Saturday, August 11, 2012

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 11/08/2012





Discovery opens door to cheaper solar panels
Panels can now be made with more abundant, less-expensive materials.

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The 10 features removed from Mountain Lion that we miss the most
Apple's ruthless simplification left Mountain Lion skinnier than we'd like.

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Pics and you assume it did happen
Photos or spoken words enhance our gut sense that a statement is true.

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Hackers collect significant account details from Blizzard servers
Hashed passwords should be safe, but Battle.net users should update anyway.

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Craigslist backtracks, drops exclusive licensing on posts
Craigslist doesn't want complete ownership of user posts anymore.

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Shell game: why heavier atoms might get stable again
Adding unnatural amounts of nucleons may create energy shells, stabilize heavy nuclei.

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Google Translate can now read images of text
Indecipherable foreign road signs, consider yourselves thwarted.

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Male sandpipers do better by choosing sex over sleep
Researchers test a surprising hypothesis to explain why animals sleep.

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Judge sides with porn P2P plaintiff, setting up legal showdown
Appeals court to decide if rightsholders can subpoena 1,058 people in one case.

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TextMate 2.0 goes open source in response to OS X restrictions
The code is available on Github under a GPL 3 license.

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iPhone price-matching coming to an Apple Store near you (Update: confirmed)
Apple Stores will reportedly price match an iPhone 4 or 4S upon request.

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