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Broadcast Industry Wades In On Dish Network's Hopper: gollum123 writes As with past technological threats, network executives are closing ranks against a Dish Network device that undermines the broadcast business model. The disruptive technology at hand is an ad-eraser, embedded

Canada's Internet Surveillance Bill: Not Dead After All: First time accepted submitter Maow writes Despite a recent story claiming that Canadas Bill C-30, covering internet surveillance, has died a lonely death, the minister responsible claims otherwise. Public Safety Minister Vic

FDA Panel Backs First Rapid, Take Home HIV Test: TheGift73 writes in with news about an over-the-counter HIV test getting the backing of a panel of FDA experts. American consumers may soon be able to test themselves for the virus that

Verizon To Kill All Unlimited Data Plans: afabbro writes Verizon mentioned in an investor conference that it will be eliminating unlimited data plans, even for those it grandfathered in. From the article: Speaking at the J.P Morgan Technology Media

Book Review: The Logic of Chance: eldavojohn writes The Logic of Chance: The Nature and Origin of Biological Evolution is a comprehensive snapshot of the latest research of biological evolution. The text is written by Eugene V. Koonin,

Star City and the Baikonur Cosmodrome: First time accepted submitter zyborg writes Heres 44 photographs of the Baikonour Cosmodrome used by the ISS program. The pictures range from training, launch vehicle transport and assembly, launch, touchdown, pictures from

Facebook Adds 96 Million Shares, Will Privacy Get Worse After IPO?: AlistairCharlton writes Facebook has made yet another amendment to its S-1 filing, adding a further 96 million shares, pushing its initial public offering up to a potential maximum of $18.4bn (£11.5bn). In

Japanese Researchers Transmit 3Gbps Using Terahertz Frequencies: MrSeb writes Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed a new wireless transmission system that works above all currently regulated spectrum frequencies. The new system works at the range of

LinuxMint13 RC Is Available For Testing: donadony writes LinuxMint13 RC is available for testing, this release comes with 2 versions in a separated dvd`s: Mate and Cinnamon. LinuxMint13 Cinnamon is very light and offers some customization, integration of

Apple Tells Siri To Stop Recommending Nokia: judgecorp writes Apple has changed the answer Siri gives to the question what is the best smartphone ever? to prevent the voice-driven assistant from promoting the Nokia Lumia 900. Originally Siri trawled

Kevin Bacon Meets Wikipedia With New Pathfinding Program: New submitter BLT2112 writes Inspired by the Oracle of Bacon, the Oracle of Wikipedia finds the shortest path between two Wikipedia articles, as in Wikipedia Golf. As explained in the site, One

The Pirate Bay Suffering Global Outage From Massive DDoS Attack: MoldySpore writes If anyone has tried to get to The Pirate Bay in the last 24 hours, they have most likely been met with a timeout. As an article on TorrentFreak notes,

Judge to Oracle: A High Schooler Could Write rangeCheck: mikejuk writes with an update on the Oracle vs Google Trial. From the article: One month into the Oracle v Google trial, Judge William Alsup has revealed that he has, and still

Interview With Ward Cunningham: CowboyRobot writes Ward Cunningham developed the first wiki, wrote the Fit test framework, is the co-inventor of CRC cards, and is now promoting the concept of technical debt. He recently won the

HTC One X Phone Held by Customs Due to ITC Ruling: zacharye writes, quoting BGR: The launch of Sprints flagship EVO 4G LTE has been delayed indefinitely and supply of AT&Ts flagship HTC One X will be constrained as a result of ongoing

Calculating Total Network Capacity: New submitter slashbill writes MITs working on a way to measure network capacity. Seems no one really knows how much data their network can handle. Makes you wonder about how then do

General Motors: "Facebook Ads Aren't Worth It": Fluffeh writes General Motors spends around $40 million per year on maintaining a Facebook profile and around a quarter of that goes into paid advertising. However, in a statement, they just announced

Moving From CouchDB To MySQL: itwbennett writes Sauce Labs had outgrown CouchDB and too much unplanned downtime made them switch to MySQL. With 20-20 hindsight they wrote about their CouchDB experience. But Sauce certainly isnt the first

CPU Competition Heating Up In 2012?: jd writes 2012 promises to be a fun year for hardware geeks, with three new Aptiv-class MIPS64 cores being circulated in soft form, a quad-core ARM A15, a Samsung ARM A9 variant,

Google's Grand Android Plan: CWmike writes with news of a significant change in Googles strategy for Android. According to a Wall Street Journal report, Google plans to give multiple mobile-device makers early access to new releases

CNET News.com

Flashback makers missed out on their payday, Symantec says: According to the security firm, the makers of the Flashback malware made $14,000 from click fraud last month, but cant collect on it.

