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Steam For Linux: A Respectable Showing

An anonymous reader writes “Valve has just released its February, 2013 Steam Hardware & Software Survey, and the results are absolutely mind blowing. Linux is now standing strong as a legitimate gaming platform. It now represents 2.02% of all active Steam users.” That’s in keeping with what new submitter lars_doucet found. Lars writes: “I’m an independent game developer lucky enough to be on Steam. Recently, the Steam Linux client officially went public and was accompanied by a site-wide sale. The Linux sale featured every single Linux-compatible game on the service, including our cross-platform game Defender’s Quest. …. Bottom line: during the sale we saw nearly 3 times as many Linux sales of the game as Mac (Windows still dominated overall).” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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The Government Can Use Your iPhone to Figure Out Where You’ve Been

Court documents obtained by the ACLU reveal just how vulnerable information about your private life is to prying government eyes that get a hold of your phone. It’s more than just your text messages, folks. It’s every connection point your phone has used. More »

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The Government Can Use Your iPhone to Figure Out Where You’ve Been

Recording Industry Manages a Sliver of Growth for the First Time Since 1999

Global recorded music revenues grew .3-percent to $16.5 billion last year, marking the first increase since 1999. That’s the year, you’ll remember, that Napster and file sharing brought the industry to its knees. More »

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Recording Industry Manages a Sliver of Growth for the First Time Since 1999

Project Guttenberg Adds Dropbox Support, Perfect for Syncing to All Your Devices

We’ve shown you how to load up your ereaders with free ebooks , and Project Guttenberg is a great place to do it. Recently, they made accessing their catalog of 42,000 free ebooks that much easier by adding Dropbox integration. More »

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Mailstrom Helps You Clear Out Thousands of Messages from Your Inbox in About an Hour

Inbox zero is a holy grail that seems unattainable for most, but a wonderful webapp called Mailstrom makes that dream a reality in hardly any time. Through clever sorting methods, it’ll show you your mailboxes in a different light and make it easy to clear out the crap in no time. More »

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Mailstrom Helps You Clear Out Thousands of Messages from Your Inbox in About an Hour

Earth-buzzing Asteroid Would Be Worth $195B If We Could Catch It

coondoggie writes “The asteroid NASA says is about the half the size of a football field that will blow past Earth on Feb 15 could be worth up to $195 billion in metals and propellant. That’s what the scientists at Deep Space Industries, a company that wants to mine these flashing hunks of space materials, thinks the asteroid known as 2012 DA14 is worth — if they could catch it.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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