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TWiL 68: Whiz Bang Click - Bilski decision and the validity of business method patents, improving the Patent Office…

TWiL 66: Wrestling Pigs And Unicorns - YouTube summary judgement and possible settlement or appeal, infringing vide…

Thousands rally in Hong Kong to protest Manila hostage deaths - BBC - Thousands rally in Hong Kong to protest Manil…

TWiL 69: Do Lawyers Dream of Electric Sheep? - Robots, What Happens When They Get More Then Just Your Beer, and mor…

36 die as Ecuadorean bus runs off road, overturns - 36 die as Ecuadorean bus runs off road, overturns

Why California Won't Legalize Pot [GRAPH] - Proposition 19 is a California ballot proposition which would legalize…

Shooter kills five, injures one; takes own life in California - Shooter kills five, injures one; takes own life in…

Attention, couch potatoes! Walking boosts brain connectivity, function - A group of "professional couch potatoes,"…

Oh crap. I have no idea what happened. I'm terribly sorry - but I didn't do anything, I've been on TWiT. Not sure w…

Dan and me at AT&T park. Great seats!

I have a new hat.

Today, we’re happy to introduce Priority Inbox (in beta)—an experimental new way of taking on information overload in Gmail.

These chips store only 1,000 bits of data, but if the new technology fulfills the promise its inventors see, single chips that store as much as today’s highest capacity disk drives could be possible in five years.

When you browse an extension's detail page, the lightning bolt icon will appear in your Omnibar. Click it, and Inspector will unpack the .CRX file and scan for API calls, permissions, and OAuth support. It also tells you the uncompressed size of the extension and whether or not it has an options page and browser action icon.

Foursquare, the social network that allows members to broadcast their location and activities, has joined forces with MTV in an effort to remove the stigma attached with getting screened for sexually transmitted diseases. Members who "check in" for an STD test during the month of September will receive a special virtual "badge."

As a user you download an iPhone app (I have it on my iPad) and add your credit card information (that’s the last time you ever have to deal with that). When you want a car to pick you up you hit a button. The app knows where you are and finds a car and driver nearby. The driver accepts via his/her own iPhone app, and you then get to watch them come to you on a map with a pretty darn good estimate of the number of minutes it will take for them to get there. When they arrive you get in the car and tell the driver where you want to go. When you get there you see the charges and accept them, which are then billed to your credit card, tip included. A receipt is emailed to you. And then each side gets to rate the other – I love the fact that the driver rates the passenger, too. Makes for good tips and a happy overall transaction.

Singh spent more than two years and well over $200,000 of his own money battling the case in court, and this past April he finally prevailed. In the process, he became a hero to those challenging the pseudoscience surrounding everything from global warming to vaccines to evolution. It’s not necessarily a role he sought for himself, but it’s one he has embraced—he’s currently touring the world, talking about his case, libel reform, and how important it is to make sure scientists can speak truthfully and openly.Don’t come up with a view, find everybody who agrees with it, and then say, “Look at this, I must be right.” Start off by saying, “Who do I trust?” On global warming, for example, I happen to trust climate experts, world academies of science, Nobel laureates, and certain science journalists. You have to decide who you trust before you decide what to believe.

the latest firmware update adds printing support, allowing iPhones, Android devices, and anything else that can hit the diminutive home server's web interface to print files. Any HP or Epson printer from 2005 or later is supported over USB -- network printers just need to be on the same network -- and the firmware is rolling out now. Pogoplug is also shipping that 802.11 b/g/n wireless adapter it announced earlier this month today, as well as the more enterprise-focused Pogoplug Biz. We're also told the new firmware will enable some other features, but there's no breakdown yet -- we'll let you know when we find out. PR after the break.

And, for those curious, 148apps.biz revealed that—of the programs analyzed—it would cost a user around $673,362 to buy every single application and game in the store. This total includes the 83,000 applications and games priced at $1… as well as the five programs priced at $1,000. Slightly more than 74,000 applications and games are completely free.

analMX reports [Google translation] on comments from an executive at Mexican carrier Telcel claiming that Apple is set to release a revised version of the iPhone 4 by the end of September to address the highly-publicized antenna issue. Telcel began offering the iPhone 4 in Mexico last Friday as part of a quiet expansion that saw the device also come to the Czech Republic, Greece, Poland, Portugal, and Slovakia.

William Gibson op-ed piece

New post on LOL:: Live Coverage of Apple Event Coming Up

New post on LOL:: TWiT @ Dragon*Con!

At the 2,271 tweets per minute max rate recorded during a minute of pure Apple TV hype (we assume that that was the $99 moment), Apple was racking up some 38 tweets per second, or 136,260 per hour.

If you're a fan of any of the live shows on the TWIT network, you can listen to those shows in background as well. Just point Safari to live.twit.tv, tap "Live Audio Stream," and then you can listen to their shows while doing real work instead of looking at Leo's face. TWIT AM uses the m3u format, which also loves Mobile Safari. It seems that most of the internet radio streams using pls or m3u work beautifully with Safari.

Sources said Apple (AAPL) and Facebook conducted negotiations about an agreement, but could not come to terms. At the launch event in San Francisco yesterday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs complained to me about what he called “onerous terms” that Facebook had demanded for the friends connection and suggested using search or email to add friends to Ping.

Viral video - but how'd they do it?