Baidu, China’s Google replacement, is getting sued for censorship. And it’s all happening in the U.S., and not in its home country. Whaa?
Eight New York residents sued the company, saying the search engine is guilty of censorship, and that it’s in cahoots with the Chinese government. And although that may obviously the case, I’m …
In today’s polarized political climate, it sometimes seems the focus is more on parties and candidates rather than the issues.
But YouTube’s come up with a solution for this. And it’s a new way to debate politics that doesn’t involve knowing someone’s party affiliation (shocking!).
Rather, a YouTube “Town Hall” has …
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) is looking to breathe new life into a piece of dated legislation, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (1986), with a proposal that would require the government to obtain a warrant to access private e-mail and other user data from internet service providers (ISPs).
The current version of the ECPA …
Here in the United States, we have America’s Army, a free first-person shooter-style video game produced by the U.S. Army that, aside from being a popular and polished game, doubles as a recruitment tool.
Wired is reporting that the People’s Liberation Army in China now has its own game called Glorious Mission that runs along the same …
Take a development cycle of six years, ambitious and expensive MotionScan technology and shared responsibilities between Rockstar and Team Bondi. What do you get? One gigantic, city-sized gamble, in the form of L.A. Noire. But if the share price of Rockstar parent company Take-Two Interactive is any indication, it’s a gamble that’s …
We’ve all been there: Someone calls your cell phone and wants to have a long heart-to-heart, so you tell them to call back on a landline to save voice minutes or to get a better signal.
Plantronics think it’s solved this problem with the Savi 740, a headset and stand that can answer phone calls from cell phones, landlines and …
Follow-up: Sony: PSN Password Issue Was Exploit, Not Hack
Reports are starting to bubble up saying that Sony’s PlayStation Network may have been compromised yet again and, sure enough, I can’t even log into my own account on PlayStation.com: I get the above message.
MCVUK.com reports the following:
“The exploit allows people to
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It looks like new Xbox 360 DVDs designed to hold an extra gigabyte of data may not work with older consoles. The issue came to light after a user with a 2009 60GB Xbox 360 Pro received an unexpected email from Microsoft warning him his system wouldn’t be capable of playing upcoming retail discs.
“Following a recent update to our …
What’s in an iPhone 5? According to some analysts, it’ll be a dualband GSM/CDMA device with a flashy 8-megapixel camera to go along with it.
A financial analyst firm, FBR Capital Markets, said the phone would be manufactured in the third quarter, lending credence to speculation that the gadget will drop in September. That’s …
ISP slow down your connection? Dude, stop with the Mad Men and Quentin Tarintino. A report conducted by Sandvine, a networking company, found that Netflix is the single largest source of Internet traffic in North America. Wait – are there even cat videos on Netflix?
Netflix accounts for nearly 30 percent of all downstream traffic, up …
Sure, Facebook’s a profit-driving, user-gaining, Google-bashing powerhouse, but it’s got a softer side, too.
How so, you ask?
It’s showing support for social good by launching a revamped resource center to help non-profits effectively use the site to their benefit, reports Mashable. Aw, shucks, how sweet!
And the site’s …
Rockstar Games has a reputation. People see the R* icon on a game box and expect chaos of the first degree. The Manhattan-based company’s pushed the boundaries of portraying sex, violence and postmodern attitudes in their best-known series like Grand Theft Auto and Manhunt, letting players turn whole cities into unpredictable petri …
