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• Four lessons from a single successful tweet
• In role reversal, Chinese PC firm to manufacture in U.S.
• Web porn for peace (and other good causes)
• Microsoft's IE9 suffers vicious parody treatment
• iPhone 5 so far: One road warrior's two-week test
• Boeing trucks ahead with 8-wheeling laser weapon
• Dear iPad pedestrians, this has to stop
• Declassified: Air Force plans for a flying saucer
• JDS Labs' overachieving headphone amplifiers
• Foxconn denies report of strike at Zhengzhou iPhone factory
• This week in Crave: The profitable edition
• Amazon once offered to buy Netflix for $12 million, book says

Four lessons from a single successful tweet Posted: 06 Oct 2012 03:42 PM PDT What I learned from a single tweet about Facebook's one-billion mark. [Read more]

In role reversal, Chinese PC firm to manufacture in U.S. Posted: 06 Oct 2012 03:19 PM PDT Wait, a Chinese company making computers in the U.S.? Yeah, you heard that right. [Read more]

Web porn for peace (and other good causes) Posted: 06 Oct 2012 02:16 PM PDT The masterminds behind Come4.org would like to make online-porn viewing a moneymaker for social causes. [Read more]

Microsoft's IE9 suffers vicious parody treatment Posted: 06 Oct 2012 12:47 PM PDT You've seen that rather dynamic Internet Explorer 9 ad, haven't you? The one that's pulsating and powerful? Well, here's a slightly different take. [Read more]

iPhone 5 so far: One road warrior's two-week test Posted: 06 Oct 2012 12:39 PM PDT The iPhone 5 doesn't exactly have busy CNET reporter Brooke Crothers pining away for his 4S. But there have been one or two issues. [Read more]

Boeing trucks ahead with 8-wheeling laser weapon Posted: 06 Oct 2012 12:00 PM PDT The defense contractor is ready to mount a 100-kilowatt solid-state laser on a big Oshkosh HEMTT vehicle. Then comes the real test. [Read more]

Dear iPad pedestrians, this has to stop Posted: 06 Oct 2012 09:17 AM PDT It seems that some pedestrians aren't content with staring into their iPhones. They now unwrap their iPads and merrily flounce down the street. [Read more]

Declassified: Air Force plans for a flying saucer Posted: 06 Oct 2012 08:30 AM PDT This mysterious saucer from the 1950s was meant to fly at speeds of up to Mach 4. Most mysteriously, it was designed by... Canadians. [Read more]

JDS Labs' overachieving headphone amplifiers Posted: 06 Oct 2012 07:36 AM PDT These are the best-sounding, budget-priced, made-in-the-USA headphone amplifiers the Audiophiliac has ever tested. [Read more]

Foxconn denies report of strike at Zhengzhou iPhone factory Posted: 06 Oct 2012 06:42 AM PDT Foxconn says that 3,000 to 4,000 workers building iPhones did not stop work yesterday. [Read more]

This week in Crave: The profitable edition Posted: 06 Oct 2012 06:00 AM PDT This week, we panned for gold in a laboratory, rode a horse made of keyboard keys, and marveled at the value of a multimillion dollar meme. [Read more]

Amazon once offered to buy Netflix for $12 million, book says Posted: 06 Oct 2012 04:00 AM PDT In late 1990s, Netflix was still a struggling start-up when CEO Reed Hastings flatly rejected Amazon's acquisition offer, according to an upcoming book. [Read more]

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