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  • DIGITAL

    Aug 21, 2008, 09:23AM

    Think Locally In File Sharing

    Researchers have found that peer-to-peer downloading can affect the efficiency of the Internet if it's conducted between two computers that are far apart geographically. The reason has to do with how different networks interact and transfer data with each other. A solution is being proposed called P4P that would keep shared files local.

  • DIGITAL

    Aug 20, 2008, 01:31PM

    Canadian Digital Rights Under Attack From The South

    Canada, long the target of whimsied gazes from American liberals, has more than just socialized health care to tingle a progressive kid's jollies. In Canada peer-to-peer downloading and file sharing has always been legal, but maybe not for long. Backed by American media companies the conservative party is pushing legislation that will align Canadian digital rights laws with those south of the border.

  • DIGITAL

    Aug 20, 2008, 11:33AM

    RIAA Wins! (But Loses Lots of Money)

    When the RIAA first started flexing some legal muscle in the file-sharing wars, they probably expected to bully a bunch of college students. They've done plenty of that, but they probably didn't account for people like Denise Barker, who fought the RIAA for 3 and a half years over downloading songs from KaZaa. The case was recently settled, with Barker agreeing to pay $6,050 for the songs. Considering they probably spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on legal fees, we're thinking the RIAA didn't exactly get its money's worth.

  • DIGITAL

    Aug 19, 2008, 01:01PM

    Better Business Through Gaming

    The football video game franchise Madden celebrated its 20th anniversary this year, including a mega-release party in Vegas that glorified two decades of cultural over-saturation. But one college professor is out to prove the game it more relevant than you might expect. At the University of Oregon business professor Paul Swangard is planning to use the game's franchise mode to teach students about running a pro team.

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  • DIGITAL

    Aug 19, 2008, 11:04AM

    MIT Geniuses Ride Subway For Free, Get Censored

    Three MIT students have gotten into a lot of trouble over a recent paper they wrote detailing how to hack the Boston subway's computer system. You'd think printing free fare passes is innocent enough, especially because they never tried to hide their work and intended only to show the flaws in computer security. But the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority is bringing the hammer down on these kids, setting up a legal showdown with open source advocates.

  • DIGITAL

    Aug 18, 2008, 03:26PM

    iPhone Replacing More Than Just Phones

    It was so hip of Apple to open up the iPhone for application development. Now the magic little computer with touch screen can be exploited for all sorts of purposes, like helping you to efficiently keep track of your stitches as you work on that new hat.

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  • DIGITAL

    Aug 14, 2008, 01:41PM

    Morbid Fascination

    Once a college writer discovered MyDeathSpace, the website that tracks dead MySpace users, he couldn't turn away for a week. But after realizing that a family shouldn't have to defend their deceased child's life from crazy evangelicals on social networking sites, he stopped going to MyDeathSpace, and he recommends you do the same.

  • DIGITAL

    Aug 13, 2008, 04:30PM

    Great Moments In American Capitalism

    Feel like you're not getting enough mind-control in your life? Well now you can get "binaural brainwave doses for every imaginable mood" delivered right to your PC or iPod. But don't take our word for it, listen to a customer testimonial: "Feels like the best sleep I've ever had. Except...I wasn't even asleep. I was unaware of anything around me."

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  • DIGITAL

    Aug 12, 2008, 05:03PM

    Democrats Back A Porn-Free Internet

    Don't worry, you'll still be able to get your porn, just not on the free national broadband wireless network the FCC is in charge of auctioning off. At least that's the case if a proposed law goes into effect. So when you vote this summer, ask yourself if you really want a nanny state stopping you from getting hardcore sex on your iPhone.

  • DIGITAL

    Aug 01, 2008, 04:22PM

    Comcast Can't Control Your Downloads

    Last winter Comcast got caught secretly restricting subscribers who used BitTorrent, even though the downloading program is perfectly legal. Net neutrality activists cried out that Comcast was illegally restricting access to content, and today the FCC agreed in what could be a precedent-setting decision over who controls the Internet.

  • DIGITAL

    Aug 01, 2008, 12:04PM

    Twitter Dee And Twitter Dumb

    Since there isn't enough personal opinion to read on the Internet, some tech gurus created Twitter as a "micro-blogging" service. It allows users to send each other short updates via text and email throughout the day. If it sounds kind of pointless, here what this one writer figured out when he got his Twitter on.

