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Most of us at Boxee are Apple fanboys. If it is silver and it has the Apple logo on it, we pre-order it. If there’s a line around the block, chances are we’re in it. And everything stops at Boxee HQ while we unbox the latest gadget to come out of Cupertino. We were incredibly excited when a couple of developers in the community made it possible to run Boxee on Apple TV (as hundreds of thousands ...
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A fire that destroyed nearly all Harris County's electronic voting machines Friday has election officials scrambling to re-equip the county for an election in which early voting starts in just 51 days.
Even before the pre-dawn fire was out, County Clerk Beverly Kaufman pledged to hold a "timely election" on Nov. 2 but suggested the county may have to run fewer than its planned 739 Election Day p...
FLASH: 4:47 a.m. EDT August 28 — Indian e-voting researcher Hari Prasad was released on bail an hour ago, after seven days in police custody . Magistrate D. H. Sharma reportedly praised Hari and made strong comments against the police, saying Hari has done service to his country. Full post later today.
In case you're just tuning in, e-voting researcher Hari Prasad, with whom I coauthored a paper exposing serious flaws in India's electronic voting machines (EVMs), was arrested Saturday morning at his home in Hyderabad . The arresting officers told him they were acting under "pressure [from] the top," and demanded that he disclose the identity of the anonymous source who provided the vot...
A foreign intelligence agent infected computers in “the most significant breach of U.S. military computers ever.”
According to one estimate pushed by the FBI in 2006, computer crime costs US businesses $67 billion a year . And identity fraud in the US allegedly hit $52.6Bn in 2004.
Even allowing for self-serving reporting (the FBI would obviously find it useful to inflate the threat of crime, if only to justify their budget requests), that's a lot of money being pumped down a rat-hole. Extrapolate it wo...
In southern China, making fake shoes has become a very big business. Chinese authorities are slow to enforce the law, and it’s becoming harder and harder to tell which shoes are real.
Mr. Leonard’s photos, discovered years later, chronicled the postwar jazz scene.
UPDATED (5:35 p.m.) to include comments from Rice's B.J. Almond and a new Facebook count.
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An audio engineer’s pioneering recordings of live radio broadcasts, all but unheard for decades, include inspired performances by the most honored names in swing.
What Star Wars would look like had it been filmed in the early 1900s before sound. THIS IS SO FREAKING AWESOME!!
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We’ve been talking about Chrome to Phone for Android 2.2 for quite some time now, but Google finally made it official today at their random presser. So what does that mean? Only that it’s in the market and out of beta, but again, you need Froyo to use this. For the full write up and demo, check out these posts here and here .
And don’t forget to grab the extensions for your browsers! Fi...
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A guide explaining when to use i.e. instead of e.g. View
Google
just
threw
wireless network neutrality
under
the bus .
What I can't figure out is why . No one seems to know, and I've
asked people who really should know. Even if Google has suddenly become
Evil, how do they benefit from agreeing that carriers like Verizon
should filter their traffic?
Google is an advertisement company first, a content company second. They
need open networks to spre...