Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Why E-Books Look So Ugly
As books make the leap from cellulose and ink to electronic pages, some editors worry that too much is being lost in translation.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
South Korean ‘Prophet of Doom’ Blogger Acquitted
A south Korean blogger was acquitted Monday of spreading false information in a widely-watched case about Internet free speech that could have sent him to prison for 18 months.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Activist Charged for Inciting ‘Twitter Revolution’ (Updated)
A Moldovan activist faces criminal charges for organizing demonstrations that were enabled by social-networking tools like Twitter and Facebook, the Russian press reports.
In an interview with Russian news agency ITAR-TASS, Moldovan Prosecutor General Valeriu Gurbulea said Natalia Morar, one of the organizers of an anti-Communist flash mob, has been officially charged with “calls for organizing and staging mass disturbances.”
Monday, March 30, 2009
Virtual Sets Move Hollywood Closer to Holodeck
High-end filmmakers aren’t just making movies these days. They’re building virtual worlds before shooting a single frame of film, using digital tools that blur the lines between animation and live-action, virtual sets and physical soundstage, photorealistic cartoon characters and motion-captured human beings.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Hulu’s Library Obsession
Is more always better?
Hulu has expanded its content library considerably since its launch a year ago. The Internet video site has grown from 50 content partners to more than 130 and has nearly 40,000 pieces of video.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Humans No Match for Go Bot Overlords
For the last two decades, human cognitive superiority had a distinctive sound: the soft click of stones placed on a wooden Go board. But once again, artificial intelligence is asserting its domination over gray matter.
Friday, February 27, 2009
NSA Should Oversee Cybersecurity, Intel Chief Says
Despite the fact that many Americans distrust the National Security Agency for its role in the Bush Administration’s warrantless wiretapping program, the agency should be entrusted with securing the nation’s telecommunications networks and other cyber infrastructures, President Obama’s director of national intelligence told Congress on Wednesday.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Al Jazeera to Come Pre-Installed on Some Sony Phones
The Al Jazeera Network has announced a partnership with Sony Ericsson, where RSS feeds of its news content will be preinstalled on four models of its mobile devices in both the Middle East and North Africa.
The new initiative is part of the news organization’s development Labs in an effort to reach out to more readers through new media.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Rotten Tomatoes Jumps From Web to TV
Popular movie reviews and news aggregator Rotten Tomatoes has teamed up with the cross-platform upstarts at Current TV to produce a half-hour hybrid aptly named “The Rotten Tomatoes Show” on Current.
In production now with a target air date of early 2009, the program will import the site’s Tomatometer metric and feature crowd-sourced lists and opinions, distributing them online and on Al Gore’s cable channel.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Air Force Aims to “Rewrite Laws of Cyberspace”
The Air Force is fed up with a seemingly endless barrage of attacks on its computer networks from stealthy adversaries whose motives and even locations are unclear. So now the service is looking to restore its advantage on the virtual battlefield by doing nothing less than the rewriting the “laws of cyberspace.”
Friday, October 24, 2008
Scott Brown on Facebook Friendonomics
Hey, want to be my friend? It’s more than possible; it’s probable. Hell, we may already be friends–I haven’t checked my email in a few minutes. And once we are, we will be, as they say, 4-eva. A perusal of my Facebook Friend roster reveals that I, a medium-social individual of only middling lifetime popularity, have never lost a friend.
Monday, September 15, 2008
HTML 5 Won’t Be Ready Until 2022. Yes, 2022.
If you’re a Web developer looking forward to the new tools in HTML 5, the next generation of the language that powers the Web, we have some bad news for you–you’re going to be waiting awhile.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Metallica: Master of YouTube?
Metallica, whose leaked album Death Magnetic is slated for a Sept. 12 release, launched a promotion on YouTube today featuring the band’s favorite Metallica cover songs on the site. Drummer Lars Ulrich introduces their selections in a video posted on the site.
Friday, August 22, 2008
Nonprofit Distributes File Sharing Propaganda to 50,000 U.S. Students
Propaganda is probably too light of a term to describe this piece of propaganda.
We’re referring to an educational comic strip (fat .pdf) on unlawful file sharing of music developed by judges and professors to teach students about the law and the courtroom experience.
Friday, August 15, 2008
Boston Subway Board Member Delivers Scathing Criticism: “System Is a Mess”
A member of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s board seized a report by three MIT students about flaws with the Boston subway’s fare collection system and delivered a scathing indictment of the subway system and its general manager, calling the system “a mess” and saying she had “lost all confidence” in the system’s general manager, Daniel A. Grabauskas.
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