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hey everyone it is Wednesday March 21st 2012 I am Jeff Bakalar from cnet com and it's time to get loaded now don't call it a scandal just yet reports of the new iPad getting hotter than its predecessor during use they are widespread so our own Eric Franklin did a little investigating of his own and in his testing he was able to get an iPad up to 94 degrees it's actually not too bad especially considering some laptops can get up to 115 degrees and Consumer Reports says that they've gotten their iPad up to a hundred and sixteen degrees regardless of how hot you can get your iPad it's most likely due to the iPads LED backlight so here's a great story for the next time someone tells you you're spending too much time on reddit like my wife frequent redditor James Irwin has parlayed a response he gave to a reddit question into a gig as a full-time professional screenwriter he answered the question of whether or not a modern-day infantry battalion could take out the Roman Empire Irwin fashioned his answer into a short story and other redditors demanded more of that story long story short he now works as a full-time screenwriter that is pretty awesome is 60 milliseconds worth 1.5 billion dollars well that is how much it's going to cost to lay down fiber to reduce the latency between London and Tokyo starting this summer a convoy of icebreakers will start the unprecedented project that will connect the two cities just a little quicker think that's not so well get a load of this nokia has filed a patent for a tattoo that vibrates when you get a call that's right you heard correctly the tattoo would generate a perceivable impulse to your skin whenever someone is calling using something called Ferro magnetic ink each tattoo would be unique because we can't just have vibrating tattoo going off at the same time when everyone gets a call and finally hot off the runaway success of Louis CK's digital-only comedy special star of parks and recreation Aziz Ansari is attempting to follow suit with his own five dollar drm free digital show to be sold exclusively online Louis CK's experiment pulled in over 1 million dollars so it will definitely be interesting to see if an sorry can match it those are your headlines for today my name is Jeff Bakalar for cnet.com and you've just been loaded