Divine intervention: Google's Nexus 7 is a fantastic $200 tablet

Don't want these emails? Unsubscribe here. Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Top stories: Jul 06 - Jul 13 Features Divine intervention: Google's Nexus 7 is a fantastic $200 tablet by Casey Johnston The 7-inch Android tablet is one of the scrappiest models in the gadget landscape. From one manufacturer to the next, one year to the next, these tablets have failed to find an audience or win any vocal supporters. Yet sales for the 10-inch iPad continue to vault higher with each quarter. All the while, companies keep trying to make 7-inchers work, hammering away at the form factor, making the same mistakes (underpowered internals, chunky bodies, poor performance), expecting different results. Read More Features The future of flash memory: tiny (and extremely tough to build) by Lee Hutchinson Flash memory continues to shrink in size and grow in capacity. Hard disk drive technology continues its inevitable march toward greater areal densities, and hybrid drives are being purchased in greater numbers. Hewlett-Packard is busy at work on a new type of storage, one based on fancy little things called memristors, which may hit the market in the mid-term. Read More Law & Disorder Op-ed: MPAA/RIAA lose big as US backs copyright "limitations" by Ars Staff Well, it's been a fun week on the international trade agreement front. Monday began yet another negotiating round for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement, this time in San Diego. To the amazement of everyone, the US Trade Representative (USTR) announced on July 3 it would now include a provision in the intellectual property (IP) chapter recognizing the importance of "limitations and exceptions" to copyright and embracing the international 3-part test for what constitutes suitable limitations and exceptions. (For those not familiar with this term of art, "limitations and exceptions" are things like Fair Use and First Sale Doctrine in the United States. As the name implies, limitations and exceptions to copyright limit the rights of the copyright holder and create exceptions to the general rule against copying without permission.) Read More Forward this message to a friend More hot stories Nexus 7 tablets begin shipping from Google Play Apple: leaving green product registry EPEAT was a "mistake" Defects leave critical military, industrial infrastructure open to hacks Meteorites, not comets, may have brought water to Earth Broadband competition fears may lead DOJ to block Verizon spectrum deal Mutation limits Alzheimer's disease, other cognitive decline Korean company's tiny quad-core ARM Linux computer packs a punch at $129 Windows 8 Mail leaves users pining for the desktop—or even their phones Tech disasters: The worst $#!% that ever happened to our electronics More user passwords dumped, this time from alleged Billabong.com hack Email Admin Center This newsletter is a service of Ars Technica. Should you no longer wish to receive these messages, unsubscribe. To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images to load in future mailings, please add civis@arstechnica.com to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. You are receiving this email at narrongs.hotmobile@blogger.com. Condé Nast Digital 1166 Avenue of the Americas, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10036, attn: Ars Technica Email Coordinator To view our Privacy Policy click here.