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Indiana backing away from bill allowing creation "science" into classrooms

Loyd Case — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:20:00 +0000

Earlier this week, we reported on efforts by an Indiana state legislator who was interested in getting creationism inserted into the state's science classrooms. He managed to get a modified bill , one that was less sectarian but still overtly promoted religion, passed by the state's Senate[......]

"I was punched in the face": Kim Dotcom says police used excessive force in raid

Nathan Edwards — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:35:48 +0000

Kim Dotcom testifying in court Thursday Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom (read our in-depth profile ) was denied bail on Thursday by a New Zealand court. Dotcom insisted that he had no desire to flee the country and merely wanted to be with his pregnant wife and their three young children. [......]

Motorola, Woot.com Sold Refurbished Xooms With Previous User Data Intact

Brad Chacos — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:20:54 +0000

Quick question: what's the one thing you should absolutely, positively do any time you trade in or return a piece of used tech? [......]

Dropbox Offers Up To 5GB Of Additional Space To Beta Build Users

Brad Chacos — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:42:25 +0000

Dropbox has a lot of things going for it, but if you use the cloud storage service with any regularity, there's a good chance you'll bang up against the 2GB offered in the free version fairly quickly. (Assuming that you don't Gmail account chain trick outlined in our Dropbox Cheat Sheet , that is.) If you're chafing at your no-cost bonds, the service is giving you an opportunity to add up to another 5GB of space absolutely free -- if you're willing to be a guinea pig, that is. Dropbox is still working out kinks in its as-yet-unreleased automatic photo and video upload support, you see. [......]

Anonymous pokes fate bear, leaks FBI conference call about Anonymous

Paul Lilly — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:36:00 +0000

Anonymous has begun taunting its police pursuers in ever-more aggressive ways, upping the ante today by releasing an internal FBI conference call in which agents from across the country and police in the UK share status updates on their investigations of the group—and reveal that major new action is coming soon. Much of the call is taken up by a UK investigator from the Metropolitan Police who comes across as eager to curry favor with the FBI[......]

PowerColor Teases Water Cooled LCS Radeon HD 7970 Graphics Card

Paul Lilly — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:38:15 +0000

Thanks to the wonder of social networking, we're able to catch an early glimpse of PowerColor's upcoming 'LCS HD7970' graphics card. PowerColor posted a photo of the liquid cooled card on its Facebook page with a promise that "Something cool is coming soon!" That "something cool" is a Radeon HD 7970 videocard stripped of its air cooled heatsink and replaced with a single-slot full cover water block from EK Waterblocks. [......]

Motherboard Price Hikes Rumored to be Just Around the Corner

Paul Lilly — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:24:44 +0000

Rolling your own rig is just as much about timing as it is part selection. Consider that around this time a year ago, hard drive makers were practically giving platters of storage away and backing them with longer warranties. Mother Nature ruined all that, and she's partially to blame for rising motherboard prices, which some industry sources predict are getting ready to spike[......]

Eurocom Leopard 2.0 is a Beastly 18.4-inch Dual GPU Workstation

Paul Lilly — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:07:15 +0000

A quick glance at Eurocom's website gives the impression the outfit is running a zoo, but the Cheetah, Cougar, Panther, Puma, and Leopard are all high-performance notebook PCs, and the newly refined Leopard 2.0 is a mobile workstation to be reckoned with. It starts with an 18.4-inch Full HD (1920x1080) display and continues with loads of configuration options. Pricing starts at about $1,550 for a setup that's tame compared to all the available upgrades. [......]

Feds seize 307 sports-related domains in advance of Super Bowl

Ludwig — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:53:03 +0000

Federal authorities said Thursday they had seized and shuttered 307 domains, 16 allegedly engaged in unauthorized live sports streaming and the remainder accused of selling fake professional sports merchandise, including National Football League paraphernalia. The seizure, the biggest to date under the Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdown known as Operation in Our Sites , (PDF) brings the total to more than 650 domains shuttered since the program began in June of 2010[......]

Post-IPO, Facebook will have to make privacy investigations public

Ryan Whitwam — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:20:00 +0000

When it comes to information privacy concerns, Facebook already has a bullseye on its back. That won't change now that Facebook is going public in its highly anticipated Initial Public Offering (IPO). But disclosure rules affecting publicly traded companies may force Facebook to reveal privacy-related investigations that it otherwise might have kept secret[......]