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After Smuggle Truck, a satirical game about immigration, gets banned from Apple's App Store, the developers tweak the gameplay and the title to something a little less controversial.
This new snapshot from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows mountains on the moon backlit by the sun's atmosphere.
AffidavitDonda writes with this excerpt from Torrentfreak:
"A possible landmark ruling in one of the mass-BitTorrent lawsuits in the US may spell the end of the 'pay-up-or-else-schemes' that have targeted over 100,000 Internet users in the last year. District Court Judge Harold Baker has denied a copyright holder the right to subpoena the ISPs of alleged copyright infringers, because an IP-address does not equal a person. Among other things, Judge Baker cited a recent child porn case where the US authorities raided the wrong people, because the real offenders were piggybacking on their Wi-Fi connections. Using this example, the judge claims that several of the defendants in VPR's case may have nothing to do with the alleged offense either. ... Baker concludes by saying that his Court is not supporting a 'fishing expedition' for subscribers' details if there is no evidence that it has jurisdiction over the defendants."
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Tags: networking
New iPad app Planetary is a free, jaw-dropping visualizer that turns your tablet's audio library into an interactive cosmic database.
Mick Mountz runs a company that sets hundred of robots loose in warehouses. Kiva Systems uses a form of artificial intelligence technology to create distribution warehouses for customers like Walgreens and Staples.
In many ways, Martha Stewart, lifestyle mogul extraordinaire, is the original maker. 'We’ve made a business out of DIY,' Stewart told the Wired Business Conference.
coondoggie writes "The US Air Force is preparing to take a long look at how commercial space technology can help it better operate in the cosmos. The Air Force today said it will host a space test program meeting next week ahead of expected contract offerings, or Broad Agency Announcements looking to recruit commercial space providers."
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Tags: space
Threat Level has won two Webby awards. Just when we thought everyone forgot our birthday.
IMovie is designed only to edit video shot with the iPad 2, iPhone or iPod Touch. To fix this, you need first to convert the footage into the right format, and then introduce it gently to iMovie in just the right way.
Six months ago today, computer scientist Johnny Chung Lee secretly birthed a robust hacking community around the Kinect game controller by Microsoft. Lee today updated an audience on crowdsourced efforts to repurpose the Kinect at the Wired Business Conference — Disruptive by Design.
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