Tips for Facebook millionaires: Congratulations, youre officially rich. But before you splurge on a winter getaway in Aspen or some sporty wheels, take a breath. CNETs Sumi Das speaks to a financial expert who says the best thing to do is follow three simple

Facebook IPO doesn't mean the end of privacy: Privacy experts say that just because the company is going public, doesnt mean that its game over for user privacy. In fact, it might shine a brighter light on privacy concerns.

T-Mobile sees a net 350 jobs eliminated from restructuring: The company plans to eliminate 900 jobs, but hire 550 new positions as part of an overhaul of the business.

From battery covers to bat caves: GM is repurposing old Volt battery covers as habitats for owls, ducks, and bats.

How to reinstall the Mac App Store in Snow Leopard: The Mac App Store program can be removed from Snow Leopard, but once updated past OS X 10.6.6, reinstalling it may require a little more than simply installing a combo update.

HTC Ville C tipped as lower-powered, cheaper One S: New details emerge that suggest HTC is readying a cheaper version of its One S. Though it could share most of the One Ss features, it will have a slower processor.

ZDNet

Apple releases QuickTime 7.7.2 for Windows, fixes 17 flaws: Apple QuickTime version 7.7.2 is out, fixing 17 security vulnerabilities in the multimedia framework. This is a security update release, meaning no new features have been added. You should still...

SAP Business ByDesign is not being canned: SAP Busines ByDesign enters a new chapter in its history. One that sees changes but not retirement.

Chrome 19: The Best Web browser just keeps getting better: A new edition of Chrome appears, and, yes, once again, its better than the last version and its much better than the competition.

Facebook schedules one last hackathon before going public (rumor): Facebook is supposedly hosting one last hackathon as a private company just before it goes public, according to a new rumor. The event will end when Zuckerberg rings the Nasdaq bell remotely.

Searching for data scientists as a service: The advent of big data has companies scrambling to find data scientists

BYOD: The Promise and Specter of IT's Brave New World (video): Join experts and CBS Interactive editors to hear more about what the enterprise world is doing about the BYOD trend.

Leaked screenshots: Facebook Pages Manager for iPhone: Screenshots of a new app from Facebook called Pages Manager have leaked. This is the third standalone app from Facebook, after the main Facebook app and the Facebook Messenger app.

Wired Technology

Momofuku Puts Mold, Bacteria on the Menu: The Momofuku restaurants are famous for hip Asian cuisine. Their secret ingredients: mold and bacteria.

Q&A: Space Historian on Historic SpaceX Launch: Space historian David S.F. Portree talks to Wired about SpaceXs upcoming launch to the International Space Station.

Paralyzed Woman Controls Robotic Arm With Her Mind: Two stroke victims unable to move or speak can now control robotic arms with their minds.

Tracking Ocean Sulfur Could Help Test Gaia Hypothesis: Geologists at the University of Maryland have published research that could help prove or disprove Gaia theory -- the notion that the Earth is one single self-regulating system.

World’s Subways Converging on Ideal Form: After decades of urban evolution, the worlds major subway systems appear to be converging on an ideal form.

Power Postures Can Make You Feel More Powerful: Harvard Business School professor Amy Cuddy has discovered that how you sit can actually change your cortisone levels.

Startup Company Raffles a Ticket to Space: A new startup companys $10 space posters come with a chance to win a ride on a suborbital space vehicle.

