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After last week's Apple announcements, your previous-gen iPod probably isn't looking so hot. Cheer up! We've got five mods that'll breathe new life into the little guy, so you don't have to feel guilty about picking up a shiny replacement.            
                          

Five Hacks to Give Your Old iPod a New Life [Hacks]

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You live your life at 2.4GHz. Your router, your cordless phone, your Bluetooth earpiece, your baby monitor and your garage opener all love and live on this radio frequency, and no others. Why? The answer is in your kitchen.
               

Giz Explains: Why Everything Wireless is 2.4GHz [Giz Explains]

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Over Labor Day, many of you went to work with your cameras to capture the ultimate moment of R&R.      
                   

60 Photos of Relaxation at its Purest [Photography]

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Sony barely mentioned pricing with their PlayStation Move motion controller, only noting that the combo pricing with PlayStation Eye and a game will cost less than $100. But by our back-of-the-envelope calculations, the experience is going to be really expensive.         
                               

Mental Math: The PlayStation Move Experience Is Going to Be Expensive [Playstation Move]

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The Western World keeps cutting its science research budget because of the economic crisis. As China rises—funneling tons of money into science—our obtuse politicians don't realize that, without pure research, they are sentencing us to irrelevance and oblivion.
                   

Science Research Cuts Will Ruin Us All [Rant]

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Samsung's Galaxy S phones, like the Fascinate on Verizon, represent everything that's good—and bad—about Android.   
                   

Samsung Fascinate Lightning Review: When Greedy Carriers Ruin Decent Phones [Review]

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With the latest iPods shipping this week, you'll be wanting to know whether an upgrade is necessary—or whether to take the plunge into the wild world of iPoddery. So far, this is what the reviews are saying:   
                 

Five Takes On the New Apple iPods [Apple]

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iOS 4.1 is live, bringing Game Center, HDR photos, a proximity sensor fix and more to iPhones (3G, 3GS, and 4) and iPod Touches (second-generation on up). Let the Game Center username land grab begin!
               

Apple iOS 4.1 Is Available Right Now [Apple]

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Google's just announced Google Instant! They say it's going to transform search forever—making it faster, better, stronger. But what is it, exactly?
                     

What Is Google Instant? [Google Instant]

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Clifford Nass is a Stanford professor specializing in computer interaction. In this excerpt from his new book, The Man Who Lied To His Laptop, he talks about how he made Clippy lovable. Cliff will be in the comments, answering Q's.            
   
How I Made Clippy Lovable [Book Excerpt]