When Dark Knight was released,Warner Brothers was ready with an ambitious antipiracy campaign that involved months of planning and steps to monitor each physical copy of the film.Unsurpisingly, the campaign failed miserably.
destinyland writes “Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York is developing flexible nanotubes inserted under the skin to create a handheld display — inside your hand. They wirelessly receive data and display reminders and text messages, and the concept has also been broadened to suggest endlessly programmable digital tattoos, while Netherlands-based Royal Philips Electronics is also exploring the concept of the body as ‘a platform for electronics and interactive skin technologies’.” That middle link is quite old, but is still loaded with interesting links.
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Passengers taken hostage at Jamaica airport
Times Online Passengers on a charter plane bound for Canada have been taken hostage at a Jamaican airport by a man who sneaked on board the aircraft. Gunman holds hostages on plane in Jamaica: report Reuters Hostages held at Jamaican airport Telegraph.co.uk CTV.ca – GulfNews – Straits Times – Sky News all 99 news articles |
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Obama Closes Summit, Vows Broader Engagement With Latin America
Washington Post By Scott Wilson PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 19 — President Obama concluded a summit of the hemisphere's leaders Sunday by articulating a broad new agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean, having gained momentum in his bid to repair … Video: Chance for frank Americas dialogue – 20 April 09 Al Jazeera Chavez effect creates bestseller BBC News Bloomberg – Globe and Mail – The Associated Press – Reuters all 4,176 news articles Langue : Français |
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Canadians nab pirates after 7-hour chase in the dark
Globe and Mail OTTAWA – Canadian sailors apprehended a band of Somali pirates at gunpoint early Sunday morning after a seven-hour pursuit across the Gulf of Aden, much of it under the cover of night. Canadian PM praises crew for foiling pirate attack AFP Canadian ship helps thwart pirate attack CTV.ca 580 CFRA Radio – Reuters – Bloomberg – The South African Star all 1,591 news articles |
DOD are developing military software for iPods that enables soldiers to display aerial video from drones and have teleconferences with intelligence agents halfway across the globe. Snipers in Iraq and Afghanistan now use a “ballistics calculator” called BulletFlight. The Ipod is becoming the U.S. Military’s new secret weapon.
When you want to customize your desktop, one of the first things that’s got to go are your operating system’s default icons. This collection presents to you more than 40 unique, beautiful and free icon sets that you can download and install on your computer to liven up your computer desktop.
Federal authorities aren’t looking to prosecute them, but to pay them to secure the nation’s networks.
An anonymous reader writes “The construction of first next-generation Westinghouse nuclear power reactor breaks ground in Sanmen, China. The reactor, expected to generate 12.7 Megawatts by 2013, costs 40 billion Yuan (~US billion; that’s a lot of iPods.) According to Westinghouse, ‘The AP1000 is the
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An anonymous reader writes “eReader.com seems to have begun applying distribution restrictions to its library. I first noticed that there was a FAQ page about distribution restrictions this morning. When I tried to order a few books this afternoon I simply couldn’t — a large banner on the order confirmation told me the books had distribution restrictions. I checked a number of titles but it seems a large number of books are no longer available to non-US citizens like me. It is interesting to note that this policy change got implemented shortly after Barnes&Noble purchased Fictionwise. I have no idea if the new owners are behind this new policy but it seems crazy to restrict sales of ebooks. I’ve bought dozens of ebooks from eReader the past 4 years. I still have 15 dollar store credit but cannot buy any of the books I am interested in.” (Right now, the link that should display these new geographic restrictions returns an error message that says the page is being updated.) Sounds like Barnes & Noble is taking its cues from Apple.
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