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Techdirt: DailyDirt: Augmented Vision Augmented reality glasses are all the rage these days, because it's just not good enough to see the world through only our human eyes. We want enhanced vision, web connectivity, and complete access to our mobile lives with a blink of an eye. It's therefor...
In Technology | Dateline: 2013-06-18 5:16pm -07:00T (262 words)
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The Moderate Voice: Democrats Release Full House Committee IRS Transcripts This should be interesting. The Democrats are now releasing the full transcripts of the House hearings on the alleged IRS abuses. This means the emerging stories will compare assertions by Rep. Darrell Issa and the transcripts. If Issa was being candid, ...
In Politics | Dateline: 2013-06-18 4:00pm -07:00T (340 words)
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Balloon Juice: Tuesday Evening Open Thread: Bill Nye, Science Warrior Okay, it’s a little galling to realize that I have no fond memories of watching the Science Guy on TV because he’s the same age I am. I am informed, by the NYTimes, that a lot of you kids feel differently:AMES, Iowa — As the car pulled into...
In Politics | Dateline: 2013-06-18 4:15pm -07:00T (382 words)
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TechCrunch: Facebook iOS 6.2 Lets You Easily Change Who You Just Shared That Racy Pic With It happened to me. Yes, I once uploaded a pic of my friend to Facebook from my phone, forgot to change the setting from “Public” to “Friends” and had the friend get told that day by a random person: “Hey I just saw a picture ...
In Technology | Dateline: 2013-06-18 4:16pm -07:00T (332 words)
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Techdirt: NYPD Commissioner Blasts NSA Secret Monitoring For Being Secret In the wake of the NSA scandal leaks, there have been several examples of government officials and law enforcement coming out to state both that the program is necessary and that its existence ought never have been revealed. Those who espouse the latter ...
In Technology | Dateline: 2013-06-18 4:16pm -07:00T (642 words)
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Ubuntu Tips,Tricks,Tutorials and Howtos: How to install Cool Reader 3 on ubuntu 13.04 Cool Reader is an e-book viewer.Understands a number of text document formats.Fully customizable palette, text reformatting with any font size, font antialiasing, extra smooth scrolling and a lot of other features turn reading into a pleasure.Read Aloud f...
In Technology | Dateline: 2013-06-18 5:17pm -07:00T (154 words)
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Doug Lamborn for Congress - Award winning Congressman: BREAKING: Recall the Recall!
The Colorado Secretary of State's office announced today that organizers seeking to recall Senate President John Morse submitted 10,137 valid signatures, easily surpassing the 7,178 signatures needed to initiate what would be the first recall elect...
In Politics | Dateline: 2013-06-18 4:32pm -07:00T (612 words)
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Techdirt: Google, Without Admitting It Gets FISA Orders, Files Lawsuit To Challenge FISA Gag Orders Google appears to be stepping it up a notch in trying to fight back against the claims that it is somehow opening up its system to the NSA or other law enforcement folks. As you now know well, one of the leaks from Ed Snowden a few weeks ago was about a s...
In Technology | Dateline: 2013-06-18 4:16pm -07:00T (449 words)
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Casey and Peanut: Making Canines Reach Their Optimum Potential With Dog Training While owning a brand new pup is thrilling,
spending time to learn about tricks, behavioral
modification, breed attributes, and intellectual
conditioning is something many of us no longer
have the luxury to perform. Without knowing it,
we quite often end u...
In General | Dateline: 2013-06-18 4:33pm -07:00T (416 words)
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Power Line: “Marco, There’s Somebody on Television Pretending To Be You!” (John Hinderaker) Today the Senate voted down amendments to the Gang of Eight’s bill that were proposed by Senators Thune and Vitter. Thune’s amendment would have required 350 miles of the 700-mile border fence that was mandated by the 2006 Se...
In Politics | Dateline: 2013-06-18 4:00pm -07:00T (326 words)
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Hispanically Speaking News: REPORT: Latino LGBT Youth Face Different Challenges Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth who identify as Latino face greater rejection from their communities and schools than their non-LGBT Latino counterparts, according to a new report on LGBT Latino youth released today by the Human ...
In News | Dateline: 2013-06-18 5:53pm -07:00T (741 words)
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The Moderate Voice: Chelsea Clinton’s Father-in-Law An Ex Iowa Congressman Who Went To Jail Historic Tidbit: The day before Richard Nixon resigned, one of his staunchest defenders in Congress, Indiana Republican Earl Landgrebe, made his views known. “Don’t confuse me with the facts,’ he said. “I’ve got a closed mind...
In Politics | Dateline: 2013-06-18 7:45pm -07:00T (963 words)
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Om Malik: SpaceCurve raises $10M to make sense of our streams of location data SpaceCurve, a Seattle-based startup building a database designed to handle streams of geospatial data, has raised a $10 million Series B round from Triage Ventures, Reed Elsevier Ventures (see disclosure) and Divergent Ventures. The company launched in e...
In Technology | Dateline: 2013-06-18 4:01pm -07:00T (320 words)
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Ars Technica: Two accelerators find signs of a particle that nobody can explain
The Belle detector at Japan's KEK facility.
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Two different accelerators have found evidence for a particle that appears to contains four quarks, according to papers published in Physic...
In Technology | Dateline: 2013-06-18 4:16pm -07:00T (217 words)
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Om Malik: Apple amends Siri’s response to suicide with more direct approach When it comes to aiding someone who is emotionally driven to kill him or herself, the right response can literally be a matter of life and death. In order to help those in crisis, Apple has updated Siri’s search response system to field suicide-rela...
In Technology | Dateline: 2013-06-18 5:16pm -07:00T (365 words)
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