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Silicon Follies Chapter 16: Looking for a gal who's quick with a vaporizer -- tales of geek dating woe. Salon Technology's serial satire on life, love and work in Silicon Valley continues.
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Doom, Quake and mass murder Gamers search their souls after discovering the Littleton killers were part of their clan.
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By Mark Boal [05/06/99]
Rematch at the NT vs. Linux corral Mindcraft's test showing Windows NT is faster than Linux evoked a hailstorm of criticism. Now the lab is inviting Linux gurus to participate in another round -- but they charge the shootout is still rigged.
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The April Fools stock hoax caper and the FBI Three pranksters "founded" a fake company for a day. All they wanted to do was raise an alarm about Net investment scams. So why are they being investigated and sued?
By David Zgodzinski [05/05/99]
Pathfinder, we hardly knew ye The long-expected demise of Time Warner's megasite provides a caution to today's high-flying portals. It also offers a clue to frenzied telecommunications takeovers, like AT&T's bid for MediaOne.
By Scott Rosenberg [05/04/99]
Words in your ear Audible's digital Walkman delivers on-demand spoken-word programming like audio books and NPR programs via the Net. But it can only handle so many words at a time.
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The millennium bug bill battle The tech industry's Washington lobby, playing both sides of the aisle, seems to have won the legislation it wants -- for now. But it also made some powerful enemies in the process.
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