IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 10/16/2013

Checking in on North America’s first video game college, 25 years later
Seattle's Digipen is more than just where the Portal guys went to school.

Gov’t moves to keep NSA surveillance lawsuit away from Supreme Court
Gov't doesn't want critics of NSA spying to take their case to the high court.

Yep, the NSA is grabbing your address book, contact lists too
Millions of Americans, non-Americans have been swept up in this digital dragnet.

Trying to crush a bloated inbox with Mailstrom
The "zero inbox" tool takes on the ultimate challenge: my infinite mailbox.

Stealthy technique fingerprints smartphones by measuring users’ movements
Accelerometer sensor-based tracking could one day work in place of browser cookies.

For shame: Trolls defeat Scientific American, Popular Science
Op-ed: Leading outlets for scientific knowledge miss the point when it comes to community.

Nintendo 2DS review: Cheaper than ever, but with a price
Drastic portable redesign is passable for the cost, comes with its annoyances.

Brazil to try shielding itself from NSA with national secure e-mail
"Without respect for.. sovereignty, there is no basis for proper relations."

Arduino creator explains why open source matters in hardware, too
Ars conducts a Q&A with Massimo Banzi as Arduino's rise continues.

Drug restores cells that are missing in MS patients
New cells can restore the missing insulation around nerve cells.

How NSA breakthrough may allow tracking of “burner” cell phones
Tool routinely accessed call database to "identify a phone number of interest."

Third Windows Phone update supports 1080p screens, quad-core CPUs
Microsoft shows off third Windows Phone update, gives devs early access.

A Library of Congress for the Internet? Perma CC gives pages a good home
Authors, publishers can select links for permanent preservation.

Canada might force cable providers to unbundle TV channels
Sick of buying 100 channels to get the one you want? Solution: Be Canadian.

Monday Dealmaster’s Dell monitor blowout craziness
We've got 25% off a whole slew of 23"-29" LCD monitors—today only!

Node.js-based Ghost blogging platform opens to the public
Anyone can now download and go; hosted options are coming soon.

Alleged renders of the LG G Flex leak: It’s a real-life banana phone
LG joins the bendy screen club with a device that curves in the other direction.

HTC gets big with the One Max, coming to Sprint and Verizon
Is this the one-two punch HTC needs?

Entrapped! When Craigslist predator stings go too far
Everyone thinks they've been "entrapped" by police, but some men actually are.

Europe won’t save you: Why e-mail is probably safer in the US
German firms aren't allowed to say anything if they have to hand data over.

Review: HP’s $279 Chromebook 11 raises an admittedly low bar
But beware: even a pretty nice Chromebook is still a Chromebook.

Obamacare website fixes could take two weeks—or up to two months
Government IT at its finest: Each time one problem is fixed, another pops up.

Am I pretty or ugly? Exploring an unfortunate YouTube phenomenon
"OK, guys, this is a serious matter... I want to know whether I'm pretty or not."

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IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 10/16/2013

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