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Judy Shapiro: Judy Consumer Worries About Those Seven Keys Needed to Restart the Internet.
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:37:34 -0700
I just saw this piece from Gizmodo entitled: "7 People Have Been Entrusted With the Keys to the Internet" and they go on to describe some fuzzy post apocalyptic Internet catastrophe where presumably the Internet is dead.
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7 Ways Real-Life Crime Fighting Mirrors "Minority Report"
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:51:21 -0700
From Facebook to facial recognition, the police state imagined in the Tom Cruise flick feels a bit more real every day. Steven Spielberg's Minority Report wowed audiences with its futuristic tech: flashy hand-gesture computers, flex-screen displays, holograms, and Lexus-designed auto-piloted vehicles. The sci-fi flick also showed the world a dystopian, draconian picture of a crime-free society ...
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Op-Ed: THE INTERNET Is it reshaping our brains?
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:25:54 -0700
Christopher Chabris is a psychology professor at Union College in New York. Daniel Simons is a psychology professor at the University of Illinois. They are the authors of the new book, “The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us.”
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Ballmer: Microsoft feels tablet 'urgency'
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:38:02 -0700
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Thursday that the software giant is urgently working with its partners to unveil a host of tablet computers running Windows 7, to compete with Apple's fast-selling iPad.
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World's Largest Broadband Providers Aren't What You'd Expect
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:45:05 -0700
Two Chinese Internet companies top the rankings of the world's biggest ISPs Internet service provider - Broadband - Ofcom - Business and Economy - Computers and Internet
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Wikipedia edits traced to Defence computers
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:29:37 -0700
Defence Department computers in Ottawa have been used to vandalize information on a Wikipedia site critical of the Conservative government's decision to spend billions on a new stealth fighter.
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US wants increased police access to email: report
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:07:43 -0700
Washington (AFP) July 29, 2010 The White House wants to give the FBI easier access to the Internet activity of suspects without a court order, the Washington Post reported Thursday. Investigators would seek that access only in cases related to a terrorism or intelligence investigation, and would not include the content of email messages, the Post reported, citing unnamed attorneys and senior ...
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KENYA: Divided by the colours of a new constitution
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