  • DIGITAL

    Jul 30, 2008, 04:42PM

    Technologies That Shouldn't Exist Anymore

    If you were to dig a trench through a landfill you'd see layers of phonebooks like geological sediment. So why do we still get those heavy things delivered to our house every year? Read on to find out how ridiculous our reliance on outdated technology really is.

  • DIGITAL

    Jul 29, 2008, 05:02PM

    Sold Out By Social Networking

    Things change so fast these days. Remember back when Facebook was exclusively for college kids? This writer does, and he's not happy with how the opening of Facebook has degraded a once-valuable social tool.

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  • DIGITAL

    Jul 29, 2008, 03:28PM

    Scrabulous Taken Down By Hasbro

    Everyone's favorite waste of time is down for the count, thanks to a long-anticpated lawsuit from the makers of Scrabble (it's a board game like Scrabulous, this weird thing with actual phyiscal pieces that you play face-to-face). An official online version is in the works to fill the gap.

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  • DIGITAL

    Aug 12, 2008, 11:30AM

    Mega Man Is The New Waterboarding

    Mega Man broke new ground in video game technology back when the NES was the only system in town. The biggest innovation was non-linear gameplay, meaning you could choose levels in any order. It was also famous for its soul-crippling difficulty. Here Taco Man plays Mega Man for the first time and slowly devoles into a blabbering mess.

  • DIGITAL

    Jul 30, 2008, 10:32AM

    Hey YouTubers! I Got Censored!

    Here's what happens to an eccentric gay man when YouTube goes corporate and starts enforcing 1984-like "community guidelines." As he explains in this clip, high profile video blogger Zipster was shut down for posting a controversial video, and in response a supportive community went on a guerilla posting campaign to show YouTube that freedom on the Internet cannot be contained, especially when it comes to cross-dressing man boobs.

  • DIGITAL

    Jul 23, 2008, 04:25PM

    Don't Toss That Cellie

    Not everyone is as obstinate as Splice writer Mr. Wrong, but there are still plenty of good reasons to be careful about how you replace your old cell phone. Most phones are shipped off under dubious "recycling" programs to developing countries, where kids will break them down in toxic environments for minuscule amounts of valuable metals. Watch and see the right way to handle technology disposal.

  • DIGITAL

    Jul 03, 2008, 09:41AM

    Don't Spree On That Free MP3

    While the RIAA is suing the mess out of college students this millenium, digital copyright protection didn't used to be so combative. Way back in the 1990s companies tried a softer, hipper approach. We just wish they would bring back MC Double Dare to rap about file-sharing.

  • DIGITAL

    Jul 02, 2008, 09:30AM

    Ghosts Of Machines

    In "Pix," an example of emerging trends in video art, the viewer sees three analog channels processed together into a digital format. The colors from the original images are flattened into blacks, whites, and greys, appearing to the casual eye as static. By presenting the work in a form that we're used to ignoring on screen, the project tests our typical impatience in deciphering a video image.

  • DIGITAL

    Jun 27, 2008, 09:46AM

    A Blog Website For Idiots

    A short mock-umentary about Tumblr, and the sad individuals whose lives revolve around it. Finally, another social networking device that breeds corruption and sucks souls from users' bodies.

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  • DIGITAL

    Jun 26, 2008, 01:36PM

    A Puppet's Magical Self-Indulgent Internet Media Adventure

    Ok, imagine if a bunch of important web companies used a narrative device to explain their own status as experts and gatekeepers. If you need help, watch this video and learn how new media isn't as different from old media as you might think.

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  • DIGITAL

    Jun 26, 2008, 11:05AM

    At Least You Can Kick Her Head Off

    Some of us are digital connoissuers who brook no sympathy for inadequate use of technology in the pursuit of entertainment. Here one such man rips to shreds the Bram Stoker Dracula video game from 1993, proving once again that the ridiculously lame can always be redeemed by its mockability.

  • DIGITAL

    Jun 05, 2008, 04:59PM

    Video For Those Who Really Care About Audio

    1984: What a time to be alive. A time when Devo and Ray Charles could come together to tell you about the joys of brand-new Pioneer Laserdisc technology. Just think--you can watch Sophie's Choice whenever you want! This a video you can watch and watch and watch and watch. And watch.

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