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...
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