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The AudioFile: basics of uncompressed digital audio
Bit rate, bit depth, sample rate... what's the difference? Part one of a series on digital audio gives you the scoop on the basics of digital audio in its most common, uncompressed form.Read More...

Hands on with Google Presentations
Google has launched Presentations, the latest addition to Google Docs. Ars puts Google's take on a presentation application through its paces to see if it's a viable alternative to PowerPoint and its ilk.Read More...

Study: One-two punch of confusion and clarity opens consumers' wallets
A new study reveals that marketers can manipulate our desire to reduce ambiguity in order to make a sale.Read More...

SCO has "substantial doubts" about its ability to survive
On the day of its first appearance in bankruptcy court, SCO's latest SEC filings show that the company believes it may not survive its current legal ordeals.Read More...

Intel announces, demonstrates USB 3.0
At Intel's opening keynote for IDF today, Pat Gelsinger announced the USB 3.0 specification. Current expectations are for the spec to be finished in the first half of 2008, with peripherals shipping in 2009.Read More...

Security fears lead many social networking fans to front with false data
A report from market research firm emedia says that almost two thirds of social networkers are uneasy about entering all of their personal information into social networking sites, with almost a third entering false information. Read More...

Intel talks Penryn, Nehalem at IDF
Intel's Paul Otellini took the stage today at the Intel Developer Forum to tout the company's next two 45nm processor designs, codenamed Penryn and Nehalem.Read More...

Oklahoma videogame law dropped by judge's killshot
In a ruling that will surprise no one, Oklahoma becomes the latest state to have a law restricting minors' access to video games thrown out by a judge.Read More...

Laptop ownership spikes among increasingly wired college students
Everyone on a college campus seems to have a cell phone in one hand, an iPod in the other, and a laptop in the backpack. New research finds that this is, in fact, the case.Read More...

IBM's free Symphony hopes to drown out Office's brass band
IBM has announced a new suite of applications based on OpenOffice.org named Lotus Symphony. The free set of collaborative office apps are compatible with Microsoft's Office formats, as well as a slew of others, and could challenge Microsoft's market dominance.Read More...

Distributed computing tackles dengue, hepatitis
IBM is deploying the World Community Grid in search of small molecule drugs that will block the reproduction of flaviviruses, a group that includes dengue fever, yellow fever, West Nile, and hepatitis C viruses.Read More...

Echoes of Firefox: Thunderbird spun off by Mozilla Foundation
The Mozilla Foundation has announced that future development of Thunderbird will be overseen by a newly formed subsidiary corporation. It's the same thing Mozilla did with Firefox a couple of years ago.Read More...

EPIC questions adequacy of Google's proposed privacy standards
The Electronic Privacy Information Center has questioned the adequacy of the framework that Google has proposed as the basis for international privacy standards.Read More...

Crunched in the valley: TechCrunch40 day one recap
The first set of twenty startups have presented their products and Ars Technica was there in the front row. Will any of these startups turn out to be the next YouTube?Read More...