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Top stories: Jul 23 - 30, 2009
 Opposable Thumbs
EA puts sexual bounty on the heads of its own booth babes
by Ben Kuchera
EA has a new way to annoy its own models: give out prizes for Comic Con attendees who commit acts of lust with their booth babes. Also, if you win, you get to take the lady out to dinner! This is going to end well for everyone involved. Read More
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 Chipster
Ars System Guide: Gaming Edition
by Brian Won
The Ars System Guide is back, this time with our special gaming edition. If you're looking for upgrades to spice up your summer gaming, the Value Gaming Box and the Performance Gaming Box have you covered. Read More
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 Law & Disorder
The Matrix, but with money: the world of high-speed trading
by Jon Stokes
Supercomputers pitted against one another in a high-stakes battle of attack and counterattack over a global network where predatory algorithms trawl the information stream, competing every millisecond to gain an informational advantage over rivals. It sounds like Hollywood fiction, but it's just an average trading day on the stock market. Read More
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 Opposable Thumbs
Slow, but impressive: hands-on with the Xbox 360 update
by Ben Kuchera
Microsoft has given the press an early look at the updated features and organization of the 360 dashboard, and we like what we see: content is easier to find, and quality is easier to judge. Once the sluggishness is removed, this update will do much to make the 360 a more impressive machine. Read More |
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