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Kudos to Comcast for embracing the year 2009. The nation’s largest—and quite possibly worst —ISP has finally committed itself to deploying 100 mbps broadband beginning this year

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Comcast to begin 100 mbps residential broadband this year

You’ve probably heard about some quantum this-and-that where it was implied that certain particles can be here and there, or moving and not moving, simultaneously.

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Scientists vibrate quantum drum to superpositional beat

Well, looks like that Canon 5D mk II update that was released a couple days ago has itself a couple faults . Seems that if you set sound recording to manual while using a C* dial setting, then turn the camera off, it’ll render your camera unable to record audio at all

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Uh-ohs! Canon’s 5D update pulled from e-shelves

There are so many music search engines out there based on YouTube music videos (Songza comes to mind) that it was only a matter of time until YouTube created its own music playlist maker. The YouTube Music Discovery Project just launched quietly out of TestTube (YouTube’s labs). The page is a search box on top of which says, “Find>Mix>Watch,” and once you enter a name, you hit the “Disco” button to find music.

You can enter any music group or artist, and a playlist pops up, along with a thumbnail video and a description of the band. You can find related artists, create a mixtape, and save playlists. As you are listening to music and watching videos, it is easy to add and delete songs.

YouTube is taking advantage of a lot of the officially-sanctioned Vevo music videos in the Music Discovery Project. Playlists are saved to your regular YouTube playlists page, from where you can share them via email. For instance, here is a playlist I crated called “Too Cool For School.” Oddly, there doesn’t seem to be any to purchase the music other than the occasional iTunes ad within the videos themselves. But this is an experimental product

(Hat Tip to Ron Ilan).

Adeo Ressi’s Founder Institute is going international. This Spring, the startup mentorship program will be expanding to Singapore, Paris, Los Angeles, and Denver, meaning that the Founder Institute is now active in nine cities worldwide. Interested entrepreneurs can apply starting tonight, with an early application deadline of February 15 2010 and a final deadline of February 28. These four new programs will start simultaneously this spring.

Ressi, who founded the program, says that the Founder Institute is the first incubator program to expand beyond the United States (though there are other entrepreneur-focused programs like Seedcamp). As the Institute grows, it comes closer to Ressi’s goal of training 1000 founders a year. Conservatively, he think that this year the nine programs in aggregate will graduate over 700 founders and 500 companies, though he wouldn’t be surprised if the tally is more like 750 companies.

The Founder Institute was announced back in March 2009, offering entrepreneurs and very early stage startups an environment designed to help foster their growth and education. The program holds two four-month long sessions annually at each location, which include mentorship sessions from experienced tech entrepreneurs. The program also has a unique structure that allocates some equity to each of the founders involved, so that they have an incentive to work together (and there’s a better chance that they’ll see some financial gain out of the deal even if their startup doesn’t take off).

Here are some of the mentors Ressi confirmed for the spring semester. Ressi notes that about half of the mentors in Paris and Singapore will be visiting from Silicon Valley:

Nolan Bushnell, Founder of Atari, Chuck E. Cheese, and uWink;
Aaron Patzer, Founder and CEO of Mint.com;
Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote;
Philip Kaplan, Co-Founder of Blippy, Founder of Adbrite and F’d Company;
Ross Levinsohn, Founder of Fuse Capital and former President of Fox Interactive;
Bryan Thatcher, CEO of LockerBlogger, Empressr, and Fusebox;
and Mathieu Nouzareth, Founder of Cafe.com and serial web entrepreneur.

LEDs have really changed the flashlight market. Used to be, a Maglight was the pinacle of illumination technology, or maybe the occasional 1 million candlepower spotlight. Not any more.

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Let all other flashlights kneel before the mPower Emergency Illuminator

Hope you peeped that youtube video when we told you about it earlier, because Activition has fired off a cease and desist order on the video of the aimbot and wallhack being used. They claim it’s a copyright infringement, but there’s a whole lot more video out there that they are just ignoring.

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Thou shalt not look: Activision slaps a Cease & Desist on MW2 aimbot hack

Whatever.

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Protesters take to the streets post-Pirate Bay verdict

To completely rip off Rock, Paper, Shotgun : Sundays are for watching TV, playing video games and building up your BitTorrent ratio. As it turns out, Sundays are also for finding out that the iPod touch is being used in American military theaters, helping troops translate from one tongue to another, taking photos and showing them to locals (“see, your town’s mayor really does like us!”) and any number of other, high-techy things

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The iPod touch: Integral part of the modern soldier’s arsenal

It’s a sad fact that often the only face a content provider has to a customer is the lowly cable installer.

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This is why no one likes the cable company