Sunday, May 20, 2012

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 20/05/2012





Record companies score infringement victory over "Russian Facebook"
vKontakte's file-sharing feature got the social networking site into hot water.

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Microsoft wins US import ban on Motorola’s Android devices
Motorola may have to pay dearly to get the ban lifted.

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Facial detection cameras ready to creep out San Francisco bar patrons
A smartphone app called SceneTap determines body count, gender ratio in bars.

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Feds considering allowing DVD-encryption cracking
The U.S. Copyright Office heard requests for loopholes in its rules this week.

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First private launch to the ISS scheduled for 5am tomorrow
SpaceX's Dragon ready to take food, equipment to orbit.

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What it takes to make a "green" Apple
Nearly all of Apple's operations will run on renewable power by 2013.

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WiFi’s future: faster, smarter, and fewer cables
And you’ll be buying a bunch of new devices.

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Diablo III: demon-cleaving, refined
The click-and-slash series offers more of the same—and that's not a bad thing.

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Screenwriter Sorkin will consult with Woz to pen Steve Jobs biopic
The Apple co-founder will consult on technical aspects and Jobs personally.

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Coffee may be ok, but coffee drinkers not living longer
Java drinkers tend to smoke, get less exercise, and have other bad habits.

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Steve Jobs reportedly "worked closely" on larger-screened iPhone
A major iPhone makeover looks to be in the works.

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Hands-on with CrashPlan: cloud backup for all
CrashPlan acquits itself well against Carbonite, Mozy, and the rest.

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Travel across the Roman Empire in real time with ORBIS
Google Maps for the ancient world.

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Exporting copyright: Inside the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership
Meet "ACTA plus," and the people trying to stop it.

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Those $22,600 W. Virginia routers were "economical"
Congress wants to know how enterprise routers end up in rural libraries.

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Mozilla preparing Mac code signing for Mountain Lion’s Gatekeeper
Signing will be enabled for the nightly build channel next week.

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Unreal Engine 4 will bring us beautiful games faster than ever
UE4 stands to conquer all, as long as consoles don't get in the way.

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CEO who rebelled against Microsoft over Windows licensing backs down
“Rebel” virtual desktop service will remove itself from the Interwebs.

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Justice Dept. defends public’s constitutional ‘right to record’ cops
The DoJ sent a letter to the attorneys for the Baltimore Police Department.

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Comcast answers data cap questions
"We're out of the cap business," Comcast says.

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New $74 Android mini computer is slightly larger than a thumb drive
This little Linux box packs a 1.5GHz ARM CPU and 512MB of RAM.

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It's (just barely, sort of) alive!
Below the ocean floor, microbes are surviving on 100,000 oxygen molecules a day.

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Twitter confirms support for Do Not Track
Twitter won't use cookies for surreptitious data collection if users opt out.

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Comcast suspends 250GB data cap—for now
Everyone will get at least 300GB—and possibly more—when caps return.

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330Mbps fiber-to-the-home coming to UK this summer
As the UK "last mile" moves from copper to fiber, it gets much faster.

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