Internet content blocking travels downstream, affects unwary users
Net users in one country have sites blocked by the censorship of another.
Ministry of Innovation / Business of Technology
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Mobile phone users sorely mistaken about how much privacy they have
Resounding "no" to data collection in theory, even if it's a "yes" in practice.
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Indirect TV
Viacom pulls "The Daily Show" offline as a result of contract dispute
The move comes after DirecTV dropped Viacom content from its network.
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Don't insert coin
NYC adds free WiFi hotspots to 10 payphones, with more to come
The city hopes to make the tenacious tech a bit more useful in the modern era.
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Less money, less problems?
PayPal sets down stricter regulations for file-sharing sites
Payment firm seems to be washing its hands of potentially sketchy sites.
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I can haz Tweetz?
Twitter releases "transparency tool" to reveal government requests
Report from 2012 so far shows US leads world in both Google, Twitter requests.
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drama@facebook.com
@facebook.com e-mail plague chokes phone address books
Facebook sync may have changed phone contacts to @facebook.com e-mail address.
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Leap second: 1, Internet: 0
One day later: the leap second v. the Internet scorecard
Infrequent time adjustment causes website outages and Australian flight delays.
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Shutter Speed
Kodak Gallery goes dark tomorrow, Shutterfly works a massive data transfer
Kodak will also hear if it can later auction 1,100 patents—$2.6 billion worth.
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Hacking festival attracts 500 aspiring young coders
The festival went from just 50 participants in 2009 to hundreds today.
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The house of the future will look exactly the same... er, totally different
Smart systems and smart homes are going to change our lives—or are they?
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OFF THE GRID (TEMPORARILY)
Today, Google Maps doesn't need your stinking Internet
Live now, new update to Maps allows limited offline map use for Android users.
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HP pleads with court: make Oracle support Itanium forever
Another sad chapter in Itanium history closes as the $4B case goes to judge.
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Rentals, Schmentals
Google Play gets TV, movie, and magazine purchases for Nexus 7
Rentals-only is no more—Google offers content from NBC, ABC, Sony, etc. today.
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Meograph provides "fourth dimension" to multimedia storytelling
Tracks stories over time and through space with images, audio, and mapping.
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How college towns could lead the way to gigabit broadband
An academic group is organizing privately funded residential fiber networks.
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let me take your e-mail for you
Facebook forces all users over to @facebook.com e-mail addresses
@facebook.com addresses are free; hence, we must all want one.
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Feature Story
Winamp's woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself
15 years on, Winamp still lives—but mismanagement blunted its llama-whipping.
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#secondthathashtag
E-Diplomacy map shows which leaders talk to each other on Twitter
AFP news agency releases interactive tool showing how Twitter plays out globally.
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have an upvote
reddit founders made hundreds of fake profiles so site looked popular
In its early days, reddit was built on lies. Sure, lots of code, but some lies.
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Terra-i: the most precise real-time deforestation tracker yet
Deforestation can look innocuous from day to day, but a new system changes that.
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Summer jam time!
Spotify to be free for iOS users in US, Android likely to follow
Swedish online music startup makes a direct play for US iPhone, iPad users.
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Jeepers creepers!
Facebook acquires facial recognition startup, may broaden tagging ability
Israeli startup Face.com previously released a facial recognition app.
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Watching the watchers
Online behavioral tracking up 400 percent across prominent websites
"Real-time bidding exchanges" are largely behind this new rise in tracking.
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Revisiting the YouTube-sponsored original content channels
Half a year in, Weekend Ar(t)s struggles to define success for the initiative.
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Feature Story (4 pages)
The future of flash memory: tiny (and extremely tough to build)
As solid state memory nears theoretical limits, engineers look beyond flash.
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Feature Story (5 pages)
Divine intervention: Google's Nexus 7 is a fantastic $200 tablet
Like Microsoft, Google shows its own partners how one builds a tablet.
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Feature Story (2 pages)
How software-defined radio could revolutionize wireless
The Phi hopes to do for radio what Apple I did for computing—spark innovation.
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Feature Story (3 pages)
How US software ended up powering Chinese assault helicopters
Why spy or steal when Western companies will sell you the tech you need?
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