1. New Software Update for Nexus One phones 7 hours ago   permalink

New Software Update for Nexus One phones
Googlenexusoneboard.blogspot.com

Starting today, Nexus One users will begin to receive an over-the-air software update on their phones. This update provides some great new features, and fixes a few problems that some users might have experienced, including:

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2. The Marriage Equality Debate And DADT 37 minutes ago   permalink

Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

In their effort to appear reasonable and tolerant [when opposing marriage equality], mainstream conservatives have agreed that it is not acceptable to hate or fear anyone because of their sexual orientation. Once you've agreed that anti-gay feeling is illegitimate, you can't turn around and argue that gays should be kept out of the ...

3. Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra is ‘Bullshit,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple’s Steve Jobs 4 hours ago   permalink

Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra is ‘Bullshit,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple’s Steve Jobs
Www.wired.com

After a big public announcement of the sort Apple had this week for the iPad CEO Steve Jobs often takes time in the day or two afterwards to have a Town Hall at One Infinite Loop, making himself available for questions from employees bold enough to stand up and take one right between the eyes.

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4. Face Of The Day 56 minutes ago   permalink

Face Of The Day
Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

Moses, a gay Ugandan man seeking asylum in the United States, hides his face with a makeshift hood as he attends a press conference in Washington, DC, on February 2, 2010. The press conference was organized to announce the formation of 'The American Prayer Hour,' a multi-city event to 'affirm inclusive values and call on all nations, ...

5. Archaeologists find evidence of birds' dinosaur ancestors 36 minutes ago   permalink

Archaeologists find evidence of birds' dinosaur ancestors
Ars Technica

Many different kinds of animals coexisted during the Jurassic period, from primitive birds to two-legged, large-jawed dinosaurs. As different as they sound, archaeologists have suspected that they share a common ancestry. Two new studies of fossils from China show that bird-like dinosaurs predate the earliest official birds, and shed light on ...

6. Video: Android’s New Pinch-To-Zoom Multi-Touch In Action 3 hours ago   permalink

MG Siegler / TechCrunch

As we noted earlier , Google announced an update today to its Android OS for Nexus One phones that would enable the pinch-to-zoom multi-touch feature for the first time in a few Google apps: Maps, Gallery, and the Web Browser. We've just received the update, which is technically firmware 2.1-update1, and have taken a video of the new ...

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Research.google.com
Google Focused Research Awards   —  On Tuesday February 2nd, we announced the first-ever round of Google Focused Research Awards. These awards are for research in areas of study that are of key interest to Google as well as the research community.

A Googler / The Official Google Blog
Announcing Google's Focused Research Awards   —  (Cross-posted with the Google Research Blog ) It is said that Google is like a university — and not just because everyone eats their lunch off trays in the cafeteria. Like a university, we devote significant energy to research across a wide array of subjects — from semantics to help improve search, to ways we can improve the efficiency of ...

7. Street Scenes of Munich: 1 hour ago   permalink

Street Scenes of Munich:
Omis.me

Earlier this month I was invited to conduct an on stage interview with Jason Kilar, chief executive officer of Huluthe DLD conference in Munich. It gave me a chance to visit the city, walk around in bitter cold and look around what is arguably one of the cleanest and quietest cities in the world.

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8. Dissent Of The Day 1 hour ago   permalink

Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

I agree with you that the Green Revolution in Iran was an extremely important event in 2009. But what is up with that video? I think it really cheapens the entire thing. It uses audio clips from Hollywood movies and puts them into the mouths of real people, living through real events, that, trust me, are no Hollywood movie (did I hear Jean-Luc ...

9. News Corp posts $254m profit 1 hour ago   permalink

Andrew Clark / The Guardian World News

Rupert Murdoch says he is moving closer to charging for all News Corp's newspaper websites Sophisticated tablet computers, ­ereaders and smartphones would be unloved "empty vessels" without quality creative content, Rupert Murdoch said yesterday as his News Corporation empire opened a new front in its battle to get consumers to pay for ...