Chinese Physicists Smash Quantum Teleportation Record: By Mark Brown, Wired UK A group of Chinese engineers have smashed the records for quantum teleportation, by creating a pair of entangled photons over a distance of almost 100 kilometers. Quantum entanglement is the mysterious phenomenon where two particles

Money and Happiness: China Surveys Suggest a Limited Link: What is the relationship between money and happiness? A study of individual well-being in China suggests its limited.

Darwin’s Creepiest Experiment Brought Back to Life: Charles Darwin liked to freak out his friends—for science. Guests visiting the famed naturalist in 1868 were shown a set of ghoulish photos of a guy being prodded in the face with an electrical current. Darwin then asked his guests-cum-guinea

Apollo-Soyuz Shuttle Manipulator Demo (1971-1972): In 1971, NASA was looking for cheap missions it could perform with its surplus inventory of Apollo spacecraft. Mercury capsule co-designer Caldwell Johnson proposed that an Apollo spacecraft - perhaps the one scheduled to dock with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft

Does Thinking About God Improve Our Self-Control?: My latest WSJ column is about a new paper looking at how priming people to think about religion can improve their performance on various measures of self-control, even if they don’t believe in God: I was raised in a kosher

Geological Life on Mars: When Percival Lowell first looked at Mars through his telescope in the 1890s, he saw some remarkable patterns: connecting lines crisscrossing the surface, linking distant ends of the planet in a seemingly non-natural way. Lowell subscribed to Italian astronomer Giovanni

Rare-Earth Mining Rises Again in United States: A company called Molycorp has re-opened a California mine that was once the world’s leading source of rare earths, the elements on which modern technology relies.

What Spam With Bacon Is Really Made Of: Open a can o Spam With Bacon: an indefinite shelf life, some color magic, and an amount of sodium equal to 234 Ruffles potato chips.

Infrared Imaging Helps Save Yellowstone’s Wolves: Scientists are using thermal imaging to track Yellowstones wolves, which are facing a vicious new predator: sarcoptic mange.

Live Chat: The Last Days of Dinos: Join paleontologists Mark Norell and Steve Brusatte of the American Museum of Natural History for a live chat about the Age of Dinosaurs last days.

Stone-Throwing Chimp Thinks Ahead: A chimp famous for throwing stones at visitors now conceals his weapons to get a closer aim at his targets, providing further putative evidence that he is thinking ahead like humans do.

Physicists Succeed in Making ‘Impossible’ Gamma-Ray Lens: Physicists have created a new gamma-ray lens and they believe it will open up a new field of gamma-ray optics for medical imaging, detecting illicit nuclear material, and getting rid of nuclear waste

Smarter Grid: Greening the Largest Machine on Earth: In the last couple years the Obama administration has pumped billions into cutting-edge clean energy tech. But these all share a common problem: plugging into an electric grid that is mostly unchanged since the 1930s. Energy experts say meeting our

Tom's Hardware

Nvidia Partners Up to Acquire 3G/4G LTE Wireless Patents: Nvidias getting serious in the wireless game.

Deals for May 16: Big Savings on Dell XPS Desktops: Save money by getting the Sandy Bridge XPS desktop clear outs!

Some Galaxy S III UK Pre-orders to Arrive a Day Early: Well, almost a day early.

Sonic The Hedgehog 4 Episode II Comes to Android: The blue blur now available for your Android device and those rocking Tegra 3 get the special

Virgin Atlantic to Allow Cell Phone Use on Planes: Youre good to go once the plane reaches 10,000 feet.

Apple Finally Issues Flashback Removal Tool for Leopard: Clean up time, Leopard users.

Twitter Has 10 Million Active UK Users: Company revealed numbers as it opened up about plans to work more closely with UK government.

Ars Technica

Existing unlimited data plans' days are numbered, Verizon says: Shared data plans and 4G access conspire to bring unlimited users down.

Best Buy's surprisingly insecure approach to new PC setup: Somewhere in the march toward easy, security got blindsided.

Paralyzed woman controls robotic arm, sips coffee: Electrodes implanted in the brain were used to control mechanical motion.

Money! That's what Flashback's creators want (but they can't get it): Generating fraudulent ad clicks and getting paid are two different things.

Halo 4 Limited Edition, Spartan Ops mode announced: Get your weekly multiplayer missions and early specialization access right here.

