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Tweet costs Mark Cuban $50,000
Mark Cuban's tweet criticizing National Basketball Association officials cost him $50,000.
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The Internet Of You
We’ve been hearing about “wearable computing” for years. But we’re finally at a tipping point. It sounds crazy, but the cyborgification of humanity is proceeding apace.
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Your Gadgets Are Slowly Breaking the Internet
The Internet isn’t robust enough for the ongoing explosion of connected devices. Now labs around the country are scrambling for solutions.
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Why Is Google Fiber the Country's Only Super-Speed Internet?
Google Fiber was supposed to be a shaming exercise. But any shame felt by the country's big-name ISPs hasn't yet to produce the sort of ultra-high-speed internet services we've all been hoping for.
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Exactly how Verizon will punish Americans under "6 Strikes" piracy law.
A leaked Verizon document lays out the consequences alleged pirates will face under the Copyright Alerts System, due to be implemented this year by all major U.S. Internet providers.
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Prosecutor as bully
Since his arresting the early morning of January 11, 2011 — two years to the day before Aaron Swartz ended his life — I have known more about the events that began this spiral than I have wanted to know.
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Fastest Wi-Fi ever is almost ready for real-world use
WiGig routers, docking stations, laptop, and tablet shown at CES.
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Why We Should Remember Aaron Swartz
Tech has its empire builders. It also has people like Aaron Swartz, whose work makes empires possible
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'Red October' cyber-attack discovered by Russian researchers
'Red October' has been targeting embassies, nuclear research centers, and oil and gas institutes since 2007.
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Cable companies called 'Monopolies that stifle competition and innovation'
If you’re unhappy with your cable service, you aren’t alone. And according to Susan Crawford, a communications policy expert and a professor at the Cardozo School of Law, America’s cable companies aren’t just guilty of charging higher prices for sub par service, but also of stifling competition and innovation in the United States broadband market.
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What Is Internet Freedom Day?
Jan. 18 has been marked by some as Internet Freedom Day in celebration of last year's Internet blackout against the Stop Online Piracy Act.
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It’s on: Time Warner Cable alleges that Netflix discriminates against its customers
Time Warner Cable wants Netflix’s 3-D movies – but not its Open Connect CDN. That’s why the cable provider is now alleging discrimination.
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Can You Go to Jail for Impersonating Someone Online?
The curious case of Manti Te'o, his fake online girlfriend and a band of alleged hoaxers has brought a new question to the forefront: just what kind of crime is posing as someone else online, if it’s a crime at all?
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Verizon Charging You More, As Bandwidth Costs Them Less
As we just recently discussed, broadband providers appear to finally be willing to give up their pretend need for data caps due to the pretend costs of delivering service.
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German court rules internet essential
A German court ruled on Thursday that people have the right to claim compensation from service providers if their Internet access is disrupted, because the Internet is an essential part of life.
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Anonymous wages war on US government
Hacktivist group Anonymous took over the United States Sentencing Service's website earlier today to announce its intention to expose government secrets in response to the US Department of Justice's treatment of Aaron Swartz.
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Julian Assange slams leaked WikiLeaks movie script
IF you're making a movie about WikiLeaks, this is the kind of thing you should probably have seen coming.
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Al Gore on How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think
In an excerpt from his new book, The Future, the Nobel Prize winner and former vice president talks global networks, Marshall McLuhan, and how computing is changing what it means to be human.
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New video standard is expected to be a bandwidth buster
The emerging standard HEVC codec promises better, faster HD video without clogging wireless networks, and will ably support 4K TV.
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Don't Troll a Troll
Some teenager though he had the last laugh, until..
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