10. Barak: make peace with Palestinians 1 hour ago   permalink

Barak: make peace with Palestinians
Rory McCarthy / The Guardian World News

Ehud Barak, Israel's defence minister, last night delivered an unusually blunt ­warning to his country that a failure to make peace with the Palestinians would leave either a state with no Jewish ­majority or an "apartheid" regime. His stark language and the South African analogy might have been unthinkable for a senior Israeli figure only a ...

11. The GOP vs The Military 1 hour ago   permalink

Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

Obama has spent a year following the guidance of military leaders, and Republicans have spent a year breaking with the judgment of the military establishment.

12. Hidden Backdoors On Torrent Sites Led To The Latest Twitter Attack 1 hour ago   permalink

Hidden Backdoors On Torrent Sites Led To The Latest Twitter Attack
MG Siegler / TechCrunch

Early this morning, Twitter began alerting certain users to reset their passwords because of a possible phishing attack. They later elaborated on it a bit but it still wasn't clear exactly what was going on. Now they've felt the need to fully go into exactly what went down — and it's fairly interesting. On their Twitter Status blog ( ...

13. Yes, A Carbon Tax Would Be Better 2 hours ago   permalink

Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

Here’s the crazy thing about energy policy: If you want off oil, the only way to preserve free markets is by raising energy taxes. If you seek to quit oil without raising taxes, you plunge into a welter of subsidies and special favors. And that, sorry to say, is the course the Obama administration has chosen.

14. Apple kills USB syncing for apps, but alternative is coming 2 hours ago   permalink

Apple kills USB syncing for apps, but alternative is coming
Ars Technica

USB app syncing is coming to an end for iPhone users, but it may not be the end of the world. Apple recently asked Lexcycle to remove USB syncing capabilities from its popular e-book reading app Stanza, prompting the ire of many users. While loss of the feature is upsetting, the good news is that Apple has an alternative planned for a future ...

15. Sony Ericsson Aspen Smartphone Offers Windows Mobile 6.5.3 3 hours ago   permalink

Sony Ericsson Aspen Smartphone Offers Windows Mobile 6.5.3
Www.eweek.com

The Sony Ericsson Aspen is the latest in the GreenHeart line, which promotes recycled materials, energy-efficient chargers and waterborne paints. It pairs the Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.5.3 OS with enterprise e-mail support, Wi-Fi and a qwerty keypad.

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16. Hull 1-1 Chelsea 4 hours ago   permalink

Hull 1-1 Chelsea
BBC Sport

Hull City produce a manful performance to hold Chelsea to a surprise draw as the title hopefuls miss the chance to take their league lead to four points.

17. HDTV Listings for 4 hours ago   permalink

HDTV Listings for
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18. PM to enable referendum on voting 4 hours ago   permalink

Patrick Wintour / The Guardian World News

Labour strategists hope move may form platform for possible Lib-Lab pact in event of hung parliament • Graphic: How the alternative voting system works Gordon Brown vowed today that he would overcome a daunting timetable to force through a law in the next two months requiring a referendum to be held on changes to the voting system for the ...

19. Toyota accelerates into trouble 5 hours ago   permalink

Robert Booth / The Guardian World News

Japanese company criticised over 'incredibly dangerous' fault as RoSPA calls for an immediate inquiry Toyota was under pressure today over the accelerator fault that is forcing it to recall 2m cars across Europe as the RAC described the problem as "incredibly dangerous" and urged concerned owners to have their vehicles checked immediately. Amid ...

20. The Secret World of Corporate Espionage 5 hours ago   permalink

The Secret World of Corporate Espionage
Www.harpercollins.com

“Eamon Javers has produced a remarkable book about the secret world of business warfare—a world filled with corporate spies and covert ops and skullduggery… An important book that has the added pleasure of reading like a spy novel.” —David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z

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