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Apple may become a target of  hackers, say WikiLeak fans.

Apple drops WikiLeaks, Google maintains app

Apple has joined a growing number of U.S. companies that have severed ties with WikiLeaks, removing an application from its online store that gave users access to the controversial website's content.


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As Washington policymakers consider stronger online privacy protections, a new poll has found that nearly 7 out of 10 Internet users in the U.S. don’t think advertisers should be allowed to target them based on their Web-surfing habits.
 
 
 
A divided U.S. Federal Communications Commission adopted Internet traffic rules, provoking warnings they would be rejected in the courts and threats from Republican lawmakers to overturn them.
 
 

Mobile TV

 
 
Rabbit ears on a mobile phone? Well, not exactly, but American broadcasters and gadget manufacturers are working to beam live television to portable devices.
 
 

From the Blogs

 

The Walking Dead - A Teaser to Hold You Over

Now that we have to wait an intolerable year for Season Two of The Walking Dead on AMC to start up, all we zombie fans have to go on are weak teasers ...

 

Game theory: When starting a war saves lives

What? A geek blog talking international politics? Sure. In fact, this is the perfect place for it, because politics basically all comes down to game theory...

 

Russian spy Anna Chapman to post for Playboy: reports

Remember the days when spies were not seen or heard? Those were the days, when you only ever knew a spy was a spy when someone shivved them in the back...

 

Best of YouTube

 

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Best of YouTube: Week of December 20, 2010

Here's a look at the latest videos making the rounds on YouTube this week.

 
 

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Gizmos & Gadgets

Toshiba 3D television

‘World’s first’ glasses-free 3D TV hits stores in Japan

Toshiba on Wednesday launched in Japan what it calls the world’s first television that allows viewers to see 3D images without having to wear special glasses, amid intensifying competition in the market.


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Apple battles for control of the digital living room

Apple expects sales of Apple TV to top one million units this week, showing that the device is gaining acceptance in bringing the Web to TV.


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Intel gets approval to buy McAfee

Intel has won approval from U.S. Federal Trade Commission for its proposed $7.68-billion acquisition of security specialist McAfee, the chipmaker said.


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Europe seen needing regulation on Internet access

Europe’s confidence that it need not follow the United States in adopting rules to ensure fair Internet access may be short-lived, as competition between mobile operators and service providers like Skype intensifies.


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Massive Antarctic IceCube to help search for dark matter

An extraordinary underground observatory for subatomic particles has been completed in a huge cube of ice one kilometre on each side deep under the South Pole, researchers said.


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Winter weather

Biting winters driven by global warming: scientists

Counter-intuitive but true, say scientists: a string of freezing European winters scattered over the last decade has been driven in large part by global warming.


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The Moon is engulfed in the Earth's shadow during the peak of a rare winter solstice total lunar eclipse as viewed through a telescope from Palm Beach Gardens December 21, 2010. Reuters/Doug Murray

Moonstruck: Lunar eclipse meets winter solstice in rare cosmic coincidence

Canadians coast-to-coast can witness the rare cosmic coincidence of the winter solstice aligning with a lunar eclipse early Tuesday morning, provided the weather behaves.


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Blogs

 

Bits and Bytes

This blog is a safe haven for people attending Internet Addicts...


 

Dark Matter

Let's skip the heavy lifting in science. Dark Matter takes you...


 

Digital Life

The Vancouver Sun's Gillian Shaw and her take on the latest ...


 

Technocité

Roberto Rocha started this blog to keep geeks in the know of...


 

Button Mash

Ben Gelinas and friends leap headlong into the world of video...


 

Bits and Bytes

This blog is a safe haven for people attending Internet Addicts...


 
 

Gaming

 
 

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Call of Duty: Black Ops

"Call of Duty: Black Ops’ sales top one billion dollars

"Call of Duty: Black Ops," the new videogame from Activision Blizzard, has crossed the one-billion-dollar mark in worldwide sales, the company said Tuesday.


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Fallout: New Vegas

"Fallout: New Vegas’ ups antes with downloads

Bethesda Softworks is building on the rock star debut of "Fallout: New Vegas" with the December release of a new chapter of the epic videogame exclusively for play on Xbox 360 consoles.


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New video game reveals dark side of Mickey

The happiest place on Earth has a doppelganger. It's called Wasteland. Its denizens are forgotten, dejected and resentful, but they're not seething with rage. This is, after all, still a Walt Disney Co. property, even if its moniker is a topsy-turvy twist on the Disneyland theme park where no one really dies and fairy princesses always prevail.


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Sony on track to sell 15M PS3s this fiscal year

Sony Corp. is on target to sell 15 million Play-Station 3 game consoles in the business year to March 31, 2011, a company executive said on Wednesday.


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