Prosecutors: "pedodave69" was former top FBI agent: Life as a digital cop: a little file-swapping, a little wardriving.

ACTA deathwatch: profs call process unconstitutional, Europe revolts: Increasing protests could derail the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).

Hard OCP

The Pirate Bay DDoS Attacked?: Are we taking bets on who is behind the supposed DDoS attack on The Pirate Bay? I got $5 that says it was Colonel Mustard, in the observatory...with a candlestick. An unknown entity has launched a large distributed denial-of-service attack

Cooler Master Cosmos II Case: Ater spending a little quality time with it, the gang at APH Networks gave the Cooler Master Cosmos II very high marks. Glancing at all the chassis on the market at the moment, there really is nothing like the Cooler

Self-Destructing Solid State Drive: Im not sure why this self destructing SSD is called invincible but the way the thing burns up all Mission Impossible style is pretty cool. Thanks Edward C. for the linkage! Comments

EVGA GeForce GTX 670 Recall?: I was just informed by a trusted source that EVGA is pulling back GTX 670 stock from e-tailers/retailers. We contacted another AIB and it reported to us that no recall had been initiated by NVIDIA so this recall seems to

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Fun With Thermal Night Vision: Our buddy Richard over at Rated RR has a new video out that shows you how thermal night vision (used in video games like the upcoming Ghost Recon: Future Soldier) actually works in real life. Comments

Saints Row 4 Outed?: Who needs a LinkedIn profile to out Saints Row 4? I think the 11 million copies Saints Row: The Third sold pretty much guaranteed a fourth installment. The LinkedIn Profile for David Payne seems to reveal the next installment in

Verizon Axing Unlimited Data Plans: Speaking at the J.P. Morgan Technology, Media and Telecom conference, Verizons CFO told the crowd that unlimited data plans are on the way out. Thanks to everyone that sent this one in. LTE is our anchor point for data share.

Corsair Vengeance K60 Keyboard and M60 Mouse Review: Corsair continues to expand its line of Vengeance-branded gaming peripherals with the addition of two new keyboards and two new mice. Today, we evaluate the two products optimized for first person shooters: the Vengeance® K60 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard and the

Apple Asks ITC To Dismiss Five Google Patents: Apple wants the U.S. International Trade Commission to dismiss five patents that Google issued to HTC last year. Hey, if they arent Apple patents, they obviously cant be valid. Duh. Partial termination of the investigation is the equivalent of a

Ultimate Video Game Set-Up: Wow, this is a pretty damn impressive collection. You might want to start a collection AFTER you get a girlfriend but, other than that, I see no downside to this. Thanks to Reavus for the picture. Comments

Gaming eadlines: More Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer DLC Leaked @ Shacknews Official Crysis 3 Screenshots @ JoystiqTribes: Ascend Passes 1M Downloads @ Blues NewsWeekly Multiplayer Episodes For Halo 4 @ Kotaku

Marriage Proposal Via Pandora: Ladies and gents, I believe this is the first ever marriage proposal via Pandora. I would just like to thank the entire Pandora team and every single person who worked on it to make it such an incredible night in

Rocket Science Is Dangerous Business: Father And son rocket scIence experiment bLasts off prematurely. Comments

Case Mod of the Day: You know what I like most about this case mod? The main ingredient is good old fashioned elbow grease.

Open WiFi Owner Not Liable For Illegal File-Sharing: Score one for the little guy (or gal as the case may be). Ill bet she thinks twice about not securing her wireless router from now on. They claimed that she had used Direct Connect to infringe the rights of

ardware Round-Up: Cases: NZXT Switch 810 Full-Tower Chassis @ TechgageNZXT Switch 810 Special Edition Case@ HardwareHeavenCooling: ARCTIC Accelero Xtreme 7970 @ Hardwareoverclock Memory/ Storage: Corsair Accelerator 30GB & 60GB Review @ NeoseekerMotherboards: ASRock Z77 Professional Motherboard @ Hardware Secrets

Corsair Obsidian 550D Case: There is a review of the Corsair Obsidian 550D posted at Vortez this morning that is definitely worth checking out. As with other cases in the series, the 550D adopts a minimalist approach to case design, pushing for flair and

