Reuters staffer accused of aiding hackers maintains innocence

Reuters staffer accused of aiding hackers maintains innocence - lawyer
Thomson Reuters News & Insight
SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) - A Reuters.com editor maintained his innocence after being suspended with pay on Friday following a federal indictment on charges he aided members of the Anonymous hacking collective. Matthew Keys, 26, a deputy social ...

Hundreds of dinosaur egg fossils found
Fox News
Researchers in northeastern Spain say they've uncovered hundreds of dinosaur egg fossils, including four kinds that had never been found before in the region. The eggs likely were left behind by sauropods millions of years ago. Eggs, eggshell fragments ...

Lenovo Unveils Mainstream Business Ultrabook, ThinkPad T431s
PC Magazine
Lenovo this week announced the availability of its latest T-series ThinkPad laptop, and it's an ultrabook. The ThinkPad T431s Ultrabook is another in a long line of T-series laptops that are the mainstay of Lenovo-equipped office workers. The new T431s is ...

BlackBerry CEO calls Apple's iPhone user interface outdated
Apple Insider
The CEO of BlackBerry has criticized Apple for failing to overhaul the user interface of the iPhone to keep up with competing smartphone platforms. Since the iPhone launched in 2007, it's had largely the same interface with a grid of icons making users' ...

Researchers find microbial life at the bottom of the Mariana Trench
SlashGear
If you've ever dove to the bottom of a swimming pool, you know firsthand how much pressure just a few feet of water can apply to your body. Imagine the incredible pressures exerted on anything living at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. This particular trench ...

SlashGear

Aviary focuses on Windows 8 with new AMD partnership
VentureBeat
Aviary, the photo-editing toolkit, and chipmaker AMD announced today they're partnering to give Windows 8 users and developers a better, faster set of photo-editing tools and features. AMD Ventures put an undisclosed amount into the software startup, which ...

VentureBeat

Flickr app gets updated for iOS
SlashGear
If you're an iPhone user who uses the Flickr app frequently, the app was updated over the weekend. The update for the iOS version of the app brings an important new official feature that a lot of users will be appreciative of. With the new updates the app ...

SlashGear

This Is Why You'll Never Be Able To Play The New SimCity Offline
Business Insider
The bottom line: creator Maxis didn't think single player offline fit with the company's vision for the game. Here's part of what Bradshaw had to say: "Always-Connected is a big change from SimCities of the past. It didn't come down as an order from corporate...

Business Insider

The iPad's Uncontested Enterprise Run is Over
Forbes
Apple's iPad has had quite an impressive run in consumer and business markets. In fact , it has reshaped the entire direction of the PC and application market. For years, it was the only game in town in consumer until the. HP ElitePad 900. Amazon Kindle Fire ...

Forbes

THX sues Apple for speaker designs found in iDevices and iMacs
tuaw.com
THX has filed a lawsuit against Apple alleging the computer maker has infringed on its speaker designs. As Bloomberg reports, THX holds a patent that was granted in 2008 that covers narrow profile speaker designs in consumer electronics and their ability to ...

Lightning Returns screens: Welcome to The Dead Dunes
Computerandvideogames.com
The latest images show off The Dead Dunes, one of the many locations from the game. "This region is covered with endless desert sands as far as the eye can see. Within it can be found the shanties which form a base for treasure hunters seeking their fortune ...

Instagram And Snapchat Becoming More Popular Among Kids, Facebook ...
Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- Relieved your kids aren't posting embarrassing messages and goofy self-portraits on Facebook? They're probably doing it on Instagram and Snapchat instead. The number of popular social media sites available on kids' mobile devices has ...


Robots compete to come in FIRST
Virginia Business Magazine
RICHMOND -- It wasn't necessarily battle bots, but high school students from more than 60 schools in Virginia, the Carolinas and Washington, D.C., packed the Stuart C. Siegel Center over the weekend to compete in a regional robotics competition.

Virginia Business Magazine

Nvidia gave AMD the PS4 because console margins are terrible
ExtremeTech
Consoles have historically been seen as banner products for the companies that manufacture or design their hardware. Nvidia's original Xbox win was a sizable windfall for the company in 2002-2003 and the GPU designs of the Xbox 360 and PS3 (built by...

ExtremeTech

Bat-Catching Spiders Present Everywhere Except Antarctica: Study
Nature World News
Antarctica - the large, frozen wasteland with conditions so hostile that no organism calls it a permanent home - is the only place in the world that has no bat-catching spiders, says a new study. The latest finding adds to the list of organisms hunted down by the ...

