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Best Buy Responds with \'The One Type of Gizmodo Blogger\'
Yesterday, I did a fun post describing the Seven Types of Employees You Meet at Best Buy, complete with illustrations by Dan Meth. And now, Best Buy has responded. And they\'ve been spying on me.
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Will the Feds Manhandle Your Data Center?
The agreement just reached by the G8 to reduce greenhouse emissions may not be a particularly strong one, but it will inevitably lead to increased U.S. attempts to halt global warming. And that means that your data center may be in the cross-hairs.
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Power.com Sues Facebook: Data Ownership War Breaks Out
There\'s been an interesting and ongoing saga occurring between two companies: Power.com, a popular social media aggregator, and FacebookFacebook, the world\'s
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New York Times Considers $5 Monthly Web Fee
Apparently all print subscribers haven’t been asked (this by way of a full disclosure), but the New York Times is asking its dead tree readers whether they’d be willing to pay to access the paper’s content online. The numbers being floated are $2.50 a month for subscribers, and $5 a month for everyone else
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Chrome OS for the clueless: What it means for real people
Google\'s new operating system is certainly something to get excited about, but don\'t put a new laptop purchase on hold because you want a Chrome Netbook.
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Much Ado About IE6
Here at Digg, like most sites, the designers, developers, and QA engineers spend a lot of time making sure the site works in Internet Explorer 6. This work consumes time that could be spent building the future of Digg. Here’s what we’re gonna do — and not do — about it.
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Is China Banning Submissions to Digg?
China has a pretty documented history of banning various popular websites to keep its people from ‘viewing harmful information’. YouTube, Google, and CNN have been banned for some time, but with the recent riots, Facebook and Twitter were also banned in an effort to keep reports of the riots from getting out.
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\'The Matrix\' Fulfilled: Robots to Use Biomatter as Fuel
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a research and development organization for the Department of Defense, aims to \"maintain the technological superiority of the U.S military.\" They seek to accomplish this goal by developing robots, lasers, spacecraft, and other awesome futuristic weapons of annihilation.
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Google\'s Way Of Saying Happy Birthday To Nikola Tesla [Pic]
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Mininova Denied Rectification From Dutch Government
Recently a committee of the Dutch Parliament published a report on copyright legislation in which it made several false accusations against the Dutch-based BitTorrent site Mininova. The Mininova team were insulted by the report and demanded a public rectification, which the parliament has now refused. Mininova is now considering legal action.
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