Oracle Could End Up With Nothing In Suit Against Google: Wouldnt it be funny if both these billion dollar corporations walked away with nothing? Legal teams from both sides of the courtroom met in front of Judge William Alsup in an afternoon hearing without the jury on Tuesday to discuss

NVIDIA GTX 680: Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 12.04: For those of you wanting to know how well NVIDIAs GX 680 runs on Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 12.04, this is your article. Following up on the performance comparison earlier this month of comparing Intel Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge

AnandTech

Lenovo Announces Their 3rd Generation Intel Core Laptop Updates: It’s been a couple weeks since Intel officially unveiled Ivy Bridge, and we continue to see plenty of product announcements from the major OEMs. Yesterday, while we were busy writing about AMD’s Trinity APU, Lenovo fired

Sonic 4: Episode II Now Available for Tegra 3: Earlier this year at Mobile World Congress, NVIDIA and Sega announced Sonic 4: Episode II would be coming to TegraZone in an optimized version for NVIDIA's Tegra 3 hardware. Today the promise became reality as the

V3 Gaming PC Avenger Review: A New Challenger Appears: We've had a few boutiques come through here, but what V3 Gaming PC wanted to approach us with was something different than we're used to seeing. Many of the systems sent through here are aggressively tuned, designed for performance at

Netgear Announces 2-stream 802.11ac R6200 router and A6200 USB 2.0 adapter: We're at Broadcom and Netgear's joint press event today, where both are announcing the commercial availability of the R6300 three spatial stream 802.11ac router which was announced at CES, and two new products: the two stream

What We've Been Waiting For: Testing OpenCL Accelerated Handbrake with AMD's Trinity: AMD, and NVIDIA before it, has been trying to convince us of the usefulness of its GPUs for general purpose applications for years now. For a while it seemed as if

The AMD Trinity Review (A10-4600M): A New Hope: AMD’s microprocessor history goes way back, predating even the now venerable x86 architecture. Their first foray into x86 territory came as a subcontractor to Intel, and from there AMD cut the ties and began making x86 compatible chips of their

Ask the Experts: Heterogeneous and GPU Compute with AMD’s Manju Hegde: AMD’s Manju Hegde is one of the rare folks I get to interact with who has an extensive background working at both AMD and NVIDIA. He was one of the co-founders and CEO of Ageia, a company that originally tried

Corsair Performance Series Pro (256GB) Review: Shortly after the Plextor M3 review went live, I received numerous emails asking us to review Corsair's Performance Series Pro. Your voice was heard and we went and asked Corsair for a review sample, and here we are with the

Buffalo Technologies Announces Availability of 802.11ac Router and Media Bridge: At the 2012 CES, we reported on one of the first public 802.11ac technology demonstrations at the Buffalo Technologies booth. Fast forward a few months, and Netgear seemed to have stolen the march on Buffalo Technologies

A Tale Of Two Thunderbolt Storage Devices: Seagate's GoFlex Desk and Western Digital's Thunderb(...): I remember the early days of the USB-vs-FireWire wars like they were yesterday, although Wikipedia reminds me that they were more than a decade ago (sigh). USB 1.0 arrived in 1996 but didn't begin to see broad adoption until two

ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe Review - Know Your SKU: Now that Panther Point is in full swing, and perhaps Sandy Bridge processor stocks may start to dwindle in favor of Ivy Bridge, market segmentation of motherboards is all too critical. We have gamers (budget and enthusiast), casual users, audio

A First Look at Thunderbolt on Windows with MSI's Z77A-GD80: I finally made the transition to a notebook as my desktop last year, a move many had made years prior. Quad-core mobile Sandy Bridge and good SSDs made the move simple for me, but Thunderbolt eventually made it near perfect.

