It’s 30 times darker than the standard we use to describe black. Sounds like the stuff Douglas Adams might have used to build the ship that dives into the sun of Kakrafoon at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

Starting with a public beta on January 30, Yahoo ID will be consolidated into an OpenID account so you can use your Yahoo ID account to log into partner sites or log into Yahoo with your existing OpenID.

It looks likely that when Time Capsule goes on sale in February they will also enable Time Machine backup to USB drives connected to Airports. Which is very good new.