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Digital City 118: New MacBooks and iPads, and will Ustream save Charlie Sheen?

This week we're buried under a ton of Apple news. We have new test results for the MacBook Pro and 13-inch MacBook Air, plus there's the new iPad 2 to talk about. Later, Charlie Sheen goes rogue on Ustream, and we ask if celeb Web-casting is the ultimate end-run around the studio system?

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Air Force launches second mysterious space plane

A second mysterious, robotic space plane was launched into orbit by the U.S. Air Force today, after the first craft safely returned to Earth late last year following a secretive months-long mission and speculation about its potential military or intelligence uses.

The second Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, or OTV, left Cape Canaveral, Fla., at 2:46 p.m. PT, atop an Atlas V rocket, Boeing said.

"History was made in December when the X-37B became the United States' first unmanned vehicle to return from space and land on its own," Craig Cooning, vice president and general … Read more

Digital City 115: Super Bowl ads, the Xoom tablet's sticker shock

This week we recap the best and worst high-tech ads from the Super Bowl, then debate the surprisingly high price of the Xoom tablet. There's plenty of media news as well, with The Daily launching for the iPad and AOL picking up the Huffington Post.

Finally, we play another round of our new tech trivia game, with Joey, Scott, and Julie playing to win prizes for chat room participants. Tune in live every week at 3 p.m. ET/12 p.m. PT for your chance to play. The game is new, and doesn't have a proper name yet, but we're thinking of calling it Office Dummies, after our favorite Twitter feed.

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Digital City 114: Intel's big chipset flaw; when to buy a laptop; and tech trivia

We get started this week just in time to follow Intel's major Sandy Bridge chipset crisis. How will this affect review systems we're testing in the Lab? Tune in to find out. Then we answer some popular reader questions about when to buy a laptop and when to wait, especially with rumors of a MacBook refresh in the air.

Finally, it's time to clean out the old game closet, and we try a new chat room contest, rewarding correct tech trivia answers with games.

Bonus: You can download the show's theme song as a free MP3 here for a limited time! Also, if you're a fan of Dan's previous jazz/funk/indie albums, check out some rough mixes from his new bossa-nova-inspired project.

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NASA reveals strange, bomberlike planes of 2025

Given that we are unlikely to get past 2012, perhaps it's churlish to even think of what 2025 might look like.

However, the indelible optimists at NASA have revealed images of commercial aircraft designs that might well take to the air, should 2025 actually materialize.

It seems that in the darker parts of 2010, NASA gave Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop Brumman money to ponder what improvements might be made to our current aerial cattle carriers.

The initial designs, published on NASA's own site, will make some drool and a few, perhaps, shiver.

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Digital City 112: CES post-mortem, plus the Verizon iPhone looms

This week, we're all back from CES with a list of the coolest laptops of the show. Plus, the Verizon iPhone is imminent--find out if it's worth making the switch.

Bonus: You can download the show's theme song as a free MP3 here for a limited time!

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Digital City 111: CES debate, plus surviving NYC's snowmageddon 2010

Note: With almost all of us decamping to Las Vegas last week, we never got around to posting the blog for the January 3 show until now.

All the buzz this week is about CES 2011, but besides that, the Digital City crew outlines how they all survived NYC's snowmageddon 2010, and find out what cool tech goodies we got (and gave) for the holidays.

Bonus: You can download the show's theme song as a free MP3 here for a limited time!

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Digital City 109: Gawker hacked, prank presents, and the Blabber Meter

We're counting down the days until the end of 2010, with only two shows left. In this week's news, Gawker gets hacked, and some of us are among the victims. Play along at home as we search for our e-mail addresses in the leaked username database.

Later, we've got some more holiday gift ideas, and even a cool collection of prank packages to hide your goodies in.

Even better, we've got a just-in-time holiday giveaway: a deluxe Sony Singstar Party Pack for the PlayStation 3, complete with the game and two mics. Want to win it? Head on over to the Digital City Facebook fan page and enter by posting a comment.

Bonus: You can download the show's theme song as a free MP3 for a limited time!

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Digital City 108: Holiday shopping, WoW Cataclysm hits, and RC planes buzz NYC

This week: A Consumer Reports feature on the best and worst phone carriers leads to (another) heated argument; Joey asks everyone for their holiday tech shopping lists; and New York gets buzzed by mini RC copters.

Bonus: You can download the show's theme song as a free MP3 here for a limited time!

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Paper plane launched into space

We tend to think of paper planes as small things, thrown in class in order to get 7-year-olds through the crushing boredom of, say, arithmetic.

But you might not have guessed that some adventurous sort would, one day, try to build a paper plane with a three-foot wingspan.

If you did, I feel sure that it would not have crossed your mind, as it did that of three British amateurs, to build a paper plane with a three-foot wingspan and send it into space.

John Oates, one of the threesome, cheerily told the BBC: "I knew we'd be … Read more