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Comments: 52 +- Technology: YouTube To Allow Video Rentals on Thursday January 21, @05:28AM
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from the viral-rentals dept.
from the viral-rentals dept.
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poopdeville writes "Starting Friday, Google and YouTube will allow movie rentals. The first five films available to rent through YouTube will cost $3.99 for a 48-hour viewing period. Movie studios will be able to set their own prices, with rental viewing windows ranging from one to 90 days. YouTube will get an unspecified commission from each rental. Barclays Capital analyst Douglas Anmuch expects YouTube to generate about $700 million in revenue this year, an estimated 55 percent increase from 2009. If YouTube hits that target, it likely will turn profitable, helping to justify the $1.76 billion in stock that Google paid for the site more than three years ago."
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Comments: 75 +- News: New Study Shows Youth Plugged In Most of The Day on Thursday January 21, @02:08AM
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on Thursday January 21, @02:08AM
from the turn-on-tune-in-drop-out dept.
from the turn-on-tune-in-drop-out dept.
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An anonymous reader writes "The amount of time youngsters are spending on the web has ballooned to proportions that exceed the average adult's full working week, according to a new study. A few years ago, the same researchers thought that teens and tweens were consuming about as much media as possible in the hours available. But now they've have found a way to pack in even more. Young people now devote an average of seven hours and 38 minutes to daily media use, or about 53 hours a week according to Kaiser Family Foundation findings released today."
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Comments: 244 +- Search: Bing To Become Default iPhone Search? on Wednesday January 20, @11:42PM
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on Wednesday January 20, @11:42PM
from the strange-bedfellows dept.
from the strange-bedfellows dept.
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snydeq writes "BusinessWeek reports ongoing talks between Apple and Microsoft to make Bing the default search engine for the iPhone. The discussions reflect an accelerating rivalry between Apple and Google, one that some believe will be the most important rivalry in tech in the years to come. 'Apple and Google know the other is their primary enemy,' says one person familiar with Apple's thinking. 'Microsoft is now a pawn in that battle.'"
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Comments: 122 +- Science: Scientists To Breed the Auroch From Extinction on Wednesday January 20, @11:18PM
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on Wednesday January 20, @11:18PM
from the back-by-popular-demand dept.
from the back-by-popular-demand dept.
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ImNotARealPerson writes "Scientists in Italy are hoping to breed back from extinction the mighty auroch, a bovine species which has been extinct since 1627. The auroch weighed 2,200 pounds (1000kg) and its shoulders stood at 6'6". The beasts once roamed most of Asia and northern Africa. The animal was depicted in cave paintings and Julius Caesar described it as being a little less in size than an elephant. A member of the Consortium for Experimental Biotechnology suggests that 99% of the auroch's DNA can be recreated from genetic material found in surviving bone material. Wikipedia mentions that researchers in Poland are working on the same problem."
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Comments: 185 +- Hardware: NASA Designs All-Electric Personal Flight Vehicle on Wednesday January 20, @09:36PM
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on Wednesday January 20, @09:36PM
from the touch-the-sky dept.
from the touch-the-sky dept.
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MikeChino writes "NASA is currently working on a personal aircraft that will put jet packs to shame. The Puffin is an all-electric one-man airplane that could be the start of some new and amazing air travel technology. With two prop electric engines, lithium phosphate batteries and a top speed of almost 300 mph, the vertical take off and landing vehicle was originally designed for covert military insertions because it has a lower heat signature than combustion engines. The Puffin would also be super quiet – 10 times quieter than current low-noise helicopters, and since the engine is electric it has no flight ceiling and can fly up to 9,150 meters high, uninhibited by thin air ."
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Comments: 134 +- Your Rights Online: FBI Obtains Phone Records With a Post-it Note on Wednesday January 20, @07:27PM
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on Wednesday January 20, @07:27PM
from the do-you-have-a-subpoena-or-a-note-from-home? dept.
from the do-you-have-a-subpoena-or-a-note-from-home? dept.
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angry tapir writes "The FBI was so cavalier — and telecom companies so eager to help — that a verbal request or even one written on a Post-it note was enough for operators to hand over customer phone records, according to a damning report (PDF) released on Wednesday by the US Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General."
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Comments: 200 +- News: Half of Google News Users Browse But Don't Click on Wednesday January 20, @06:20PM
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themedia
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from the International Business Times: "Nearly half of the users of Google News skim the headlines at the news aggregator site without clicking through to the publisher, according to new research. ... Outsell analyst Ken Doctor said in a statement that 'among the aggregators, Google's effect on the newspaper industry is particularly striking.' 'Though Google is driving some traffic to newspapers, it's also taking a significant share away," Doctor said. 'A full 44 percent of visitors to Google News scan headlines without accessing newspapers' individual sites.' ... With a number of US newspaper owners considering charging online, Outlook found that only 10 percent of those surveyed would be willing to pay for a print newspaper subscription to gain online access."
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Comments: 94 +- Games: Correlation Found Between Brain Structure and Video Game Success on Wednesday January 20, @05:50PM
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on Wednesday January 20, @05:50PM
from the correlation-does-not-equal-yadda-yadda dept.
from the correlation-does-not-equal-yadda-yadda dept.
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kghapa writes "Still want to argue that video games shrink your brain? While video games have been previously shown to stimulate brain activity and improve coordination skills, a recently published study has directly linked structures in the human brain with video game aptitude. And yes, apparently size does matter in this case. Quoting: '... each subject received 20 hours of training to play a video game specifically created for research purposes, called Space Fortress. It's basically an Asteroids-type arcade game, in which the object is to knock down and destroy an enemy fortress while dodging space mines. However, the game has lots of extra twists that require close attention. Some of the players were told to focus exclusively on running up a high score, while others were told to shift their priorities between several goals. The result? The subjects who had more volume in an area called the nucleus accumbens did significantly better in the early stages of training. Meanwhile, those who were well-endowed in different areas of the striatum, known as the caudate nucleus and putamen, handled the shifting strategies better.'"
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Comments: 141 +- Your Rights Online: Microsoft Sues TiVo To Help AT&T on Wednesday January 20, @05:33PM
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Julie188 writes "Microsoft is suing TiVo, claiming patent infringement. Microsoft is doing this because TiVo has sued AT&T — and AT&T happens to be Microsoft's largest customer of Microsoft's Mediaroom IPTV technology. Microsoft says that TiVo has copied Microsoft's Mediaroom IPTV technology in its DVRs. If Microsoft wins, it would effectively block TiVo from selling DVRs without a licensing deal with Microsoft."
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Comments: 60 +- Science: NASA Will Crowdsource Its Photos of Mars on Wednesday January 20, @04:51PM
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on Wednesday January 20, @04:51PM
from the find-waldo-win-a-shuttle-main-engine dept.
from the find-waldo-win-a-shuttle-main-engine dept.
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tedlistens writes "NASA is asking the public to suggest subjects for the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, its super powerful camera currently orbiting Mars. Since it arrived there in 2006, the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has seen more success than that lost lander, recording nearly 13,000 observations of Martian terrain, with each image covering dozens of square miles and revealing details as small as a desk. By letting the public in on the Martian photo shoot, scientists aren't just getting more people excited about space exploration. They're hoping that crowdsourcing imaging targets will increase the camera's already bountiful science return. Despite the thousands of pictures already taken, less than 1 percent of the Martian surface has been imaged."
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