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5 Reasons Lady Gaga's 'Bad Romance' Causes Wetmares

Gladstone counts off Gaga's terrifyingly compelling sexuality in his latest "Hate by Numbers" -- the first at HBN's new home on Asylum.

Placido Domingo has colon cancer surgery

PlacidoDomingo has undergone surgery for colon cancer, a spokesman for the opera singer has said.

Exclusive First Listen: Under Great White Northern Lights

The White Stripes first ever live album won't debut until March 16, but NPR scored an "exclusive first listen" of the blistering barreling through of a decade-spanning assortment of newer songs and older fan favorites.

The New Dork: Entrepreneur State of Mind (Video)

This spoof of the Jay-Z & Alicia Keys NYC anthem "Empire State of Mind" is a tribute to the internet's most successful social media entrepreneurs and a testament to the rise of tech in pop culture.

How Pandora Avoided the Junkyard, and Found Success

After a decade of near-death experiences, the Internet music service is attracting attention from investment bankers who think it could go public.

Nickelback Less Popular Than Pickles

There are a lot of things more popular than pickles. Canadian rock band Nickelback is not one of them.

R.I.P. Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous

Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse has committed suicide, according to a report from Rolling Stone. His family has released a statement ...

Greatest. Indie-est. Band. Ever.

Pavement made some of the finest, most influential slacker noise of the '90s, racking up an almost obscene amount of critical love along the way. Now, a decade after their final show, Stephen Malkmus and his old bandmates are once again about to rock....

Real guitar teaches you to play as easy as Guitar Hero

This concept is a guitar where you learn a real, actual, applicablebeyond the game skill. The designer of this project had the idea comewhile he was watching friends jam upon Guitar Hero and Rock Band allday long. He thought hey, they’re so good at this, but they can’t playa real guitar at all!

Shaun White's 10 Favorite Songs for Shredding [Vids]

In the midst of promoting the Team USA Soundtrack he gave us a top 10 list that includes Razorlight's "In the City," The Doors' "Riders on the Storm" Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" and the Rolling Stones' "Play with Fire."

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Energizer Duo battery charger hides a Trojan

The Energizer Duo USB battery charger has been hiding a backdoor Trojan in its software that affects computers using Windows. According to Symantec the Trojan has probably been there since 10th May 2007.

Why Google Scares Us: Say Bye Privacy, Say Hi Hungry Beast

Meet Google. The noun that became a verb. The world's favorite search engine, and the company whose motto is "Don't be evil"...Meet Google the beast, the hungry beast.

Pentagon-Backed Venture Aims for ‘Google Underground’

he Department of Defense already has omnipresent eyes in the sky, underwater and, of course, on the ground. It’s only when you start going underground that the surveillance powers of the Pentagon begin to wane — at least until now.

Why Google keeps your data forever, tracks you with ads

In a conversation with Ars Technica, Google's top privacy people defend the company's data retention policies and the tracking practices of (Google-owned) Doubleclick.

Botnet Blueprint: Build Your Own ZeuS Botnet for $2,753.50

Researchers dissected ZeuS botnet blueprint - a little knowledge and a few thousand dollars is all it takes to build a fully functional botnet. Cisco researchers told delegates at the 2010 RSA conference in San Francisco that a botnet running the infamous ZeuS malware could be built for $2,753.50.

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Should Open Source Be An Enemy Of The State? | NetworkWorld.com Community

".... But it's worth noting that Microsoft is a big player in the BSA and the company has potentially a lot of business to lose if government stop going proprietary and start using, say, OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office or mySQL (an open source database with already more than 100 million downloads instead of Microsoft Access...."

Apple Bans the Word 'Android' From App Store - PCWorld

"Apple has apparently just forbidden a developer from using the word "Android" in his app's description. The message: Drop the A-word, or drop your application...."

Apple's Blu-ray fiasco: the iTunes conflict | The Apple Core | ZDNet.com

"I’ve previously written that a case can be made for ditching the optical drive completely (much like Apple did with the floppy in 1998).But that’s not what Jobs is saying. He keeps trotting out the same tired excuse that there isn’t a big enough market in Blu-ray yet. Really? The number of households with Blu-ray players increased 76 percent, to 17 million in 2009. Take off? I think that the Blu-ray horse has left the barn.The elephant in the room is iTunes. The Apple content juggernaut allows you to buy and rent movies, TV shows and music (natch). More importantly, Apple gets a cut of every sale and controls the entire process...."

