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Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over ‘Blasphemous’ Images
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 8:40 am
Diggester writes with this news from the Times of India: “Pakistani authorities on Friday further widened the crackdown on websites with blasphemous contents by restricting access to popular social networking website Twitter. Pakistani users were unable to log into Twitter after internet service providers blocked access to the site.” The block was prompted by Twitter’s [...]
Read More >>Kudo Tsunoda: ‘Waiting for the next big thing isn’t about waiting for the Kinect 2′
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 8:00 am
Last summer, try as we might, we couldn’t get too much out of Microsoft’s creative director for Kinect Games, Kudo Tsunoda, about what’s next from the interactive peripheral. More recently, in an interview with Venture Beat, Tsunoda was a little more verbose about what he thinks the next big thing in Kinect is — and [...]
Read More >>ARM, Intel Battle Heats Up
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 7:40 am
An anonymous reader writes “Low-power processor maker ARM Holdings is stepping up rhetoric against chip rival Intel, saying it expects to take more of Intel’s market share than Intel can take from them. With Intel being the No. 1 supplier of notebook PC processors, and ARM technology almost ubiquitously powering smartphones, the two companies are [...]
Read More >>Protecting State Secrets Through Copyright
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 6:40 am
An anonymous reader writes “The United States has pursued Bradley Manning with full force for his role in supplying classified documents to WikiLeaks, in part because of the substantial difficulty in going after the organization directly. Criminal statutes generally deployed against those who leak classified government documents–such as the Espionage Act of 1917–are ill-equipped to [...]
Read More >>Fisker leak shows Atlantic production delayed to mid-2014, 0-60 in 6.5 seconds
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 6:20 am
Our hopes of taking the Fisker Atlantic for a spin next year just got dampened considerably: a big document leak has revealed that the more reasonably-priced alternative to the Karma won’t be rolling off the production lines en masse until mid-2014, a year later than we’d expected. Thanks in part to a factory overhaul, the [...]
Read More >>Zuckerberg Updates Relationship Status To "Married"
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 5:40 am
theodp writes “A day after taking Facebook public, CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed his Facebook status to ‘married’ after wedding longtime girlfriend and recent med school grad Priscilla Chan on Saturday. No word if Zuckerberg heeded Donald Trump’s prenup advice.” Read more of this story at Slashdot. Go to Source
Read More >>Quantifying the Risk of Texting Drivers
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 4:20 am
An anonymous reader writes “More than 5000 people die each year as a result of being distracted while driving, and a new study indicates that teens and cell phones make for the most volatile combination. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that of all drivers under 20 involved in fatal crashes, 16 percent were [...]
Read More >>Researchers develop silicon ReRAM chip, send warning shot to Flash memory
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 4:00 am
Does the word ReRAM ring a bell? No? Well, the key point is that it’s much faster than NAND memory, and it’s making its way into chips from Elpida, Sharp and Panasonic. Further proof that ReRAM is on the up and up? Researchers at University College London have used this technology to make a chip [...]
Read More >>Nokia uses Lumia 900 as a hammer in a torture test, makes us wince (video)
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 2:00 am
As much as we’re familiar with mobile device torture tests, they’re normally inflicted by us or otherwise not-so-voluntary. Nokia, however, has stepped up to the plate and doled out the abuse to the Lumia 900 itself with a hammer and nail, all based on a wager that the Windows Phone’s use of Gorilla Glass would [...]
Read More >>‘First Base’ In Greek Courts For ISP-Level Blocking
By admin at 20 May, 2012, 1:20 am
arisvega writes “At a first level (the lowest court level in the Greek judiciary system) an order has been issued (article in Greek, Google translation is fair enough) for a ‘plan on behalf of Internet Service Providers regarding he implementation of technological measures to deny access to internet users for webpages through which illegal copies [...]
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