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The secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement document we wrote about on Wednesday appeared on Wikileaks today, and our source has cleared us to publish it
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China agencies fight for control of Web game ‘Warcraft,’ highlighting struggle over Internet
Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your ...
A broad-based alliance of individuals and civic society groups working to defend Public Service Broadcasting in the UK.
This meshing of digital information with real-world images is all set to take off. But a few hurdles remain.
Some people believe that Augmented Reality (AR), the class of technologies that place images or data on top of other views of the physical world, could be the ...
The Consumer Expert Group (CEG) was asked in the Digital Britain Report to report on the specific issues facing disabled people using the Internet.
Austrailia's Griffith University has added a mandatory course on Twitter to their journalism student's curriculum.
First-time Internet users find boost in brain function after just one week / UCLA Newsroom
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Ever fancy creating your own Star Wars party? Well GoAnimate is a free, easy-to-use online animator that lets you do that. You can use their online animator to
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The European Union as conceived by Jean Monnet did not have one president. The Lisbon Treaty creates the post of president of Europe. Tony Blair might be the first.">
ANNALS OF ECONOMICS about why capitalism is crash-prone. On June 10, 2000, thousands of people lined up to walk across the new Millennium Bridge, in London. Within minutes of the official opening, ...
In honour of the lighting of IMAGINE PEACE TOWER on 9th October 2009, Yoko Ono offers the general public free ferry crossings to Viðey on 9th, 10th and
Now that the climate for political candidates has eased on personal drug use, we should focus on punishing elected officials who still believe in the drug war.
Monsanto and the U.S. government are dealing with unanticipated hazards of the pesticide Roundup in the South American drug war.
Does your notebook have a broken key, frayed power cable, noisy fan, cracked case or other damage? Here's how to get it back on the road.
Despite our inter-connectedness, we're now more alone than ever in USA
In a rare official partnership for the social network, Facebook Connect comes to the Huffington Post to fuel its new HuffPost Social News service. Read this blog post by Caroline McCarthy on The So...
A quick Twitter guide and glossary for business users
I just got back from the netrootsnation conference. It was excellent. Can't imagine missing it next year. It was excellent both for the networking and productive connections I made and the content-...
Finding that Microsoft had violated a patent on Custom XML usage owned by i4i of Toronto, a Texas judge ordered Microsoft to stop selling any Word products within 60 days that use XML coding in any...
As the anti-drug program spread into 3/4 of all school districts by the '90s, America's youth enjoyed a psychedelic renaissance.
Approximately 80% say they want to bring the pot industry into the city's tax base.
There's an important battle going on now, not a very well-publicized one, but one that, among other such battles as and when they occur, will determine the shape of the future Internet. Whether you...
A working manual discussing the formation and evolution of synthetic environments.
Tomorrow, July 14, will be the US network premiere of "The Reckoning," a moving and powerful documentary about the International Criminal Court. I've seen most of the film in a near-final cut, and ...
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Africa UnPlugged for the Future – President Obama in Ghana
It's sickening to watch what is happening in Iran now, when people have already started to move on to other things, because as a long-time watcher of various democratic movements and people's revol...
It is happening. Right now. In Iran, and everywhere.
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It was Iran's day of destiny and day of courage. A million of its people marched from Engelob Square to Azadi Square – from the Square of Revolution to the Square of Freedom – beneath the eyes of ...
Chargrilled asparagus and lemon tart – that's the vegetarian menu for a glamorous cast of musicians, actors, writers and artists starting a mass movement today to limit meat eating and combat clima...
It was a surreal day, an ominous day in Tehran yesterday, of censored newspapers and of soft words and threats against Mahmoud Ahmedinejad's political opponent, Mirhossein Mousavi. We didn't even k...
Report cites "grossly psychotic, assaultive," schizophrenic "became calm, logical, nonviolent and cooperative within days" after taking THC.
Anti-drug zealots created the "gateway" theory from thin air. And it's easily refuted: most marijuana users just don't use other drugs.
Virtual World Terrorists in World Of Warcraft - Homeland security are linking to a report that quotes articles from Australian High Tech Crimes about terrorists using WoW for training.
On April 5, 2009, before a crowd gathered at Hradcany Square in Prague, President Barack Obama declared "America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons." Wit...
Media Violence, Aggression, and Policy
"The multiverse is no longer a model, it is a consequence of our models.” ~Aurelien Barrau, particle physicist at CERN The Hollywood blockbuster, The Golden Compass, adapted from the first volume o...
Windows only: If you're a fan of portable thumb drive applications like previously mentioned PortableApps.com Suite, free application CodySafe brings similar portable computing to your thumb drive.
Here are 25 Twitter apps for managing multiple accounts via the web, desktop, and mobile devices.
In These Times features award-winning investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, insightful analysis of national and international affairs, and sharp cultural cr...
BlogHer, which bills itself as "the community for women who blog," has gotten $7 million more in a Series C funding, which will bring the total investment in the site to about $15.5 million. The ne...
Issuu, a company that lets you upload a PDF or other document and then flip through it easily on a dedicated Webpage or ...
Avner Ronen and his friends turned an interest in the XBMC media center into the headline-making, TV-transforming media center Boxee. We rung him up to talk about streaming media, software developm...
When I was in law school, I was cynical about human rights. But that was before I spent time in places where people did not have rights guaranteed by the state, and needed international human right...
The American Lung Association released the latest version of its annual �State of the Air� report detailing how the majority of Americans are now subject to unhealthy air pollution levels." />
Common sense isn’t what it used to be.
Being online is like being in public. Nearly anything that gets posted can come back to haunt you. Here is a guide to protecting your online identity.
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News on - Microsoft GeoSynth to compete with Google Street View
Russian antitrust authorities will now investigate Microsoft to see if it finds abuses of its market domination and will watch the software company closer.
The developer of the popular Firefox browser joins forces with a graphics consortium to create a standard for a 3D web.
YouTube has just released a new sub-site called YouTube EDU, aggregating thousands of free lectures from over a hundred universities across the country, including MIT, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research findings at MIT could lead to microchips that operate at much higher speeds than is possible with today's standard silicon chips, leading to cell phones and other comm...
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