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Om Malik: A jilted Sprint sues Dish, claiming its offer for Clearwire is illegal
Dish Network may have won over Clearwire board, but Sprint isn’t giving up on Clearwire without a legal fight. Sprint filed a lawsuit on Monday, asking a Delaware state court to stop Dish’s investment in Clearwire.
Sprint has already claimed that Dish...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 5:16pm -07:00T (209 words)
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Techdirt: DailyDirt: Inspired By Nature
Why re-invent the wheel when you can copy from millions of years of evolution? Okay, so there aren't that many animals that use the wheel for locomotion, but there are plenty of other tricks that biology has figured out. By studying how insects fly, we co...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 5:16pm -07:00T (267 words)
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hack a day: Modifying a CRT television for use as an arcade monitor
Finding himself in need of an arcade monitor [Eric Wright] turned to this ancient CRT television. The problem is that arcade monitors and televisions didn’t operate in the same way, differing in both resolution and refresh rate. [Eric] modified the...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 3:16pm -07:00T (210 words)
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Techdirt: Copyright Troll Lawsuit Ends Badly Because Very Dumb Defendant Lied To Court, Destroyed Evidence
We've pointed out before how stupid it was for people like Jammie Thomas and Joel Tenenbaum to fight the copyright infringement lawsuits launched against them. In Tenenbaum's case it was monumentally stupid, because he flat out lied to the court and then...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 4:16pm -07:00T (668 words)
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Ars Technica: Report: Sony raises internal estimates for PS4 sales after strong E3
Sony is getting busy trying to parlay its successful E3 into a sense of momentum for the PlayStation 4 leading up to its release this holiday season. Exhibit A for this effort is Sony Computer Entertainment International CEO and President Andrew House te...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 4:16pm -07:00T (218 words)
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TechCrunch: In First NSA Interview, Obama Can't Confirm If Courts Ever Rejected Spying Requests
President Obama finally took a sit-down interview on the National Security Agency scandal and we’ve pasted a partial transcript below. Disappointingly, most of it is (very) generic and defensive. But, there is one important takeaway: President Obama...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 4:16pm -07:00T (1751 words)
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Techdirt: Al Gore Says NSA Surveillance Is Unconstitutional And 'Not The American Way'
Add Al Gore's voice to those who are speaking out against the NSA's dragnet surveillance practices. The former Vice President not only said the practice was un-American, but also unconstitutional in violation of the 4th Amendment.
"This in my view vio...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 3:16pm -07:00T (300 words)
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hack a day: Causing trouble at RedBull Creation 2013
Skullduggery systems (a first time participant) came up with an extremely ambitious idea for their instrument. It was to be a jug, that would have a changing pitch based on water being pumped in and out. Ultimately, they ran into a few issues that meant ...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 3:16pm -07:00T (250 words)
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Om Malik: Anti-tracking site Disconnect gets more money, do-gooder status
Disconnect, a site run by an ex-Googler, has received an additional $3.5 million to help people block companies from tracking the sites they visit as they browse the internet.
In April, GigaOm described major updates to Disconnect that sought to provide f...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 3:16pm -07:00T (246 words)
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Techdirt: NSA Boss Asks Congress For Blanket Immunity For Companies That Help NSA Spy On Everyone
This will come as no surprise to anyone, but NSA boss General Keith Alexander is pestering Congress for a new law which would provide blanket immunity for companies helping the NSA collect data on everyone.
Gen. Keith Alexander has petitioned Capitol H...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 3:16pm -07:00T (365 words)
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TechCrunch: Big Brands Are Growing More Quickly On Twitter Than Facebook (According To Optimal)
Here’s a fun comparison from Optimal, a social advertising and analytics startup: If you look at big brands on social networks, their following seems to be growing more quickly on Twitter than on Facebook.
Optimal says it looked at the data from 4,3...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 5:16pm -07:00T (360 words)
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TechCrunch: Oculus VR Raises $16M To Build Their Crazy Virtual Reality Gaming Goggles
Following up on their massively successful $2.4M Kickstarter campagin, Oculus VR has just locked down a gigantic $16M Series A to help them build the truly amazing Oculus Rift virtual reality goggles.
In case you’ve somehow missed all the hubbub ab...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 5:16pm -07:00T (500 words)
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Programmable Web: Today in APIs: Elastic Path Pushes Commerce API Platform, Keek’s New API, and 15 New APIs
Elastic Path raises $8 milloon for Commerce Everywhere API platform. Keek launches API program. Plus: automating the connections between humans and machines in the API economy, Nuvo releases new API for wireless audio system, and 15 new APIs.
Elastic Path...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 3:16pm -07:00T (1416 words)
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TechCrunch: Big Brands Are Growing More Quickly On Twitter Than Facebook (According To Optimal)
Here’s a fun comparison from Optimal, a social advertising and analytics startup: If you look at big brands on social networks, their following seems to be growing more quickly on Twitter than on Facebook.
Optimal says it looked at the data from 4,3...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 5:16pm -07:00T (360 words)
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Information Arbitrage: "Dear Friends,We are, no doubt, shocked by yesterday’s events at the Boston marathon. Many of..."
“Dear Friends,We are, no doubt, shocked by yesterday’s events at the Boston marathon. Many of us have friends or family who live there or were there for the event. All of us, as New Yorkers, know what it is like to have our city overturned by terror, ...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 4:02pm -07:00T (256 words)
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