Here is a cute video of robots dancing to Christmas songs. The autonomous robots learned to dance at a geometric rate. They will become self-aware at 2:14 a.m. eastern time on December 25th. Thanks to Arnold for the link.

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What do you say when an angry iPhone app developer writes you a long e-mail complaining of an issue they have with Apple? If you are Steve Jobs, you write this:

Change your apps name. Not that big of a deal.

Steve

Sent from my iPhone

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BioShock 2 Multiplayer Trailer Shows Killing Spree @ Shacknews
Halo Waypoint Saturday Feature: The Duel @ Kotaku
Serious Sam HD shoots up PCs Nov 24 @ Joystiq
WoW Celebrates Thanksgiving With Pilgrim’s Bounty @ Official Site

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I know, I know, this pistol-rifle system doesn’t turn your semi-automatic pistol into a real assault rifle but it is close. Besides, it is actually pretty damn cool and it looks bad ass.

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Microsoft has flat out denied the existence of a "backdoor" in Windows 7 saying that the NSA only helped in the development of its Security Compliance Management Toolkit and nothing else. Did anyone actually think that the backdoor rumor was actually true?

Microsoft today denied that it has built a backdoor into Windows 7, a concern that surfaced yesterday after a senior National Security Agency (NSA) official testified before Congress that the agency had worked on the operating system. "Microsoft has not and will not put 'backdoors' into Windows," a company spokeswoman said, reacting to a Computerworld story Wednesday.

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I think it is pretty damn cool that Google has decided to add automatic captions to YouTube videos. It is as easy as creating a text file with all the spoken words in the video and Google’s speech recognition technology does the rest.

Because the speech-recognition technology is still a work in progress, Google is launching the automatic captioning service on the YouTube channels of just a handful of partners, including PBS, National Geographic and a few big universities. But the company promises that the technology will improve over time — and it hopes for a much broader rollout.

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The European Network and Information Security Agency just submitted a 123 page report on the risk of cloud computing. No surprises here, everyone likes the benefits of cloud computing, nobody likes the idea of trusting all their data to the cloud. Would you?

"The picture we got back from the survey was clear," Giles Hogben, editor of the ENISA report, said in a statement. "The business case for cloud computing is obvious–it's computing on tap, available instantly, commitment-free and on-demand. But the number one issue holding many people back is security–how can I know if it's safe to trust the cloud provider with my data and in some cases my entire business infrastructure?"

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Cases & Modding
SilverStone SG04B-H Computer Case @ TechwareLabs
Thermaltake SD100 mini ITX Home Theater Chassis @ Legit Reviews

ETC.
Novatech X16 HD Pro Notebook @ Driver Heaven

Memory/ Storage
Thermaltake BlacX Duet HDD Docking Station @ OCIA

Video
Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 OC @ Overclockers Club

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In recognition of International Education Week, Intel ethnographer Tony Salvador discusses what he observed last week at the International eLearning Summit, a gathering of educators and policymakers from 40 countries. He reflects on the difficult - but essential - task many education decision makers are faced with to ensure their education systems are moving in the right direction. Tony calls out Portugal and Macedonia as leading countries supporting education, by investing in technology for enhancing and facilitating learning in the classroom.

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A law firm is trying to get a class action law suit against Microsoft started for banning modded consoles from XBL. Good luck with that.

As has been reported widely in the media, tens of thousands of Xbox owners have had their modified Xbox consoles banned from Microsoft's online gaming service Xbox Live. Although modification of Xbox consoles is *arguably* against the terms of use for Xbox/Xbox Live, Microsoft "conveniently" timed the Xbox console ban to coincide with the release of the new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 game and less than two months after the release of the very popular Halo 3: ODST game.

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