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Darpa Wants Self-Guiding, Storytelling Cameras (156 diggs) The Pentagon’s risk-taking research agency is kicking off a new program to turn everyday cameras into autonomous ‘bots with problem-solving smarts. Darpa is already after all kinds of highly intelligent robo-critters.

The New IE9: More HTML5, CSS3, and No Windows XP (528 diggs) Today, Microsoft released the developer preview of Internet Explorer 9. The preview is bare-bones: after playing around with it, I can tell you that it doesn't have much in terms of user interface. This is more of a proof-of-concept than a web browser. Still, it provides a good glimpse into what we can expect from IE9: a complete reboot.

Broadband Plan: A Guide to America's Internet Revolution (365 diggs) The federal government plans to give Americans the world's fastest Internet access. Not everyone is thrilled with the "National Broadband Plan": Television broadcasters say it will compromise their business, and are already gearing up to fight it. Here, a concise guide to the FCC's plan, what it could mean for Americans—and why it might not work

MySpace Selling User Data (781 diggs) Information being sold to third parties includes blog posts, photos, status updates, and more.

Google's St. Patrick's Day Tribute (PIC) (601 diggs) A little Luck of the Irish!

Why Cisco's New Router Could Be Trouble For Hollywood (1,682 diggs) When technology leaps ahead of business models, it's often bad for profits. Cisco's new router poses just such a threat to the titans of movie making.

Fastest site on the Web: The IRS? (333 diggs) Performance monitoring service Gomez has released its annual list of major websites with the best overall responsiveness as measured by Gomez over the entire year 2009. Surprise winner: IRS.gov, a site that uses images sparingly and pushes off large documents to PDF format for downloading, rather than trying to serve them as Web pages.

Cable Company Lies About Taking Over All Streaming Video (726 diggs) According to a Charter Communications rep, starting May 1st, cable companies will have total, FCC-sanctioned control over streaming video and will take down all competing services.

IE9 'crazy fast', but rivals still have the speed edge (389 diggs) Internet Explorer 9 is 'crazy fast' according to Microsoft, but the Sunspider JavaScript results published by the company show that the latest browser from Redmond still lags behind many of its rivals.

Are Smart Phones Making Us Dumb? (226 diggs) Vint Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google, is the person most often called "the father of the Internet." His contributions have been recognized repeatedly, with honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Twitter CEO: We Want You to Spend Less Time on Twitter (438 diggs) "We have no interest in just increasing the time you spend on the Twitter site -- if anything we'd like to decrease it," said Twitter CEO Evan Williams. "We want to make Twitter a tool for you that helps you get stuff done."

Sarcasm is completely lost on Comcast (PIC) (3,786 diggs)

Death and social media: what happens to your life online? (565 diggs) When someone dies, what becomes of their user accounts and profile? Ars examines the policies of some of the most popular social media services to see how and under what circumstances friends or family can access (or delete) a deceased user's account.

Bloggers Turn to New Branded Viewer to Embed Documents (258 diggs) Web publishing startup DocStoc is launching a customized document viewer today, allowing anyone to create easily embeddable, branded document viewers.

Report: Facebook Beats Google For Web's Most-Visited Site (442 diggs) It's official -- playing Farmville and tagging friends in photos (and consequently untagging embarrassing photos of yourself from your friends' photos) has become more popular than actually trying to find things on the internet.

Google appears to drop censorship in China (2,100 diggs) Web sites dealing with subjects such as the Tiananmen Square protests could all be accessed through Google's Chinese search engine Tuesday in defiance of Beijing's censorship rules.

Twitter announces @anywhere platform for websites (266 diggs) Twitter has announced its '@anywhere' platform for websites,which allows site visitors to Tweet and follow from sites including Digg, Amazon and eBay.

FCC Tasks ISPs To Put The Pedal To The Metal At 100Mb (461 diggs) We're talking about a policy that would task ISPs with putting 100Mbps speeds in place at 100 million American homes within the next decade. Broadband providers are concerned with the cost associated with the FCC's proposal, but should they be? According to ABI Research, global broadband service revenue is expected to exceed $210 billion in 2014.

Inside the New Digg: An Interview with CEO Jay Adelson (508 diggs) At last night’s “Bigg Digg Shindigg” in Austin, TX, Digg CEO Jay Adelson briefly revealed plans for a massive overhaul of the social news site. This morning, I had an opportunity to chat with Adelson in-depth about the new Digg and what users, publishers, and the web as a whole should expect.

Google CEO: Social Information Will Produce Better Decisions (252 diggs) Google's chief executive looks forward to a revolution in video conferencing and discusses augmented reality applications. He also discusses the possibilities of web once the standard is raised to 4G.

FCC to Release Ambitious, But Pragmatic, National Broadband (273 diggs) The FCC is set to share the nation's first official broadband plan with Congress Tuesday -- a sort of Declaration of the Internet that seeks to ensure that a fast broadband connection is just as much an unalienable right as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Google's Biggest Blunder (591 diggs) Google is not a company known for making big mistakes, but not too long ago, it stumbled into the worst strategic blunder in its history.

Texting From Beyond The Grave (361 diggs) Generally a headstone conveys two very basic facts about the person interred below it - their name plus the two most important dates of their life. Thanks to some new technology, headstones can now convey much more that: a photo and note written by the deceased, delivered right to your phone.

Copy And Paste [PIC] (2,338 diggs)

File-Sharing and Link Sites Declared Legal in Spain (563 diggs) After early calls to shut down a Spanish file-sharing site were dismissed, music group SGAE pinned its hopes on success at the full trial. But, the outcome for them was nothing short of a disaster. The judge declared that both non-commercial file-sharing link sites and non-profit use of P2P networks are legal in Spain.