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  • Bits Blog GIF Creator Steve Wilhite Receives Lifetime Achievement Webby Award

    Among the thousands of file formats that exist in modern computing, the GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, has attained celebrity status in a sea of lesser-known BMPs, RIPs, FIGs and MIFFs. It was honored as ...

  • Bits Blog The New Flickr Is Pretty but Is It Social

    unveiled a new version of Flickr, a photo-sharing Web site. It sure is pretty, with lots of high-resolution,rectangular photos and a clean, grid design. The company is also offering everyone on the site a free terabyte of space to store their photos. That’s potentially enough to stores hundreds of thousands of photos. But the new Flickr still feels like it’s missing one thing: ...

  • Oil Prices Drop After Gasoline Stocks Jump

    U.S. crude futures prices fell below $96 a barrel on Wednesday after an unexpected increase in U.S. gasoline stockpiles ahead of the summer driving season in the world's largest oil ...

  • Google+ rolls out a redesign for mobile Web similar to desktop

    (Credit: Google) After unveiling an extensive revamp for the Google+ news stream on desktop, Google is now updating what users see when accessing the social network with their cell phones. The Web ...

  • Teens Facebook is just like too much drama

    In a new Pew Report on teens and their social-networking habits, Twitter appears to be offering a resurgence, while Facebook may be losing impact. Because Facebook is just, well, too ...


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Race to Witch Mountain

Race to Witch Mountain

Despite being a child of the 1970s, I never saw Disneys Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) and thus have no point of comparison with its new reimagining, which comes complete with action-comedy star Dwayne Johnson in the drivers seat and a slightly more dynamic nam ... ...

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  • Amazon proposes a colossal biospherelike Seattle campus

    Forget the Space Needle, the e-commerce giant is planning to bring 3.3 million square feet of office space to Seattle in the form of mirrored towers and giant spherical domes filled with plant ...

  • Must-see videos from CTIA 2013

    CTIA kicked off today in Las Vegas. The last event of the wireless show season, CTIA tends to be a bit quieter than Mobile World Congress and CES. Yet, there are plenty ...

  • Ethernet turns 40 years old today

    the Ethernet protocol made its debut as a way to connect machines in close proximity, today it is the networking layer two protocol of choice for local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs) and everything in between. For many people Ethernet is merely the RJ45 jack on the back of a laptop, but its relative ubiquity and simplicity belie what Ethernet has done for the networking ...

  • Bits Blog A Ruling Could Support F.C.C.’s Net Neutrality Defense

    Justice Antonin Scalia The Federal Communications Commission's high-profile attempt to defend its net neutrality rules against a court challenge got major support on Monday from the Supreme Court, which ruled in a separate case that regulatory agencies should usually be granted deference in interpreting their own jurisdictions. In a 6-to-3 decision, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that in ...

  • Senate panel approves sweeping immigration bill

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday approved legislation that would bring about the biggest changes in U.S. immigration policy in a generation, setting up a spirited debate in the full Senate next ...

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