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Getting lawmakers in the seat of a self-driving Prius has become Google’s M.O., according to Matthew Newton, editor of DriverlessCarHQ.com, a site dedicated to covering autonomous cars. “Google has been giving free rides to policymakers in California, Nev... 0 Published 2 days ago in
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Those results come two weeks to the day after Keith Judd, a convicted felon incarcerated in Texas, won 41 percent of the vote against Obama in the West Virginia primary. There is more here. 0 Published 2 days ago in
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It's been more and more apparent that there was some shady—though not necessarily illegal!—activity from Facebook's bank advisors in the lead-up to the company's IPO last week. And now, investo... 0 Published 2 days ago in
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Jacob Grier has an excellent post on this topic (which I do not cover), here is just one part of a longer discussion: Reading An Economist Gets Lunch inspired me to think explicitly about how to find good food in American bars. Here are a few general sugg... 0 Published 2 days ago in
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The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a $675,000 file-sharing damages award that a jury levied against a college student for making 30 music tracks available on a peer-to-peer network. More »... 0 Published 3 days ago in
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At left is an ad that ran in the Guardian newspaper. “The government of a Middle Eastern state is recruiting a senior torturer to work in a well-equipped prison. Our ideal candidate would be prepared to inflict extreme pain and suffering… Candidates will ... 0 Published 3 days ago in
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Divorce lawyers and wedding planners have been gearing up for the Facebook IPO, waiting for the influx of wealth in Silicon Valley to stir up drama in romantic relationships, for better and for worse. “When Google went public, there was a wave of divorces... 0 Published 6 days ago in
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Tasers are used across the nation by police as a "pain compliance technique." But do the powerful electroshock weapons amount to police brutality? A case that lands before the Supreme Court next week could... 0 Published 9 days ago in
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According to Germany’s Der Spiegel, German police shot only 85 bullets in all of 2011…As Boing Boing translates, most of those shots weren’t even aimed [at] people: “49 warning shots, 36 shots on suspects. 15 persons were injured, ... 0 Published 12 days ago in
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If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere, baby! The Empire State is now the home of a whole new kind of dreamer, after a judge ruled merely looking at child pornography online is no crime. What. ... 0 Published 16 days ago in
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Last week, social gaming juggernaut Zynga filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against one of Europe’s leading social games companies, venture-backed Kobojo. The Paris, France-based social games studio last year released a Facebook game called Py... 0 Published 18 days ago in
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The Southern District of New York recently became the nation’s first federal court to explicitly approve the use of predictive coding, a computer-assisted document review that turns much of the legal grunt work currently done by underemployed attorn... 0 Published 20 days ago in
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Federal authorities who seized a popular hip-hop music site based on assertions from the Recording Industry Association of America that it was linking to four "pre-release" music tracks gave it back more t... 0 Published 21 days ago in
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Troubled Finnish phone giant Nokia is increasingly troubled, unicorns be damned. The latest bad news for the phone maker: along with high-ranking executives Stephen Elop (CEO) and Timo Ihamuotila (CFO), the company has been hit with a class action lawsuit... 0 Published 21 days ago in
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For digital startups, intellectual property is king. A company’s IP can be just as important, and if not more, than the balance sheet and financial results. Given the significance, it’s critical to understand IP protection and timing: when is it too late ... 0 Published 22 days ago in
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Acacia Research Corporation, a renowned patent troll we’ve mentioned in the past, this morning announced that one of its subsidiaries has acquired patents covering digital imaging and related technologies that were originally issued to Polaroid. Th... 0 Published 24 days ago in
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Back in March, news of employers asking employees and prospective hires for Facebook logins sparked much debate amongst public and politicians alike. After one amendment failed to pass, a pair of democrats... 0 Published 25 days ago in
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CISPA, a terrible bill that would let websites hand over your personal data to the government with little oversight, just passed the U.S. House of Representatives. That's not good. More » ... 0 Published 28 days ago in
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Remember SOPA and PIPA, the terrible "anti-piracy" bills the internet raged into nonexistence? There's a new one, and it's maybe worse: the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. CISPA. Here's ever... 0 Published 29 days ago in
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Officers of the law in Connecticut may soon have a strong incentive to tolerate citizens filming them—financial liability. More » 0 Published 29 days ago in
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I think I can boil down the alphabet soup of Internet bills that have floated around Congress this year to one simple sentence. All it requires is taking the old wisdom – “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” – and reversing it. If you can’t fix this, break t... 0 Published 35 days ago in
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By Katie Scott, Wired UK A physicist faced with a fine for running a stop sign has proved his innocence by publishing a mathematical paper, and has even won a prize for his efforts. Dmitri Krioukov is a physicist based at the University of California in... 0 Published 39 days ago in
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When encountering a tricky problem, it always pays to play to your strengths. Like a scientist from USCD who was issued with a traffic ticket for failing to completely stop at a stop sign. His response? A ... 0 Published 39 days ago in
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April 9th, 2012 will go down in shopping history as the day the software gods emptied the coffers to preserve mobile market share with two very disparate strategies. While both companies were acting in large part to block competitors, their moves couldn&#... 0 Published 41 days ago in
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Apple's delivered its response to antitrust charges leveled by the DoJ earlier in the week. Apparently the Feds have it all backwards, Apple is the hero here, not the villain. More » ... 0 Published 42 days ago in
