$2,000 build-it-yourself PC; iTunes 8 fix; Ships to fight climate change? [TECH UPDATE]

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The $2,000 build-it-yourself PC
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: This isn't just a high-end gaming machine. For a budget of $2,000 (plus change), you'll get a system that chews through any photo or video editing job you'll ever care to throw its way.
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Microsoft to VMware: You're surrounded
Larry Dignan: The Novell move to offer Microsoft virtualization in mixed source environments is just the latest item this week showing that Microsoft is flexing its distribution muscles.
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Ships to fight climate change?
Roland Piquepaille: A worldwide fleet of 1,500 unmanned ships could fight the global warming effects associated with increased dioxide levels by spraying saltwater into the air, according to researchers. But this fleet of earth coolers won't come cheap.
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Anonymization: A Google farce?

-->Garett Rogers: Google says its "anonymizing" their log files after just 9 months instead of the previous 18, without anonymized cookie data, scrubbed IP addresses could be useless.
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Apple rolls back problem driver in new iTunes 8 update

-->Ed Bott: Apple has responded quickly to reports that its initial release of iTunes 8 caused STOP errors (AKA the Blue Screen of Death) on some Windows machines.
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LHC, Genomics and the era of massive data sets

-->Mitch Ratcliffe: The world won't end when the Large Hadron Collider makes its anticipated first collision of high-energy particles later this month, but it will produce an explosion of data. The challenge will become how the data can be shared while preserving scientific credit where it's due.
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Ed Burnette: Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?
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The music scene: legal vs. illegal
Zack Whittaker: Unfortunately downloading music illegally actually gives you the most freedom over your music. Copy it, share it, move it, play it, edit it, convert it, or upload it again -- you can barely do any, definitely not all, of these things with DRM'd music.
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100Mbps. 2010. Over The Air. Don't Be Surprised
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: What if WiFi could square off or even beat WiMax or other approaches to broadband access to the Internet, over the air?
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An inside look at Apple's sneaky iTunes 8 upgrade
Ed Bott: When you update to iTunes 8 on Windows, you may get more than you bargained for, including a Blue Screen of Death. Why? Because it's actually installing five programs, three system services and a new device driver -- all without disclosure. And one of those files is known to cause system crashes.
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Slide CTO Jeremiah Robison: Inside social networking apps
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Second Life enters the realm of the enterprise
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CareerBuilder.com CTO: New search engine analytics
Eric Presley, CTO of CareerBuilder talks about how the company is analyzing keywords to better understand the intentions of its users and then applying those results back for job recommendations.
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Wozniak on Apple, Jobs, and the iPhone line
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