Twitter Under Phishing Attack?

"Numerous Twitter users are pointing out that Twitter forced them to change their passwords out of the blue. According to blogger Andrew Girdwood, these users have received an email containing the following message: “Due to concern that your account may have been compromised in a phishing attack that took place off-Twitter, your password was reset,” together with a link for resetting the password...."

Laser fusion test results raise energy hopes - BBC News.

"A major hurdle to producing fusion energy using lasers has been swept aside, results in a new report show...."

Dyson invents fan that has no blades | Business News, Business - The Independent

"For once James Dyson has invented something without cutting-edge technology – a fan without blades...."

"Browser company rejection is what turned an innovative plan to have websites and users' computers automatically negotiate privacy into a failure, according to the organisation that invented it...."

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Palm Looks to Bring iPhone Games to webOS with New PDK

Palm has announced the beta release of its Plug-in Developer Kit — or PDK — a new component in the webOS SDK that will make for dramatically better gaming on the Palm Pre, Pa...

PlayStation First to Sell HD Movies from All Major Studios

Sony Computer Entertainment is proudly shouting “FIRST” (YouTube commenter-style) with an announcement that claims the PlayStation Network is the first online service to ...

Foursquare + Google Maps = FourWhere

New location-based social search tool FourWhere shows Foursquare tips and comments using Google Maps so you can search and discover what everyone is saying about nearby places. Users ...

Facebook to Launch Location Features Next Month

Facebook’s move into location has seemed inevitable for some time, and it now appears that the company will officially reveal its plans at next month’s Facebook developer conference – f8...

Announcing Mashable’s Google Wave API Challenge

Mashable and the Google Wave team are proud to announce the Google Wave API Challenge, a month-long competition to create exciting new Google Wave extensions. Google Wave’s latest updat...

ShiftPlanning Makes Setting Schedules for Businesses Easy

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see t...

Samsung Debuts 3D TV Lineup

3D is set to be big this year, and Samsung is hoping to tempt early adopters with a promotional offer that attempts to combat one of 3D TV’s main problems — lack of content &...

Foursquare Courts Business Users with Checkin Analysis Features

The Foursquare platform currently caters to consumers and offers businesses the ability to provide specials. Today, however, we’re learning more information about a business dashbo...

MacHeist Offers Early Access to Tweetie 2 for Mac

Tweetie for Mac is the newest bonus edition to the MacHeist nanoBundle 2 , which gives Mac users an opportunity to buy a variety of software for a discounted price. Additionally, buy...

“Tron Legacy” Trailer Featuring Jeff Bridges Hits the Web [VIDEO]

New Academy Award-winner Jeff Bridges reprises his role as arcade regular and computer programming genius Flynn in the trailer for Tron Legacy , which just made its official web debut...

Why Computer Engineer Barbie Is Good for Women in Tech

Rebecca Zook is an online female math tutor who has been helping students get math into their brains for seven years. She blogs about learning at Triangle Suitcase . Over half a mil...

Cisco CRS-3: Download Library of Congress in Just Over One Second

Cisco has announced a new routing system that it says is going to speed up the Internet in a big way. According to the company, Cisco CRS-3 — currently being tested by AT&T ...

Go Tribal Helps Friends Coordinate Informal Plans

Launching in beta today, Go Tribal tackles the other side of the equation from formal event services like Meetup or Plancast by helping members organize informal group plans. By id...

Amazon is Working on a Better Web Browser for Kindle

Ask any Kindle owner about browsing the web on the device, and you’ll get the same answer: Well, you can do it, but… And then you’ll hear how abysmal the browsing exper...

Foursquare Is Back in the App Store

A couple of days ago Foursquare’s iPhone application disappeared from the iPhone App Store due to a “hiccup.” If you doubted that was true, worry no more, as the appl...

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MGMT: "Flash Delirium"

MGMT's "Flash Delirium" is the first track leaked from the band's upcoming Congratulations album. And many of the elements of what made this duo so endearing ...

Wavves: Behind The Everything Except Music (Video)

Nathan Williams has laid pretty low since his epic performance art piece " Hype Gives Birth, Devours Children ," but of late Wavv...

