Yes, it’s happened. Three days after Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey comes back in to head product, the dreaded #Dickbar , or the Quickbar that inserted trending topics and promoted ads into your tweet-stream on the iPhone, is dead.

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Twitter Kills The #Dickbar

It’s a bit less silly than the National Day of Unplugging , but unless your weekend starts on Thursday, there’s nary a snowball’s chance in Hades that you’re going to skip tonight’s network comedy lineup in order to do something that you can clearly put off until tomorrow. But what if, dear readers, your data doesn’t make until tomorrow

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World Backup Day reminds you to backup your world, today

eBay has been quick to start integrating Milo’s local product inventory technology into its products after picking up the startup for $75 million in December. eBay added Milo’s local results in its barcode scanning apps, RedLaser for iPhone and Android, and GiftsNearby, as a shopping tool for consumers to find gift options available for pick up at local retailers in their neighborhood. Today, eBay is launching its deepest integration with Milo—on it’s search platform.

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eBay Bets On Online To Offline Shopping, Adds Milo’s Local Product Availability To Search

Turns out Samsung wasn’t installing keyloggers on their laptops after all.

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Samsung Laptop ‘Keylogger’ Was a False Positive [Blip]

GameSalad, formerly Gendai Games , has raised $6.1 million in funding, led by Steamboat Ventures, with participation from Greycroft Partners, DFJ Mercury, DFJ Frontier and ff Asset Management. GameSalad’s game creation tool allows non-programmers to build, develop and publish 2D casual games games for the iPhone and iPad

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GameSalad Raises $6.1 Million For iPhone And iPad Game Creation Tool

Building and putting any sort of offshore wind turbine into place is a fairly impressive bit of engineering, but Denmark’s Vestas is truly going the extra mile with its new V164-7.0 MW turbine. Not only does it promise to provide seven megawatts of power but, as you can see above, each of the blades is longer than nine double-decker buses, which gives the turbine itself a larger total diameter than the London Eye. Of course, the company also hopes that there will eventually be not just a few of these but massive farms of the turbines at sea (the North Sea, specifically), although that won’t exactly happen overnight — Vestas only expects to have the first prototypes ready by the end of 2012, with full production expected to begin in the first quarter of 2015.

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Vestas unveils massive 7-megawatt offshore wind turbine (video)

A few weeks ago, after the debut of the Opera App Store , app marketplace GetJar banned Opera’s mobile browsing app Opera Mini from its own mobile app marketplace. The reasoning: Opera’s App Store was available in the app and competes directly with GetJar’s marketplace

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Opera Mini Returns To GetJar’s Mobile App Marketplace

Finally all’s well in the Sandy Bridge camp, Intel exorcizing the demons and getting its current generation of hardware flowing smoothly.

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Intels of Intel’s X79 chipset exposed: 14 USB 2.0 ports but not a one with 3.0?

There’s nothing you can do to prevent another Terminator movie. But if you have a buck, you can do something to stop real Terminators …or at least ensure that they’ll like us when they show up.

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Give $1 to Stop Terminators. Seriously. [Donate]

At the end of October 2009, my colleague Jason Kincaid traveled all the way to Hollywood , Los Angeles, for the official unveiling of Google’s new music search initiative by the Internet giant and its partners , Lala, Rhapsody, imeem and MySpace Music / iLike.

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Google’s Music Search Engine Quietly Vanishes From The Web