Of course, to start the show off, we have the headlines:

• The start BUTTON will return! But it’ll still point to Metro, which will still suck ass.
• Microsoft shells out millions putting wifi into Forbes magazine. Cloud computing, and things. It offers 15 days of free wifi via T-Mobile, but the battery only lasts 3 hours. Good on Microsoft for making Forbes completely non recyclable and adding to the mountains of e-waste in the name of marketing.
• ASIC Bitcoin Miner, pre-order goes on eBay for $36k. Predicted to make $13k/month; though won’t this just be useless when there’s loads of them and all the coins have been found? Oh dear. (Shared by Michael D)
• Vermont gets faster, cheaper Internet than Google Fiber. Vermont Telephone Company is now offering gigabit service to some of its customers for the crazy-low price of $35 bucks a month.
• PayPal Bans BitTorrent VPN / Proxy Service. The payment processor has just cut off the BitTorrent proxy provider GT (BT?) Guard and frozen the company’s funds. In an email PayPal’s Brand Risk Management department explains that GT Guard’s affiliation with BitTorrent is the reason for the drastic actions.
• BlackBerry CEO reckons tablets are going to die a quick death. (Shared by Dave P)
• The first ever website is back online. (Shared by Dave P)

We also sprinkle in a tad of gaming news:

• Nintendo won’t be doing a big e3 thing this year; curious, because they promised a “lot more content” after last year’s Wii U unveil. On death watch?
• Illumiroom might be a real thing for next gen Xbox. Coupled with a Kinect sensor, it can do all kinds of weird shit. James and Dave both think it could be interesting

James has his Oculus Rift, and he could not be more excited about it. As you would expect, Dave is not impressed. James offers a quick summation of what the Rift actually does, and what is good and what is not:

• Team Fortress 2 sucks, mostly.
• Slow adventure type games work best; as well as the rollercoaster demo.
• Antichamber is quite a mind fuck but too white. Half life 2 mod in the works, Skyrim also works mostly. It’s all about the content, but the technology is amazing.

As always, we have some listener nonsense from the beloved fans of Technophilia:

Dustin asks: James, which UK phone carrier do you prefer?

Special thanks to all the chatters during the live show! Except Dave P, no thanks are given to him.

As always, the headlines:

• That kid Yahoo gave $30 million to? Turns out he’s kind of a tool.
• AP Twitter hacked; claims there was an explosion at the White House. Stocks tank, because that’s apparently how these things work.
• Yahoo is shutting down it’s email service in China.
• Apple increases dividends to 15 per cent; is buying back stocks.
• Senate debates Internet Sales Tax; could potentially bring revenue back to the states.
• Viacom loses to YouTube in court. Again.
• Gambia bans Skype, because it threatens carrier’s interests. No shit.
• Google’s Buying Provo’s Entire Fiber Network, Worth $39m, For $1 (From Koshy)
• Online Education growing at an insane rate. Is this a good thing?

Of course, we have plenty of Listener Nonsense:

• Koshy wants to know, did we try these experimental Chrome features?
• Koshy also shared this link about disconnecting from the Internet for 10 days.

We read some recent iTunes Reviews. Leave one, and we will ready yours next week!

And as always, the headlines:

• Got an Android? Now you can hack aeroplanes.
• Rejoice, Windows 8.1 will include a “boot to desktop” mode. James’ tip: do this now with a task scheduler logon event that opens explorer.exe immediately
• PC Sales are way down. Is Windows 8 to blame? ZDNet argues Windows is over.
• Anonymous to launch dedicated news site. Massive support on Indiegogo.
• Social Media Widget, a popular free WordPress plugin, added spam in a recent update.
• Fake academic journals are a real problem.
• Was Morgan Freeman’s AMA fake?
• Google Glass specs announced: 12gb useable storage, 1 day battery, jawbone audio (0_o). Screen is equivalent of 25” HD from 8 feet away. 5 megapixel camera.
• A job for Technophilia listeners: Chief porn identification officer in China. $38k salary, free yoghurt everyday.
• Charles Carreon, douchebag who sued Oatmeal, ends up paying $46,000 to cover legal costs of parody blogger.

Quick news bits:

• MtGox taken offline by huge DDoS attack, BitCoin price plummets by more than half back to less than $100
• Apple didn’t actually block the gay-sex comic; it was Comixology themselves who blocked it
• New Jersey might ban games that don’t exist.

