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Mojang will release a version of Minecraft Pocket Edition for the Raspberry Pi, a tiny cheap computer sold by a charity that encourages young people to get interested in hacking computer hardware. My two sons are completely addicted to Minecraft and play on Windows and Ubuntu. Minecraft PE is not exactly as featureful as the ordinary version, so they probably wouldn’t care about getting a Pi and playing there.

I’ve noticed lots of innovation in tiny PCs coming out of China that run either Android or Ubuntu. In addition to tablets and laptops, there are the gamepad and HDMI stick form factors. For not much more than the Pi, you could get an HDMI stick like this: Mini MK802 Android 4.0 Google TV Box HD IPTV Player PC Allwinner A10 1G DDR3. I’m sure there’s some fun to be had putting the Pi into a box and hacking it, but it seems like one of these HDMI sticks would actually be more fun on the software side.

Minecraft is coming to Raspberry Pi!

Have you ever thought about learning to program? Where would you begin? How much would it cost? What would you need to get things moving?

The Raspberry Pi is a credit card-sized computer that’s a great starting point. It’s cheap, capable, and approachable for newbie programmers. It’s also extremely fun to play around with, no matter your experience with code. Plug it into a TV or monitor, attach a keyboard, and begin.

Soon you’ll be able to play and program with Minecraft on one of the snazzy little devices. Aron and Daniel have dedicated time to porting a version of Minecraft: Pocket Edition that comes with a revised feature set and support for multiple programming languages. We’re calling it Minecraft: Pi Edition, and it will be completely free to download.

Sounds like a backdoor version of SOPA. So, can we expect a retaliation from Anonymous?

One week left before US faces clamp down on piracy • The Register

As Americans settle in for the Thanksgiving weekend of food and family, filesharing traffic traditionally shows a modest rise. But those downloading content may look back on this holiday as the last golden weekend of piracy if the major ISPs have anything to do with it.

Next week AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon will be signing up to a monitoring system run by the Center for Copyright Information (CCI). This organization will check for the IP addresses engaged in peer to peer or torrent downloading of copyrighted material and alert ISPs.

This is an interesting form factor showing up for Android devices. It’s essentially a clone of a PSP with a touch screen. It must appeal to people wanting to run emulators because the choice of games for Android is sparse.

Latest ARCHOS tablets availability: ARCHOS 80XS, GamePad, Arnova Familypad and 7h G3 | ARCTABLET NEWS

Latest products releases with the ARCHOS GamePad, ARCHOS 80 XS (Gen10), Arnova 7h G3 and Arnova FamilyPad haven’t yet appeared in stores. Some offers for these tablets are showing as pre-orders, let’s hope they’ll hit the shelves before Christmas.