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Naked guy. Click. Naked guy.

Between the rude, the nude and the whack jobs also looking to chat online

Apps We Love

An app that takes you back

The greatest library in the world means nothing without the card catalog to make sense of it all

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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A scene from Bioshock 2, rated Mature: The original Big Daddy is back.
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

A notebook with the Chinese character for 'Harmony' is placed on Google's logo outside the company's China headquarters in Beijing, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010.

Cybersecurity

Google's convoluted search
for China compromise

It’s been a month since the Internet giant took a stand, but they’re still censoring search results. Why?

Telus profit falls 45%

Earnings driven down partly by economy and partly by huge investments in network infrastructure

Nortel weighs sale of patents

Industry experts estimate the wireless assets could fetch as much as $1-billion if a bidding war is triggered

FOCUS

Rock out: the reality of asteroid space missions

Washington has nixed plans to return to the moon, but many see a silver lining - one that just might help save life on Earth

Vancouver 2010

NBC's massive Olympic research effort

United States network that spent over $820-million on Winter Games now wants to learn more about audience viewing habits

UK prisoners use Facebook to taunt victims

British government asks social network to delete 30 inmates’ pages

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Speakers for the budget-conscious audiophile

Speakers offer top quality acoustics at a fraction of premium name-brand systems

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

Event guests play with the new Apple iPad during an Apple Special Event at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts January 27, 2010 in San Francisco, California.
WonderQuest
Microwaving plastics 101

Do the recycle numbers assigned to plastic containers indicate if they are safe to use for heating food in a microwave oven?

A microwave-safe TV dinner tray.
Gadgets
Demos with depth

Consumer electronics company hopes success of 3-D in theatres carries over into the home

No cheap plastic glasses here: A Sony representative sports a set of active-shutter specs to view 3-D television.
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

Etiquette
The couple that tweets together, stays together

How some Web 2.0 couples make I Love Yous work in 140 characters or less

Your Business
Apps mania mimics the dot-com boom

Executives, entrepreneurs and consumers know they are going to be big, and there is consensus that we've only scratched the surface

South Korea's Samsung Electronics said it aimed to treble smartphone shipments this year to more than 18 million units as the world's second-biggest cellphone maker scrambles to make a mark in the fast-growing smartphone market.
Exer-gaming
Me and my (anatomically perfect) shadow

Your Shape game lets you and your avatar star alongside each other on your home TV

The Nintendo Wii game Your Shape lets you see yourself working out onscreen beside an anatomically perfect virtual trainer.
Not your grandfather's braking system

The Prius's brakes use Airbus-style digital controls to stop your car

The 2010 Toyota Prius hybrid
R.M. Vaughan: Q&A
What would happen if Google knew everything?

Ted Remerowski’s new film wonders whether the search-engine powerhouse is living up to its motto

Richard Vaughan
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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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.

RIM's smart-phone advantage

RIM's gambit early on to route traffic through its own servers was designed to enhance security, but it has also provided a big edge as smart-phone usage – and the bandwidth it requires – explodes

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