Gaming News in da’ house:

• Remember when Dave said XBox Live never goes down? Hilarious.
• Next Xbox will be your new cable box, allowing it to become the center of your TV life. And probably always on.
• Source claims next Xbox will NOT be always-online.

Of course, we have plenty of listener feedback:

Special thank you to our returning guest Robert Wiesehan. Follow his stuff, cause he’s awesome.
@Robertwiesehan on Twitter
http://www.twitch.tv/bandanarob
http://www.youtube.com/user/clydesdale4437

As always, the headlines:

• Facebook Home – status updates everywhere, “chatheads”, and a disorienting UI. w000t.
• French government tries to remove page about military base from Wikipedia, makes that base famous.
• News Corp threatens to make Fox a cable station if Aereo is permitted to re-broadcast
• One thing for sure, no one is going to enjoy the Ouya: Kickstarter backer pre-release model is officially crap.
• Redditor confesses to murder…using confession bear
• Beyond piracy: the prevalent sharing of HBO Go Accounts
• Pirates of the….Vatican? ITS PORN! BONDAGE PORN NO LESS!
• Apple will outsell Windows this year.
• Skype malware is mining BitCoins. Brilliant.
• Allowing employers to ask for Facebook passwords.

Gaming news all up in this piece:

• Next Xbox will be always on / Deal with it / Apology
• Who buys an Xbox anyway? Apparently those who are better at sex.
• EA responds to being voted worst company Justin likes Dorkly’s response
• RIP LucasArts

And of course, listener feedback

(Sorry about the lack of chapters and general unedited-ness this week; after two hours of editing, Garageband decided to crash and I lost everything. So you’re basically getting it raw…)

Justin rants about college and his days as a school newspaper journalist.

As always, tons of juicy headlines:

• College confessions go viral.
• Apple loses the iPad Mini trademark. US Patent office says you can’t trademark a description.
• Tesla says it will be profitable this quarter. Will we all be driving electric cars soon?
• Game Of Thrones Breaks Piracy Records. Again.
• Scientists create biological transistor
• Indie games are like indie music now: basically mainstream.
• What do HP’s board of directors need to do to lose their jobs?
• Spamhaus pisses off spammers, prompts biggest DDoS in history.
• Reselling MP3 files violates copyright.

Special thanks to our new sponsor, Me Undies. Go buy some really comfortable underwear (or pants, as James calls them.)

And as always the headlines:

• SendGrid’s developer evangelist canned for “public shaming”
• Morons can’t believe “I Fucking Love Science” is run by a female.
• Say “fuck” on Skype, start being monitored. Hurray China.
• Ubuntu to become official OS of China.
• 17 year old kid sells company to Yahoo, makes us all feel bad about ourselves
• Apple bans games about sweatshops
• Don’t aim laser pointers at planes
• Pre-emptive Google Glass driving ban sought (from Dave P)
• Legislation for accessible web might be thing (from Dave P)
• Square-Enix CEO steps down

We talk an interesting Subreddit that further shows how much Reddit hates marketers.

Justin talks about a new service on which he wrote called Collusion watches the watchers

How about some listener feedback? Sure, we’ve got that!

Missed Dave and James playing COD? We know you did, because there was zero viewers. You suck. Fear not, watch it here, or embedded below:

And the episode video:

And as always, the headlines:

• Chinese celebrities forget to remove propagandists’ notes from tweets
• The oldest torrent on The Pirate Bay is still active
• How a single tweet cost a member of UK Parliament £14,268
• Gambler’s buddy hacks CCTV feed, helps him win $33 million
• Man finds security hole for AT&T. Gets huge fine and jail time. (From Dave P)
• Support for Windows Phone 8 is ending sooner than you might think
• Squaters quickly snap up hundreds of “Pope Francis” domains
• Adblock Plus for Android is back with automatic updates. (from Koshy)

Discussions:

Justin explains MATSAF, it’s his new philosophy on life.

Why do people want Google Glass?

Been using/writing:

• IFTTT, now with support for ESPN
• Block time wasting websites
• Use Skype as your main home line
• James’ shameless Technophilia article.

Gaming News:

• Rejoice, Oculus will not be shipping with Doom 3 as originally promised.
• Hilarious, girls play games, who knew?
• EA CEO John Riccitiello steps down. Shocked? Not at all.

