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reCAPTCHA, a company that provides CAPTCHAs to help protect more than 100,000 websites from spam and fraud, was recently acquired by the IT giant Google. A CAPTCHA, according to Wikipedia, is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer. This feature is commonly used in ... Full story

Twitter is great thing and, thanks to Geek Hero Comic's author (go read it!), I found out about this great and simple blog that posts photos from around the world featuring "unnecessary" quotation marks! For those of you in doubt, the proper way of using quotation marks can be found here: ... Full story

According to the iPhone DEV-TEAM, iPhone users with a jailbroken device will have to wait to update to the new OS 3.1, since the device will not be able to revert the baseband firmware, required for the jailbreak to succeed. The PwnageTool will still work and allow you ... Full story

Apple announced today the iPhone OS 3.1 Software Update, which is mainly focused on user preferences and customization. The features include: Genius Recommendations for Apps Get recommendations for apps you might like based on apps you've already downloaded. Genius Mixes Have iTunes automatically create mixes based on what’s already in your library. You don’t even have to ... Full story

HTC unveiled today their new Android-based chinless mobile phone called Tattoo, sporting Sense UI, a 3.5mm headphone jack, a 3.2MP camera and the usual microSD card slot. UPDATE Some more specs were announced, including a 528MHz Qualcomm MSM7225 CPU, 512MB/256MB ROM/RAM, a 2.8-inch 240×320 QVGA screen, GPS, 802.11b/g Wifi, digital compass and the usual Bluetooth 2.0. According ... Full story

I'm sure that by now you've heard all about Gmail's recent downtime, but this one's new for me. Today I logged in on my Gmail account as usual and got this weird error message. By clicking "OK" all seems fine except for a few buttons that look a bit weird, until you try to click a message and do the ... Full story

On-My.TV is a customizable online calendar with almost every single TV show currently airing in the major TV networks. This very simple online tool allows you to quickly create a user account and customize which shows appear on your monthly calendar. It also let's you know if there are any new shows added to ... Full story

Power Twitter is a simple but highly recommended Firefox addon for twitter fans who want to view all the information right there without jumping tabs or windows. The addon works a lot like the popular Greasemonkey scripts, changing twitter's web interface in order to improve the user ... Full story

The Pirate Bay foursome, founders and administrators of one of the biggest Bittorrent trackers in the world, were handed today a guilty verdict with 1 year in jail included. "The Stockholm district court has today found guilty the four individuals that were charged with accessory to breaching copyright laws," the court said in a statement. "The court has ... Full story

Walker, Texas Ranger star actor and martial-arts master Chuck Norris says that the Texans want an independent state and that he's the man to run the place! After being the Texas Ranger Norris volunteered to run as Texas' first president, after discussing the possibility of the state seceding from U.S. control during a rant on CNN.com's political ... Full story