News)
Bell's internet throttling illegal, Google says
cbc.ca — Google Inc. says Bell Canada Inc. is breaking Canadian telecommunications law by slowing certain internet traffic, and is urging the CRTC to take action against the company.More… (Tech Industry News)
FallOutBoyTontoHow Reddit is Flirting With The Future of Social News
readwriteweb.com — Here's a look at why the idea of a social news site front page that is newspaper-like and presents information in reverse chronological presentation has to change - and how Reddit is flirting with the answer.More… (Tech Industry News)
How Digg Optimizes Its Web Site for Huge Traffic
sysmannews.com — Digg site admin Ron Gorodetzky discusses how Digg has optimized its architecture to handle 26 million unique visitors a month. Database management is the key, and those thumbnails are a bigger challenge than you might expect. More… (Tech Industry News)
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U.S Military Weapon Will Microwave Scream Inside Your Skull
blog.wired.com — The U.S. military bankrolls early development of a non-lethal microwave weapon that creates sound inside your head. But in the end, the gadget may be just as likely to wind up in shopping malls as on battlefields.More… (Tech Industry News)
Web 3.0 - Could it unseat Internet giants like Google?
dailygalaxy.com — Microsoft's acquisition of Powerset signals the building of a future when the world could have access to virtual “software agents” who “roam” across the Web, taking care of the day-to-day hassles of humankind. It's called a "Semantic Web" and it really could change the Internet at a fundamental level.More… (Tech Industry News)
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