The first show is Girls and it is actually pretty good. Judd Apatow produced it and it definitely has his signature on it.

According to Reuters’ sources, Amazon (as well as consumers in general) stand to gain the most from this settlement. Amazon could sell e-books cheaper, making its Kindle hardware more attractive for potential tablet buyers, and if the prices on Amazon fall, Apple, Barnes & Noble, and any other e-book retailers would have to tailor their prices accordingly — a win for consumers.

Price fixing is the work of cartels, not capitalist companies. If Apple had Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ slogan I’d point you over to John Gruber’s Daring Fireball blog to watch him rationalize.

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Funny, when I visited the guy mentioned how he was the dictator, not the mayor.

The rumblings about Apple and the possible anti-competitive nature of its deal with book publishers over “agency model” pricing have turned into an all-out roar, with the news that the Department of Justice has warned the various parties about an impending antitrust lawsuit. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, federal prosecutors have sent letters to Apple and five of the major publishers notifying them that it is pursuing a case for collusion and price-fixing — charges that are similar to class-action lawsuits filed recently involving Apple and book publishers. While the outcome of this case is not certain, one thing seems fairly clear: e-book prices are headed downwards, whether publishers like it or not.

Anti-competitive pricing deserves to be rooted out just like this. Wholesaling books is how it was always done before Apple stepped on the scene. Can’t wait to get it back to that system.

The promise is that low-cost gene sequencing will lead to a new era of personalized medicine, yielding new approaches for treating cancers and other serious diseases. The arrival of such cures has been glacial, however, although the human genome was originally sequenced more than a decade ago.

Imagine a world where genetic diseases can be foreseen? Revolutionary I tell you.

“The rumors are true. SimCity is back.” So said Maxis senior VP Lucy Bradshaw by way of announcing a new PC title in the seminal city-building series for a 2013 release.

I will spare no expense to buy this.

This needs reading by everyone. Cutting the supply of media to people is not creating more money, it is creating new avenues for content to get to people for free. The growing popularity of podcasts and internet TV channels are a direct result of the democratization of media. My advice to the MPAA, make it easier to get content and the rest will follow.

A startup working on battery technology says it’s developed a key breakthrough that could one day lead to an electric car that has a 300-mile range and could cost around $25,000 to $30,000.

I swear, if I didn’t have a cottage that required four-wheel drive to get to, I would own this car yesterday. Electric cars are such a good idea. Think about it, no wars to keep up supply, no pollution from the vehicle (just need to change coal plants over to something else and it would be 100% pollution free) and the potential for insane fuel economy. Check out Who Killed the Electric Car? for a good overview of electric cars.

Better batteries and solar power make me giddy.