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Remains of the Day: Google on Your TV Edition [For What It's Worth]

Google dips its toe into TV programming searches, netbooks' market share is growing, Twitter and Facebook gear up for geolocation, and researchers make the case for fat as a sixth taste sense.

FCC Considers Dedicating Portion of U.S. Wireless Spectrum to Free Wi-Fi [Wi-Fi]

The FCC is considering dedicating a portion of the wireless spectrum to "free or a very low cost wireless broadband service," according to Reuters. They didn't offer much in terms of details, and you can file this one under the believe-it-when-we-see-it category, but it's a nice thought. [Reuters via Gizmodo]

Firefox's Next JavaScript Engine Will Borrow from WebKit [Firefox]

Mozilla's home-brewed JavaScript engine for its Firefox browsers, TraceMonkey, has impressed us before, but in the raw benchmark game, it's starting to fall behind its competitors.

Remains of the Day: Google's Amazing Branching Suggestions Edition [For What It's Worth]

Watch the internet spread throughout the world, see how Google's suggestions guess what you're thinking, and learn why one web content editor believes ad blocking is a pretty bad idea for keeping quality content alive.

Put Together a Last-Minute Oscars Pool with This Google Docs Template [Fun]

Got plans to watch tonight's Academy Awards with friends but haven't had time to make things more interesting with an Oscars pool?

New Office 2007 Users Get Free Upgrade to Office 2010 [Upgrades]

If you need to buy a new copy of Microsoft Office but don't want an instantly outdated suite when Office 2010 is released later this year, you're in luck: If you buy Office 2007 any time between March 5 and September 30 of this year, you automatically qualify for a free upgrade to Office 2010 when it's released.

Better Gmail 2 Updated [Updates]

Google's Gmail tweak broke some of the more popular features of my Better Gmail 2 Firefox extension this week, including Folders4Gmail and Hide Spam Count. Thanks to the quick work of Arend v. Reinersdorff, the problems have been fixed.

Join Lifehacker at SXSW for io9's Time Bender Party [Announcements]

Every year a few of us from Team Lifehacker descend on Austin, Texas for SXSW Interactive, a big gathering of technology geeks who get together to talk about emerging technology.

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