• The first Star Trek episode aired closer in time to the ratification of the 19th Amendment—guaranteeing women in the US the right to vote—than to today.
• Is leaving a voicemail impolite?
• Microsoft caved! Office licenses can be moved from computer to computer again.
• Skype might be charged if they don’t let French police listen into calls.
• Vatican city is digitizing over 80,000 manuscripts
• Descructoid not sure what to do, 40% of users blocking all ads. (James worked out this using: this – losing about $1000 a year with a CPM of around $18 for all my ad units, block rate between 7 and 14% daily)
• From Michael on Facebook: a test for a micro-payment system.
• Seattle bar banning Google Glass.
• Don’t call Google glass a fad because other things called a fad became really important, says Owen Williams. Fallacy much?
• From Fernadez on Facebook: iran blocks popular vpn tool. – Yep, china already uses an intelligent blocking system to cut vpn access nodes by identifying high traffic points.
• I love it when a human voice breaks through on Wikipedia.

Check out our special guest’s stuff: Twitter, YouTube, Twitch

All this and your listener questions. Check it out now.

We also discuss RetroCityRampage, which is like GTA, but old school.

And as always, the Headlines:

PLAYSTATION 4 MADNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It exists.
Complete tech specs.
GAMES!!!!!!
Won’t block used games.
EA thinks games might costs $70.

• Nokia Launches Justin’s new phone. Might be too advanced for him.
• Mayer institutes no telecommuting rule at Yahoo
• Illegal p2p music sharing down as legal options take off.
• GoT director says piracy is a good thing. Now James doesn’t feel guilty.
• Firefox is set to break the internet.
• Apple settles in-app purchases suit with $5 gift card. Don’t you feel better now, parents?
• Google launches a premium Chromebook

Media pick from James:
Charlie Brookers Black Mirror (channel 4, uk, can view on 40d if you have a vpn for uk or unodns trick, tunlr etc)

Listener feedback:
michael mentioned peerindex.com, we are not overly impressed.

thank you as always to CocoSplat who provided the theme tunes remixy thing; more at soundcloud.com/cocosplat

• Want to pay $60 for free software on a $5 drive? You can!
• Opera stops using their own engine, switches to WebKit. There are now only three engines: IE, Webkit (Chrome/Safari/Opera) and Mozilla.
• Xbox founder unhappy with Microsoft’s outreach to indie developers
• Comcast grabs the rest of NBC Universal. They own the world now.
• Google Could Pay $1 billion to be the default search engine on iOS
• Source code for Photoshop released
• Tesla v New York Times. The battle is truly electric.
• Office licenses now tied to single computer, forever.
• Movies.io is now pretty much useless; removes torrent codebase
• RLSLOG outsources the task of finding torrent links to Google. And it actually works quite well. Now all takedown requests must be sent individually to google.
• Blackberry’s creative directory Alicia Keys actually uses her iPhone, despite promising only to use the blackberry.

(Everyone, be cool. They’ll owe us money if they take that deal).

It’s episode 53 of Technophilia: We’re Worth Suing, Aren’t We?”

As always, here are the headlines:

• James talks crap about the Surface Pro, because he’s James.
• The Surface RT sold worse than predicted. James feels like he’s right about everything now.
• Sony announces and announcement. I hope
• Amazon now has its own currency. James is thrilled, obviously, because it’s a way to let Amazon hold on to your money before you actually buy anything.
• Reddit is whitelisted by Adblock Plus. Should anyone have the power who should and should not make money from ads?
• Chinese hackers are attacking the New York Times
• And Rupert Mordoc is all “guys, they’re hacking me too!”
• HMV employees used company Twitter account to live-tweet getting fired
• OUYA, the Android console, will be released in June.
• CES removes CNET’s privilege of picking the best of show awards.
• iOS 6.1 Finally gets a jailbreak. James is thrilled, obviously.
• Why Justin doesn’t own a smart phone.

