If you drive through Maryland, the state may be using an automated reader to photograph your license plate — and storing your movements away for future use. Maryland is not alone. ACLU offices in 38 states are looking into how …
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WATCH: The Hollywood-Style Police Raid on Kim Dotcom’s Mansion | NewsFeed
With two helicopters, four trucks, dogs and automatic weapons, the Jan. 20 raid of the Megaupload founder’s New Zealand home has all the makings of a movie.
via WATCH: The Hollywood-Style Police Raid on Kim Dotcom’s Mansion …
Apple v. Samsung: The Trial Goes On, but It’s Already Over
The patent trial of Apple v. Samsung has been fascinating to read about if you’re interested in either company’s inner workings. So far, we’ve learned that one Samsung executive freaked out about the iPhone, that Apple considered …
How Cyber Security Could Be a Winning Issue for Obama
A blackout in Manhattan. A major dam failure. Mayhem at a chemical plant. Those are all potential, and entirely plausible, consequences of a cyber attack, according to a range of current and former national security officials, …
Twitter Political Index Measures Sentiment About Obama and Romney
Happiness and rage: Twitter has both.
After trying to figure out which tweets are positive and which are negative, such “sentiment data” is being used to reflect the public’s general mood about certain topics. If you’re mad or …
Should the Department of Justice Drop the Apple Ebook Lawsuit?
The suit accused Apple and five of the nation’s largest book publishers of illegally colluding to resist Amazon’s aggressive strategy of pricing many new and bestselling books at $9.99 — well below the prices charged for hardcover copies and below what many in the industry say it costs to produce those volumes.
YouTube Launches Face-Blurring Feature to Protect Protesters
During the Arab Spring, a lot of the footage coming out of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya wasn’t taken by the major news networks but rather ordinary citizens armed with cellphone cameras. The footage spread on sites like YouTube and …
Can We Fix Computer Science Education in America?
The tech industry is one of the few bright spots in a dim economy. So why aren’t we teaching kids the skills they need to participate in it?
What You Need to Know About the Latest Twitter Privacy Ruling
Twitter, Facebook and other social media outlets have a great deal of information about all of us — and the government wants to be able to see it. Last week, the government scored a major win — and Internet privacy lost big — when a judge ruled against Twitter in a fight over a trove of information about a political …
“They do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design. They are not as cool.”
Apple Wins Ban on Two Android Devices: What It Means for You
Last week, a U.S. District judge dealt a serious blow to Google and Samsung by slapping an injunction on the Galaxy Nexus phone and the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in a patent infringement lawsuit.
Although Judge Lucy Koh hasn’t found …
The Latest Crime-Solving Technique the Gun Lobby Doesn’t Like
It sounds like something from a futuristic thriller: police pick up spent bullet shells, find a tiny code on them that reveals what gun they were shot from and then use the ID to track down the killer. The technology to do this, …