Greg Laswell: Greg Laswell's 'Take A Bow' Out May 4, May/June Tour Dates To Follow

The fact that Greg Laswell has had five of his songs placed on Grey's Anatomy could imply that he appealed to an adult con...

U-N-I: "Land Of The Kings" f. Bun B (Remix)

California hip-hop duo U-N-I and producer Ro Blvd. dropped A Love Supreme for free in March 2009. And, since it was a solid effort, the album caught a lot of ...

The New Pornographers: Most Goodwill Generating Promo Ever?

The only thing more omnipresent than live music during South by Southwest is marketing, typically of the crass and ineffective variety; so props should be giv...

Jay Electronica: Jay Electronica Revisits New Orleans, Promises Debut Album

Late last Fall, while his newest cut, "Exhibit C," was garnering praise from both the heels and faces of Hip Hop, Jay Electronica spent some time in his h...

Album Announcement, Stars: Stars' Fifth Album, 'The Five Ghosts,' Out June 22

The title of Stars' The Five Ghosts, out June 22, may refer to the fact that the band has five members, who created the album "in a huge room w...

Lil Wayne, T-Pain: Watch: T-Pain's 'Freaknik: The Musical'

The promising, absolutely bonkers-sounding cartoon, Freaknik: The Musical premiered this weekend, and thanks to NahRight ,...

The Lonely Island: "Lazy Sunday" f. Chris Parnell & The Roots (Live Video)

Chris Parnell was on Jimmy Fallon last night, promoting whatever Chris Parnell is doing right now, and in another Internet-frien...

Raheem DeVaughn: "Bulletproof" (Live On Mo'Nique) (Video)

Here's a crazy thought: Mo'Nique, thanks to her unlikely Oscar win for Precious, is now the most decorated talk show host of all time. I mean, she hosted Flav...

Usher: "Oh My Gosh" f. Will.I.Am

Now that " Little Freak " has become something of a hit, Usher's Raymond vs. Raymond might be actually coming out, finally. It was delayed again last month, a...

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Cisco Enhances Network Security

Cisco recently announced the expansion of TrustSec to help create identity secured networks.

China Claims Google Never Filed Complaint

Chinese news sources report that Chinese officials say Google didn't report the cyber attacks it experienced to state authorities.

Verisign: Security Solutions Overwhelming to Consumers

Is the Internet safe? Jim Bidzos, who organized the first RSA conference in 1991, says most consumers don't think so.

Security Vendors Show Innovation at RSA

At the RSA Conference this week in San Francisco, some small vendors stood out for their innovative security solutions.

FBI to Private Sector: Cybersecurity Joint Effort

Successful busts, such as the Mariposa botnet, require international and private sector cooperation, said FBI director Robert Mueller at RSA.

Windows Security Gets Boost from ClamAV

Open source antivirus comes to the Windows desktop with a little help from a new cloud backend to accelerate security.

White House Declassifies Cybersecurity Plan

Obama's Internet security advisor tells RSA crowd they need to secure their data, but his big news was the disclosure of a White House initiative.

Symantec Chief Says Cloud Security the Next Step

Information is gold and cyber villains are getting more aggressive in their attempts to steal it. Data theft requires new ways of thinking, says Symantec CEO Enrique Salem at RSA.

IBM Pitches Code, Network Security

At RSA, IBM announces it will expand its security portfolio with new static code analysis and secure Web services.

Microsoft Warns: Don't Press "F1"

A new zero-day vulnerability threatens to use Windows help files against users, if they can be convinced to press F1, the traditional key for help. ("It's a trap!")

Citrix Improves Security with Web Application Firewall

Making sites go faster isn't enough for Citrix. Now it wants to make site delivery both faster and more secure.

Trojan Pretends to Be Microsoft Security Suite

Quick quiz: Does Microsoft charge users for its Security Essentials software? How do you tell whether software is from Microsoft or from hackers trying to hold your PC for ransom?

Windows 7 Anti-Piracy Update Available

Microsoft's update to its anti-piracy tool is now available via Windows Update, the company has confirmed.

Microsoft Takes Down Malicious 'Waledac' Botnet

But what can users do to disinfect hundreds of thousands of compromised computers worldwide, even as Microsoft suspends nearly 300 rogue Internet domains?

