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From the Tips Box: Siri Pronunciation, Facebook Likes, and Speaker Cables [From The Tips Box]
09 hours ago
Readers offer their best tips for getting Siri to understand complicated names, liking articles on Facebook, and swapping the position of your speakers. More »
Lenovo Ordered To Refund ‘Microsoft Tax’
010 hours ago
angry tapir writes with an excerpt from an article over at TechWorld: "A French laptop buyer has won a refund from Lenovo after a four-year legal battle over the cost of a Windows license he didn't want. The judgment could open the way for PC buyers elsewhere in Europe to obtain refunds for bundled software they don't want, according to French campaign group No More Racketware."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Lake Vostok drilling complete: Earth’s oldest super-clean water system reached – SlashGear
010 hours ago
![]() National Geographic | Lake Vostok drilling complete: Earth's oldest super-clean water system reached SlashGear On the first of this month it was reported that scientists were about to complete a 30 year drilling expedition to hit a 20-million-year-old lake: this week they've reached the surface. This body of water called Vostok is Antarctica's largest ... Russians "Close" to Drilling Into Antarctica's Lake Vostok Scientists cautious over Russia's Antarctic lake drilling Russian scientists seeking Lake Vostok lost in frozen 'Land of the Lost'? |
Hollywood’s Gentler Post-SOPA Strategy
010 hours ago
Wait, did they just say Hollywood is on "a charm offensive ?" Like that is going to fool anyone. You KNOW something is wrong when they are being nice to you.
Paramount Pictures sent letters last week to universities saying the company was "humbled" by last month's online protests that involved millions of Internet users--and that it now wants to "exchange ideas about content theft" and the best way to thwart it.
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Remains of the Day: Adobe Brings Flash Player Sandboxing to Firefox [For What It's Worth]
010 hours ago
by Jeremy Hoag
in Syndicated Sites
Adobe brings long awaited Flash sandboxing to Firefox, Facebook and Google back down from Indian courts, and longstanding torrent site BTJunkie closes up shop. More »











