Pheed, launched on August 10, 2012 and operating out of a rented six-acre mansion on Mulholland Drive near Hollywood, has hit 350,000 unique subscribers in only a few months. Several celebrities have already signed up for the service and why not – with Pheed they are allowed to charge for their content feeds or sell…
After two years of battling it out in court, DC comics has won a key victory against the heirs of Superman co-creator Joe Shuster who were attempting to recapture the rights to the Superman character. An agreement signed by the family in 1992 blew their attempts. The Shuster family was attempting to terminate the copyright…
Unrelated to last week’s “shiny object” find, this week Curiosity Rover took three scoops from the Martian soil and found several bright, shiny particles in the sample. In an area called Rocknest, the rover was sampling and analyzing soil when it ran across a small, shiny particle. Scooping was halted and after NASA determined that…
It looks like the recent Warner Bros. win over Joe Shuster’s heirs for the rights to Superman might pay off for fans. Persons in the know have said that Warner Bros. intends to begin shooting the movie Justice League in 2013 and are aiming for a summer 2015 release date.
According to security experts, the electronic voting process is ripe for attack in 2012. Nation-state attacks have increased, voter databases are increasingly interconnected, and electronic voting systems are plagued with vulnerabilities creating a situation where the 2012 election process is a prime target for a hacker attack.
The Center for Copyright Information has revealed more details in a blog post today about its “six strikes” system, which it calls the Copyright Alert System (CAS). They noted that the process will use a system run by MarkMonitor to identify infringing activity and that the mitigation stages (strikes five and six) will be administered…
PC World posted a list of five ways Windows 8 beats iOS and it is a pretty interesting eye-opener. The article was written by a long-term iPad user who has since moved to Windows 8 and lists not only features present in Windows 8 (and lacking in iOS) but discusses design considerations and why the…
Everyone dreams whether they remember their dreams or not. In fact, most people have 3-4 dreams per night. In a “lucid dream state”, the person is aware that they are in a dream and have the ability to control the dream as they see fit. This gives the person a means to think, rationalize, invent,…
In the “yawn, nobody really cares” segment of our news, Microsoft has confirmed that Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 is still in the works. It’s been nearly a year and half since Microsoft released a test build of Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 and during that time, MS has refused to acknowledge when,…
Apple lost its appeal in a UK court against the Samsung Galaxy Tab – the court of appeals upheld its previous judgment that Samsung did not infringe on any of Apple’s design elements. As a result, the court has ordered Apple to run ads in leading UK newspapers as well as on its own website…
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