Let’s dispense with the mythology right up front. A driver’s license has never been just about driving.
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New Game
They oohed as animated football players threw one another to the ground.
Attack of the Kindle Killers: The Boom in New E-Readers
Amazon, the online retailing giant, did more than any other company to turn the sale of digital books into a real business with the 2007 launch of the Kindle electronic reader. The company has sold an estimated 1.7 million of the handheld devices in the U.S., and it’s getting ready to ship millions more
3 win Nobel in physics for digital devices
Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for two breakthroughs that led to two major underpinnings of the digital age — fiber optics and digital photography, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. Charles K
Microsoft researcher converts his brain into ‘e-memory’
For the past decade, Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell has been moving the data from his brain onto computers — where he knows it will be safe. Sure, you could say all of us do this to some extent
Google lets you custom-print millions of books
What’s hot off the presses this week? Any one of the more than 2 million books old enough to fall out of copyright into the public domain.
Photos of fallen Vietnam veterans sought
The organizers of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Federal Express are issuing a nationwide “call for photos” to help document the stories of those lost in the war.
The 12 most annoying types of Facebookers
Facebook, for better or worse, is like being at a big party with all your friends, family, acquaintances and co-workers.
Think you deleted your cookies? Think again
More than half of the Internet’s top websites use a little known capability of Adobe’s Flash plugin to track users and store information about them, but only four of them mention the so-called Flash Cookies in their privacy policies, UC Berkeley researchers found. Unlike traditional browser cookies, Flash cookies are relatively unknown to web users, and they are not controlled through the cookie privacy controls in a browser.
Michael Jackson’s music tops charts
In death, Michael Jackson is topping charts all over the world again. Jackson’s albums hold the top nine positions of Billboard’s “Top Pop Catalog Albums” chart, according to Nielsen SoundScan sales data released Tuesday. Jackson’s albums are not eligible for the current Billboard 200 chart, which is for newer albums