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The UK's New Minister For Magic  From the pure-and-undiluted department An anonymous reader sends this depressing excerpt from New Scientist: "A serious blow to science-based medical practices has been dealt in the UK with the appointment of Jeremy Hunt as Health Secretary. The fortunes of the UK's National Health...   Should We Print Guns? Cody R. Wilson Says "Yes" (Video)  From the freedom-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder department The Wiki Weapon Project and its idea of making guns with 3D printers has already been mentioned on Slashdot. It has also been written up on Forbes.com and a lot of other geek and non-geek sites. Note that when some Wiki Weapon proponents talk...   First Impressions of Windows 8 Powered Nokia Lumia 920 and 820  From the long-live-maemo department Nerval's Lobster writes "Nokia CEO Stephen Elop first took to the stage at Center548 on New York City's West Side, where Microsoft had first unveiled Windows Phone 7 in late 2010, to claim that Nokia was becoming a 'more nimble competitor' thanks...   Networked Cars: Good For Safety, Bad For Privacy  From the also-good-for-lan-parties-on-the-go department jfruh writes "Networked cars — cars that can identify each other's location and prevent collisions — are coming soon, and will be a boon for safety, with one estimate having them cut accidents by 70 percent. But what happens to all...   Behind the Scenes With Samsung's Factory Workers  From the sunshine-and-unicorns department itwbennett writes "The young women working at Samsung's factory in Tianjin, China like their jobs about as much as factory workers anywhere. The work is boring and tiring, but it pays ok and there are perks (like air conditioning in the dorms),...   Bill Clinton Backs 100 Year Starship  From the enthused-about-green-women department astroengine writes "The light-years between the stars is vast — a seemingly insurmountable quarantine that cuts our solar system off from the rest of the galaxy. But to a growing number of interstellar enthusiasts who will meet in Houston,...   EA Exec Won't Green Light Any Single Player-Only Games  From the leveraging-synergies-like-a-champ department An anonymous reader sends this quote from Geek.com: "Frank Gibeau, the president of EA Labels, has shown that business truly does come before gameplay with comments he made as part of a preview document for the CloudGamingUSA event happening on...   BitFloor Joins List of Compromised BitCoin Exchanges  From the after-heist-six-bitcoin-becomes-a-real-boy department hypnosec writes "An attacker managed to access an unencrypted backup of wallet keys and steal 24,000 BTC (worth more than a quarter million USD), following which Bitcoin exchange Bitfloor has been shut down while the investigation of the theft is...   Intel Embraces Oil Immersion Cooling For Servers  From the pretty-slick department 1sockchuck writes "Intel has just concluded a year-long test in which it immersed servers in an oil bath, and has affirmed that the technology is highly efficient and safe for servers. The chipmaker is now working on reference designs, heat sinks...   35 Years Later, Voyager 1 Is Heading For the Stars  From the watch-out-for-black-holes department DevotedSkeptic writes with news that today is the 35th anniversary of Voyager 1's launch. (Voyager 2 reached the same anniversary on August 20.) Voyager 1 is roughly 18 billion kilometers from the sun, slowly but steadily pushing through the...   FBI Denies It Held iPhone UDIDs Stolen By AntiSec  From the it-was-actually-the-nsa department judgecorp writes "The FBI has denied the UDID codes released yesterday came from an agent's laptop, as claimed by the AntiSec hacker group. The FBI says it does not hold such data, and the attack never happened. However, the agent named by AntiSec...   AMD64 Surpasses i386 As Debian's Most Popular Architecture  From the big-versus-little-endians department An anonymous reader writes with a quick note about the changing tides of computer architecture. From the article: "Bill Allombert announced [yesterday] via the Debian-devel mailing list that the X86_64 version of Debian has now surpassed all of...   Ubisoft Ditches Always-Online DRM Requirement From PC Games  From the they-can-be-taught department RogueyWon writes "In an interview with gaming site Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Ubisoft has announced that it will no longer use always-online DRM for its PC games. The much-maligned DRM required players to be online and connected to its servers at all...   Impending CA Sales Tax Sparks Amazon Buying Frenzy  From the get-it-while-it's-hot-and-doesn't-support-the-government department New submitter payola writes "On September 15, Amazon will begin adding in sales tax for purchases made in California. This is sparking a buying frenzy among California residents who are rushing to buy consumer electronics and other expensive items...   Google Awarded Face-To-Unlock Patent  From the slam-your-face-into-it-until-it-unlocks department An anonymous reader writes "CNet reports that Google was awarded a patent yesterday for logging into a computing device using face recognition (8,261,090). 'In order for the technology to work, Google's patent requires a camera that can identify a...

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