Nature World News

Pebble smartwatch gets a Mario watch face in first public SDK, because why not?
Engadget
In case you missed our Pebble smartwatch review, here's a one-sentence recap: its functionality is pretty limited at the moment, but it does what it does very well, and it's reasonably priced, too -- especially if you were able to snag it for just $99. And it'll be an ...

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) Gets Ex-Mozilla Engineer As CTO
US Market Buzz
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) has appointed a new Chief Technology Officer replacing previous CTOs Cory Ondrejka and Mike Vernal. The new person is Mike Schroepfer and a former engineer with Mozilla, the company which makes the Firefox browsers.

Sony's Xperia Z arrives on Orange
Inquirer
JAPANESE PHONE MAKER Sony's Xperia Z smartphone is now available on Orange, as it becomes the latest mobile network to offer the smartphone in the UK. Despite EE's promise that Orange and T-Mobile would remain affordable 3G-only networks, the...

Inquirer

Life on Mars! Unless it's ET, Who Cares?
LiveScience.com
NASA scientists announced on March 12 that the Red Planet could have supported ancient life — though they don't yet have evidence that it did. A sample of rock drilled by the Curiosity rover revealed conditions that could have supported ancient microbes at ...

VIDEO: BMX demonstrators jump over volunteer at Detroit Bike City
MLive.com
DETROIT, MI - High-flying BMX demonstrators were entertaining the crowd at Detroit Bike City on Saturday, and we've embedded a video of the stunt bikers hopping over a volunteer, who snaps pictures of them bearing down on her. Detroit Bike City marked ...

Feral hogs posing problems at Missouri wildlife refuge
STLtoday.com
PUXICO, Mo. • The Mingo National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Missouri will be closed for a day while conservation crews conduct a one-day aerial operation to kill feral hogs. The Dexter Daily Statesman reports that the Missouri Department of Conservation ...

Google Chrome: Best security tips for safer browsing
PCWorld (blog)
There's a lot to like about Google Chrome's built-in security features. The browser offers unique sandboxing functions and privilege restrictions, and even updates itself in the background to help better protect you from hackers and malware. But like all ...

Google Keep briefly teases note-taking utility for Drive, vanishes soon after
Engadget
Another day, another leak from Google. As The Next Web reports, a note-collecting service called Keep was accessible on Google Drive for a short period of time last night -- and if your short-term memory is a bit cloudy, Drive itself got leaked in a similarly ...

The Last of Us PS3 preview reveals campaign length
Product Reviews
We have some important news for those of you looking to pick up The Last of Us, when it releases exclusively on PS3 this Summer. A recent interview with Naughty Dog has stealthily revealed the exact time duration that the single-player campaign will take on ...

Ken Levine Talks Everything from Shodan, to Big Daddy, to Elizabeth: The ...
New Gamer Nation
For all those Bioshock fans out there, Ken Levine, Creative Director at Irrational Games, gave quite a long talk at BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) a few days ago in a presentation entitled “From Shodan, to Big Daddy, to Elizabeth: The ...

Sanders to Hold Town Meeting on Global Warming; Sen. Sanders, Bernard (I ...
Power Engineering Magazine
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders will hold a town meeting in Montpelier on Saturday to discuss how global warming is impacting Vermont. Sanders will be joined by environmental experts who will explore what can be done to reverse climate change. Author and ...

Astronomers Gearing Up for Possible 'Comet of the Century'
Space.com
Astronomers are already getting set for the arrival of Comet ISON, which may become one of the brightest comets ever seen when it cruises through the inner solar system this fall. NASA has brought together a small team of experts to organize an observing ...

Taiwan's participation in telescope project helps astronomy stature
Focus Taiwan News Channel
Taipei, March 18 (CNA) Taiwan's participation in the world's largest ground-based telescope project in Chile has helped upgrade its stature in the field of astronomy and has strengthened its state-of- the-art technology, a researcher said Monday.

Battlefield 4: first promo image emerges
Computerandvideogames.com
A promotional image for Battlefield 4 has emerged via AGB ahead of the shooter's official unveiling later this month. Battlefield 4 Screenshot Last week EA sent out invites to a GDC event on March 26 at which it promises to reveal the game and "celebrate a ...

High tech specs divide digital community
KRMG
Wearing a pair of glasses which house a small computer appeals to some, but others find it a potential invasion of privacy and a distraction that could make texting while driving seem safe. Dubbed "Google Glass," the high tech specs look like something ...

Tornado debris study could lead to better warnings
Houston Chronicle
ATLANTA (AP) — Photos and mementoes that were snatched up and blown hundreds of miles during a Southern tornado outbreak two years ago are giving researchers new insight on how debris is carried by the storms and how it could threaten the public.

