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    Google and the Mother of All Antitrust Battles

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    15 July 2008

    The US Senate today embarks on what could become years of antitrust investigations into Google by the IT, telecoms and media industries. The hearing today is just that – a piece of political showboating ordered by antitrust subcommittee chairman Herb Kohl. It’s not a formal investigation, let alone a lawsuit. Yet with the destiny of…

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    Wired UK: Our readers design the cover

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    11 July 2008

    WiReD magazine is coming back to the UK. I set Reg readers the task of Photoshopping some covers here. You can see the results in a gallery here. Wonderful stuff.…

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    Google – cult or corporation?

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    10 July 2008

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    Fixing the UK’s broadband crisis: Spiked’s Traffic jam debate

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    10 July 2008

    If you throw a rock in the air in London on any day of the working week, chances are it will land on a New Media conference. These are primarily social gatherings for the same group of academics and media hangers-on, and you can bet they’ll be Twittering. (I’m often invited – usually it’s because…

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    Bringing it all back Hume: Anton Wylie

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    9 July 2008

    A philosophy of science that may be the best thing we’ve ever run WiReD magazine’s editor-in-chief Chris Anderson has just seen the end for scientific theories. And it is called Google. The concept of the mind, and by extension that of a person, was also affected, with far reaching implications. In psychology, Behaviourism was one…

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    “What powers a solar-powered snail?”

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    3 July 2008

    Boffins have slammed examiners in England for setting school children seriously dumb questions. The Royal Chemistry Society said that the science exams for 14 year olds includes questions such as, “What powers a solar-powered snail?” The Society’s chief executive Dr Richard Pike told us that while the syllabus and text books covered a broad range…

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