An anonymous reader writes “We’ve heard this one before, over and over again: pirates are the biggest spenders. It therefore shouldn’t surprise too many people to learn that shutting down Megaupload earlier this year had a negative effect on box office revenues. The latest finding comes from a paper titled: ‘Piracy and Movie Revenues: Evidence from Megaupload.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Researchers Find Megaupload Shutdown Hurt Box Office Revenues
This Thanksgiving, cooking a turkey in an oven or deep fryer just isn’t as impressive as some of the alternative methods out there — such as cooking with a flashlight. [Read more]
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Watch high-powered flashlights cook a turkey
A new update fixes keychain problems, but does not address the inability to install 10.8.2 on some Mac systems. [Read more]
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Apple issues supplemental OS X 10.8.2 update
Ford says it will offer the 2014 Fiesta, which goes on sale next year, with its 1-liter EcoBoost engine option. [Read more]
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Ford promises fuel-saving 1-liter engine next year
This morning I reported on the closing on Hostess Brands Inc. , the company that’s been keeping America in Twinkies, Ho-Hos and Ding Dongs for 82 years. I suggested readers rush to the store and buy all of the Hostess snacks they could before they disappeared. If you didn’t heed that advice, it may already be too late. More »
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Snackopalypse 2012: Hostess Products Disappear from Store Shelves, Internet Price Gouging Begins
Windows/Mac/Linux/Others: XBMC is still our favorite customizable media center software around, and today you can download the beta of version 12.0 which adds live TV, PVR support, better AirPlay, and lots more to your home theater PC. More »
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XBMC 12.0 Frodo Beta Brings Live TV, PVR Support, and More to Your Media Center
c0lo writes “Engineers from Google’s Books team have released the design plans for a comparatively reasonably priced (about $1500) book scanner on Google Code. Built using a scanner, a vacuum cleaner and various other components, the Linear Book Scanner was developed by engineers during the ’20 percent time’ that Google allocates for personal projects. The license is highly permissive, thus it’s possible the design and building costs can be improved. Any takers?” Adds reader leighklotz: “The Google Tech Talk Video starts with Jeff Breidenbach of the Google Books team, and moves on to Dany Qumsiyeh showing how simple his design is to build. Could it be that the Google Books team has had enough of destroying the library in order to save it? Or maybe the just want to up-stage the Internet Archive’s Scanning Robot. Disclaimer: I worked with Jeff when we were at Xerox (where he did this awesome hack), but this is more awesome because it saves books.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Making good on its dividend program plans, the tech giant chips away at a $45 billion pile of cash and hands out some legal tender to its shareholders. [Read more]
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Apple to dole out $2.5 billion to shareholders
Zooming in on the map, the Web giant introduces a new tool for its crowd-sourced mapping app that lets users share and learn more information about their neighborhoods. [Read more]
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Google Map Maker goes hyper-local with Activity Stream
Activision signs a deal with Google to let players live stream game play of the latest in the blockbuster series, Call of Duty: Black Ops II. [Read more]
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Stream your Call of Duty play on YouTube