BitTorrent Inc. is experimenting with alternatives to paid downloads on their Entertainment Network, and is now experimenting with advertising supported downloads. Instead of paying for a download, BitTorrent
’s customers now see ads before and after watching an episode.
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After Adult Swim promised last week that the new Aqua Teen Movie would play tonight I was skeptical as to what they would show. I have to hand it to them for an awesome April Fools prank.
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The space rock, dubbed 2006 VV2, will come within 2.1million miles of hitting us — which is a near miss in space terms, even though that’s about nine times farther away than the moon. The asteroid was flying past Earth on Friday night, at 11 p.m. (PDT), and on Saturday 7 a.m. GMT for Europe. There was no danger of collision. And that’s a really goo
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Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development. It combines a powerful software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, and Ruby. Thrift was developed at Facebook, and they are now releasing it as open source.
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