NVIDIA Q1 FY2013 Earnings Report: $924M Revenue, $60M Net Income: As earning season wraps up NVIDIA has released their earnings for Q1 Fiscal Year 2013 (Feb-April 2012).For the first quarter of FY2013 NVIDIA booked $924M in revenue, with a net income of $60M. This is compared

OCZ Announces 64GB Vertex 4: OCZ announced yesterday via their Twitter profile that a 64GB version of their Vertex 4 will soon be available. Vertex 4 is based on a second generation OCZ/Indilinx controller, named the Indilinx Everest 2. However, it was

Cubitek HPTX ICE Review: How Far Aluminum Can Go: Aluminum has been experiencing a bit of a renaissance in the notebook industry, spearheaded largely by Apple and now Intel's ultrabook initiative, but as a construction material for desktop enclosures it's largely been a specialty item. Most manufacturers use it

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 Review Feat. EVGA: Bringing GK104 Down To $400: In a typical high-end GPU launch we’ll see the process take place in phases over a couple of months if not longer. The new GPU will be launched in the form of one or two single-GPU cards, with additional cards

MIPS Technologies Updates Processor IP Lineup with Aptiv Series: ARM has been making waves over the past two years with plenty of processor and graphics IP announcements, but they are not alone in the game. MIPS Technologies, almost as old as ARM itself, also licenses RISC processors. With licensees

HP Unveils New Ultrabooks, "Sleekbooks": I apologize for the lack of images, guys - we're having some major issues with wireless connectivity here in Shanghai. I'll have hands on galleries up as soon as I can get a stable connection. - VivekAt the 2012 Global

Supermicro Updates X9 Lineup with GPU-Enabled Solutions: NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2012) is around the corner (May 14-17), and Supermicro has indicated that their GPU-Enabled X9 server and workstation solutions would be showcased at the event.The X9 series based on the Xeon-E5 class of processors was

Intel Z77 Motherboard Review with Ivy Bridge - ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte, and MSI: So we have survived one of the biggest days of the year for all things computer performance related - the release of Intel's new Ivy Bridge processor. It replaces Sandy Bridge in the landscape of all things processor related, with

O'Reilly Network

Publishing News: Britannica isn't dead, it's digital: Encyclopaedia Britannica unloads its print product, a Belgian copyright group wants libraries to pay for reading to children, and PayPal does a 180.

Visualization of the Week: Visualizing Big History: ChronoZoom is a tool for visualizing Big History, a field of study that combines multiple disciplines to examine events since the beginning of time.

Top Stories: March 12-16, 2012: This week on OReilly: Computational linguist Robert Munro explained why location language is far more complex than many realize, we looked at how Kickstarters crowdfunding is helping game developers, and Joe Wikert explored the major trends shaping ebook prices.

Take a break and "PressPausePlay": Watch this wonderful film on the digital upending of cultural production. Then open up Garage Band and write a song about it ...

Four short links: 16 March 2012: Militarizing Your Backyard With Python and Computer Vision (video) -- using a water cannon, computer video, Arduino, and Python to keep marauding squirrel hordes under control. See the finished result for Yakkity Saxed moist rodent goodness. Soundbite -- dialogue search

Commerce Weekly: PayPal's Here service takes on Square: PayPal introduces its own credit card reader, AmEx asks you to tweet it out, and Asymco visualizes the smartphone market. (Commerce Weekly is produced as part of a partnership between OReilly and PayPal.)

Developer Week in Review: When game development met Kickstarter: Crowdsourcing is changing how software development gets funded. Its also driving one of the great reference guides of the 20th century out of print.

Four short links: 15 March 2012: atomize.js -- a distributed Software Transactional Memory implementation in Javascript. mari0 -- not only a great demonstration of whats possible in web games, but also a clever mashup of Mario and Portal. Lessons From BerkeleyDB -- chapter on BerkeleyDBs design,

Left and right and wrong: Fred Trotter has often said the problems in health IT are political and not technical, but sometimes a picture can drive a point home better than words.

Strata Week: Infographics for all: Visual.ly launches an infographic creation tool, San Francisco upgrades its open data initiative, and Stephen Wolfram offers a peek into more than 20 years of his personal data.

Foxconn and Ford, Emerson and Jobs: Ralph Waldo Emersons essay on Compensation was a source of inspiration for Henry Ford. It also affirms some of the cosmic truths Steve Jobs held dear.

The state of ebook pricing: Joe Wikert looks at the agency model, efficiencies, fixed pricing and other major trends that will drive ebook pricing in the months ahead.

