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    US approves new nuclear reactor design

    The US endorsing and using clean energy? What's going on?!?
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    Modified German Galaxy Tab 10.1N passes legal muster in German court

    Yes, and it has a home screen WITH ICONS, blatently copying Apple's user interface design.
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    Bitcoin's comeback: should Western Union be afraid?

    It's not feasible. You'd need a botnet of computers with super-high-end graphics cards. And the difficulty increases if more "miners" are introduced.
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    The first <em>Hobbit</em> trailer is here, and it is good

    It should go in Science! Because it's fiction! :P
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    The first <em>Hobbit</em> trailer is here, and it is good

    Er, I'm excited and all, but why is this in /gaming/?
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    Microsoft's new automatic update plan could (finally) spell the end of IE6

    And schools. They aren't a huge user base but they generally manage computers like any company would, and are often locked down to IE6 and IE7.
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    Creative Commons ponders ports and database rights for license update

    Well, there's attribution, non-commercial, and share-alike. there's about 6 combinations, and 3 versions of the licenses. That's 18 licenses. Let's say 30 countries, and you get close to that figure: 6*3*30 = 540.
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    Amazon bests Microsoft, all other contenders in cloud storage test

    Reddit's downtime is rarely actually Amazon's fault, they just don't have enough actual capacity.
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    Google co-founder Sergey Brin donates $500,000 toward Wikipedia's $28M budget

    Bandwidth/storage/electricity (if they have their own datacenter). Unfortunately, Wikipedia has an inefficient architecture, they could save money if they, for instance, didn't use MediaWiki (although that would be very difficult to achieve)
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    "Occupy Flash" campaign urges users to uninstall Adobe Flash plugin

    Actually, Adobe has already made Flash Pro output HTML 5. I'm not sure if it's in the currently released version, but they demoed it.
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    3DS photography takes off, but you're on your own to share images

    It has a web browser, local and global WiFi multiplayer. But they don't want to employ anyone to maintain their online services and keep them pedo-free.
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    Move.me brings PlayStation Move development to your PC this Spring

    So those online 3D sex games will now have Move support? Cool.
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    Report: DoJ looking into possible anti-WebM moves by MPEG LA

    The monopoly they have on video compression, H.264?
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    Playing Nintendo 3DS games: 3D galore, but few new concepts

    Yeah, the original DS is slightly more powerful than the N64, and the 3DS moreso.
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    Microsoft restores missing e-mails from Hotmail accounts

    For Hotmail you can use Microsoft's own offline client, "Windows Live Mail", which is the successor to Vista's Windows Mail (and therefore Outlook Express), or use Outlook.
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    Japanese publishers complain of pirated books in App Store

    In Chinese? WHAT?
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    <em>Wolfenstein 3D</em> created in <em>LittleBigPlanet 2</em>: prepare for the awesom

    No, this is a 3d raycasting engine that's outputting in 2D (it works exactly how doom and wolf3d work internally). It will be 2D on a 3D TV.
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    The $99 gaming PC: the OnLive microconsole in pictures

    A lot of PS3 and X360 games have 100ms input lag. No kidding.
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    Mathematics of text messaging could help cellcos manage networks

    Indeed. SMS costs nothing to the carrier, apart from operating the transmitter. It was initially free, but became so popular they decided to commerically exploit it.
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    Why Apple saddled the MacBook Air with "gimped" CPUs

    Indeed. I do a lot on this PC with an Intel "Pentium Dual-Core" - basically a C2D with less cache. I write software, play games, IRC chat, make videos. I regularly have 20 apps open at once. My PC rarely slows down or freezes.
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