This week Justin starts the show by discussing whether technology brings people together or keeps people apart. You know: that thing. And then, the headlines:

• Worst. iPhone thief. Ever.
• Microsoft’s Surface Pro sports a 64 GB hard drive…which you can use 1/3rd of.
• Mozilla makes all plugins click to play in Firefox.
• It’s now illegal in the USA to unlock your phone. Meahwhile, in Canada, they want to do the opposite.
• Apple’s stupid porn problem needs to be dealt with.
• Canada approved a Startup Visa, meaning if you want to start your company in Canada you can.
• America is number one at something, though: it hosts the most botnets. USA! USA! USA!
• Google Maps now offers a view of North Korea, thanks to contributors.
• Spotify makes lots of money. You know who doesn’t? Artists.
• (Google+ passes Twitter in terms of active users.
• China considered unbanning game consoles.
• The top XBox games of 2012 aren’t surprising.
• The Wii U doing so well, Nintendo cut its revenue forecast by 17%. Now expects operating loss of $220 million.
• CT Senator posting on Facebook during gun hearing. Nice.
• Justin’s been using HabitRPG to stay on top of things. You should too.
• Dave’s been enjoying Space Team for iOS, which sounds just crazy.

As always, the headlines:

• What is your soul worth? Justin is worth more than Dave and James, apparently.
• Google’s Sergey Brin wore Google Glass on a NYC subway, but didn’t like that someone took photos. Which will happen all the time when Google Glass becomes common.
• Google’s Scmidt travels to North Korea to tell them the Internet is cool, and now everyone in the country has Internet access.
• Kim Dotcom’s Mega gets 1 million users in a day. Great promotion job, US government!
• Regular citizens express anger at Chinese government online, showing that you can’t control the people, or the Internet. It doesn’t matter what you do.
• Want Windows 8 Pro? Buy soon, it’ll be $200 from Feburary! Or don’t. Whatever.

We also talk about the browser extensions we use and Justin explains that he’s so mad at the NHL that he’ll watch every game. Stay tuned for a special, cards against humanity episode later this week!

This Week James rants about the death of the highstreet. Don’t worry, we didn’t know what a highstreet was either.

Dave talks about CES:
Gaming tablets, VR gaming, Wi-Fi everything, self driving cars, free stuff and so much more!

Justin thinks we all have the right to bear nuclear arms. What do you think?

And of course, the headlines:

• Coolest white house statement ever.
• Outsource yourself to china for 1/5th the salary cost. Tune in next week for an outsourced Technophilia.
• Microsoft Office pricing will screw you over. Why pay once, when you can pay every month?!
• Earth’s definitive kilogram is losing weight. Or gaining. No one knows.
• Microsoft Security Essentials fails anti-virus certification test. Microsoft disagrees.
• The Altantic Removes Scientology Advertorial
• CBS forced CNET to recast vote because Hopper won. Major writer for Cnet tweets resignation shortly after.
• Nintendo’s obselete Wii gets more video content

Freebie: Lots of free Mac software

Giveaway: Get a free tablet and read Justin’s review. Free and Justin. What a combo!

thanks COCOSPLAT for intro music!

We’re finally back! It’s episode 49 of Technophilia: Consumerist Electronics Show, so named for the place Dave is instead of with us. Don’t worry: he’ll be back next week, with stories of somewhat interesting things he saw there.

This week: Justin justifies failing his resolutions with a big speech about how time is relative. James talks about how happy his new camera makes him, and Justin makes fun of the CES a little bit.

And, as always, the headlines.

• Ubuntu for smartphones is coming! Is it too little, too late? Probably.
• Hackulous and Installous shutdown, but not because of law enforcement: people just kind of gave up running it. Maybe it’s because of the new, jailbreak-free way to install pirated software.
• Facebook launches a new sexting app, inappropriately named Poke
• The Ayatollah of Iran made a Facebook page, despite the fact that Facebook is blocked there. We hope he joins Twitter and trolls the Pope.
• China is Blocking VPNs Also, if you live in China you now have to use your real name online
• Robots playing ace of spades is the most metal thing in existence. Watch, now:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=3RBSkq-_St8 – fuck me thats awesome More: http://compressorheadband.com/
• There’s kind of sort of a not really war between Google and Microsoft, the Windows Phone 8 users are the big loser: Gmail no longer works on the platform. Google Maps stopped working for a bit too, and we all know that killed the iPhone.
• Microsoft hires a political hitman to attack Google. Classy.
• Fox News advertisement could have been more sensitive
• Buy a Used Wii U, Get Free Games. Not bad.

