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MojoKid writes “As it turns out, news this week is that the same features that made IE9’s hardware-acceleration possible probably aren’t compatible with Windows XP. Microsoft initially dodged giving a straight answer to the question of XP support but has since admitted that the new browser won’t be XP-compatible when it launches. This has created [...]

Buy and read e-books in OS X

Amazon has rolled out the Mac version of its Kindle-on-a-computer application, and it’s open to e-book buyers in the UK.…

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Popular Science, in partnership with Google, just put its 137-year archive online, for free. You can’t yet browse by issue; rather, the entry point is a keyword search box. But yes, the ads are all there too. At left, Chatroulette, er, I mean “You See Your Party On New Video Phone” (September, 1950). Ah, [...]

The newest model in the Fujitsu LifeBook U series of mini notebooks is the UH900, a lightweight clamshell device with a high-resolution 5.6″ multitouch display, Windows 7, Intel Atom processor, 2GB of RAM, and very fast SSD. While decently configured in the US with a 1.6GHz CPU and integrated GPS, the Japanese versions of the [...]

Linux is the operating system of choice for devices with ARM processors. Unfortunately problems with graphics appear in most cases. Ubuntu wants to fix this with a new GUI.

No matter if a smartphone, smart netbook or embedded device, most hardware with an ARM CPU is currently running Linux. It’s natural that Ubuntu therefore wants a [...]

You should by now be well aware that there’s no shortage of games one can play on one’s beloved Droid, but just for the FPS old schoolers out there, how’s about a nice Quake 3 port to pass the time with? Yup, the game that defined the term multiplayer before World of Warcraft came around [...]

Ice shelves are retreating in the southern section of the Antarctic Peninsula due to climate change. This could result in glacier retreat and sea-level rise if warming continues, threatening coastal communities and low-lying islands worldwide.

Research by the U.S. Geological Survey is the first to document that every ice front in the southern part of the [...]

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Children in the German capital Berlin win the right to be exempt from strict laws on noise pollution.

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Analysis of the 32 million passwords exposed in the recent breach at RockYou provides further proof that people routinely use easy to guess logins. Many use the same password for everything – from their private work accounts. But how breakable is your password and what does it say about you?

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