Now available: "Planning for Big Data": Planning for Big Data is a new book that helps you understand what big data is, why it matters, and where to get started.

Four short links: 14 March 2012: Lessons Learned from a Blended Learning Pilot -- the end-of-pilot report from using Khan Academy for 80-90% of class time. Most interesting is the growing feeling that K.A.s value comes from analytics on exercises and not the videos: The students

Everyone has a stake in the digital reading experience: In this video interview, Louis Rosenfeld, publisher at Rosenfeld Media, LLC, says ownership of the digital reading user experience is shared between authors, publishers, device manufacturers and readers.

Four short links: 13 March 2012: Microsoft Universal Voice Translator -- the promise is that it converts your voice into another language, but the effect is more that it converts your voice into that of Darth You in another language. Still, thats like complaining that the

O'Reilly Radar Show 3/12/12: Best data interviews from Strata California 2012: Hadoop creator Doug Cutting discussing the similarities between Linux and the big data world, Max Gadney from After the Flood explains the benefits of video data graphics, Kaggles Jeremy Howard looks at the difference between big data and analytics.

Parts of healthcare are moving to the cloud: Brian Ahier looks at offerings from CareCloud and athenahealth that combine cloud-based access with electronic health records.

Understanding place and space in a decreasingly English world: Robert Munro, a computational linguist and speaker at Where 2012, says the subtleties of spatial distinctions are growing in importance as more of the worlds digital information takes the form of non-English, unstructured text.

Four short links: 12 March 2012: Web-Scale User Modeling for Targeting (Yahoo! Research, PDF) -- research paper that shows how online advertisers build profiles of us and what matters (e.g., ads we buy from are more important than those we simply click on). Our recent surfing

Techdirt

Time To Realize That The Obama Administration Doesn't Even Have The Authority To Commit The US (...): There is a major problem with the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) that has little to do with IP or the internet: how does international law get made—by the President alone, or with Congresss involvement? ACTAs key problem in the United

Bogus Stats Again: BSA Puts Out Its Yearly Propaganda About Software Piracy: For the 9th year in a row, the Business Software Alliance (BSA), an organization that mainly represents Microsofts interest, has put out its ridiculous Global Software Piracy Study, which argues that tons and tons of software is being pirated, and

When Games Allow Mods, Beautiful Things Can Happen: Recently, Mike wrote about the importance of externalities and spillovers in economics, and the fact that its often best to allow other people to capture pieces of the value you create and build on top of it. Not only does

Musician Wonders What It Would Take To Become An Open Source Musician: Kevin H alerts us to the news that electronic music/DJ artist The Polish Ambassador recently began musing on Facebook about what it would mean to be an open source musician:According to Wikipedia, Open Source is a philosophy that promotes free

Economist: Copyright Is An Antiquated Relic That Has No Place In The Digital Age: For many years Ive been pointing out the basics of economics concerning concepts like free and the importance of marginal cost to pricing in an efficient market. After one such recent post, I got an angry email from a college

Feds Tie Themselves In Legal Knots Arguing For Domain Forfeiture In Rojadirecta Case: If you dont recall, among the various domains that ICE and the DOJ seized last year were two domains -- rojadirecta.com and rojadirecta.org -- held by a Spanish company, Puerto 80. After extended negotiations to try to get the government

Church Sues Former Members For Posting A Negative Review Online: Nastybutler77 was the first of a few people to send over this story of a church pastor, Charles ONeal, of the Beaverton Grace Bible Church in Oregon, suing a former church member, Julie Anne Smith, and her family, for posting

Darrell Issa Puts Old Leaked TPP IP Text Up For Discussion: Weve written a few times now about Rep. Darrell Issa, and the Madison platform his office has set up to allow for crowdsourcing opinion on legislation and other government documents. He originally used it for his OPEN Act, but then

Postal Service Could Be On The Hook For Millions For Daring To Memorialize The Korean War Memorial: A few years back, we wrote about how a sculptor who had been contracted by the US government to create the Korean War Memorial in Washington DC was suing the US Postal Service because it had released a stamp using

