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Ars Technica Hey guys, don't forget to read the manual on that new gizmo of yours:
http://arst.ch/9rn

Source: arst.ch
Men and women approach technology differently—this comes as no surprise. However, according to data from a UK-based helpline, men are significantly less likely to have read the manual before calling tech support.
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Yeah but in this particular article, it's a personal tech support service, not one meant for businesses! (btw this is Jacqui, but Facebook won't let me comment as myself since I'm an admin for the Ars group. Whoops!)
about an hour ago
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Ars Technica Congress is considering a couple of laws that would force companies to notify consumers when their data is breached: http://arst.ch/9s5

Source: arst.ch
It's frustrating to be a consumer these days, especially knowing that your personal information could be exposed anytime there's a major data breach. Two new Senate bills aim to improve notification to ...
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It's amazing that companies are fighting against this.
Yesterday at 11:48am
Jee Shin
Jee Shin
Why? Companies exist for their own gain, not for the consumers'.
Yesterday at 7:28pm
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Ars Technica Fans of Assassin's Creed should have a lot to look forward to in the sequel: http://arst.ch/9q3

Source: arst.ch
Ars goes hands on with the upcoming Assassin's Creed 2 and finds a game that appears to improve on almost all of the issues of its predecessor, leaving gamers with what could be one of the best titles of the year.
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Ars Technica Bizarre legal defense after EMI sues over Beatles MP3 sales

Source: arstechnica.com
BlueBeat.com made waves this week in the music world by selling remastered Beatles tracks for a quarter a piece. Now, hit with a federal copyright lawsuit, the company behind the site has responded... and it says that BlueBeat actually owns the copyright on the works it sells. EMI is not amused.
Erwin Kamil
Erwin Kamil
LOL "Psychoacoustic simulations are my synthetic creation of that series of sounds which best expresses the way I believe a particular melody should be heard as a live performance." That's bizarrely funny!
November 5 at 7:01pm
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Ars Technica Firefox finally passed IE6 marketshare! Here's a question for Web developers: what non-IE feature do you most want to use in Web sites?

Source: arstechnica.com
Internet Explorer 6 has finally been surpassed by Firefox according to the latest worldwide market share numbers. Details inside.
Matthew Giacomazzo
Matthew Giacomazzo
@Steven IE tries to follow the standards but fails horribly. The result is incompatibility even between different versions of IE, accessibility issues, and countless time and money lost on bugfixes. IRL productivity is being lost because people take the easy way out and use the included browser with windows without knowledge of what is out there.
November 4 at 1:42pm
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Ars Technica Developers stealing from developers: an App Store tale

Source: arstechnica.com
In the high-stakes game of iPhone application development, your portfolio can mean the difference between landing a client or being overlooked. What happens when your peers decide they need to steal from your app portfolio in order to get ahead? Ars explores a dark side of App Store development.
Erwin Kamil
Erwin Kamil
More opportunity for lawyers i guess...LOL
November 4 at 8:22am
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Ars Technica P2P users may be music industry's best friend after all

Source: arstechnica.com
A new study suggests that P2P users still buy plenty of music—and that "unofficial" sources of music might actually encourage more purchases.
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Source: arstechnica.com
With the FCC launching a rule-making proceeding on net neutrality, a pair of bills have been introduced to Congress that would bar the FCC from issuing "any regulations regarding the Internet."
Michael Taylor
Michael Taylor
Lets create an open cloud based on micro-torrents, that let web pages be hosted from peer-networks
October 31 at 12:52pm
Bill Dempsey
Bill Dempsey
I often wonder if we couldn't all ban together and create an open, nation-wide, wireless mesh network using the tech was used in the OLPC specification. Dependency on evil communications giants just makes me sick to my stomach.
October 31 at 2:31pm
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Ars Technica A few of us nerds at the Orbiting HQ are updating to Apple TV 3.0 right now. New fonts, menu system, and everything. Whaaaat!

October 29 at 12:41pm
Patrick
Patrick
Lol apple TV. Cupertino's red-headed step-child
October 29 at 10:00pm
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Ars Technica After net neutrality, will we need "Google neutrality?"

Source: arstechnica.com
A leading US academic on network economics argues that net neutrality is a good thing—but ISPs aren't the only potential gatekeepers on the 'Net. "Search neutrality" might well be needed next.
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Ars Technica We asked on Twitter, so now we're asking here. Do you have any fitness gadget recommendations? Big or small, unleash them on us!

October 28 at 8:23am
Thomas
Thomas
Put an exercise bike in front of your tv and xbox.
October 28 at 6:44pm
Nick Sandar
Nick Sandar
That bar that hangs above doorframes is a hugely underappreciated tour-de-physics. I mean, if you're doing an exercise routine based on nothing but your body's gravitational resistance, you can get almost every major muscle group except your biceps. How many people have a bar capable of supporting their body weight in a convenient location? Compare... Read More that to the number of people with doorframes. Yeah, I have no idea what the ratio is either, but we're talking serious market potential. And it works. How many As-Seen-On-TV gadgets can claim that?
October 29 at 2:01pm
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Ars Technica Want 50Mbps Internet in your town? Threaten to roll out your own

Source: arstechnica.com
ISPs may not act for years on local complaints about slow Internet—but when a town rolls out its own solution, it's amazing how fast the incumbents can deploy fiber, cut prices, and run to the legislature.
Bob Chandler
Bob Chandler
very cool sharing this!
October 28 at 5:30pm
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Source: arstechnica.com
Urban noise favors birds with songs that go to 11.
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Ars Technica Fun fact: Ars Technica (Cambridge) & Reddit (Medford) were started about 5m from each other in MA - both ended up at Condé (--stolen from Ken Fisher)

October 27 at 8:17am
Sam Ferguson
October 27 at 8:20am
David Chartier
David Chartier
I'm marking this as liked only because they're "stealing" stuff from Ken Fisher—Ars' EIC—for Ars' official Facebook page. I wonder if he is aware!
October 27 at 6:03pm
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Ars Technica Check it out: Ars articles now show up in the "From our Partners" box on Cnn.com/TECH — http://www.cnn.com/TECH/

Josh
Josh
Fancy.
October 26 at 1:53pm
Nick Sandar
Nick Sandar
Schwing!
October 29 at 2:03pm
Nick Sandar
Nick Sandar
Yep, I'm bringin' it back...
October 29 at 2:03pm