As always, the headlines:

• The UK Government wants to spy on everyone. Call your MP if you haven’t.
• Time-Warner kind of in denial of the Google fiber service. via Fernando Gonzalez
• Apple and Google team up to buy out Kodak’s patents. Kodak was a company that made phones you couldn’t plug into your computer. Via Fernando Gonzalez
• Justin “artfully” dodges his own question about the worst state in the USA.
• Justin and James geek out about board games.
• Monopoly was stolen by Parker Brothers, by the way.
• Buy every SNES game ever for a small fortune, if you want. Via Michael Delves
• Our co-host Dave LeClair spent $1,287.77 on video games in 2012. Wow.
• Richard Stallman is calling Ubuntu spyware. Find out why, and read Richard Stallman’s biography here if you want.
• Microsoft’s Surface Pro, running actual Windows, is coming out in January.
• Microsoft’s latest IE10 ad is admittedly pretty great:

• Apple wants a 30% cut of Office for iPad sales; Microsoft doesn’t like that.
• This awesome site combined Google’s street view, Instagram and Twitter. Find crime in your neighborhood.
• Why dead people are liking things on Facebook
• Be careful about QR codes
• Wikimedia is finally working on a visual editor.

And the gaming news.

• Mature games are only available on the Wii U shop at night in Europe.
• Great Big Wargame for Windows 8 made only $83 during launch week
• There’s going to be an Angry Birds Movie. Boo.

Music from Trout Stamos.

As always, the headlines:

• The Internet slowly coming back in Syria after a government shutdown of service there. Fascinatingly, Syrian rebels use Skype to coordinate…even with the Internet down.
• Finally: something infallible to follow on Twitter.
• Disney and Netflix make a deal. Horray.
• Real time price adjustments are here to stay. What do you think of them?
• Tweetro teaches world why basing a business on an API is a bad idea
• The Daily shuts down, showing the world that one wants The Daily.
• The Times of London offering subsidized Nexus 7 with subscription. Same company as The Daily intestingly enough
• Verizon files patent for DVR that can watch what is happening in the room and offer targeted ads. Creep.
• Be sure to buy the doggie doo board game.
• McAfee is crazy.
• Read this fascinating profile of Kim Dotcom
• James goes over Windows Blue rumors. Coming 2013!
• The Humble THQ Bundle is here. Windows only, DRM’d; why is this called a Humble Bundle?
• The old Xbox 360 sells 720k units on black friday, easily besting the Wii U.
• And one Quick note: Skyrim DLC is out. If you want more Skyrim it will set you back 20 bucks.

Don’t forget to listen to Justin on Podcast Squared this week!

This weeks music provided by Trout Stamos.

• Java exploit up for auction, expecting 5 figures Do people still use Java?
• Apple now top selling smartphone. Leaves Android in the dust
• Apple also has top tablet share…. barely
• Bing Brings It (to google)
• Google’s human element
• Google Fibre is making cable companies actually work for their customers
• Chinese mouthpiece falls for Onion article
• Obama wanted rules in place for drone program in case Romney won
• WWII Pigeon code baffles modern cryptographers
• This island only exists on maps. How did no one notice?!

This week: “Windows 8 Is…” Let the fun and learning begin! Special guest Leon Stafford joins us from Manilla for Technophilia 45. Listen now by subscribing, or watch:

And, as always, the headlines:

• The head of Microsoft’s Windows department is leaving, because Windows 8 was too awesome.
• James reviewed the Microsoft Surface, and MakeUseOf is giving one away. Enter now.
• Direct 11.1 will be Windows 8 only. Surprise!
• Oprah’s hilarious promo fail is hilarious.
• Best Buy has spent 50,000 hours training employees to use Windows 8.
• Atoms Express Toys is an amazing Boulder-based toy company.
• 50% of Iranians use Facebook, even though it’s blocked.
• Apple stock is in decline, for a variety of reasons.
• Me.ga is now mega.co.nz. Conez!
• Smartphone yellow cards are a sarcastically great idea.
• Google wants to be a wireless carrier
• Obama got 30,000 people registered to vote on Reddit.
• James bashes the Wii U; Justin desperately tries to defend it.
• Justin tells the story of the YouTube App for the Wii. Not U; just Wii.
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 made a bunch of money. Dave says it’s the second best Call of Duty game, ever.

This week we apparently have not been using anything, so let’s move right to the headlines:

• Skeumorphism might die at Apple. We want our digital calendars to look digital!
• Obama understands Reddit. Not Bad.
• Nate Silver of FiveThirtyFive basically called the election correctly.
• Quality typography is killing America
• Microsoft might be making an Xbox gaming tablet. Why? Who knows.
• Half of a 32GB Surface is used before you take it out of the box.
• Apple apologizes to Samsung in the UK for a second time . . . Sort of.
• Details on the Wii U emerge.
• Verizon employees steal customers nude photos (SFW).
• iFone stops Apple from sell iPhone in Mexico.
• Check in to Facebook get free Wi-Fi. Win-Win.
• Office goes mobile. Microsoft bringing it to Android and iOS.

