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12 minutes ago
In the high-energy physics community, all eyes have been on Europe for some time, as the Large
Hadron Collider , or LHC, has proceeded in fits and starts to become, in 2009, the most powerful
atom smasher the world has ever seen. But as the LHC has taken shape in an underground tunnel
outside Geneva, colliders stateside have been fading into retirement. At the start of 2008 the
U.S. had four colliders; if Fermilab's Tevatron shuts down as planned in 2011 , the U.S. will
soon be down to one: the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider, or RHIC , at Brookhaven National
Laboratory in New York.
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Download Squad -
15 minutes ago
Filed under: Security,
Web services,
Social Software,
Microblogging
 In response to a
bunch of recent phishing scams on Twitter -- all of which took advantage of Direct Messages and
shortened URLs -- Twitter has decided to launch its own URL shortener to boost security.
The new shortener is called twt.tl -- little? Twittle? I think I
get it! -- and it will allow Twitter to find malicious links as they're shortened, rather than
waiting until they've been direct messaged to everyone under the sun.
But what of Twitter's url-shortening partner, Bit.ly?
Twitter elevated Bit.ly to the number one spot in the shortening market by making it the default
for shortlinks, but it looks like the service might become a casualty of Twitter's security
concerns. That won't happen for a while, though, because twt.tl's initial rollout will be for
direct messages -- and email notifications about direct messages -- only. I'd bet on seeing it
spread to the public timeline eventually, though.
Will
Twitter's twt.tl URL shortener kneecap competitors? originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:07:00 EST. Please see
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Forbes.com: News -
17 minutes ago
Options players position themselves bearishly on a day that Wells Fargo sees decent gains.
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Forbes.com: News -
21 minutes ago
It's good when relationships evolve organically, but it's great when you can go out and find a
mentor.
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22 minutes ago
This breezy home in a South Florida enclave offers top-tier amenities and a beach attitude.
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Autoblog -
23 minutes ago
Filed under: Truck, Etc., Safety, Videos, Work
Click above to watch the video
after the jump
Is this a highway or the set of a new Bruce Willis flick? What appears to be a cell
phone-wielding cameraman has captured some timely highway footage of a truck driver hauling more
than just a few dozen tons of potentially hazardous liquid. We have no idea how a vehicle,
apparently a Renault Clio, could possibly find itself in such a precarious and perpendicular
position, but we're even more puzzled as to how the truck driver could possibly pass other vehicles
in traffic without noticing a 3,000 pound vehicle on its nose.
Assuming this is real and not some sort of staged stunt, we're sure hope the driver of the Clio
escaped this unfortunate incident unharmed, because otherwise we would feel really guilty about the
fact that we laughed at the fact that the brake lights were flashing on and off. Like that was
going to do anything. Check out the video for yourself by
hitting the jump. The video footage is admittedly less than great, but we feel the bizarre
nature of the subject matter is worth a look.
[Source: YouTube]
Continue reading Video: This truck driver has got something on his
nose...
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27 minutes ago
Chinese jewelry designer plummets after warning that 2009 profits were overstated.
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Mashable! -
27 minutes ago
 The
Nexus One carrier rollout continues! Sprint has announced that the flagship Android phone will be coming to its
network “soon.”
This comes just one day after a new version of the Nexus One, compatible with AT&T and Rogers 3G networks, was made available from
Google’s online store.
Sales of the Nexus One have been
lackluster, something we attribute in part to carrier limitations. In addition to Rogers and
AT&T, the Nexus One is also expected to hit the Verizon network later this
spring.
Sprint didn’t offer any details on the price or availability date of the phone, only
noting: “While a pricing plan has not yet been determined for Nexus One, we are confident
that it will be consistent with Sprint’s commitment to deliver more value than our
competitors and keep pricing simple.”
Currently only T-Mobile offers the Nexus One at a subsidized rate. The new AT&T/Rogers
variant is only available at an unlocked price of $529. If Sprint is also offering the phone at
subsidized rate for new or existing customers, it could be a big seller for the company.
Sprint and Verizon use the same network technology (CDMA), and while phones are not
interchangeable between networks (theoretically it is possible, but the steps involved make it an
option even most phone geeks will avoid), manufacturers frequently release handsets for both
networks at the same time.
Are you interested in a Nexus One on Sprint? Let us know!
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Engadget -
35 minutes ago
 It's been a
year or so since RIM announced that push
APIs had become available to its Alliance Program members, and now it looks like the rest of us
are finally able to get in on the action (at least those of us who are BlackBerry devs). Starting
today, access comes in two packages: either BlackBerry Push Essentials (the free version) or
BlackBerry Push Plus with a number of tiers that reflect different options and price points. So,
what are you waiting for? If it's good enough to implement in Weather Bug Elite it's good enough
for your application, right? Hit the source link to get started.
BlackBerry
push framework now available to all developers originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Cinematical -
37 minutes ago
The first thing you notice about Lebanon,
Pa. is how freaking gorgeous it is. There was a time when you came to a festival like SXSW
expecting its indie world premiere slate to largely feature movies that look like they were shot
through a screen door. Ben Hickernell's second feature, "filmed" on a $15,000 Red One camera in
Philadelphia and surrounding communities, looks as good as any moderately budgeted studio feature,
and better than most. The fact that filmmaking has become so cheap anyone can do it is repeated so
often that it's become a truism, but I'm not sure any movie has illustrated it as starkly as this
one. The effect is amplified by the fact that I saw Hickernell's debut, Cellar, five years
ago at the now-defunct Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema. It did not look like this.
Not that Ben Hickernell is "anyone." Lebanon, Pa. is problematic, but it does a lot of
things right, and winds up being one of the more engaging films at this year's festival. An
urban-rural culture clash drama, it begins with the death of the protagonist's father, who moved
from Philly to the titular rural community after leaving his wife and son when the latter was a
young boy. The son, who is named Will and is now a hunky big-city ad man played by TV vet Josh Hopkins, has to travel to
Lebanon to sell dad's house and otherwise get his affairs in order.
Filed under: Drama, SXSW, Theatrical Reviews
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Boing Boing -
37 minutes ago
Watch above in delight as a Wilford Brimleyesque feline named Cooper demonstrates the fine art of
BANG DEAD. It's the fisheye lens what makes it magic. more at sweetfurr.blogspot.com. (thanks,
Susannah!) Previously:Wilford Brimley and the five cats who resemble him...
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Forbes.com: News -
39 minutes ago
Japan's stock market is up 61% in U.S. dollars, but Forbes editors debate if the rise will last.
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CNET News.com -
39 minutes ago
According to iLounge, the ban is going to cover both film-only products and cases that incorporate
protective screens. It applies to products both decorative and protective across all Apple product
lines.
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digg -
42 minutes ago
"We were horrified to learn for every few lines of cocaine snorted in a London club, four square
metres of rain forest is destroyed," British politican Kieth Vaz said, according to the Mirror.
 
