As I mentioned back in April, it was getting clear that it was time for Larry King to Retire. While I am sure that my blog entry made not a wit of difference to the old guy, I think that time and reality have finally caught up to Mr King. He announced this week that he will be retiring from his show after 25 years (about 10 years too many, many people think), and will only appear on the air for special events and whatnot.

The bad news is that, just like that persistant old person fug that must be in the air of his studio, Larry King will linger until November, effectively killing CNN in the rating for another season. Instead of being a gentleman and stepping down before the start of the new broadcast season, he will linger on, much to the delight of Faux News and MSNBC.

Replacement? Well, the one tapped at this point as likely to get the job is Piers Morgan, currently a judge on Americas Got Talent. This of course assumes that CNN will continue to run a 9PM snoozer interview show, forever damning their viewership to drop. I am personally hoping that if they go with another interview / talker show, that they push it later and stack it up against Leno and such, giving us perhaps a more news oriented talk option at 11, and allowing stars like Anderson Cooper to bring their in depth news coverage into prime time where it belongs.

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Road Trip 2010: No visit to the nation’s capital would be complete for any self-respecting geek without a chance to see some of the most important air and spacecraft in history.

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Road Trip 2010 has three unplanned days in western Pennsylvania over the Fourth of July weekend. If you have a suggestion of something to do, you could win a prize.

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Road Trip 2010: At Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding in Newport News, Va., the Navy’s next-generation carrier is well under way. It will forever change the way such vessels are made.

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The Apple Iphone4 has only been out for a very short amount of time, and already problems are cropping up. One of the strangest is reception problems, because of the way the integrated antenna is put in the phone. It seems that if users hold the phone in a certain manner, they can actually attenuate the signal and give the phone significantly poorer reception. Apple’s answer was only somewhat diplomatic, and pretty much said that the users should learn how to hold the phone properly. How odd!

IN amongst all of this, there are pretty solid rumors floating around that ios 4.0.1 won’t be far off. Apparently one of the issues of reception is entirely based on what people see on the signal meter on the screen. Apple’s solution is apparently to change the range of the scale so it shows more bars. A great fix, right?

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Road Trip 2010: On Saturdays, Frank Warren organizes and posts the secrets for his famous blog. CNET’s Daniel Terdiman was on hand to witness the work thousands will see Sunday.

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Road Trip 2010: CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman is carrying both a MacBook Pro and an iPad, and wants to use Apple’s tablet for as many computing tasks as possible. Got any suggestions?

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Road Trip 2010: On the Atlantic coast of Virginia, the space agency uses a 6,000-acre facility to build and launch rockets and design high-altitude scientific balloons big enough to hold a sports stadium.

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Road Trip 2010: If you have an idea for a great geek-oriented spot in the nation’s capital, I want to know about it. If I visit it, I may thank you with a small gift.

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45 Minutes on IM John Graham-Cumming wrote what has become one of the only travel books geeks need. With CNET Road Trip 2010 starting Thursday, I wanted to get his sense of the geek world.

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In order to hit the road, CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman has to brave the wilds of pre-twilight. But now, several weeks of the best of the east coast is ahead.

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For the next few weeks, CNET’s Daniel Terdiman will be behind the wheel of a Porsche Panamera in search of the region’s best geek-oriented destinations.

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Apple is once again the victim of their own hype and popularity of upcoming products, this time on the Iphone4. A pre-production Iphone4 was found and put online, which only added to the hype around this device. Now comes word that many people who want to upgrade from older Apple phones are discovering that there just won’t be enough product to go around. This is a pretty typical Apple situation, it seems they are very good at creating extra hype by not supplying enough product to satisfy the market. This leads to lineups and other situations that media tends to pick up on.

Some would suggest however that this type of hype may be a negative for Apple in the long run, as they make their most dedicated customers upset by being unable to meet their needs in a timely fashion. Apple’s rush to hit the market sometimes tramples their existing customer base.

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You would expect that any publisher wanting to develop a game based on the king of pop would have had to bend over backward to please the singer’s estate. But in fact, the estate came calling.

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The giant video game convention capped its attendance this year, yet the halls are filled with people. At the same time, the industry’s leading analyst firm admitted Wednesday that it had understated 2009 revenues by more than 42 percent.

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Sony and Microsoft wanted everyone to get worked up over Kinect for Xbox 360 and PlayStation Move, but to this observer, this all seemed very much like what we heard a year ago. The big news was really about 3D.

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Following Nintendo and Microsoft, Sony made news with announcements about 3D gaming, PlayStation Move, a series of new games and some PlayStation Network news.

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When the streaming video game service launches June 17, it will have titles from a wide selection of publishers, including Electronic Arts, Take-Two, Square Enix, THQ, Ubisoft, and more.

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Once again, Pixar has broken new computer animation ground with its latest film, which will hit theaters on Friday. This time, the studio found a way to use technology to animate a climactic sequence involving thousands of pieces of ground-up garbage.

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Bob Whitehill, the stereoscopic supervisor at Pixar, is the person in charge when it comes to decisions about how to get the studio’s films ready for 3D screens.

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At E3, the video game developer announces it will deliver a video game for Xbox, PS3, Wii, Nintendo DS, and Sony PSP based on the king of pop’s performances and have it ready for holiday 2010.

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Xbox 360 maker is clearly hoping its new motion control system will help it take on Nintendo’s Wii and bury Sony’s PlayStation 3. But there are those who think Microsoft will have to wait awhile.

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A brief look at what we know about motion control system Kinect, and what we don’t. Namely, pricing.

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45 Minutes on IM: To help celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Discovery Channel, the hit show has put together a special episode of favorite experiments.

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After calling it Project Natal for more than a year, Microsoft finally gives its motion-control system a real name, formally unveiling Kinect during a special Cirque du Soleil performance.

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A phenom at the hit guitar game is attempting to reach an all-time high score. But why should anyone care about a record for a game that’s just five years old?

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Rapid Adapt, from VirtuOz, aims to help virtual-agent technology learn and improve on the fly, and in the process, make each new customer’s experience better than the last.

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45 Minutes on IM: Neil Young, the CEO of leading iPhone game developer Ngmoco, predicts that the release of iPhone 4 will usher in a major new platform for games.

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Two scientists hope to build computers capable of mimicking the brain’s visual cortex and, in the process, build cars that can perceive and navigate around road hazards.

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Road Trip at Home: At the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility, scientists hope to generate huge amounts of clean energy by 2020 with a massive laser fusion system.

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