I like Facebook as much as the next guy, but spending over 125 hours per year on the site? That seems a bit excessive, doesn’t it?

The average person who used Facebook in each of the last 12 months has spent 70 hours 26 minutes on the site during that period, according to a spokesman from Nielsen Online, the company which conducted the research. They also calculated that the most addicted users have spent over 125 hours on the site during the last year – the equivalent of more than a whole working week.

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For those of you running Windows 7 on a PC with a Gigabyte GA-P55-UD4P motherboard and you can’t sync with your iPhone, a new beta BIOS update might be just what you need.

On Friday, a few people posted on the forum that they'd downloaded the new BIOS from Gigabyte, a motherboard maker, and it solved the problem. In the description of the update, Gigabyte calls it a Beta BIOS and says that it fixes the iPhone sync issue, among other enhancements.

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Microsoft Partners in Learning announced the winners of the 2009 Worldwide Innovative Teacher Awards at the Worldwide Innovative Education Forum. Partners in Learning recognizes and rewards teachers who demonstrate exemplary use of technology in the classroom to improve student learning. The 14 winning teachers — awarded first, second and third place in four categories — were chosen from among the 250 at the Forum representing more than 60 countries.

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The good news is that Managed Copy will hit Blu-ray discs starting next month. The bad news? There will not be any hardware support when it does.

Less than five months since AACS was finalized and the details of Managed Copy were revealed and so far we've only seen one demo and not a single product announcement. This doesn't surprise us, but AACS-LA is apparently surprised because although all Blu-ray Discs sold after December 4th have no choice but to allow at least one copy to be made, the requirement to label the packaging as such has been postponed until Spring of next year.

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Anyone interested in reading that secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement document we told you about earlier this week can do so by clicking here.

We wrote that the document, (.pdf) if true, amounted to policy laundering at its finest -– that the United States was pushing the world to require ISPs to adopt "graduated response" policies that amounted to terminating internet service of repeat, copyright offenders.

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Steve Jobs and Sarah Jessica Parker stole the iPod idea and went on to make billions off the artistic genius of this guy. The FBI can prove it, they were in on the deal. Wait. What?

The suit claims that Wakefield also developed a friendship with Parker and "made a trade secret deal" with her to commercialize the iPod classic, nano, mini, shuffle, video, touch and photo, as well as iTunes and the iPhone. The supposed agreement would have granted Parker 2 percent of gross revenues from the products. Wakefield said he asked the FBI to watch over him to ensure the security of his inventions and deal with Parker.

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Apparently NVIDIA has constructed a new site with the sole purpose of mocking Intel. I’ll keep my comments to myself and let you guys decide what you think of this.

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Cases & Modding
NZXT BETA EVO Computer Case @ TechwareLabs

Cooling
Heatpipe Wick Structures Exposed @ FrostyTech

Memory/ Storage
Seagate XT 2TB SATA 6GB/s Hard Drive Testing @ Legit Reviews

Video
Sparkle GeForce GTX 260 Plus 1792MB @ ThinkComputers

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Google’s CEO says the company is trying not to cross the creepy line. I wonder if Schmidt would be so kind as to share the location of that line with the general public. You know, so we know where it is too.

Google is quite used to facing charges that it has become a little too Big Brotherish in its conquest of the Internet search market. In response, it emphasizes that Google users have control over the data the company collects on them, most recently introducing Google Dashboard as a way of letting users see all the personal data the company has assembled in a single Web page.

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Are you one of those people that takes everything too serious? Are you perpetually bummed about life? This high-tech hat will keep you smiling (at least grimacing):

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