The Florida Highway Patrol says it will issue Tiger Woods a careless driving citation for a car crash outside the star golfer’s Orlando-area mansion last week.
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General Motors CEO resigns
Fritz Henderson has resigned as chief executive officer of General Motors less than a year after taking over the position.
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Toyota supplants GM as top Canadian seller
A number of automakers posted solid Canadian sales increases for the month of November.
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Iginla named NHL player of the month
Calgary captain Jarome Iginla is providing the bulk of the Flames’ offence, and the NHL rewarded him Tuesday by naming him the league’s player of the month of November.
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Google’s Always-Fascinating Year-End Zeitgeist Rounds Up 2009 in Search [Zeitgeist]
Web users perform billions of searches every year, leaving the folks at Google with a fount of interesting information. When the year ends, GOOG rounds it all up into their yearly zeitgeist. This year, Twitter and Michael Jackson lead the way.A bit more about how Google puts their zeitgeist together:
To compile the 2009 Year-End Zeitgeist, we studied the aggregation of billions of queries people typed into Google search this year. We use data from multiple sources, including Insights for Search, Google Trends and internal data tools. We also filter out spam and repeat queries to build out lists that best reflect “the spirit of the times.” All of the search queries we studied are anonymous-no personal information was used.
The Google Zeitgeist always provides an interesting overview of what was on our minds in any given year, so give it a look and share what interesting finds you can dig up in the comments.
Google Zeitgeist 2009 [Google]
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First Iron Man 2 Poster: Ker- Boom [Iron Man 2]
Ho. Lee. Crap. The first (real) teaser trailer’s coming in December, but after seeing this poster, I don’t know if I can’t wait that long. And yes, I know tomorrow is December. [Yahoo via Ain’t It Cool]
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Serena Williams hit with record fine for tirade
A profanity-laced tirade at last summer’s U.S. Open has earned tennis star Serena Williams a record $82,500 US fine and two years of probation.
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Arrington's CrunchPad Dies a Fiery Death
Michael Arrington announced the death of the CrunchPad on Monday morning in a blog post heavily spiced with angst and drama.According to Arrignton, the Cruchpad — a 12-inch Web tablet expected to be priced at about $300 — was just days away from launch. At the last minute, however, Arrington received an email from Chandra Rathakrishnan, the chief executive of manufacturing partner Fusion Garage, apparently trying to cut Arrington out of the product on the eve of the launch. Fusion Garage, according to Arrington, would market the device itself under its own name.
“Err, what?” Arrington wrote. “This is the equivalent of Foxconn, who build the iPhone,
notifiying Apple a couple of days before launch that they’d be moving
ahead and selling the iPhone directly without any involvement from
Apple.”Arrington claims that the company had overcome obstacles at every stage
in the business, securing preferred pricing for the Atom processor with
Intel, negotiating with a “major multi-billion-dollar retail partner”
for a retail launch and up-front payments, and securing venture capital and
angel investments to finance the company going forward.“Mostly though I’m just sad,” Arrington wrote. “I never envisioned the CrunchPad as a huge
business. I just wanted a tablet computer that I could use to consume
the Internet while sitting on a couch. I’ve always pushed to open
source all or parts of the project. So this isn’t really about money.
It was about the thrill of building something with a team that had the
same vision. Now that’s going to be impossible.”It's possible that the CrunchPad could still emerge in some form,
although Arrington has vowed to file multiple lawsuits against Fusion
Garage and its employees. For now, however, the CrunchPad will
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Nash picks Columbus over money: Inside Hockey
When it came down to discussing the dollar value for his eight-year, $62.4-million contract extension, Columbus Blue Jackets forward Rick Nash says he chose his team over money.
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Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies [Infographic]
This infographic makes me so glad that we came up with storage methods other than floppy disks. Imagine replacing your 2TB hard drive with 1,422,222 floppies. No thank you. Update:Reader Drew just noticed that the artist updated the graphic. I’ve replaced the image. Looks like the guide inconsistencies you all noticed have been fixed, at least for the most part. [Curtiss Spontelli via fellow Gizmodian Kyle. Thanks dude!]
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911 tapes to be released from Tiger Woods crash
The Florida Highway Patrol said it expects to release tapes of the 911 call on Sunday and it will investigate Tiger Woods’ crash as a traffic accident.
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Potash worker killed by bin collapse
A worker died early Saturday morning when a large storage bin broke apart and buried him in potash ore at a Mosaic Company facility near Esterhazy, Sask.
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Week in Geek: The Create Shortcuts to Nearly Anything Edition
Over the years, we’ve written loads of articles about how to create shortcuts to system functions that aren’t easily accessible otherwise—and we’ve got a list of the best ones here.
Pretty much all of these shortcuts work in Windows 7 or Vista, but some of them also work in XP.
TinyHacker Random Geekery
This was a shorter week for our publishing schedule, so here’s a shorter list of fun stuff we found.
Super User QnA
Ever wondered if there’s an alternative Skype client out there? Well, there’s not really, but there are other interfaces you can use instead. Read on.
- Erase just the free space on my hard drive
- Which Linux edtion is more stable and reliable?
- Is there an alternative Skype client out there?
- Does HDMI cable “quality” actually affect transmission?
- What to do with spare USB thumb drive?
- Cheap < 150 dollar Computer for my dad that lives cross country
- In computer networks, when is a MAC address used and when is an IP Address used?
- How much more RAM does Windows 7 use than Windows XP?
- Lightweight GUI Linux distribution for really old computer
- I need to password protect the entire computer…
The How-To Geek’s Lifehacker Features
Over on Lifehacker, I’ve written quite a few lengthy articles in the last month covering keeping your system safe and secure, and making sure that you’ve properly backed up your data. Definitely worth a read.
The Geek Note
Hopefully all of you had a happy Thanksgiving and found a great Black Friday deal on a Nintendo Wii Fit to burn off the calories or gather dust.
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NVIDIA Tegra tablet prototype hands-on
Hey, remember that mystery tablet NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang was pimping a mere couple of weeks ago? Well, it’s made its way to London, and woe betide the Engadget editor who didn’t get a hands-on with such an exclusive piece of hardware. So what we’re looking at here is a Windows CE-powered, resistive touchscreen display spanning somewhere around 15 to 16 inches, with the same Tegra internals as may be found in the Zune HD or one of them smartbook devices. As we reported earlier, the company behind the machine is ICD, and this particular unit was built to try and entice T-Mobile into placing a few orders.
Being a prototype, the device on hand was quite literally rough around the edges, but what we saw was appetite-whetting. The overall construction is under an inch thin, 720p video playback was excellent, and there’s even a terrific-looking wireless recharge station cum base accessory — think of Palm’s Touchstone, only enlarged and magnetized to the point where it can support the whole tablet in an upright position. If somebody marries all that hardware potential with the Stantum multitouch firmware and a more finger-friendly OS, this thing just might make the whole Apple tablet brouhaha utterly irrelevant. Video after the break.
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Wal-Mart wins at Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that Wal-Mart Canada Corp. was within its rights when it shut down a store in Jonquière, Que., that had been unionized seven months earlier.
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1st Ever Female NHL Play-by-Play Broadcast
On Wednesday night, New Jersey Devils broadcaster Sherry Ross made history when she became the first female broadcaster to provide play-by-play in English for an entire NHL game.
