Bob Collins
Some NPR employees tried out some newspaper’s instructions for turning a pumpkin into a camera. For their next trick, we’re hoping they figure out how to turn one into a big-screen HDTV.
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Tag: Tech
You are your license plate
David CazaresBig news in the tech world today: The U.S. Copyright Office declared it legal to “jailbreak” iPhones and other smartphones. Jailbreaking is the act of hacking a device’s operating system so it can run programs not approved by the device maker. It was previously considered a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but the Read more →
Hiding your online tracks
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Politicians pretend their Twitter accounts are really from them, until it serves their purpose to deny it.
Just for the heck of it, call your I.T. department today and double-check that they’ve not taken privacy invasion to new heights the way a suburban Philadelphia school has.
Pushing back against AppleThe Federal Communications Commission lost its battle with the big cable operators today, when a court ruled that the government agency doesn’t have the regulatory authority to require cable companies to treat all Internet traffic equally. This is one of those issues where the court’s decision can easily get lost over the question of whether Read more →
Great ideas occasionally come from a broken furnace. Sometime in the next month, Twin Citian James Gorney, and two of his friends, will launch a Web site to provide reviews of apartments and the landlords who own them. The idea came as a result of his introduction to Minneapolis five years ago when there was Read more →
Today is the last day for cities to make their pitch for Google’s free high-speed Internet network.