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• News of impeding Seti@Home death premature (arstechnica.com)
  When is a funding crisis not a crisis? When it involves the Seti@Home project. With over 4 million registered users Seti@Home is arguably t…
• Artificial muscles move closer (arstechnica.com)
  I haven't written about anything in the (in)famous "three to five years away" category in a while, so I figured I'd link this up: a Technol…
• FCC ruling = Death to satellite radio? (arstechnica.com)
  Last week the FCC gave the go ahead for radio stations to add digital broadcasts. This ruling is unlike the mandated switch over to digital…
• OpenOffice.org on OS X goes beta (arstechnica.com)
  The OpenOffice.org team's Mac OS X port has finally gone beta. This beta release marks a major milestone in OpenOffice.org's two year effor…
• Babbling billboards? (arstechnica.com)
  It sounds like something from the Minority Report. A billboard blurts out their advertising pitch when a person walks by. But this isn't th…
• (Don't) bootleg this movie (arstechnica.com)
  As many of you already know, the entertainment industry has implemented a full court press dealing with piracy. Albums and movies are showi…
• Game.Ars hits Plymouth Rock: unload units? (arstechnica.com)
  This Columbus Day edition of Game.Ars is not brought to you by the New England area activists who get really mad about Columbus day and Tha…
• Creative unveils potential iPod killer (arstechnica.com)
  The Creative NOMAD Jukebox Zen has one target, and one target only: potential Windows iPod buyers. According to News.com, the 20GB FireWire…
• 1.8 GHz 64-bit CPU likely coming to Apple? (arstechnica.com)
  This embargoed (yet posted) Reuter's report indicates that IBM will announce a 1.8 GHz 64-bit CPU at the Microprocessor Forum this week...
• Cybernetic monkeys control the world! (arstechnica.com)
  Scientific America has a great piece on directly connecting a monkey's brain to two robotic arms. The two best uses of this research would…
• Anti-telemarketing tools on the rise (arstechnica.com)
  While spam really irritates me, few things get me more worked up than that oft telemarketing call that interrupts my day. That's why I was…
• Intergraph victorious (for now) in Itanium suit (arstechnica.com)
  A judge in Texas has ruled that Intergraph's RISC parallel computing instruction (PIC) technology has indeed been infringed by Intel's IA-6…
• Will I reach email Nirvana at last? (arstechnica.com)
  I'm a compulsive archiver, and I have probably close to 1GB of email tucked away in various places and in various formats from .pst to .mbo…
• At sixes and sevens with Microsoft Licensing 6.0 (arstechnica.com)
  Microsoft's License and Software Assurance model, dubbed Licensing 6.0, has not been met with open arms. As with most things relating to Mi…
• The EET on IBM's upcoming desktop Power4 derivative (arstechnica.com)
  Peter Glaskowsky, the EIC of The Microprocessor Report and hence one of the main figures behind the upcoming Microprocessor Forum 2002, add…
• Microsoft relents some on DRM (arstechnica.com)
  Last month Kurt reported on Windows XP Media Center Edition and its restrictive digital rights management systems. Originally the incorpora…
• Dirty floor, meet Roomba (arstechnica.com)
  Robots have been to Mars, narrow shafts of pyramids and even scurried along the ocean floor. With technology advancing on a daily basis rob…
• John Connor wins round three! (arstechnica.com)
  Score one for the power of the human mind! Vladimir Kramnik won his third match against the German chess computer, Deep Fritz. This lengthe…
• New software to be included in MS Office (arstechnica.com)
  I saw this on eweek today. The Microsoft initiative to bring .Net to the business user is looking pretty good. The newest piece of the Offi…
• Game.Ars sneaks in on Tuesday (arstechnica.com)
  Carl can handle feedback. Really. In fact, receiving mail--especially mail related to Laser Squad Nemesis--is probably the high point of hi…
• AMD taps into Chinese education market (arstechnica.com)
  AMD has entered into a joint venture with a Chinese government-backed educational company to help design and deliver computers for China's…
• Good news for Palm software (arstechnica.com)
  Sony has invested US $20 million in Palm's software division, buying what will be equivalent to a 6% stake in PalmSource. The move will hop…
• Hyper-threading followup: new chipsets, and another take (arstechnica.com)
  Today Intel announced four new chipsets, all of which have built-in support for hyper-threading. I've poked around in the datasheet for the…
• A DDR DRAM for graphics (arstechnica.com)
  ATI is heading up a group of graphics chip and DRAM vendors to create a DRAM specification that meets the needs of the next generation of g…
• See through walls! Send $2.95 and two box tops to: (arstechnica.com)
  Prepare to find your picture on an amateur porn site. Ok, maybe I'm jumping to conclusions, but we're almost there. The Washington Supreme…
• More (sorta) good news on fair use (arstechnica.com)
  Last week, Caesar reported on the Digital Choice and Freedom Act, an attempt to clarify and re-work the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. W…
• Wi-Fi5 is dead. Long live Wi-Fi (arstechnica.com)
  So I lied. More comm news for you: The Wi-Fi (a term I still find immensely stupid) alliance has decided to kill the Wi-Fi5 brand name for…
• .NET is everywhere! (arstechnica.com)
  I promise this is my last bit of Comm news for the day. The Comm Design Conference was last week and a couple wireless conferences are this…
• "Start Me Up" on phones everywhere... (arstechnica.com)
  The second major effort by Microsoft to grab hold of the telecomm market finally has some meat behind it. The first was, of course...
