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Onstage during the BlackBerry World 2012 keynote general session, Vivek Bhardwaj shared a look at a camera feature being developed for BlackBerry 10 that allows you to detect faces and turn back frames to capture that magic moment.
SXSW 2011: The internet is over
If my grandchildren ever ask me where I was when I realised the internet was over – they won't, of course, because they'll be too busy playing with the teleportation console – I'll be able to be quite specific: I was in a Mexican restaurant opposite a cemetery in Austin, Texas, halfway through eating a taco. It was the end of day two of South by Southwest Interactive, the world's highest-profile gathering of geeks and the venture capitalists who love them, and I'd been pursuing a policy of asking those I met, perhaps a little too aggressively, what it was exactly that they did. What is "user experience", really?
Things are heating up in the Do Not Track campaign. Next week, EFF Technology Projects Director Peter Eckersley will be joining Internet engineers, privacy advocates, and industry groups in Washington, DC for intense negotiations around the future of online tracking.
April 2012, the State of Do Not Track: Lead Up to Tracking Protecting Working Group Negotiations in Washington, DC | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Congress is considering two well-intentioned but deeply flawed bills, the PROTECT-IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) .
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GAMBIER, OHIO - In 1948, Twentieth-Century Fox released one of the Cold War's first anti-communist films, Iron Curtain , the soundtrack of which featured music by Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich.
Hold the line: Stop 'copyright rendition' - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
Nintendo, EA, Sony sponsor Internet censorship bill - Joystiq
SOPA ( Stop Online Piracy Act ) is a bill currently in the US Congress, with the stated goal of curtailing copyright infringement, but with the actual effects of setting up a government firewall to block out unwanted sites, and giving the US jurisdiction over foreign sites that have anything to do with infringement of US copyright.
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Antisec's message hints there will be further attacks on Fridays Hackers identifying themselves with the Antisec movement have attacked the site of a company that sells equipment to US law enforcers such as the police.
BBC News - Antisec hackers hit US police store after FBI arrests
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"Not only did Go Daddy have a XSS security vulnerability on their their control panel ( https://www.hushmail.com/hushmail/showHelpFile.php?PHPSESSID=D4B1B044D9C6BBC75792BC1640384926&file=popupHyperlinkHelp.html#http://www.offensive-security.com/offsec/godaddy-xss-exploit/ ), Go Daddy has additional server side weaknesses (and easter eggs) that could result in a compromise of your Go Daddy website data and functionality. At the time of this writing, I have a shared hosting account with Go Daddy, because their service was cheap and my website does not host any complex functionality or important data.
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Anonymous launches WikiLeaks inspired HackerLeaks site - Yahoo! News
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They’re pampered, privileged, indulged – part of the “cultural elite.”Protests have been held in Russia over Vladimir Putin's presidential election victory but turnout in Moscow was sharply down on earlier rallies.
BBC News - Fresh Russia protests under way against Putin victory
Huge Win In GA Opinion From European Court Of Justice - Falkvinge on Infopolicy
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