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Treehouses bring us closer to nature, and appeal to the kid in all of us.
 
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Over 500 athletes from 44 countries around the world have once again descended on Vancouver Canada,
for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Paralympic Games, (officially known as the X Paralympic Winter
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42 minutes ago
While most of the world happily enjoys Internet’s free services such as Twitter, YouTube,
Facebook and Google, in China these are either inaccessible or might become so in the following
months.
 
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Forbes.com: News -
42 minutes ago
Credit card issuer will repay government funds. So will the Hartford Group.
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BusinessWeek Online -- -
44 minutes ago
Jerome York, a director of Apple Inc. and former chief financial officer of International Business
Machines Corp. and Chrysler Corp., is hospitalized in critical condition today in Pontiac,
Michigan.
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Techdirt -
44 minutes ago
Earlier this year, we wrote about some Fourth Amendment questions when it
came to information stored in the cloud -- and a recent legal ruling provides some new troubling
views on this matter. Slashdot points us to Orin Kerr's excellent analysis of a recent 11th Circuit decision, that basically says once an email
is delivered, there's no Fourth Amendment protections of that email. But, as Kerr notes, the real
problem here (as with so many issues in the digital world) is that the court seems to be
confusing copies of digital content with the original: For a real-world example,
imagine you write a letter and photocopy it before you put it in the mail. You file the copy in
your closet and send the original. During the course of delivery, the original is protected by the
Fourth Amendment; when it arrives, you lose Fourth Amendment protection. But the fact that you lose
Fourth Amendment protection in the original does not mean that the Government can
break into your house and read the copy you made. Conversely, the fact that the recipient of the
mail does not have Fourth Amendment rights in the copy does not mean that the government can break
into the recipient’s house to read the original.
For these reasons, the court should have analyzed access to the e-mails stored with the ISP based
on whether there was a reasonable expectation of privacy in that remotely stored copy
accessed, independently of delivery of another copy.... We see this over and over
again when it comes to the digital world. People try to automatically equate it to the physical
world, not recognizing that they're dealing with independent copies, not the original (hence the
argument that "file sharing is the same as theft.") Unfortunately, in this case the ruling could do
some serious damage to how the government and law enforcement views your expectation of privacy
with regards to your emails.
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BusinessWeek Online -- -
44 minutes ago
Ford Motor Co. rose to a 5-year high in New York trading and its bonds gained after Moody’s
Investors Service upgraded the automaker’s credit rating.
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Latest News - TeamXbox -
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IO Interactive has announced the street date for North America and Europe.
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