• Viewsonic goes mobile (arstechnica.com)
  Looking to cash in on the handheld market, Viewsonic has announced a new PDA based on PocketPC that's meant to compete with lower-end Palm…
• World's Funniest Joke (arstechnica.com)
  Researchers studying what makes people laugh subjected thousands of people across the world to a litany of some 40,000 jokes (in total, not…
• Introduction to Multithreading, Superthreading, and Hyper-threading (arstechnica.com)
  With the upcoming launch of Intel's Prescott core looming on the horizon, the term "hyper-threading" is getting more and more play in the p…
• Dan Gillmor on Apple's new colors (arstechnica.com)
  In the latest edition of his column in the Mercury News, Dan Gillmore applauds Apple for their stance on DRM. Apple's stance is, of course,…
• Top 20 security vulnerabilities according to the FBI & SANS (arstechnica.com)
  The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) in cooperation with SANS has released a top 20 list of threatening security hole…
• Fair use may become more clearly defined (arstechnica.com)
  Here in the US, what you can and can't do with the intellectual property you "buy" (CDs, DVDs, even books) is not particularly clear. Sure,…
• Microsoft released from the bowels of Hell (arstechnica.com)
  Well, according to Google it has. For the past several weeks Microsoft had the top result when Googleing the string "go to hell", but not a…
• Apple shows its true colors yet again (arstechnica.com)
  This Wired article outlines Apple's attempts to thwart all those third-party interface tweakers whose contributions to previous versions of…
• Arbitration EULA fails Netscape (arstechnica.com)
  Once upon a time the Netscape SmartDownload application sent user tracking information back to AOL, a "feature" that caught the attention o…
• Athlon XP 2700+ & 2800+ reviews (& NForce2) (arstechnica.com)
  As expected, reviews of press kit samples of Athlon XP 2700+ & 2800+ CPUs trickled in after midnight EST. Aside from the clock speed increa…
• Poll Technica: the root of Napster's demise (arstechnica.com)
  This week's poll wants to know what you think was the root cause of the death of Napster (which, for all intents and purpose, is dead). Now…
• Music Industry guilty of price-fixing? But, but, of course not! (arstechnica.com)
  Tennessee, 41 other states and three territories filed a federal antitrust suit against several major labels and retails outlets in August…
• Shuttle ready to soar again (arstechnica.com)
  It has been a sad summer for the Space Shuttle fleet. The entire fleet was grounded in June after hairline cracks were found in fuel system…
• ATI turns up the heat (arstechnica.com)
  With the release of the Radeon 9700 Pro, ATI knocked Nvidia off the throne in the video card arena. Nvidia has been sucking wind recently,…
• OS News reviews Red Hat 8.0 (arstechnica.com)
  As our Linux poll comes to a close, Red Hat 8.0 is hitting the street. OS News has reviewed the controversial release which claims to be ai…
• The Web: Over 9000 0wn3d (arstechnica.com)
  Web defacement attacks are up, according to this InfoWorld article. A British secrurity consulting firm claims there were over 9000 defacem…
• Who is responsible for scientific fraud? (arstechnica.com)
  Jan Hendrik Sch?n was a high-flyer at Bell Labs. Over the past two years he had his hand in about 80 published reports in scientific journa…
• A Game.Ars for what ails ya (arstechnica.com)
  Living in Seattle makes Carl something something. Thankfully, he slapped himself back into shape in time to bring you all the latest editio…
• Organization for Internet Safety: just say waitaminute (arstechnica.com)
  Friends don't let friends surf drunk. Err, or something like that. The Organization for Internet Safety officially launched late last week,…
• AMD getting ahead of itself? (arstechnica.com)
  This coming week will see the release of the AMD Athlon 2700+ and 2800+, plus the accompanying blurring of just who holds the performance c…
• Excite@Home may pull plug Nov. 30 (arstechnica.com)
  Troubled broadband provider Excite@Home says they may stop service Nov. 30 if it cannot reach agreements with cable companies which carry t…