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Download Torrents Instantly with Instant-Torrents (711 diggs) Instant-Torrents is a new service that allows people to download, find, and share torrents on a private network. Users can download torrents via the site, and direct downloads are available when others have downloaded the torrent before.

iPod nano 4G leaked really-real spy shot (1,803 diggs) Look, you know the drill here. This may be the painstaking result of some CAD-school-dropout's nights home alone, or the latest in cheapo knock-offs from the Far East. Regardless, we'll know the truth real, real soon.

Confessions Of A Banned Digger (2,652 diggs) Just say no to scripts! The story of Brian Cuban (bcuban).

Michael Moore skips box office, film heads straight to 'Net (1,581 diggs) Filmmaker Michael Moore plans to bypass movie theaters with the debut of his new film, Slacker Uprising. The movie will instead be offered online as a free thank-you to his fans, after which it will be sold on DVD. With more filmmakers experimenting with online distribution lately, major studios may be tempted to try it out too.

First look: Firefox 3.1 alpha 2 officially released (1,510 diggs) Mozilla has officially announced the availability of the second Firefox 3.1 alpha. This release includes support for the highly-anticipated HTML 5 "video" element and a handful of other features that move the browser forward.

Playing With Light? Awesome Lego LED Lamps! (727 diggs) The illuminated LED blocks takes the ’smart toy’ concept to the next level by imbuing their building blocks with LED lights: creating a combination toy / lamp that is as useful as a room illumination as it is fun to play with

New iTunes Visualizer will be the Stunning Magnetosphere (2,119 diggs) According to rumors, the new iTunes 8 presumably coming next week at the Apple "Let Us Rock" event will come with some beautiful new visualizations. Now, new rumors say that the new visualizations will actually be Magnetosphere, a formerly-available plugin by artist Robert Hodgins. After seeing the gorgeous video above, I hope this rumor ends up be

Apple to developer: No, you pull MY finger (774 diggs) Apple apparently doesn't think fart jokes are very funny...

Apple Files Voice,Finger,Gaze and Facial Recognition Patent (611 diggs) Apple has many more ideas for multi-touch and is working on adding new technology that could improve multi-touch accuracy, enable more detailed gestures and perhaps change the way you use your computer.Apple has filed and almost endless number of multi-touch-related patent applications since the iPhone was introduced.

Why is the Internet so infuriatingly slow? (1,262 diggs) Everyone hates their Internet service provider. And with good cause: In the age of ubiquitous Internet access, Web service in America is still often frustratingly slow. Tired of being the villain, telecom companies have assigned blame for this problem to a new bad guy. He's called the "bandwidth hog,"

Michigan law passed requiring MediaSentry to have PI license (909 diggs) MediaSentry is the hired gun that hunts down filesharers for the RIAA, and the company's activities have raised the question as to whether it should be licensed as a private investigator in some states where it operates. Michigan was one such state, and has now enacted a law that clearly indicates MediaSentry needs a license.

A hands-on overview of the Access Linux Platform (456 diggs) A the recent LinuxWord conference, Ars got the chance to test drive a mobile Linux platform that has developers talking: the ACCESS Linux Platform. We also spent some quality time with the SDK, and had a chat with the folks at ACCESS.

The fastest Drive storage in the world.. (605 diggs) Engineers at in England and California have set a record in storage speed, outperforming the current rate by more than 250 percent. By combining Flash solid-state technology and IBM's storage virtualization technology, the researchers were able to transfer data at more than 1 million Input/Output (I/O) per second.

FCC Chair responds to Comcast lawsuit: we still want answers (969 diggs) FCC Chair Kevin Martin says that even if Comcast is appealing its net neutrality Order, the agency still wants to know what the heck "protocol-agnostic" means.

iPhone Might Be Able To Replace All Your Remotes (1,264 diggs) The iPhone makes for a great universal touchscreen remote for everything from your AC to your living room blinds to your music collection.

EA Announces SimCity and the Sims 3 for the iPhone (1,031 diggs) EA has announced that nine new titles are currently in development for the iPhone: Yahtzee Adventures, EA Mini Golf, Lemonade Tycoon, Mahjong, Monopoly: Here & Now The World Edition, SimCity, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09, Need for Speed Undercover, and The Sims 3. Spore Origins on will be released September 7th

Google chief admits to 'defensive component' of Google Chrom (774 diggs) Google's chief executive admitted Thursday there was a "defensive component" to the Web search giant's launch of its own Internet browser, thereby pitting it against Microsoft's dominant software.

10 things we'd like to see in Chrome (1,474 diggs) So far we're pretty smitten with Google's Chrome

Can Steve Jobs save the iPod? (878 diggs) One of the unintended consequences of the success of the iPhone is that it has rendered the classic iPod and its diminutive sisters — the nano and the shuffle — nearly irrelevant. What do you need a second MP3 player for if you’ve already got a few hundred tunes in your pocket?

First Bill Gates + Jerry Seinfeld Microsof Ad Makes No Sense (5,371 diggs) Besides the slick and probably expensive editing designed to make Jerry Seinfeld look like the more awkward of the pair, there's not a whole lot of special effects in this clip. In fact, there's not really a whole lot of anything, including laughs, info or pimping of Vista. It's kinda like Seinfeld's really long, really rambling Amex Superman ad

New Home Door Locks Can Be Controlled Online (498 diggs) What if locking the front door of your home while you're away were as easy as hopping on the Internet? At the CEDIA Expo in Denver this week, Ingersoll-Rand Co.'s Schlage unit is showing off door locks that can be wirelessly set or opened via the Internet, from a mobile phone or a computer.

Does Digg Have a Liberal Bias? Share Your Thoughts. (1,881 diggs) Though Digg offers dozens of sub-categories under which to submit stories, political items have often dominated the highly trafficked front page in recent months. But with that sharpened political focus has come accusations of bias, leaving some of the site ’s more conservative users frustrated. Does Digg have a liberal bias and is there a solution?

How To Erase Your Tracks Online (694 diggs) Chrome's launch on Tuesday confirmed a new feature as a must-have in Web-browsing software: a cloak of invisibility that hides the user's path around the Web. Incognito browsing, like a similar setting in a new version of Internet Explorer released last week, is designed to erase any trace of the sites you've recently visited, wiping away cached

Serious Potential in Google’s Browser (784 diggs) Google's minimalist Chrome browser is built for a future that blurs the lines of Web and desktop. Google argues that current Web browsers were designed before so many of the developments that characterize today's Web.

Intel Ready to Announce Six-Core Chip (801 diggs) Intel on September 15 is expected to roll out the Intel Xeon 7400 series Dunnington processor targeted at the server market, the final member of the "Penryn" family of processors, according to sources at server vendors. Penryn will be followed by the Nehalem microarchitecture, due to appear initially as the Core i7 processor in the 4th quarter.