A new review of popular multivitamins found that many did not contain the amount of nutrients claimed in their labels.

Not happy with cloning watches, iPods, trains and even combat airplanes, the Chinese are now cloning an entire European city. And not any city, but the mountain town of Hallstatt, Austria, a UNESCO World Heritage site. More

Here’s a great, sweary presentation from Artur Bergman about the joy of using SSDs in your laptop and data-center, and how it’s totally, absolutely worth the expense of replacing spinning drives with solid-state drives. I’ve been solid-state for more than a year, and I totally, absolutely agree.

Artur Bergman (Wikia) on SSDs on O’Reilly Media Conferences – live streaming video powered by Livestream:

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For months, there’s been a steady trickle of sites getting hacked, followed by their usernames and passwords being passed around publicly on the Web. It’s a real and growing problem that’s just going to get worse. More

RIM, the maker of BlackBerry, was absolutely destroyed yesterday in the stock market. But that’s just part of the story. RIM is screwed. More

I love recycling. I mean, it's the duty of every responsible citizen of Earth to leave your recyclables on the corner every Monday and Friday for the Recycling Fairy. She takes it away and turns it into fun, new—wait. Are we sure that's right? More

Here’s one reason to continue paying $10 a month for your texting plan. ER Texting, Inc has a service that sends you a text message with a list of your local hospitals and their emergency room wait times. More

A new review of popular multivitamins found that almost a third did not contain the amount of nutrients claimed in their labels.

If you’ve been waiting oh-so-patiently for HP’s $49.99 WiFi Mobile Mouse to ship, take heart — the aforesaid critter is now ready to free up one more valuable USB port at your workstation. As mentioned before, this ain’t your mum’s wireless mouse, as it makes use of WiFi technology — you know, instead of the tried-and-true Bluetooth. In other words, this bad boy doesn’t require anything other than itself to connect. HP promises up to nine months of battery life, offers five programmable buttons, a four-way tilt scroll wheel and adjustable sensitivity. Just think — you can finally choose to keep those remaining Four Loko cans chilled without resorting to an inbuilt trackpad. Reason enough to pull the trigger, yeah?

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donniebaseball23 writes “Valve’s digital Steam service is going strong with 30 million active accounts, and now the developer has further boosted its offerings by adding free-to-play titles. Steam is kicking off its support of the free-to-play model with five titles (which will include in-game Steam exclusives): Spiral Knights, Forsaken Worlds, Champions Online: Free for All, Global Agenda: Free Agent, and Alliance of Valliant Arms. Valve’s support of free-to-play shows just how widely accepted it’s become.”

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Steam Now Offering Free-To-Play Games