Kutner and Olson have documented their findings in Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games, where they stress the importance of parental education and awareness. In a society where children who don’t play games are considered to be socially inept, it is important for parents to understand what their kids are playing. [...]

Yesterday’s New York Times
story about Starbucks losing credibility among music fans has attracted
a lot of
commentary. The gist of the story: Starbucks went too mainstream by stocking artists like Alicia Keys and James Blunt, so its customers figure they might as well shop at Wal-Mart, which stocks the same CDs at lower prices. The record industry, [...]

Gefen is adding hard-drive encryption to its High-Definition Personal Video Recorder to ensure that it won’t become an easy avenue for video piracy. Doing so will bring the product into line with other commercially available set-top recorders and DVRs, all of which encrypt video recordings to ensure they won’t be played back outside of the [...]

Update at July 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT with additional information and corrections concerning the Intel-Nvidia dispute.
Nvidia said Monday that its multichip technology will be architected to work on Intel’s upcoming Nehalem chip platform.
Nvidia SLI technology supports multiple graphics boards.
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Nvidia)
This announcement may help Nvidia to work around a standoff with Intel over whether Nvidia can make [...]

Besides the face-lift, one of Firefox 3’s less flashy, but incredibly useful features, is the new bookmarking system. Yeah, there are still folders and bookmarklets, but joining the party are useful items like tags, smart backup, and a new way to track which sites you’re actually visiting to help weed out what’s unneeded.
We’ve [...]

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I spent my lunch today in Buenos Aires with Red Hat’s general manager of South America, which I’ll report on tomorrow. Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet, Red Hat announced a cool deal with Munich Airport, thrice-named “Airport of the Year” in Europe.
Why? Because Unix couldn’t deliver the performance that Munich Airport needed, [...]

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If you’re a fan of those John Carmack interviews that pop up every once in a while, you’ll probably enjoy the interview with Tim Sweeney over at Ars Technica. Tim is one of the co-founders of Epic Games, and also one of the creators of the technology behind the Unreal and Gears of War [...]

Welcome, Gateway!

So, you’re doing the colored/crazy-designed notebook thing now, huh? Yeah, so is, well, everyone else.

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Gateway)

It’s pretty well-established now that the masses see their computer as an extension of their personalities. First, it was the brightly hued notebook trend that all the top-tier PC makers were latching on to, including Gateway. Now as [...]

LAS VEGAS–AT&T’s top wireless man told the Wall Street Journal at the
CTIA tradeshow here this week that the company is considering using Google’s Android handsets.
Ralph de la Vega, head of AT&T’s wireless unit, told the Journal he has reviewed the technology closely and is “confident it is something we are going to want in [...]

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In my estimation, the GPL is by far the world’s best open-source license for business. If Palamida’s recent count of GPLv3-licensed projects is any indication, business in open source is very, very good:
Our database now contains over 2,000 projects that are using the GPL v3. At this rate the GPL v3 is being adopted by [...]