House Hears Testimony on Location vs. Privacy Debate

As location-based services begin to take off, privacy concerns have also been raised. Just how public should your location at any given time be?

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Report: North Korea Develops own Linux Distribution

North Korea has reportedly developed its own version of the Linux operating with a graphical user interface that closely resembles Microsoft Windows.

Ubuntu dumps the brown, introduces new theme and branding

Canonical is overhauling Ubuntu's branding identity and visual style. The new look includes an updated palette that replaces Ubuntu's signature brown with orange and aubergine.

Ubuntu gets a new logo and ditches brown!!!!!!111

New logo, new theme, new website, new everything... and it's actually pretty.

Should Open Source Be An Enemy Of The State?

While governments around the world adopt open source, U.S. business groups say we should fear it.

World's first open source restaurant now open for business

At the Instructables Restaurant, not only can you get the "source code" of the dish you ate, but you can download the plans to the furniture and fixtures as well.

"Please say Fedora."

"... He asked what version of Windows I was using to test and I told him I wasn't using Windows and instead was using Linux. I expected the 'We don’t support Linux' comment, but was floored when he said, 'Please say you are using Fedora.' I chimed in with a 'Sorry, using Kubuntu.' He chuckled then said, 'Some people will never learn.' We shot ..."

KDE Software Compilation 4.4.0 Introduces new innovations

Today the 4th feature release of the KDE workspaces, Applications and Development Platform in the KDE Software Compilation 4 series is released, bringing a new netbook interface, social and online collaboration features, infrastructural improvements and much more to its users. A guide is available which describes many of the improvements in detail!

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Engineering a parasite to tell you where it has been

Researchers insert a gene into a parasite that ensures that cells it infects can switch genes on or off, permanently marking infected cells.

How to Reboot Your Corpse

Thousands of bodies are already cryonically frozen, waiting for faster computers and medical advances that will undo their cause of death.

Chile Earthquake Moved Entire City 10 Feet to the West

Precise GPS measurements from before and after the earthquake show that the magnitude 8.8 quake that struck near Maule, Chile Feb. 27 moved the entire city of Concepcion 10 feet to the west.

Chile Earthquake Moved Entire City 10 Feet to the West

The magnitude 8.8 quake that struck near Maule, Chile, Feb. 27 moved the entire city of Concepcion 10 feet to the west.

Role Reversal: 5 Strange Tales of Animal Male Pregnancies

Male pregnancy is a rare but real phenomenon in the animal kingdom. In some instances, male pregnancy is the result of man-made chemicals having strange effects on male frogs and bass, prompting weird intersex developments. In other situations, male pregnancy is a natural part of how seahorses, pipefish and leafy sea dragons reproduce.

Stamp-Sized Paper “Chip” Diagnoses Diseases For Just a Penny

As far as mobile, ad-hoc medical labs for developing countries go, you can’t get any more mobile or ad-hoc than something the size of a postage stamp. One Harvard University chemist has developed an ultraportable “paper” chip that can diagnose killer diseases like malaria, HIV, hepatitis, and tuberculosis for just a penny at a time.

MIT researchers discover new way of producing electricity

A team of scientists at MIT have discovered a previously unknown phenomenon that can cause powerful waves of energy to shoot through minuscule wires known as carbon nanotubes. The discovery could lead to a new way of producing electricity, the researchers say.

Ritalin Boosts Learning by Increasing brain Plasticity

Doctors treat millions of children with Ritalin every year to improve their ability to focus on tasks, but scientists now report that Ritalin also directly enhances the speed of learning.

Sexual selection: Horny ladies

If females must compete, evolution will furnish them with weapons to do so. If the evolutionary circumstances demand it, females can be just as aggressive as males.

IBM Scientists Demonstrates Light-Based Chip Communication

"IBM scientists today unveiled a significant step towards replacing electrical signals that communicate via copper wires between computer chips with tiny silicon circuits that communicate using pulses of light."

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Research Calls Forensic DNA Technique Into Question | Wired Science | Wired.com

"Fine-grained analysis of DNA found in cell structures called mitochondria suggests that it can vary widely between tissues, making samples tricky to compare...."

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Engineers develop cancer-targeting nanoprobe sensors

"UC Berkeley scientists are designing smart nanoprobes, called nanocorals, to selectively attach to cancer cells, deliver therapeutic drugs and report on the local molecular environment. One side of the nanocorals is designed to selectively target the cell, while the other has a roughened surface to sense tell-tale chemical particles in the environment...."

