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By James C. Hormel and Erin Martin
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Screenshot via Tumblr home page
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The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that Yahoo’s board has approved a deal to buy social media site Tumblr for a whopping $1.1 billion in cash. But there’s a good reason that not everyone is enthused.
Posted on May 19, 2013
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“Here at Gingrich Productions, we’ve spent weeks figuring out what do you call this,” a completely serious Gingrich says holding up a smartphone. Now he’s asking for your help to name something that already has a name.
Posted on May 13, 2013
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Illustration based on images from T-Mobile and Apple.
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By Peter Z. Scheer — Not so long ago, T-Mobile was suicidal. Now it wants to be the first pro-consumer cellular network.
Posted on Apr 22, 2013
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Thanks to the urge to be constantly wired, extremist propaganda is becoming easier and easier to feed to the masses; the industrial food system has a single aim—make CEOs and shareholders rich; meanwhile, legalizing gay marriage may make it more difficult for LGBT activists to effectively fight other types of discrimination. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Apr 5, 2013
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Angel Boligan, Cagle Cartoons, El Universal, Mexico City —
Posted on Feb 27, 2013
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Flickr/Florian
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Not surprisingly, the idea is being met with resistance by the $178 billion wireless industry, which is actively lobbying policymakers against the proposal.
Posted on Feb 4, 2013
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Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen —
Posted on Feb 1, 2013
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Kristin Dos Santos (CC-BY-SA)
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What may seem like a small story of interest merely to geeks and journalists shows that corporations do, in fact, tell their editors what they can say.
Posted on Jan 14, 2013
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Angel Boligan, Cagle Cartoons, El Universal, Mexico City —
Posted on Jan 7, 2013
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Screenshot via NORAD
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Children looking to keep tabs on Santa Claus’ whereabouts have two Internet options this Christmas. After NORAD’s decision to switch from Google Maps to Microsoft’s Bing Maps, Google has started its own Santa-following venture.
Posted on Dec 24, 2012
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Patrick Chappatte, Cagle Cartoons, Le Temps, Switzerland —
Posted on Dec 14, 2012
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Signe Wilkinson —
Posted on Dec 8, 2012
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Washington Examiner —
Posted on Sep 30, 2012
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For perhaps 64,000 computers in the U.S. and 300,000 worldwide, the Internet will go dead starting Monday. The story is rather complicated, but at its bottom is a piece of devilment named the DNS Changer Trojan. Click through below to the jump to find out if your Internet connection is set up for a KO punch and, if so, what you can do to sidestep it.
Posted on Jul 7, 2012
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Lapham's Quarterly
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By Lewis Lapham, TomDispatch —
What once was sorcery maybe now is science, but the wonders technological of which I find myself in full possession, among them indoor plumbing and electric light, I incline to regard as demonstrations magical.
Posted on Jun 30, 2012
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Mike Keefe, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 28, 2012
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By Dexter Palmer —
In “Republic of Noise: The Loss of Solitude in Schools and Culture,” Diana Senechal argues that the omnipresence of computers, tablets and smartphones hampers our ability to commune not just with one another, but with ourselves.
Posted on May 25, 2012
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By David Sirota — In the Information Age, you should be thinking about your computer—and asking, how much of you is really yours?
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INFZM.com via Engadget
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Electronics manufacturer Foxconn has taken some considerable hits to its public image in recent years as reports about shocking labor conditions at the Apple supplier’s factories cropped up with more frequency than new iPad product launches. On Sunday, Foxconn’s chairman said that the company is changing its ways.
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AP/The Public Theater, Stan Barouh
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Even after “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” Mike Daisey’s one-man staged attack on Apple’s manufacturing practices, turned out to be troublingly fact-challenged, the monologist bafflingly continued to stand by his play for a time, chalking the liberties he took with the truth up to a kind of dramatic license. No longer.
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AP / Jae C. Hong
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Sneaky, sneaky Google. The online search giant did an end run around Apple’s proprietary Web browser by jacking Safari’s privacy settings so that the Internet travels of iPhone and computer users could be followed for marketing purposes without their knowledge.
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Apple
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By David Sirota — A school’s wager on computer technology as a pedagogic panacea is often just that: a blind gamble, and one that evidence shows is hardly safe.
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Chevrolet
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By Michael Grabell, ProPublica —
Until the economic stimulus package was passed in 2009, the manufacture of electric cars and their batteries in the United States was nearly nonexistent.
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Flickr / LGEPR (CC-BY)
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By Aram Sinnreich — The world we see through our smartphones is a curated world, and its horizons are constricting, rather than expanding.
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Flickr / The Daring Librarian (CC-BY-SA)
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By Juan Cole — I know many Americans do not read any books once they’re out of school or college. But some do, and what they read has been shaped not only by changing tastes but by availability. The availability consideration is being revolutionized.