Pirate Bay Founder Takes Fight To EU, Argues Swedish Censorship Violates Human Rights: While The Pirate Bay has lost all of its appeals in Sweden, one of the founders, Fredrik Neij, is apparently going to take his case to the European Courts, arguing that shutting down a site like The Pirate Bay is

Wil Wheaton Reminds Us That Torrents Are Awesome, And Not Just For Pirated Movies: The conflation of tools and technologies with the ways people use them is a big problem in the copyright debate. One of the many, many examples is the way the anti-piracy crowd treats torrent as a dirty word. Google endorsed

Tenenbaum To Supreme Court: Let's Get This Constitutional Debate On Statutory Rates For Copyrig(...): You may recall that, in the case of Joel Tenenbaum -- who is in a legal battle with some major lbels for file sharing -- a jury awarded the labels $675,000 for the sharing of just a few songs. The

The Sky Continues To Rise: EU Gross Box Office Returns And EU Film Production Both Hit Record H(...): Even though just about every objective statistic suggests otherwise, the copyright industries still take turns bemoaning the terrible toll that piracy is supposedly taking on their markets. So its good to come across some official figures that suggest the contrary,

Thank Twitter For Standing Up For User Rights: We recently wrote about Twitters decision to stand up for a user in court, fighting against a court ruling that said that a user has no proprietary interest in their own tweets and info, such that those users cannot contest

DailyDirt: What Do You Remember?: Everybody at one time or another wishes they had a better memory. There are some techniques and memory exercises to help improve the way people memorize lists, but some things are just more memorable than others. Some research is starting

Darell Issa Puts Old Leaked TPP IP Text Up For Discussion: Weve written a few times now about Rep. Darrell Issa, and the Madison platform his office has set up to allow for crowdsourcing opinion on legislation and other government documents. He originally used it for his OPEN Act, but then

In Which I Debate A Media Mogul Who Insists It's Crazy To Give Content Away For Free: Last week, I went on PBS Mediashifts podcast to debate media mogul Steven Brill about the power of paywalls. Brill runs Press+, one of the first companies that built a business around setting up paywalls for publications. They focus on

Dutch Judge's Anti-Piracy Activities Draw Accusations Of Corruption In Pirate Bay Censorship: We were a bit surprised last week to hear that a court in the Netherlands had ruled that the Dutch Pirate Party had to censor itself, when it came to explaining to people how to use proxies to get around

TV Network Execs Contemplate Going To Court To Say Skipping Commercials Is Illegal: Late last week Charlie Ergen and the folks at Dish Networks presented the TV networks with a bit of a conundrum. You see, the company decided to actually give consumers what they want: setting up a special DVR system, called

FBI Explores The Implications Of Bitcoin: Remember Bitcoin? The online cryptographic currency that got a lot of attention last year, but quickly faded? There was some political grandstanding against it, like when Senator Chuck Schumer declared that Bitcoin was a form of money laundering. And, now,

X-bit labs

AMD Formally Introduces Second-Generation Fusion "Trinity" Chips for Notebooks: AMD Boosts Performance of Flagship Mobile Offerings with Fusion A-Series Trinity APUs

WD's HGST Begins to Use 500GB 2.5" Platters in New-Generation Consumer Hard Drives: Hitachi GST Announces New Family of CinemaStar Hard Disk Drives

Nvidia Unveils Cloud Graphics Processing Technologies: Nvidias Grid and VGX Processors to Enable High-End Graphics on Any Device

First Microsoft Windows 8 Tablets to Emerge in November - Report: Tablets with Windows 8 Expected to Emerge Before Holidays

Toshiba and Western Digital Complete Transaction of HDD Manufacturing Capacities: Toshiba and WD Complete Transaction of Manufacturing Assets

Nvidia Teams Up with Intellectual Ventures to Acquire Wireless Communication Patents: Nvidia and Intellectual Ventures Jointly Acquire Patents Owned by IPWireless

Mainstream System Cases from Corsair: Carbide Family: We have already discussed the high-end Corsair system cases from the Graphite and Obsidian series. The products reviewed today belong to the third series, which is the newest and also the most affordable one at this time. Will they be

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