Mattel introduce "Computer Engineer Barbie" for Christmas. Any resemblance between it and a real female engineer is, well, missing:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/14/computer_engineer_barbie/
Google to roll out an experimental 1Gbit/sec fibre-to-the-home network to 50,000+ lucky Americans on a trial basis:
http://www.gizmag.com/googlei1-gigabit-per-second-fiber-to-the-home-network/14140/
The cracks are starting to show around the edges of the top secret ACTA negotiations as the Europeans fail to "bend over":
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/technology/08piracy.html
ACS:Law in the UK is condemned for its mass mailout of dubious demands for settlement for alleged copyright infringement:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8483482.stm
Intel and Nokia bad together on Meego, a merge of Maemo and Moblin, and a Linux distro that interestingly will run on ARM:
http://jaaksi.blogspot.com/2010/02/meego-time.html
Physiologists hack a camera and mirror array from a projector to make a camera that can shoot 400 frames/sec and still have 1MP resolution:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18522-offtheshelf-camera-hacked-to-grab-highspeed-video.html
And finally. The captain of Ady Gil, sunk by Japanese whalers, boards the whaler with an arrest warrant and invoice on a jetski:
http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-100215-3.html
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