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Gaming
Bioshock 2: Brainy and moving, with exemplary action
The very first Big Daddy is back and is on a mission to exert his free will
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Sociable
You too can buy online popularity - but what’s it really worth?
With all the Internet metrics, it’s like my personality is a stock whose worth I'm constantly monitoring
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Etiquette
The couple that tweets together, stays together
How some Web 2.0 couples make I Love Yous work in 140 characters or less
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Gadgets
Demos with depth
Consumer electronics company hopes success of 3-D in theatres carries over into the home
Mobile
Google, Apple pile pressure on phone world
Nokia, world’s biggest handset maker, opts to skip annual Mobile World Congress
Hardware
Accessory makers, app developers have high hopes for Apple's iPad
Market created for iPod, iPhone add-ons now firmly focused on tablet device
Life
Flirty texts have a long memory
Toronto mayoral hopeful Adam Giambrone joins the ranks of public figures embarrassed by flirtatious texting
Live Better
How to break free and use data in the cloud
Our guide to your life: This week, four ways to take advantage of cloud-based computing for storing data
Computer whiz kid becomes Balkan celebrity at age 9
Without support, Marko Calasan doesn’t have much of a future in Macedonia
Study
Is blogging losing its lustre with youth?
Number of young bloggers in decline as communication habits change, Pew study finds
Dave McGinn's Mr. Miser
Why do phone companies not reward customer loyalty?
I figured I should be able to parlay my years of loyalty into a free iPhone. I was so wrong.
Education
Texting, Twitter contributing to students’ poor grammar skills, profs say
Almost one third of students taking Waterloo University’s English language skills exam fail
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Controller Freak
Halo Legends premieres in San Francisco
Microsoft’s new collection of seven short anime films about the Halo Universe won’t be for everyone, but it does provide a few juicy morsels of mythology for hardcore fans
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Accessories
Laptop totes for fashion-conscious bagaholics
There has been an explosion of gear sacks sporting funky colours and feminine shapes
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Life online
Blogger arranges his whole life through Craigslist
Some university graduates do a year in Europe. Jason Paul, 22, is doing 9 months of living through Craiglist.
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Gaming
Mass Effect 2 gives you hope for the future of gaming
(oh, and humanity, too)
Second entry in BioWare’s sci-fi saga has a narrative so complex, the game will prove unique to every player
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Apps We Love
A Twitter app for nOObs
We also take a look at a search engine for Internet radio and a handy app that lets you compare two Photoshop files
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Viral
The iPad: Our shiny new ball and chain
Within a couple of months, there will be no physical position in which we won’t be able piss away time on the Internet
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Gadgets
Review: EntouragePS keeps track of car and kid
Calgary-based GPS company’s tracking device turns you into part NSA agent, part digital Block Parent
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An iPod dock George Forman would appreciate
Although it’s not the cheapest dock out there, nor the prettiest, Pioneer’s XW-NAS3 does audio (and video) well
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Wunderkinder
Teen takeover:
From the blogs of babes
On the Internet, everyone's a critic. But why are so many so-called style authorities under the age of 20?
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Live Better
Four ways to free yourself from a cluttered inbox
Our guide to your life: this week, four tips on how to clean up your e-mail
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Gaming
Tetris passes 100 million paid mobile downloads
25-year-old time-waster is best selling mobile game of all time
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Science
Story of Newton's encounter with apple goes online
Original manuscript detailing account of how scientist developed theory of gravity now widely available
![In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 15, 2010, Royal Society librarian Keith Moore holds the manuscript of 'Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton' by William Stukeley, pointing to the word 'gravitation', in London. An 18th-century account of how a falling piece of fruit helped Isaac Newton develop the theory of gravity is being posted to the Web on Monday, Jan. 18, 2010, making scans of the fragile paper manuscript widely available to the public for the first time. (AP Photo/Lucy Young)](https://bac-lac.wayback.archive-it.org/web/20100212232109im_/http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/00439/XAG102-Britain_N_439562gm-d.jpg)
Gadget
Peek into the future with HP’s TouchSmart
Even the pared down Canadian version, which lacks a few quality apps and features, gets better with every generation
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Micro-giving
Texting and giving: How five bucks and two seconds spur Haiti relief
Responding to the mantra ‘every little bit helps,' people are using cell phones and donating at the cash register in an unprecedented charity trend
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Apps We Love
When your ears call for balance
A great app for podcasters who need a quick and easy fix to sound files that may need their audio levels tweaked
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