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Space.com:

Call it the ultimate absentee ballot.NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station have the option of voting in the presidential election from orbit.Astronauts residing on the orbiting lab receive a digital version of their ballot, which is beamed up by Mission Control at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Filled-out ballots find their way back down to Earth along the same path.

Apple made the arguments today to U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal in federal court in San Jose. Apple’s bid to expand the lawsuit follows Samsung’s Oct. 1 move to add patent- infringement claims against the iPhone 5 in the same case.

Here we go.

Farhad Manjoo:

But it didn’t take me a week and a half to decide whether the Surface is better than the iPad. At most it took a couple days, and that’s being generous. You’d likely arrive at the same conclusion after playing with the Surface for just a few minutes in a Microsoft Store. That’s because the new tablet’s flaws are glaring.

Farhad is definitely not a fan.

The Nokia Lumia 820 starts at $49.99 with a two-year wireless contract from AT&T while the flagship Lumia 920 phones start at $99.99 with the same contract terms.

That’s much more aggressive than what I would have thought. Seems they are going straight for the low-end market.

Prime typically costs $79 a year in the United States for free two-day shipping, free video streaming and access to Amazon’s Kindle e-book lending library. The company is now offering the service for $7.99 a month on its website, which works out to $95.88 a year, but at that rate it can be purchased strictly on a month-to-month basis.

This can only be good for consumers.

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

Absolutely one of my favorite and most used apps on iOS and Mac.

The best-selling ‘David Gilmour In Concert’ full-length show, originally released on DVD, is now available as an App for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

It’s being released November 19.

And Ice Cream Sandwich too. Be safe Android people.

“Your fucking address goes here”

Just in case you don’t know where to go. I laughed.

[Via Laughing Squid]

Harry Marks corrects Dan Lyons.

Arik Hesseldahl has a nice article looking at some of the pros and cons of Apple’s rumored move away from Intel.

A new drum expansion pack from Toontrack. The drums were recorded by the same engineer that mixed Metallica’s “Black Album” and Mötley Crüe’s “Dr Feelgood,” among others.

Thomas Verschoren gives his thoughts based on resolution and dpi.

“We’re pleased that the court has dismissed Apple’s lawsuit with prejudice,” a Google spokeswoman said in an emailed statement on Monday.Dismissal of a case with prejudice means the case is over at the trial court level, though it can be appealed.

I agree completely with what Gruber said.

Microsoft has revealed exactly how much free space new Surface owners are left with after taking into account Windows RT and system-related files. For the 32GB version of the new tablet, users have access to only 16GB of storage, with the remaining half taken up by Windows recovery tools, Windows RT, Microsoft Office, and built-in apps.

Seriously Microsoft, WTF?

The first paragraph alone is worth the read. Great article from Crosby Churchil.

There are two sides to every story. This Microsoft retail experience wasn’t so bad.

The moral of the story is that you should go to a store and try out a Surface if it is something that interests you. Don’t listen to other people’s views and opinions. You might hate it. You might like it. Everyone’s needs and expectations are different. I came away impressed and pleased with the experience and the Surface.

I do agree with this completely. You should try out everything and use what is best for you.

Interesting thoughts. Tim remains Tim and Jony sort of takes Steve’s role, restoring the balance.

Some things just don’t make sense.

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Michael B. Farrell for the Boston Globe (via Gameindustry.biz):

Despite the recent setbacks, the video game industry in Massachusetts is growing fast. The sector directly ­employs at least 2,041 people at 112 companies, according to a September survey by Massachusetts Digital Games Institute (MassDiGI), a state-­sponsored game development center at Becker College in Worcester. Fifty-one percent of respondents said they are ­developing some kind of mobile games.

It’ll be interesting to see how many of these studios can build sustainable businesses in the mobile space without needing to be acquired by larger companies or diversify into the console space, where at least some of them are very, very reluctant to enter.

Mark Hattersley for Macworld UK:

Independent benchmark tests by Futuremark have revealed that Microsoft’s Surface tablet is surprisingly slow at web browsing. When run through the Peacekeeper: Universal Browser Test, the Microsoft Surface speed test came out at just 348, almost third of the result from the new Apple iPad 4’s score of 951. The Surface also scored slower than the Apple iPad mini (515), Nexus 7 (489) and even last year’s Apple iPhone 4S model (438). In fact, the Microsoft Surface only just beat the Eee Pad Transformer Prime (344).

Keep trying, Microsoft. I’m sure you’ll get it right someday.

Probably three years after the rest of the industry has moved on to something else.