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  Purported Windows 8 document leaks to Web

  Facial recognition and improved boot times are on tap, according to what a Microsoft enthusiast site says are internal details on the still hush-hush operating system.

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  Justices sidestep on software patents

  The Supreme Court rejects one particular patent, but doesn't provide new guidance about when business methods and software are patentable.

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• iPhone 4 teardown reveals $188 cost to build

  iSuppli estimates the cost of each part and says this new Apple phone is slightly more expensive to build than past models.
  • Apple may have iOS 4 update to fix reception issue
  • Apple iPhone 4 sales: 1.7 million in three days

  (Posted in Circuit Breaker by Erica Ogg)

• White House drafting plan for cyberspace safety

  Looking to make online transactions safer, it drafts a strategy to use trusted and secure identities in cyberspace, and asks for ideas and feedback from the public.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Lance Whitney)

• Growing pains afflict HTML5 standardization

  Emotional disagreements between two groups are disrupting the creation of the high-profile standard at the heart of the next-generation Web.

  (Posted in Deep Tech by Stephen Shankland)

• Making the world's most cutting-edge aircraft carrier

  road trip At Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding in Newport News, Va., the Navy's next-generation carrier is well under way. It will forever change the way such vessels are made.
  • Photos: Building a cutting-edge aircraft carrier

  (Posted in Geek Gestalt by Daniel Terdiman)

• Utilities look inside the home to fuel the grid

  At the Utility of the Future confab, utilities focus on the concept of making home appliances or electric vehicles act as virtual energy storage devices.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• File sharer beats 'Hurt Locker' makers to punch

  Michigan man files legal response to Voltage Pictures copyright complaint--without actually having been accused of sharing movie.

  (Posted in Media Maverick by Greg Sandoval)

• MSpot's streaming music service now open to all

  MSpot's new service gives users 2GB of free online storage to stream music to computers and Android phones. We give it a spin to see how well it works.

  (Posted in Web Crawler by Josh Lowensohn)

• Amazon adds audio, video to Kindle iPhone app

  Kindle for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad can now display embedded video and audio clips for Kindle e-books, courtesy of the latest upgrade to the app.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Lance Whitney)

• Plastic Logic cancels preorders for Que e-reader?

  It looks like the expensive Que e-reader has been caught in the iPad undertow and may never be released.

  (Posted in Crave by David Carnoy)

• BP oil spill costs hit $100 million per day

  The company says that in the past three days, it spent $300 million on trying to cap the well, clean-up efforts, and compensation of workers affected by the spill.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Reuters)

• Cheezburger Network to Whitman campaign: FAIL!

  Ben Huh, the CEO of the company that owns the humor site aped in an attack ad, tells CNET he wasn't joking when he said he wants the ad taken down.

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• Broadband availability to expand

  A presidential memorandum aims to make available for auction some 500 megahertz of spectrum.
  (From The New York Times)

• Foursquare poised to get new VC funding

  The hot social-location site is in the final stages of striking a funding deal with the very venture firm--Andreessen Horowitz--that had publicly dissed it and walked away from earlier talks.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Kara Swisher, AllThingsD)
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