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I have to admit, I laughed at this. Yes folks, that is Morse code. Comments

Well, it looks like it's a done deal. Let's see where this takes us from here...well, beside courtrooms. In a landmark decision today, the FCC voted 3-2 to create enforceable, bright-line rules protecting the open internet using their Title II authority to reclassify broadband internet as a telecommunications service. The commission's order creates three bright-line rules: Broadband providers may not block access to legal content, applications, services, or non-harmful devices. They may not impair or degrade lawful internet traffic on the basis of content, application, services, or any classes thereof. They may not favor some internet traffic over other internet traffic in exchange for consideration of any kind — no paid prioritization or fast lanes. Comments

The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously voted today to make Google's former patent chief the director of the US Patent and Trademark Office. USPTO directors have come from the tech sector before—the last director, David Kappos, was a top lawyer at IBM. But Lee's appointment marks the first time someone with a background from an Internet-focused company will take the helm at USPTO. While she was at Google, Lee became one of the most outspoken corporate lawyers on the problem of "patent trolls" plaguing the system with their lawsuits. Comments

It's a good day for proponents of an open internet: The Federal Communications Commission just approved its long-awaited network neutrality plan, which reclassifies broadband internet as a Title II public utility and gives the agency more regulatory ...

Rumors have long suggested that Google might separate the parts of Google+ that people have been most interested in -- photos and messaging / Hangouts -- away from the social network's main stream. Now it appears that Sundar Pichai agrees with that v...

You'll have to change your music-buying habits starting this summer, because new albums are going to be released every Friday at exactly 00:01, instead of Tuesdays like you're used to. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI),...

I had no idea anyone could write an article this long on how video game physics work. What's that you say? Breast physics? More boobs please! Certain games have failed at rendering realistic breasts so widely that some people seem convinced that bad breast physics are the result of sexism, or of an industry that likes to objectify women. I've seen unfair conjecture about whether or not developers have ever interacted with real-life breasts. I've seen people imply that developers simply don't know how to properly characterize women in games, and that gaming's ocean of unrealistic breasts is what happens when we have so few women developing games. Comments

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Photo credit: UOL UOL A judge in charge of the trial of one of Brazil's richest men has been caught driving one of the billionaire's seized cars after a tip-off from the businessman's lawyer. Judge Flavio Roberto de Souza has been overseeing criminal proceedings against entrepreneur Eike Batista, who used to hold the title of being Brazil's most wealthy man. continue reading

Flash is fast going the way of the dinosaur both in the mobile space and in the PC internet market

Paris has an unusual (and rather nerve-wracking) flying robot problem on its hands. Residents have spotted drones illegally flying over city landmarks over the past two evenings, including hotspots like the Eiffel Tower, the Invalides military museum...

Call up your plastic band mates as a report from Bloomberg Business is claiming a PlayStation 4 and Xbox One version of Rock Band is currently in development.

The report cites a source familiar with plans for the game, who says series creator Harmonix Music Systems will be developing the next Rock Band for a new generation of consoles.

Earlier this year, Harmonix released some new Rock Band DLC, which didn’t receive any additions since 2013. In fact, just this week the developer released new Tenacious D and Weezer tracks.

The last time we received any kind of Rock Band game was when Rock Band Blitz was released back in 2012, which focused more on using standard game console controllers to play music tracks rather than having to dig up your plastic instruments from their plastic graves in an attic, basement, or across various closets.

This news comes just a few months after rumors circulated Activision was working on a new Guitar Hero game for current-gen consoles. If that turns out to be true, then we could already be seeing an oversaturation of music games before it even makes a proper comeback.

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If you're still watching cable, it turns out that channels like TBS and TNT are now speeding up syndicated programs, classics films and other shows by as much as 7 percent. We hadn't noticed it much ourselves, but the trend was spotted by Snopes and ...

Considering their main role is supplying the everyday essentials, Britain's supermarkets are strangely into their tech. When they're not running streaming services (or offloading them), making tablets, dabbling in prototype wearable apps and trying t...

The Flow Hive is a new beehive invention that promises to eliminate the more laborious aspects of collecting honey from a beehive with a novel spigot system that taps into specially designed honeycomb frames. Invented over the last decade by father and son beekeepers Stuart and Cedar Anderson, the system eliminates the traditional process of honey extraction where frames are removed from beehives, opened with hot knives, and loaded into a machine that uses centrifugal force to get the honey out. Here is how the Andersons explain their design:

The Flow frame consists of already partly formed honeycomb cells. The bees complete the comb with their wax, fill the cells with honey and cap the cells as usual. When you turn the tool, a bit like a tap, the cells split vertically inside the comb forming channels allowing the honey to flow down to a sealed trough at the base of the frame and out of the hive while the bees are practically undisturbed on the comb surface.

When the honey has finished draining you turn the tap again in the upper slot resets the comb into the original position and allows the bees to chew the wax capping away, and fill it with honey again.

It’s difficult to say how this might scale up for commercial operations, but for urban or backyard beekeeping it seems like a whole lot of fun. It wouldn’t be hard to imagine these on the roof of a restaurant where honey could be extracted daily, or for use by kids or others who might be more squeamish around live bees. You can see more on their website and over on Facebook.

Update: The Flow Hive is currently seeking funding on IndieGogo. So far they’ve raised $1.8 million dollars in 16 hours.

<a href=/bands/band.php?band_id=60&bandname=Iron+Maiden>Iron Maiden</a> surprised fans today with unexpected and worrying news. According to the band, just before Christmas, the band's legendary vocalist Bruce Dickinson visited his doctor for a routine check-up. This led to tests and biopsies which revealed a small cancerous tumour at the back of his tongue. A seven week course of chemotherapy and radiology treatment was completed yesterday. As the tumour was caught in the early stages, the prognosis is extremely good. Hopefully, Bruce Dickinson will win this battle and make a complete recovery. <a href="/events/news_comments.php?news_id=25769>Read more...</a>

Greed 101. If you have bought a Lenovo laptop this or last year and haven’t heard yet, one of the most successful PC makers has been caught installing adware on a number of machines with reports starting from mid-2014. Basically, a software called Superfish is injecting third party ads on Google searches. Not only that, […]

Shows that they do listen to the community. If you visit Microsoft’s User Voice web site, on the very first page you will find a request to implement Mozilla’s asm.js, which is a strict subset of the JavaScript language that brings significant performance improvements. As a result, you can run heavy stuff like Unreal Engine […]

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AFP/Getty Images The Institute of Economic Affairs thinks we should scrap rail tracks and convert them into bus lanes as a "viable alternative" to the current infrastructure. Because it's not bad enough when three buses are drudging the same route, so we're sure 150 will be able to cope. continue reading

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Photo credit: SWNS SWNS Council workers in Havering, greater London, have been slammed for their incompetence after painting a parking space around a lamp post. continue reading