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Google Launches Google Reader Play for Apple's iPad (131 diggs) Google Reader Play is a full-screen treatment that shows you an image, video, or text from websites that are popular on Google Reader. You can navigate from page to page with right and left arrows at the sides of the screen, or by selecting a site from the assorted options below. You don't even have to be signed in to use it.

Tracking When, Where and How People Have Sex in Real-Time (110 diggs) Part Twitter, part Google Maps, IJustMadeLove.com is the brainchild of Cyprian Cieÿkiewicz, a 26-year-old programmer in Poland who got the idea for the site in May. While driving home one night, he started wondering what it would take to create a Web site with flashing notifications representing where people have exchanged bodily fluids.

EFF: Ending the EU Data Retention Directive (112 diggs) The German Constitutional Court issued a much-anticipated decision, striking down its data retention law as violating human rights. It was an important victory for Europe’s Freedom Not Fear movement, which was formed to oppose the EU Data Retention Directive. But it was also a reminder of the political work which remains to be done to defeat it.

Intel's Core i7-980X Launches with a Bang (162 diggs) The new Core i7-980X Extreme Edition (codenamed "Gulftown") is a six-core CPU that promises a whole new level of performance.

11 Things You Didn't Know You Could Watch on Webcam (337 diggs) It's a fact that everyone loves the PuppyCam, except for those few people with an abnormal hatred of puppies. (And, frankly, we don't speak to those people.)

Digg: Saying Yes to NoSQL; Going Steady with Cassandra (398 diggs) Digg is committed to the use & development of open source software & we're keen to avoid the cost of proprietary large-scale storage solutions. We were inspired by Google & Amazon's broad use of their non-relational BigTable and Dynamo systems. We evaluated all the usual open source NoSQL suspects. After considerable debate, we decided to go with

Free wireless broadband plan is déjà vu all over again (178 diggs) The NBP will ask the government to "consider use of spectrum for a free or very low cost wireless broadband service.'' That's odd, we thought, since the FCC and Congress have been considering such an idea for years.

Facebook Announces Plans To Take Over The Internet w/Pages (325 diggs) The Open Graph API will allow any page on the Web to have all the features of a Facebook Page – users will be able to become a Fan of the page, it will show up on that user’s profile and in search results, and that page will be able to publish stories to the stream of its fans.

Battlestar Galactica To Get Its Own MMO (268 diggs) The game is going to be browser based and developed with the Unity3D engine. Call me skeptic, but this sounds like a bad idea to me.

Consumers found vulnerable to e-mail threats (289 diggs) Tens of millions of Web users in North America and Western Europe have clicked on spam at least once - and many of them did it on purpose - according to preliminary results of an online survey that are indicative of the widespread lack of consumer awareness of e-mail threats.

Google launches advertising on YouTube mobile (150 diggs) Google today announced that it will now be adding banner dvertising to its YouTube mobile sites. According to the company’s blog, the ads will appear on U.S. and Japanese mobile websites for home, browser and search pages.

6 Technologies that will make your jaws drop at E3 (442 diggs) There’s a lot of movement in the rumor mill about technology waiting to be unveiled at E3, so lets take a look.

Twitter Routing All Links Through New Anti-Phishing Service (280 diggs) Today, we’re launching a new service to protect users that strikes a major blow against phishing and other deceitful attacks.

How mobile apps enable meaningful human relationships [VID] (293 diggs) The digital world's top thinkers share their visions of the future. Ge Wang, co-founder of Smule and assistant professor at Stanford University speaks about the power of mobile apps - and how they can enable meaningful human relationships.

Microsoft researcher wins "Nobel" of computing (353 diggs) Chuck Thacker, a technical fellow at Microsoft Research, has won the prestigious A.M. Turing Award -- sometimes called the Nobel of computing -- for a lifetime of contributions to computing. The Association for Computing Machinery recognized Thacker for his work on building Alto, the first modern personal computer, while working for Xerox PARC.

Piracy Rises In France Despite Three Strikes Law (417 diggs) In the first few months following the adoption of the three-strikes anti-piracy legislation in France, online piracy has increased significantly. Instead of stopping, file-sharers are seeking alternatives to bypass the new law.

Pot Meet Kettle: Greenpeace Data Centers Dirty as Facebook's (422 diggs) After calling out the social network for using electricity generated with coal for its new green data center, it turns out that at least some of Greenpeace's servers are powered by coal as well as nuclear power.

Cisco's New Router To Delivers 322 Terabits per Second (1,071 diggs) Cisco Systems, has announced the launch of a super-fast and effeciency-focused router technology which will be at the heart of "the next generation of the Internet".

Jen-Hsun Huang is 'looking forward' to court date with Intel (242 diggs) Sometimes companies spar out their differences behind closed doors, and sometimes they have guys like Jen-Hsun Huang at their helms and the whole world gets to know how they feel and what they intend to do about it. He has taken a recent interview with Fortune magazine as an opportunity to eloquently lay out his side's case.

Facebook killer's monitoring referred to IPCC (260 diggs) The police force monitoring serial sex attacker Peter Chapman before he fled to kidnap, rape and murder Ashleigh Hall has referred itself to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

Dutch Pirate Party Joins Election Race (403 diggs) Following in the footsteps of the Swedes and Germans, the Dutch Pirate Party has decided to join the national elections being held this spring. The Pirate Party booked a surprising victory by scooping two seats in the European Parliament last year, but has yet to score its first elected seat in a national Parliament.

Court Maintains Ban on DVD Backup Software (321 diggs) Judge sides with MPAA in case against Real Network's RealDVD software that would allow consumers to make backup copies of purchased DVDs for personal use.

Sam Pitroda: "voting is going to go on cellphone" [VID] (204 diggs) Sam Pitroda, adviser to the PM of India delivers his views on cell phone voting and how the paradigm of the classroom will change in the future. He also states the "internet is going to bring this whole idea of guru back."

New Google Tool Visualizes Public Data in Animated Charts (422 diggs) Google has just launched Google Public Data Explorer. The new Google Labs tool offers a visual way to look at and analyze large public data sets on a variety of popular search topics.

Has Play.com revealed the Apple iPad UK price? (233 diggs) Play.com has been listed on Google Products as selling the Apple iPad for the UK price of £499 for the 16GB version and a whopping £699 for the bigger 64GB version.