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Who is the Chef of ‘Choice’ on ‘Hell’s Kitchen?’

Who is the Chef of 'Choice' on 'Hell's Kitchen?'

The chefs are rapidly heading for the last dinner service on Hell’s Kitchen . It’s going to be a tough call, because at this point, none of the four chefs are consistently outshining the other three.

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Just say no to fake Net neutrality

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Samsung UK offers free Galaxy S for frustrated iPhone 4 owners

Samsung UK offers free Galaxy S for frustrated iPhone 4 owners

Samsung UK has plans to turn unhappy iPhone 4 owners into happy ones – and they intend to do so by offering free Galaxy S smartphones instead. These replacements will come unlocked, and best of all is, you won’t even need to exchange your iPhone 4 with them, and neither do you need to fill up any pesky forms. All Samsung UK did was reach out to a few folks over Twitter, asked for their contact details and shipped a free Galaxy S to their doorstep

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Exclusive: Google: We haven’t taken eye off of search

Exclusive: Google: We haven't taken eye off of search

Amit Singhal, one of Google’s most senior search experts, has told TechRadar that he believes that search will remain at the heart of the company for ‘the foreseeable future’.

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Benchmarking performance in a virtualized world

commentary The central concept behind benchmarks was historically pretty simple. What’s the horsepower of some vendor’s “Big Iron”

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Trilliant snags $106 million for smart-grid networking

Trilliant snags $106 million for smart-grid networking

If the smart grid grows like the Internet did, then Trilliant–and a few other competitors–want to build the data pipes. Silicon Valley-based Trilliant on Thursday said that it has raised $106 million in late-stage funding to expand its smart-grid communications business.

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Web video sites may pick bones of Movie Gallery

Movie Gallery, the once powerhouse video-rental chain, went bankrupt last spring and is now trying to sell off such assets as trademarks, URLs, and proprietary technology. While the company’s demise and liquidation means more bad news for traditional video rentals, it could be a boon for Web video start-ups.

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Borders opens massive new e-bookstore

Borders opens massive new e-bookstore

Borders’ new electronic bookstore went live this week, with the US bookselling giant confident that it will soon catch up with Amazon, Apple, Barnes and Noble and other competitors in this fast-growing market. Apple’s iBooks app has most recently captured the imagination of iPad owners, while e-book manufacturers such as Amazon and Sony are currently engaged in a price-cutting war on dedicated electronic reading devices

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QuakeCon 2010 details rumble out

QuakeCon 2010 details rumble out

Id Software confirms Brink, Fallout: New Vegas, Hunted: The Demon’s Forge as playable titles for four-day games celebration; Rage strangely absent; on-site registration added to streamline process. In March, id Software and Bethesda revealed that QuakeCon 2010 would take over the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas from August 12-15. That announcement was short on details, but today Bethesda offered more information about the annual show.

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Exclusive: Virgin Media: Broadband crunch point is coming

Exclusive: Virgin Media: Broadband crunch point is coming

Virgin Media believe that there is a crunch point coming for superfast broadband, where consumers will begin to notice that their internet connection is not supporting their digital life at home. According to Virgin Media’s executive director of broadband Jon James, the roll out of increasing numbers of ‘up to 20Mbps’ services by many companies is not seeing a significant rise in the average internet speeds to the home, and many people will be disappointed with the service they get. James believes that the average of around 3.8Mbps to homes is now being pushed by people’s use of streaming video over applications like the BBC iPlayer and other internet services.

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