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Sam Pitroda: "voting is going to go on cellphone" [VID] (197 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."

40 Outstanding Photo Manipulation Tutorials (715 diggs) Photo manipulation is an art that requires lots of patience along with the expertise in Photoshop and other photo editing tools. With your creativity and imagination, you can manipulate any photograph the way you want! Now it’s all about your imagination and using Photoshop’s effects and other tools cleverly.

Pentagon-Backed Venture Aims for ‘Google Underground’ (320 diggs) he Department of Defense already has omnipresent eyes in the sky, underwater and, of course, on the ground. It’s only when you start going underground that the surveillance powers of the Pentagon begin to wane — at least until now.

Why Google keeps your data forever, tracks you with ads (458 diggs) In a conversation with Ars Technica, Google's top privacy people defend the company's data retention policies and the tracking practices of (Google-owned) Doubleclick.

New Google Tool Visualizes Public Data in Animated Charts (404 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? (225 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.

WTF?:Name your kid "Google Fiber" and get broadband Internet (377 diggs) It's an arms race around the country's quieter quarters to get Google to bring broadband Internet to their parts. Topeka, Kansas is so desperate, they are willing to rename the city "Google, Kansas." Gag.

Apple's iPhone Addictive? (398 diggs) Apple's iPhone can be addicting for users, a study finds. Yes, someone at Stanford thought this needed to be answered and it warranted a survey.

iPad boom begins: Accessory makers rush to market (379 diggs) There's a lot at stake over the iPad extras market. Research group ABI Research estimates that 4 million media tablets will be sold in 2010, ramping up to 57 million by 2015. "This year alone, the accessories business for the iPad will be many hundreds of millions of dollars."

Four in five believe Web access a fundamental right - Yahoo! (538 diggs) Four in five adults believe access to the Internet is a fundamental right -- with those feelings particularly strong in South Korea and China -- and half believe it should never be regulated, according to a global survey.

Tech-support continues to disappoint (432 diggs) Symantec and McAfee are two top contenders when it comes to antivirus software. But one of them needs to re-educate its support technicians...again.

Death of the Desktop and Other Dire Predictions (399 diggs) Thanks to a combination of factors — namely consistently low barriers to entry and Moore's Law — the consumer technology market is notoriously unpredictable. But that never really deters industry bigwigs and analysts from making bold, decisive-sounding prognostications. They love "dealing the death card."

MIT Builds High-Speed Wireless Network Out of Trash (514 diggs) Members of MIT's Bits and Atoms lab visited Afghanistan some time ago. While there, they showed locals how to turn pieces of board, wire, a plastic tub and some cans into reflectors for a wireless network. The result? Fab Fi.

Apple's New Stance On 'Cookie Cutter' Apps (384 diggs) In the wake of Apple’s sudden decision to remove nearly all “sexy” applications from the App Store, we’ve been hearing that the company is also clamping down on so-called “cookie-cutter” applications

Hundreds of Twitter Accounts Hacked [WARNING] (448 diggs) It seems hundreds of Twitter accounts have started to Tweet out weight loss product spam today. Specifically, users who have had their accounts hijacked are Tweeting the message “I lost 20 lbs in 2 weeks!” and links to diet sites.

New play likens Steve Jobs to a modern-day Willy Wonka (268 diggs) A new play about tight-ship-running Apple CEO Steve Jobs is set to be staged at California's Berkeley Theatre early next year, penned by one of America's leading playwrights.

Botnet Blueprint: Build Your Own ZeuS Botnet for $2,753.50 (352 diggs) Researchers dissected ZeuS botnet blueprint - a little knowledge and a few thousand dollars is all it takes to build a fully functional botnet. Cisco researchers told delegates at the 2010 RSA conference in San Francisco that a botnet running the infamous ZeuS malware could be built for $2,753.50.

8 Must-Have Twitter and Facebook Add-Ons (555 diggs) By no means are Twitter and Facebook perfect: You might wish that Facebook made it more intuitive to hide FarmVille or certain status updates. Or, maybe you wish that Twitter would introduce a new feature like nested tweets. Good news: For many of these website tweaks or suggestions, there's likely to be a script you can download to fit the bill.

Five Best VPN Tools (601 diggs) VPN software gives you access to private networks as though you're sitting at a local computer on that network, giving you access to shared folders and tons more handy stuff. Here's a look at five of the most popular VPN tools.

The Awesomeness of Digg Labs (484 diggs) The tools in Digg Labs are really neat - and kinda addictive.

Reported Fake Intel CPU's Sold at Newegg (2,090 diggs) It appears that Newegg received a shipment of counterfeit Intel i7 920 processors and unknowingly shipped them out to customers. The whole story unfolds on Overclockers forum.

Verizon bills 'Dead' Man, says 'Death Certificate' not enoug (782 diggs) It should go without saying, but the last thing a grieving daughter should have to do is battle the phone company over disconnecting her deceased father's service.

Microsoft Demos Game Across Windows Phone 7, Xbox 360 and PC (426 diggs) Whoa. During the keynote presentation at TechEd Middle East in Dubai, Microsoft's Eric Rudder played the same Indiana Jones-ish game on a Windows computer, a Windows Phone 7 phone, and an Xbox 360. Gaming is about to get real ubiquitous.

Microsoft cracks down on Xbox Live homophobia (499 diggs) Microsoft has made a small but vitally important step forward in improving the overall tone of the online chat and gaming banter within its Xbox Live community.

Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love (2,367 diggs) Did you know that blocking ads truly hurts the websites you visit? We recently learned that many of our readers did not know this, so I'm going to explain why. There is an oft-stated misconception that if a user never...