A single denialist is keeping climate change off the Sandy Wikipedia page
By Dan Nosowitz (PopSci) But for days, the internet’s most authoritative article on a major tropical storm system in 2012 was written by a man with no meteorological training who thinks climate change...
View ArticleSamsung bumps up the price of Apple’s processors by 20%
By Stefan Constantinescu (Android Authority) Every iPhone or iPad or iPod touch that you see in the wild, they all have processors inside that were manufactured by Samsung. Samsung, knowing that Apple...
View ArticleUK court orders Apple to pay majority of Samsung’s legal fees after ‘false...
By Louis Goddard (The Verge) The Court of Appeal of England and Wales has ordered Apple to pay the legal fees of competitor Samsung on an ‘indemnity basis’ after the company published a “false and...
View ArticleLazyTruth Gmail plugin fact checks false claims in email chain letters
(Nieman Journalism Lab) We just went through a highly fact-checked election, but it’s unclear what the final score was between truth and fiction. One reason why myths persist is that fact-checking is...
View ArticleKenyan information minister leads ‘Silicon Savannah’ IT revolution
By Robyn Dixon (La Times) Along Nairobi’s dusty Ngong Road, so many start-up incubators and IT labs have popped up that the busy neighborhood has been nicknamed “Silicon Savannah.” Techies, geeks and...
View ArticleGerman high court rules parents can’t be sued for children’s piracy
(TorrentFreak) A ruling handed down yesterday by Germany’s highest court represents a blow to rightsholders in their quest to clamp down on illicit file-sharing. The court ruled that the parents of a...
View ArticleSecurity cameras also capture people at their best
Thanks to Madalyn Aslan for this heartwarming find.
View ArticleOverly Attached Girlfriend goes commercial for Samsung
(AdWeek) Laina Morris, who became an overnight sensation with the Overly Attached Girlfriend video she made for Justin Bieber, stares wide-eyed and creepy from your screen and raps as an ‘Overly...
View ArticleHollywood browbeats GOP into killing report on copyright reform
By Mike Masnick (TechDirt) So, late Friday, we reported on how the Republican Study Committee (the conservative caucus of House Republicans) had put out a surprisingly awesome report about copyright...
View ArticleMoms to flood Facebook with breastfeeding photos
By Dana Guthrie (Beaumont Enterprise) A mom who posted a photo of her 18-month-old daughter breastfeeding on Facebook is planning to flood the social media site with similar photos over the next 72...
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