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Mike writes “With auto show season hitting its stride, there’s no shortage of incredible prototypes on display. First up is a brand new 100-mpg supercar by Lighting Hybrids. The biodiesel-fueled vehicle has its sights set on the automotive X prize and uses a hydraulic compression system to store energy from regenerative braking. Next, the Liv Inizio, a sleek fully-electric roadster that boasts a scorching top-speed of 150 mph and a 200-mile range, placing it in direct competition with the Tesla roadster.”

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angry tapir writes “Diebold has released a security fix for its Opteva automated teller machines after cyber-criminals apparently broke into the systems at one or more businesses in Russia and installed malicious software. Diebold learned of the incident in January and sent out a global security update to its ATM customers using the Windows operating system. It is not releasing full details of what happened, including which businesses were affected, but said criminals had gained physical access to the machines to install their malicious program. Arrests have reportedly been made.”

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From watching videos on your tv to controlling your ipod through your voice. These ten gadgets can redefine the way you use your ipod.

Well, here we go again… it appears the Canonical just uploaded some new and very nice desktop themes for the upcoming Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) operating system, in order to please their devoted users.

Inspired in part by President Barack Obama use of the Internet as a fundraising tool, Harris said, “I decided to try and use the power of the Internet to help me pay for my college education.”

Bluetooth Audio A2DP coming to iPod touch 2G…for the small price of .95

Now that a New Zealand judge has allowed court papers to be served via Facebook, the question on the nation’s lips must be: could you be served via a tweet? NBR put the prospect to Chapman Tripp senior solicitor Justin Graham.

iPhone apps have been downloaded 800 million times, and there are now more than 25,000 apps in the iTunes store. Apple is detailing some of the new features in the next version of the iPhone OS in apress conference going on live right now…

Y Combinator announced Monday it has raised a million venture fund with the aid of Sequoia Capital and angel investors. In making the announcement, Y Combinator noted it plans to increase the number of start-ups it funds to 60 a year, up from 40.

AlienRancher writes “Google launched this morning a new beta version of Chrome 2.0: ‘The best thing about this new beta is speed — it’s 25% faster on our V8 benchmark and 35% faster on the Sunspider benchmark than the current stable channel version and almost twice as fast when compared to our original beta version.’ Other enhancements include user script support (greasemonkey-like) and form auto-fill.” And reader Lee Mathews adds news of the open source version, Chromium, on Linux: “Not only has Chromium gotten easier to take for a test drive thanks to the personal package archive for Ubuntu Chrome daily build team, but development on the browser is also progressing nicely. Despite being a very early build, Chromium on Linux feels solid and boasts the same blazing speed the Windows users have been enjoying for months.”

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