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This VC forecast scares the pants off of me

Josh Kopelman may have hit the nail on the head with his prediction of the "implicit Internet." For whatever it's worth, I hope he's dead wrong--though he isn't.
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End of Intel, AMD duopoly near? Via readies Isaiah chip

Via Technologies is getting set to its higher-performance Isaiah processor that is targeted at mainstream computers.
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RIAA defendant Jammie Thomas may get new trial

Federal judge who presided over first RIAA peer-to-peer trial says he may grant new trial because of possibly flawed jury instruction.
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Google Translate speaks 10 new languages

The translation service adds Swedish, Hindi, Danish, seven other languages, and the ability to guess the language that text needs to be translated from.
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Yahoo investors begin to weigh in on Icahn proxy fight

With the ink barely dry on billionaire investor Carl Icahn's proxy fight with Yahoo, a couple of investors are weighing in. This could be the start of an onslaught.
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Hacker confab 'Last HOPE' to track attendees with RFID

Attendees at hacker conference to have RFID-embedded badges that track their movements in game and public test of the system.
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Microsoft, OLPC officially team up

One Laptop Per Child group says it will support both Windows and Linux on its XO laptops. Trials are set to begin next month.
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Yahoo responds to Icahn

The Internet company says that Icahn's take "reflects a significant misunderstanding of the facts about the Microsoft proposal." It goes on (and on) from there.
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Can the Feds enforce Net neutrality? Maybe not

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin insists his agency has the power to take action against Comcast's BitTorrent traffic management if necessary. Is he right?
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Study: Cox blocking BitTorrent traffic, too

Comcast isn't the only ISP blocking BitTorrent file-sharing on its network, according to the results of a study released Thursday.
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Another Twitter outage: Sound the alarms!

Governments around the world declare state of emergency as the world goes without Scoble updates for hours. Fate of humanity hangs in the balance.
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Google surpasses Yahoo--for a second time?

Google edged past Yahoo for the first time in April to be the top Internet property, ComScore says. Nielsen, though, says the change happened last year.
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Biofuel gets lift from Honeywell, Airbus, JetBlue

Group plans to study ways to make commercial aviation fuels out of plants including algae, rather than food sources such as corn and soy.
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Nintendo tops April video game console sales

Wii maker said its console was the top seller during April, despite GTA IV coming out only on Xbox and PlayStation 3.
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Apple dismisses Safari vulnerability

Security researcher says Apple not interested in fixing vulnerability that puts users at risk of downloading malware to their desktop but will fix a separate high-risk security issue in Safari.
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Google gathers 3D data with Street View

The search colossus has confirmed that it's using laser scanners to gather 3D data as it photographs cities for its Street View.
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Carpet bombing networks in cyberspace

The Air Force wants to build an offensive botnet to cripple foreign defenses.
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Podcast: Figuring out the zen of Carl Icahn

Monkeying around with Search Monkey; Mars close up; and what does Carl Icahn really want?
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Images: Astronomers discover 'young' supernova

By tracking its remains, NASA discovers a supernova or exploding star that occurred soon after the Civil War.
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Deconstructing Wikipedia at the Berkman Center

Harvard Law and Berkman Center scholar Yochai Benkler and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales deconstruct Wikipedia and discuss Internet-inspired peer production models.
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Alienware says that game PCs need more than faster chips

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