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Dec 24, 2011
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ChuviaChienes.com
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What’s with those teenagers sending around photos of their privates? It turns out they’re just a fantasy. A new study asked kids whether they had created and sent sexually explicit images of themselves (rather than the vaguer “do you sext?”) and only 1 percent said “yes.”
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Wikimedia Commons / Anaxibia (CC-BY-SA)
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As if our current surveillance society wasn’t creepy enough, the wave of the spying future may come on the backs of creepy-crawlies. No joke—in tiny beetle “backpacks” or perhaps hitched around their wing muscles. Read it and get skeeved out.
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Nurses in San Francisco make a statement about Wall Street; Hispanic media are faring better than their mainstream counterparts; and Steve Jobs leaves the world with a pricey legacy. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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Flickr / joshuahoffmanphoto
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You already know Americans are overworked. But what are the hard numbers? This collection of charts from definitive sources plainly shows that the biggest industries are hiring the least, the Internet has extended the workday, employed women do more domestic work with less leisure time than men, and more.
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Wikimedia Commons
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Two groups of cyber-rabble-rousers whose members already may share a synergistic relationship are teaming up to do their hacktivism in tandem, and on Monday LulzSec and Anonymous kicked off their “AntiSec” campaign with an auspicious first target.
Posted on Jun 20, 2011
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Flickr/konszvi (CC-BY-SA)
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So you go online and noodle around, and if you’re like many other Internet users, you “Like” things on Facebook, buy some stuff and perhaps use Gmail. Somewhere in there, the little gnomes from Google and other data-gathering superpowers cobble together your cyber-profile.
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Flickr / Gastev
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If you’re feeling confused about this issue, you’re not alone: Conflicting reports have been released, but now a group of experts from the World Health Organization is claiming that cellphones, under certain heavy-use circumstances, may cause cancer in humans. (more)
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woozie2010 (CC-BY-SA)
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For months Google has been putting the finishing touches on a “cloud” music service that will allow users to put their own music collections online, much like Amazon’s Cloud Player. Apple is also working on such a project. Unlike Apple and Amazon, Google was unable to negotiate a deal ... (more)
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Flickr/nrkbeta (CC-BY-SA)
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By Peter Z. Scheer — The world’s most successful technology companies are engaged in all-out war to power the plastic in your hand, so much more than a mere phone or computer.
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Courtesy of Apple
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A new “panic button” cellphone application is being promoted by the U.S. State Department for pro-democracy activists, especially those in the Arab world and China, that wipes out the phone’s contacts and alerts fellow activists.
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Graph by m86security.com
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Rustock, the world’s largest spam e-mail network, has been disabled by a coordinated action between Microsoft and the FBI, effectively reducing worldwide spam by up to a whopping 39 percent.
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Jeff Parker, Cagle Cartoons, Florida Today —
Posted on Feb 27, 2011
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Illustration from Mr. T in DC
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By Derek Lazzaro — Apparently having learned nothing from its failure to rein in Enron, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and the rest, Congress is pushing to deregulate Internet service providers.
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Mike_fleming (CC-BY)
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Hasbro, in an effort to take some of the sting out of capitalism-as-play, has come up with a new version of the classic board game that turns over much of the work—rolling dice, keeping track of cash, monitoring player movements—to a talking, infrared nanny tower that sits in the middle of the board.
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cnn.com
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It’s not supposed to be a replacement for the more conventional confessional setup for observant Catholics, but at least this new iPhone app, “Confession: A Roman Catholic App,” has actually been blessed by a member of the clergy—and it’s only $1.99.
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Wael Ghonim is Google’s chief of marketing in the Middle East and North Africa. He is also one of the driving forces behind the Egypt uprising. Ghonim was called a hero by opposition groups for using Facebook, Twitter and his technical expertise and connections to help organize the movement ... (more)
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huffingtonpost.com
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Arianna Huffington’s namesake media empire is now the property of content-hungry AOL. For $315 million, AOL gets Huffpo’s 25 million monthly unique visitors along with all the ads and blog items they can digest. Huffington will stay on to use her savvy and Grecian know-how to wrestle some sense ... (more)
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In this TED talk, Johanna Blakley of USC argues that “there is an upside to having your taste monitored” online. Rather than pigeonhole you in a demographic prison, the people who make entertainment are paying more attention to what you actually like—especially if you’re a woman.
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By Amy Goodman — Egypt has been the second-largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid for decades. Where has the money gone? Mostly to U.S. corporations.
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By David Sirota — Amid last week’s flood of business news, one story stood out as reason to hope for more than just a momentary uptick in your 401(k): Apple, you may have heard, announced record first-quarter profits.
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