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How fish oils add years to your life (and take years off your face!) | Mail Online

"There seems to be no end to the benefits of fish oils. Not only are they said to boost heart, brain and joint health, but they also prevent cancer, eye disease and bone problems.
Last week, a new study suggested they could assist the body against premature ageing. But how do you separate the facts from the hype?...."

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State of the Art - Windows 7 Cleans Up a Misstep - NYTimes.com

"Windows 7 comes out Thursday. And if the programmers at Microsoft have any strength left at all, they are high-fiving...."

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'Grow your own body parts' could herald in the age of the active centenarian - Telegraph

"British scientists are working on a system which should allow the elderly to buy body parts "off the shelf" and even regenerate their own damaged joints and hearts...."

Tags: science biology medicine research age

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Juggling and brain power | NHS/BBC

"The BBC today reports that 'complex tasks such as juggling produce significant changes to the structure of the brain'...."

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Robbie Williams: 'Take That are such good lads' | Digital Spy | Music - News

"The Take That tour was fantastic," he said. "The show was amazing. It was f**king phenomenal. I did fancy being a part of it. Yes, I did...."

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Mainsoft bridges the gap between Google and Microsoft

Cross-platform interoperability vendor Mainsoft has announced today the beta of its Harmony software, which provides full access to Google Docs document libraries from within Outlook. The soft...

Android native development kit updated

Developers of the Google-backed Android mobile application platform have released revision 3 of Android NDK (Native Development Kit), which complements Android SDK by enabling developers to bu...

Cisco unveils next Internet core router

Cisco Systems on Tuesday introduced its next-generation Internet core router, the CRS-3, with about three times the capacity of its current platform. "The Internet will scale faster than any...

Schneier: Fight for online privacy or kiss it good-bye

If the public wants online privacy it had better fight now for laws to protect it because businesses won't and individuals don't have the clout, security expert Bruce Schneier told RSA Confe...

EMC offers deduplication, thin provisioning for VMware on Celerra

EMC today announced an upgrade to the management software on its Celerra network-attached storage (NAS) arrays that will allow administrators to apply deduplication, thin provisioning and bu...

Intel sees 2012 deployment for mobile WiMax Release 2

Chip giant Intel, a major backer of the movement to provide mobile WiMax wireless broadband to Internet users around the world, expects the next major release of the technology to be deployed ...

Opera Software to patch browser vulnerability soon

Opera Software will soon patch a vulnerability in its Web browser that could allow an attacker to run malicious software on a Windows computer. The problem affects Opera browser version 10.5...

IT adds 25,000-plus jobs so far in 2010

IT employment grew by 0.37 percent, or 14,000 jobs, in February, one of the strongest month-to-month gains since 2008, according to the TechServe Alliance, an IT services industry group that a...

IT adds 25,000-plus jobs so far in 2010

IT employment grew by 0.37 percent, or 14,000 jobs, in February, one of the strongest month-to-month gains since 2008, according to the TechServe Alliance, an IT services industry group that a...

Cast Iron rolls out OmniConnect data integration kit

Data integration specialist Cast Iron Systems is about to release a new offering aimed at both on-premises and cloud-based scenarios. Cast Iron OmniConnect, to be available Tuesday, repres...

Microsoft reportedly moves up Windows 7 SP1 release date

Even though Microsoft has dropped a plan to wait nearly two years after Windows 7's launch to issue a first service pack, it won't deliver the update before the fourth quarter of this year, a ...

Microsoft reportedly moves up Windows 7 SP1 release date

Even though Microsoft has dropped a plan to wait nearly two years after Windows 7's launch to issue a first service pack, it won't deliver the update before the fourth quarter of this year, a ...

New Capgemini unit to offer cloud help

The technical services group of Capgemini has traditionally helped companies with system integration, but cloud computing is changing that. The company is increasingly assembling lots of dif...

What to expect from HTML5

Among Web developers, anticipation is mounting for HTML5 , the overhaul of the Web markup language currently under way at the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C). For many, the revamping is long o...

Eclipse restructures Mylyn task-focused interface project

The Eclipse Foundation on Monday is announcing a restructuring of its Mylyn task-focused interface project, adding subprojects for several functions.