The power in the High Gear Media home office in Palo Alto is out right now, and it couldn’t be for a worse reason. Three Tesla Motors employees, including a high-ranking official for the company, were killed in a plane crash in East Palo Alto this morning shortly after takeoff.

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Gameplay footage of the three newly announced Super Street Fighter 4 characters, Ibuki, Makoto, and Dudley, all coming from 3rd Strike. At the end of the video, Capcom teases us with some sound effects and reference to oil, most likely referring to the final character to be revealed, Hakan.

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At his Freedom to Tinker blog, Ed Felten has a thoughtful, accessible piece on the debate at Mozilla about whether Firefox, by default, should trust a Chinese certificate authority (as it has since October). Felten explains in clear language why this is significant, and therefore controversial. An excerpt: “To see why this is worrisome, let’s suppose, just for the sake of argument, that CNNIC were a puppet of the Chinese government. Then CNNIC’s status (more…)

bugzappy notes a development out of the University of Oxford, where scientists have developed a technology capable of capturing a high-resolution still image alongside very high-speed video. The researchers started out trying to capture images of biological processes, such as the behavior of heart tissue under various circumstances. They combined off-the-shelf technologies found in standard cameras and digital movie projectors. What’s new is that (more…)