We would like to give a shout out to coco~splat, who has offered his music up for use on the show. Very kind!

Did you miss the live show? Don’t worry, you can see us in all our unedited glory on YouTube. The video is embedded below!

Here are the apps we’ve been using lately:

• This extensions makes “Most Recent” the default in Facebook. Chrome only.
• Facebook Nanny makes you get off Facebook. Chrome.
• Snipe on eBay like a pro using EZ Sniper.
• And Justin loves the new “Compose” function in Gmail. Turn it on; you will too.

And, as always, the headlines.

• Sandy took down ¼ of cell towers in 10 states. It affected quite a few Technophiliacs as well; take care, everyone!
• Facebook advertisers can now target iOS and Android users specifically.
• Microsoft and Google among top contributors to Obama. Just rants about the election a little too long.
• The computer with first presidential email is for sale, if you’ve got hundreds of thousands of dollars to blow.
• MIcrosoft sold 4 million Windows 8 Upgrades. We talk about it for far too long.

And this week’s free stuff:

• Crossover, which lets you run Windows software in Linux or OS X, is free today (October 31).
• Casual game Plants vs. Zombies is free until November 10 with a coupon code.

As always, the headlines:

• BPI is asking for more piracy sites to be blocked in the UK, thus solving the problem forever.
• Check out the Windows 8 ads. We break them down.
• Analyst: Windows 8 will stop the shrinking.
• There’s a smaller iPad, and Apple made other devices they will sell. For money. It’s news.
• Sony plans to sell a 11 pound, 20” “tabletop” PC running Windows 8. – No kiddin.
• Google actually likes making things affordable, and as such, they launched an ultra cheap Chromebook. Can they convince anyone to use it?
• Memento aims to capture your life every 30 seconds for “lifelogging”. Useful.
• Amazon remotely deleted someone’s entire library (they later quietly “undeleted” it). Is this the cost of online connivence?
• After complaining about Google’s privacy policies, Microsoft updates theirs to be the same.
• This awesome hoax fooled lazy journalists, including Dave.
• How Boxee completely alienated their users. Really, these comments tell the whole story.
• Apple loses another suit against Samsung, this time in the Netherlands.
• Free online education was briefly illegal in Minnesota (it’s legal again now).

Gaming News:

• Nintendo is not going to make a lot of money.
• Zynga lays off a bunch of people. Maybe terrible social games are finally going away?

This week: Dave develops a disturbing new hobby: collecting old Nintendo games. Will he ever own every game? No. Will he spend all of his money trying? Probably. And James talks but Enemy Unknown, his new favorite game.

But first, as always, the headlines:

• Microsoft’s Surface RT costs $499 without the touch cover, and even the fanboys seem unclear about what it can’t do. Hint: legacy Windows apps won’t work.
• Microsoft produced 3 to 5 million Surfaces for Q4, so they’re expecting to sell quite a few.
• The iPad Mini is launching 23rd, apparently. Sarcastic joy.
• Microsoft launches a music service for XBox 360 users.
• Incredible new security methods introduced for Windows 8: Plain text passwords. Great job!
• DRM for 3D printing objects is patented. Justin is reminded of Transmetropolitan.
• The Pirate Bay is now completely raid-proof.
• Gawker outs Violentacrez, moderator of r/creepshots and even worse subreddits.
• Wikileaks sets up paywall, angers anonymous.
• DoNotTrack is basically useless now. RIP.
• Your browser alone can identify you via fingerprinting. Are you unique?
• Robots manually remove weeds, could reduce herbicide usage.

And, the gaming news!

• Project Eternity the most funded game ever on Kickstarter, just shy of 4 million.
• Halo 4 leaks online… we’re not going to tell you where to find it, but it starts with a Tor. Microsoft is banning people caught playing the leaked version.
• An article about an article might contain information about a game. It might be Grand Theft Auto. Maybe.
• Microsoft rolls out a new dashboard for the XBox 360.

This week in “What You Been Usin?”, we hear from our open source correspondent Alex Mayer about Unetbootin. Justin talks about his new MacBook Pro, which isn’t actually new. He also wants you to read The Worst Things For Sale, because it’s hilarious.