Sunday, May 19, 2013

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 20/05/2013






Arduino and Wi-Fi, together in the immediate future
A couple of new boards are making your DIY projects wireless.

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Video: Reboots that need the boot, part 2—SimCity
The 2013 SimCity reboot is heartbreakingly awful.

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A second look at Google I/O: Androids, robots, and the show floor
After the keynote there was still plenty to see.

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Printable A3-sized solar cells hit a new milestone in green energy
Printing 10 meters of solar cells in a minute means good things for solar.

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Why use a database instead of just saving your data to disk?
For smaller projects, is a database worth it?

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To manage your diabetes, Weird Science recommends the munchies
But it advises against using frog-based pregnancy tests.

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Ars readers react to laser-wielding Soviet satellites and Google I/O
Ars also debates how to make game play sportsmanlike.

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At EVE Fanfest, players celebrate a different world
A tourist's perspective on a devoted gathering.

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MacBook Air supplies dwindle ahead of WWDC, Intel CPU refresh
Waiting for next-generation Air? The stars may be aligning in your favor.

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Prenda lawyer Paul Hansmeier asks appeals court to delay sanctions
But Hansmeier is having trouble even getting admitted at the 9th circuit.

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Google engineers discuss fragmentation, hardware, and Project Butter
At a panel in San Francisco, Google talked about making Android better.

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Video: Reboots that need the boot, part 1—Aliens vs. Predator
In this first of three posts, we dislike the 2010 Aliens vs. Predator remake.

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Mac malware signed with Apple ID infects activist’s laptop
Backdoor took screenshots, sent them to attackers.

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Divide & conquer makes quantum light a breeze to detect
Classy experiment detects non-classy light, may help with quantum computing.

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Star Trek Into Darkness: Impressive but imperfect
After three viewings, here's the verdict.

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Mozilla delays turning on third-party cookie killer in Firefox
Firefox 22, now in beta, will also get a new JavaScript compiler.

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Aussie government tries to block two sites, takes down 1,200
And learns an important lesson about IP filtering in the process.

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Hacker serving 5-year sentence invents ATM add-on to prevent theft
Device rotates ATM cards, prevents skimmers from stealing data.

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Apple CEO: “We’re going very deep” with US manufacturing
Apple looking at Arizona, Texas, Illinois, Florida, and Kentucky.

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Nvidia’s Shield handheld console is now available for preorder
Nvidia will find out of a handheld Android console can land an audience.

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Apple CEO to testify to Congress on $100 billion cash stash, taxes, jobs
Cook will face senate on Tuesday with "clear recommendations" for tax reform.

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Unreleased Wii U games will be demoed at Best Buy during E3
Sonic: The Lost World and Super Luigi U are among the selections.

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Linux Mint 15 brings prettier desktop, new software and driver managers
One of the best Linux desktops gets better.

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MP to Google: “You do do evil” when it comes to tax
Search giant paid just $9.4 million in taxes on $4.86 billion in sales.

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Dell first quarter profits down a whopping 79 percent
Various factions still sparring over how to take company private.

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