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Kabel Deutschland, the largest cable provider in Germany, achieved a top download speed of 4.7 Gbps in a recent test.

Activision and Infinity Ward have settled their legal dispute, reports Ars Technica , where they point the way to this tweet from Ben Fritz which reads: "'all parties have reached a settlement in the dispute, the terms of which are strictly confidential' is the agreed upon party line quote." They also note this tweet from The Verge's Mike McWhertor ... (more)

An anonymous reader writes with this story at Ars Technica: "Three self-taught hackers from the DC949 hacker collective managed to use a combination of techniques to beat ReCaptcha with 99.1% accuracy " In short, the hackers skipped the visual part of the Recaptcha system entirely, focusing on the audio alternative, which gave them a few convenient ... (more)

Ars Technica has a wonderful writeup today about Apple's HyperCard , which would be celebrating its 25th birthday if it was still around.

Ars Technica is reporting an interesting article for science, I think. Researchers at George Mason University have looked at climate reporting in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today between 1998 and 2010 to see how often climate change models are referenced.

Apple Posts Initial WWDC 2012 Schedule, Releases Official App - With less than two weeks to go until WWDC 2012 kicks off, Apple has this morning released the conference schedule as well as the official iOS app and some guides for the conference goers.

Ars Technica reported this week that the FCC has approved some spectrum changes that will allow Sprint to improve their wireless service A The more interesting news is that the FCC also approvedA a second set of spectrum-use rules that will enable hospitals to establish medical body area networks .

Cheaters, beware-your iPhone is ready and willing to betray your secrets to a tech-savvy significant other.

The government's antitrust complaint against Apple and six book publishers over e-book pricing is "fundamentally flawed as a matter of fact and law," according to a response it's filed with the court overseeing the case .

Exclusive: HP's webOS Enyo team is going to Google - The HP team responsible for Enyo - webOS's HTML5-based application framework that debuted on the TouchPad - will be leaving the company and starting at Google shortly, The Verge has learned.

ARS Technica reports HP will lay off much more jobs than anticipated. Last week there were rumors that HP would lay off up to 15,000 employees, but today news hit the wire that the firm will cut 27,000 of its 349,600 jobs by the end of 2014.

It was reported yesterday that in Google's trial regarding Oracle's accusations that the search giant infringed upon Java API patents in the development of its Android operating system, the jury has just found that no copyrights were violated.

According to a Windows insider , Microsoft is looking forward to integrate Flash directly into Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 . The insider, who goes by the name Canouna, boldly stated that Adobe Flash player is included in the Release Preview.

Jonathan Ive interview: Apple's design genius is British to the core - Apple's design guru Jonathan Ive, who receives a knighthood today for creating products such as the iPad, tells Shane Richmond why this country's industrial heritage lies behind his success.

Don't write your password down. Everybody knows that. Except the people who don't, of course.

PanARMENIAN.Net - Apple is being bribed to set up its cathedrals for its new religion by local councils who believe the stores are status symbols for a city which magically attract new business, TechEye reports.

Ars Technica and others report on a cool miniature Android computer that can plug directly into your TV.

I watched Ghostbusters with my parents recently, and as I was watching the first five minutes, featuring a ghost in a big old library , I was struck by how dated that part of the movie is now, with those big card catalog drawers opening and cards spewing out all over.

It's great to see this positive coverage of the app,A Glassboard 2.0 , on Ars Technica.

A Verizon executive said at a trade show this week the company would begin transitioning its 3G customers with unlimited data plans to the limi Video: Verizon to end unlimited data plans - Verizon says it plans to end unlimited data plans as customers upgrade to faster 4g devices that run on its network.