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A new site for The Daily Show features clips including every minute that the show has ever aired in its eight-year history. The LA Times has the scoop on what went into its launch.

Skype mobile phones could be the cellular industry's worst imaginable nightmare. Cell company 3 Mobile has decided to be on the train, rather than under it.

Ubuntu is making Linux a viable option for anyone who is equally fed up with Windows and Apple. Its latest launch - nattily nicknamed Gutsy Gibbon - wows Wired, goes global, and alliteratively alludes to tenacity. Oh - and it's free (of course).

It's far from being free, but the PS3 is about to get a bit cheaper in the US.

Patenting the obvious may become a less lucrative niche, thanks to the efforts of a lone New Zealander. Go Peter Calveley! However you pronounce your name!

Has China launched a CyberWar against American search engines? Does Beijing's long arm extend to Johannesburg? Should we retaliate by boycotting the Olympics (that sure got the Russians out of Afghanistan, huh)? Or is this all much ado about nothing?

Crypto-war against China or no, Google's still managing to print money.

Halloween is about to get a lot scarier.

And Ann Arbor is about to get a lot greener.