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We all blindly agree with those much too long Terms of Service Agreements without even reading them, right? So what happens if you like, do something unagreeable with the TOS? According to the 9th Circuit ... 0 Published 43 days ago in
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It is the true believer’s ability to “shut his eyes and stop his ears” to facts that do not deserve to be either seen or heard which is the source of his unequaled…constancy. He cannot be…baffled by contradictions because he denies their existence. — E... 0 Published 43 days ago in
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Sergey Aleynikov, an ex-Goldman-Sachs programmer, spent a year in prison for downloading source code of the firm's high-speed trading software before his sentence was overturned in February. Today, the cou... 0 Published 43 days ago in
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Perk up: you aren’t a criminal. That’s a good thing, it means you get to keep your job, or find one if you are hunting. Yes, you digital rascal, you user agreement breaking (also called ‘Terms of Service’) rapscallion, have just be... 0 Published 43 days ago in
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By John Timmer, Ars Technica After the US Supreme Court’s 1987 decision forbidding the teaching of creationism in science classes, those who objected to the teaching of evolution modified their ideas slightly. They relabeled these ideas “Inte... 0 Published 44 days ago in
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There's good news if you work in Maryland. On Monday, it became the first state to pass a bill banning employers from requesting passwords to Facebook, Twitter, or accounts of employees or applicants. M... 0 Published 45 days ago in
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Does the government have a responsibility to protect innocent third parties from collateral damage when it seizes their property in the course of prosecuting alleged copyright infringement? That is the que... 0 Published 49 days ago in
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Today, Obama is set to sign into law the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act. In this post I’m going to argue that the passing of the JOBS Act is really bad for the health of the startup industry. Specifically, the JOBS Act is likely to lead ... 0 Published 50 days ago in
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In this day and age it’s easy to get swept up in all of the innovation and disruption that is happening thanks to technology, but at the end of the day, Silicon Valley is not immune to the law. We found that out today when the SF Chronicle reported ... 0 Published 50 days ago in
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From inspecting cargo ships in NYC Harbor to searching for missing persons in South Texas, law enforcement is increasingly supplementing its human divers with these football-sized remote submersibles. M... 0 Published 51 days ago in
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One of the Internet's basic tenets—the right to be as much of a myopic, infantile asshat as humanly possible—is currently under attack in Arizona. A sweeping update to the state's telecommunica... 0 Published 52 days ago in
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The U.S. legislature has cybersecurity on the brain. In the coming months, Congress and the Senate will consider a confusing variety of cybersecurity bills—including H.R. 3523 (Rogers), H.R. 3674 (Lu... 0 Published 56 days ago in
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Utah's Transportation Authority is tired of scraping pedestrians off the sides of its trains, deposited there on account of the person's "distracted walking." So, the UTA is taking the only logical step&md... 0 Published 56 days ago in
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Last year it was announced that Hasbro was going to sue Asus over the branding of the Transformer Prime; apparently, people all over the planet were confusing a tablet with shape-shifting robots. Now the c... 0 Published 58 days ago in
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The Pull to Refresh action is a common gesture for mobile apps—used by the likes of Twitter, Facebook, Tweetbot, and Sparrow for a variety of commands. It may soon be a lot less common if the USPTO g... 0 Published 58 days ago in
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Though banning cell phone usage while driving isn't new, Chapel Hill, North Carolina is taking it a step further than everyone else: the city is banning people from even using Bluetooth or any hands-free d... 0 Published 59 days ago in
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Ezra Klein offers some points of clarification: Perhaps the simplest way to understand what’s going on in Paul Ryan’s budget, and whether it’s plausible, is to look at page 13 of the Congressional Budget Office’s summary of the Ryan plan (pdf). That’s whe... 0 Published 64 days ago in
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The MPAA has a well-earned reputation for, shall we say, "molding" their facts. But with its latest lawsuit against Hotfile, the group has apparently gone too far for Google's tastes. The search giant has ... 0 Published 66 days ago in
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According to a report today from AFP, crime suspects may be contacted by a court using their email, Facebook or Twitter accounts. The message would contain a short link leading to court documents. It’s a draft bill at the moment and a subpoena would... 0 Published 66 days ago in
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The potential legal concerns for users of the popular sharing site Pinterest are getting a lot of attention, from the lawyer who publicly renounced her “pinning” to the suggestion that a one-word change could help mitigate legal issues. Much of the conver... 0 Published 67 days ago in
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When New Zealand authorities raided the estate of MegaUpload boss Kim Dotcom, they confiscated nearly $200 million worth of property. But as it turns out, the court order authorizing this seizure was inval... 0 Published 68 days ago in
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While most of the tech world was partying at South by Southwest in Austin yesterday, Yahoo announced it was filing a lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly infringing on 10 patents from their 1,000+ patent... 0 Published 72 days ago in
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As we reported last month, Yahoo has made good on its threat to take Facebook to court over alleged patent infringements. Apparently ,Yahoo is taking a page out of Kodak's playbook. More » ... 0 Published 73 days ago in
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Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles first appeared as a series of short stories published in the late 1940s; in the fictional “future history” depicted therein American economic strength and technological prowess grew rapidly in the second half of the c... 0 Published 75 days ago in
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The Pirate Bay claims they're about to be shut down again. Sources within government have reportedly told leaders at the file-sharing portal that the Swedish authorities are planning to raid them. More... 0 Published 76 days ago in
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