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How Do You Hide From The Internet?

5:00PM Rosa Golijan | Wired writer Evan Ratliff spent 27 days in constant fear of getting caught as a small army of amateur and professional investigators hunted him. He had a bounty on his head and the internet nipping at his heels. More »
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Google Adding Automatic Captions To YouTube Videos

3:15AM Adam Frucci | Google is bringing its Google Voice speech recognition tech to YouTube, creating automatic captions for deaf and hearing-impaired users. Get ready for hilariously incorrect captions! More »
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Second Gen Pogoplug Lets You Share Multiple USB Drives Online

12:29AM Rosa Golijan | Like the prior generation, the new Pogoplug allows for USB drive sharing over the internet. It’ll run for $US129, still have no service fees, take up to four USB drives, and have Twitter and Facebook integration. More »
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Join The Giz AU Wave

3:41PM Nick Broughall | So I’ve been playing around with Google Wave for a while, and despite being on a few waves, have yet to find a really practical use for it. Until now – I want to use Wave as a way of chatting with you guys in real time – in particular as a way of getting feedback on the site. More »
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Moving Scroll Bar Clock Makes My Inner Web Designer Queasy

8:40AM John Herrman | On the surface, scroll clock looks like a simple visual trick: Look, it’s a clock made out of moving scroll bars! This is a marginally clever animation! Then you realise that every one of them actually works. More »
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Viacom Top Lawyer On Obliterating Peer-to-Peer Users

2:36AM Jesus Diaz | Michael Fricklas is Viacom’s general counsel, the company’s top lawyer. I can’t tell if he actually felt bad when he said the above at a recent meeting with Yale Law students. I kind of feel an evil, dark smile inside. More »
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At Long Last, The Pirate Bay Shuts Down Its Tracker

2:23AM John Herrman | The Pirate Bay has been in Zombie Pirate mode for months now, but one of the last remnants of its halycon days has been sent to sea on a burning boat: their tracker — the biggest in the world — is gone. More »
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Mark Cuban’s Plan To Choke Google’s Super Powers

10:58PM Danny Allen | Musing on his blog, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks has thrown out a crazy idea for Microsoft. Instead of spending billions promoting Bing, what if they paid the top 1000 sites a million bucks to de-list from Google? More »
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Google’s SPDY To Make Websites Load Twice As Fast

9:21AM Rosa Golijan | Google’s working on a new application-layer protocol dubbed SPDY (pronounced “SPeeDY”) which is intended to improve how content is transported over the web. In initial lab tests, they’ve already managed to speed up page loading times by 55 per cent. More »
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Facebook Status Update Clears Teen From Criminal Charges

3:52PM Jesus Diaz | This is Rodney Bradford. A few days ago, Facebook saved his 19-year-old life. Facebook and his status plea demanding the immediate consumption of the very basic food groups every human being needs to properly function in the morning: Pancakes. More »