by David Kravets | Feb 5, 2013 | Politics, Technology
What do you call a country where an unelected bureaucrat has the ability to order the execution of its citizens? Answer: President Barack Obama’s America. That rationale is explained in a 16-page Justice Department “white paper” (.pdf) NBC obtained and published late...
by David Kravets | Jan 31, 2013 | Social Media, Technology, Wired
The file-sharing site Mega, introduced two weeks ago by infamous file-sharing kingpin Kim Dotcom, just became a lot more useful to content pirates, thanks to a community-fed search engine of links to content hosted on Mega’s servers. The search engine doesn’t crawl...
by Christina Bonnington | Jan 30, 2013 | Technology, Wired
Samsung’s infringement of Apple’s design and utility patents was not “willful,” a federal judge ruled Tuesday, rejecting Apple’s bid for bonus damages in the Apple v. Samsung smartphone lawsuit. Judge Lucy Koh of the Northern District of California reasserted that...
by Laura Hudson | Jan 30, 2013 | Technology, Various Topics, Wired
Movie critics of America, foreign audiences would just like to remind you that you’re not the boss of them, thank you very much. After all, not only did the critics complain when Peter Jackson expanded J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit into three movies (although, please...
by Sarah Mitroff | Jan 29, 2013 | Social Media, Technology, Various Topics, Wired
Etsy, the site that brought craft shows online, had a banner year in 2012, with sales from its community of handmade and vintage goods sellers up more than 70 percent, the company said Monday. Though CEO Chad Dickerson has said he’s not gunning for an Etsy IPO in...
by Christina Bonnington | Jan 25, 2013 | Technology
It’s been about three months since the fourth-generation iPad appeared, which of course means it’s time for the rumors that the fifth-gen model is on the way, and we’ll throw in rumors of the next iPhone as well. Jeremy Horwitz over at iLounge got the opportunity to...
by David Kravets | Jan 17, 2013 | Politics, Technology, Wired
The President Barack Obama administration’s surveillance strategy in the wake of the Supreme Court’s that the installation of a GPS tracker on a vehicle amounted to a search under the Fourth Amendment remains “privileged and confidential,” the...
by Cade Metz | Jan 16, 2013 | Technology, Wired
Since you last saw Frank Frankovsky, his beard has grown to epic lengths. And it suits him. As the man at the center of Facebook’s Open Compute Project, Frankovsky spent the last two years rethinking the very essence of the compter hardware that runs the...
by Laura Hudson | Jan 16, 2013 | Technology
Wait. 2013 just started. Can we really decide that already? Sure we can!
by Nicholas | Jan 13, 2013 | Various Topics
Σήμερα φιλοξενούμε στο Z-ideas μια άποψη για τη νομοθεσία των τυχερών παιγνίων στη Κύπρο: Έχοντάς υπόψη ότι η Κύπρος είναι μια χώρα που βρίσκεται μέσα στην Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση οι περισσότεροι από εμάς θα νομίζανε ότι το νομοθετικό πλαίσιο γύρω από τον τζόγο και κατ’...
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