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Google Launches Google Reader Play for Apple's iPad (130 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.

Bicycling Directions, Trails Comes to Google Maps (194 diggs) There's nothing worse for a bicyclist than finding yourself a mile in to a two-mile stretch of shoulder-less, busy, highway-speed traffic with no alternative route. Before today, this was a common occurrence if you went to trusty Google Maps to get bicycling directions, but starting today, that has all changed.

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 (111 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.

Innovation Brings New Amazing Gadgets to the Poor (294 diggs) A nonprofit called Kopernik hopes to connect the creators of the low-cost, innovative and life-saving inventions with the people who need them most.

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.

Top free troubleshooting tools for Windows (159 diggs) No computer runs perfectly forever. Somewhere along the line, something will go wrong. While each successive version of Windows has been that much more reliable and self-healing, that's never been an argument to forgo a good collection of software tools.

Greatest Decal Ever? (PIC) (732 diggs) Just click through and check it out.

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.)

iPhone Developer Ngmoco Justifies the Freemium Model (200 diggs) While Ngmoco has emerged as one of the iPhone's top original developers, they've also lost a lot of fans by sticking with a model they call "freemium," even to the detriment of some of their most popular games.

Government No-Fly List Includes the Dead (278 diggs) You may be dying, figuratively, to get off the government's no-fly list, but death won't guarantee removal. The government's no-fly list includes the names of dead suspects, according to government officials who spoke with the Associated Press, to help catch people who may try to assume the suspect’s identity...

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.

The Size of the Mobile Market (Infographic) (307 diggs) In Taiwan, there are more cellphones than people. About 7% of all mobile data goes to movie information. And Google owns nearly 100% of the mobile search market. These, and more fun facts in this handy infographic!

HTML5 - New Old Semantics (319 diggs) Huge deal! The revolutionary modifications in HTML5 semantics bring the whole new coding (and indexing) experience. But is it really all that new?

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.

3-D Can Be Explained [infographic] (529 diggs) It’s not just a red and blue glass that makes things fly at you! Well sort of but its much cooler than that.

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 does a parent handle cyberbullying? (252 diggs) What's a parent to do when their child is being bullied relentlessly by peers on Facebook? School administrators say they have no control over what happens outside of school.

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.

Unboxing the fake Intel Core i7 that NewEgg was shipping (1,795 diggs) By now, you've probably seen many of the homemade videos from people who ordered an Intel Core i7-920 processor from Newegg.com and received a bogus processor and hunk of plastic shaped like a fan. We have one in the office.