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Anonymous Takes Down Mi6, CIA and DOJ Websites In Massive DDoS Attack

Members of the hacker group Anonymous flooded Twitter today with triumphant calls of TANGO DOWN, as websites for the CIA…

14 años ago

Twitter’s New “Innovators Patent Agreement” Makes Yahoo “Look Like A Mean Old Drunk”

Twitter announced a new, surprisingly progressive "Innovators Patent Agreement" (colloquially referred to as the "IPA") which aims to put more…

14 años ago

Today’s Most Talked-About TV Is From… IKEA?

[youtube id="0Nm7-EuctOs" width="600" height="350"] IKEA, the manufacturer of build-it-yourself furniture and purveyor of Swedish meatballs with an addictive potential similar…

14 años ago

Google’s Sergey Brin: Governments, Legislation, Hollywood Threaten Open Web

Google co-founder Sergey Brin criticized recent legislation, media and web companies, and totalitarian governments for threatening the open internet during…

14 años ago

Valve Employee Reveals “Wearable Computing” Project

This week, in a rather lengthy blog post Valve employee Michael Abrash wrote about the game company’s development of what he’s…

14 años ago

Twitter Acquires Hotspots.io To Beef Up Its “Revenue Engineering Team”

Hotspots.io, a small startup founded by Matt Huang, Alexander Spicer and Ashutosh Singhal aims to deliver “social media intelligence that you’ll actually use”.…

14 años ago

New Army Research Facility Is Its “Greenest Lab Complex” Ever

The U.S. Army has opened a 30,000 square-foot facility this week specifically to develop green vehicle technologies. The lab is…

14 años ago

Turntable.fm Now Lets You Show Your Colors With DJ Laptop Stickers

The folks behind the somewhat niche virtual DJing site Turntable.fm gleefully announced this week on the company blog that "Laptop stickers have come…

14 años ago

Smart Phones Closing The Digital Divide; Only 1 in 5 Adults Do Not Use The Internet

Though inequality persists in who has internet access in the United States, mobile technology – and in particular widespread smartphone…

14 años ago

Calyx Institute To Launch Privacy-Centric, Disruptive ISP

A former ISP executive with a history of standing up to government surveillance plans to launch an ISP focused on…

14 años ago