Best Buy's surprisingly insecure approach to new PC setup
Somewhere in the march toward "easy," security got blindsided.
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In-Depth Reports
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Paralyzed woman controls robotic arm, sips coffee
Electrodes implanted in the brain were used to control mechanical motion.
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Money! That's what Flashback's creators want (but they can't get it)
Generating fraudulent ad clicks and getting paid are two different things.
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Prosecutors: "pedodave69" was former top FBI agent
Life as a digital cop: a little file-swapping, a little wardriving.
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ACTA deathwatch: profs call process unconstitutional, Europe revolts
Increasing protests could derail the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
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Timing quantum tunneling to attosecond precision
Wavefunction uses an imaginary number, but produces real results.
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American consumers prepared to pay more for clean energy
Republicans, unaffiliated voters are less inclined to pay extra for green power.
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East coast wind grid gets a go ahead
The wind is always blowing somewhere.
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Hands-on with the new tab synchronization feature in Chrome 19
Chrome's tab sync impresses, but the mobile story is incomplete.
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NVIDIA virtualizes the GPU for streamed desktops and cloud gaming
New GPUs also triple speed for high-performance computing
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AMD ships Trinity processor, aims for a piece of Intel's ultrabook market
Built on the legacy of Bulldozer, Trinity is competitive with Intel—sort of.
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Cambrian shutter of doom becomes sucker of worms
The mouth of this segmented invertebrate has been a puzzle for many researchers.
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Judge: Ample evidence that Apple "knowingly joined" e-book conspiracy
Apple hasn't been found guilty yet, but the judge's comments don't bode well.
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Pro rugby club enlists IBM to predict when players will be injured
How do you measure fatigue if you can’t directly measure it?
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Android fragmentation: one developer encounters 3,997 devices
Android devs miss out on market share by not casting a wide support net.
Feature Story
Private: some search engines make money by not tracking users
DuckDuckGo and Ixquick take a tiny bite out of Google.
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On The Radar
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3THz is the new 5GHz
Terahertz frequencies bring Japanese researchers 3Gbps in a WiFi prototype
The tiny wireless radio transmits on spectrum between 300GHz and 3THz
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and your little data plan, too
Existing unlimited data plans' days are numbered, Verizon says
Shared data plans and 4G access conspire to bring unlimited users down.
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Game of halos
Halo 4 Limited Edition, Spartan Ops mode announced
Get your weekly multiplayer missions and early specialization access right here.
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Sittin' on the dock of the bay
Apple ITC win leads to HTC One X, Evo 4G LTE import holdup
Customs officials are checking devices for compliance with an exclusion order.
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Dolla dolla bills
Microsoft will remove the bloatware from your PC, for a price
$99 and a trip to a Microsoft Store will get you a clean Windows install.
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Pirate ship sinks
Massive DDoS attack keeps The Pirate Bay offline for over a day
Angry Anons may be behind the attack.
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Size matters
WSJ: production of 4-inch iPhone beginning in June
There's hope for farsighted iPhone fans.
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Smarter Search
Google's bots learn to read interactive webpages more like humans
Google can now index parts of the Web that weren't indexable before
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Radio waves
FCC to Verizon: what's wrong with that spectrum you never built out?
Verizon wants to sell spectrum it never bothered to use, and buy some more.
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Extra Yardage
Apple TV could make ESPN another trick in its bag
America's biggest sports network could have a home on Apple TV.
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Staff Blog
Was Righthaven right to sue an Ars author?
A new article sort-of makes the case; I raise a giant eyebrow of skepticism.
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Quoth the Raven
Google Docs' new sidebar makes research faster
Now you can find handy info without ever leaving the page.
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Advertising
General Motors pulls annual $10 million worth of ads from Facebook
A GM executive says paid advertising is ineffective on the social network.
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SCRIPT KIDDIES FARE
New fraud tools turn Pinterest scams into point-and-click exercise
Toolkits allow scammers to get fraudulent Amazon referral fees.
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boom goes reality
Augmented reality tank can blast holes in real surfaces
Our childhood tanks only fired foam darts.
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Ballot Buster
Windows 8 on ARM restrictions could fall afoul of EU browser ballot deal
Microsoft has declined to comment on whether the ballot is applicable
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Security theater
Canadian tech protester acquitted on all charges from G20 arrest
Byron Sonne was kept behind bars for nearly a year after his 2010 arrest.
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What a jerk
Diablo 3: Give a knight a shield, and he kicks you from the game
A hotfix is on the way for the game-stopping bug.
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