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Bill?Gates?is?on?his?way?out.?Now?it’s up?to?Ray?Ozzie?to?revive?the flagging?giant — and?get?it?ready?for the?post-desktop?era. By Fred Vogelstein from Wired magazine.

Cell phones may be the next battleground for companies offering internet phone services that don’t depend on your desktop and router. By Randy Dotinga.

Pro football goes long on high-tech upgrades like space-age pads and wireless headsets. The latest breakthroughs mean less pain and more gain for today’s competitors. By Sam Jaffe for Wired magazine.

Advertisers meld into the gameplay by adding content. From their perspective, it’s a win-win situation. By John Gaudiosi.

Isn’t it logical and more efficient to allow people carrying U.S. government security clearances to bypass airport screening? You might think so, but you’d be wrong. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.

He runs Daily Kos, but liberal blogger Markos Moulitsas says he’s no political leader. He wants you to argue about another great American pastime: baseball. By Ana Marie Cox from Wired magazine.

Hold the phone: Warrantless surveillance of international calls and e-mails into and out of the United States can go ahead while a judge’s ruling, which called the intercepts unconstitutional, works its way through the appeals process.

Mazda’s RX-8 seems to hail from an alternate universe where automobiles are powerful, whisper-smooth and safe. Netgear’s Skype phone makes the connection and Oxo kitchen tools get a grip. In Gadget Lab.

Four people, including Hewlett-Packard’s former chairwoman, Patricia Dunn, will be charged by California’s attorney general for their role in the recent corporate spying scandal.

A Stanford University professor whose father received a Nobel 46 years ago completes an American sweep of the 2006 Nobel science prizes, winning the chemistry prize for cell research.