FCC cracks down on campaign robocalls to cell phones
CNET
Two companies face fines of nearly $5 million for allegedly making millions of artificial voice messages without consumers' prior consent....

Scientists create living embryo of extinct frog that gives birth through its MOUTH
Daily Mail
An extinct frog is on the verge of revival after scientists used cloning technology to implant a 'dead' cell nucleus into a fresh egg from another frog species. Although the resulting embryos lived for just a few days, the groundbreaking research by an ...

Daily Mail

MessageMe Gets Vine'd; Facebook Pulls Access to Friend-Finding
PC Magazine
Or, at least, Facebook doesn't seem to be very keen on allowing apps to tap into Facebook's platform if they contain similar features as Facebook's own apps and services. Case in point: MessageMe, a full-featured messaging app that launched just last week ...

Verizon Wants to Pay Broadcasters Based on Unique Viewers Complains They ...
Dslreports
A report in the Wall Street Journal states that Verizon is proposing a new pay system to several "midtier and smaller" media companies where Verizon would only pay for channels if customers are actually watching them. The proposal would involve Verizon ...

Legend of Zelda hack makes Link the damsel in distress
SlashGear
Inspired by the father who modded Donkey Kong so his daughter could play the Princess, another person had the idea of modifying another classic Nintendo game. Kenna W has always loved The Legend of Zelda series, and she always wanted to play the ...

RSS inventor won't miss Google Reader
Tech Digest
google-reader-top.jpg The internet may be weeping at the news that Google Reader may be about to close, but one person of note won't be shedding a tear. Dave Winer, an instrumental figure in both the invention of RSS feeds and blogs, couldn't give a hoot.

Tech Digest

Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate
Pocket Gamer
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate on 3DS has all of the hallmarks of its PSP predecessors: the same playing mechanics, the same esoterica, and the same productivity-destroying gameplay. But it arrives in a new context. Thanks to the recent success of hardcore ...

Infamous iPad Hacker Makes No Apologies As He Faces Jail Time
Business Insider
Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer, the hacker who called attention to AT&T's poor security by releasing hundreds of thousands of iPad owners' email addresses, will be sentenced in a New Jersey court on Monday for computer crimes. Despite facing as much as ...

Business Insider

Updated Kinect for Windows software adds 3D scanning tricks
Wired.co.uk
Microsoft's Xbox Kinect, the fastest selling gaming peripheral of all time, has just become a little bit more open for tinkering, thanks to a new software development kit (SDK) released by Microsoft on 18 March. For a little over a year, Microsoft has released SDK ...

Wired.co.uk

Higgs boson case strengthened by new CERN data analysis
Newsday
New results from the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva "strongly indicate" that the particle discovered last year is a Higgs boson, the European Organization for Nuclear Research said. The particle, which scientists said in July was probably the long-sought...

Newsday

Apple loses right to use 'iPhone' trademark in Mexico
Computer Business Review
Apple suffered a blow over the iPhone trademark in Mexico after the country's Supreme Court upheld a ruling that the local technology services firm owns the iPhone brand in the country. The dispute with Apple started in 2009 when the company tried to ...

Iterations: The Improbable, Captivating Pivot From Orchestra To Mailbox
TechCrunch
On Friday, Dropbox's acquisition of Mailbox marked the first time the tech community lit up in amazement and awe of a consumer transaction since Facebook ...

TechCrunch

Climate Change This Week: Earth Shoots UP on GHG, Biggest Security Threat ...
Huffington Post (blog)
Global Warming Gases Spike in 2012, packing in the second highest yearly amount recorded yet, reports Alex Kirby at Climate News Network, while fellow CNN colleague Paul Brown noted that no one seems to have noticed it, or its grave implications .

Huffington Post (blog)

See Jupiter near moon in daytime sky on March 17 or 18
EarthSky (blog)
March 17 and 18, 2013 provide opportunities to view the bright planet Jupiter near the waxing crescent moon in a daytime sky. The post below – describing the details of this kind of viewing and offering advice on how to do it – is reprinted with permission from ...
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LulzSec Bust a Blow to Anonymous? Not So Fast

LulzSec Bust a Blow to Anonymous? Not So Fast
PCWorld
By Taylor Armerding, CSO When an FBI official crowed to FoxNews earlier today that " We're chopping off the head of LulzSec," was there truth in the boast or just a bunch of hyperbole? Clearly the agency chopped off something. As was widely reported, ...

Talk to the TV remote
CNET
To play this video, you need Javascript enabled and the latest version of Flash installed. Install Flash now Video description: How do you use a TV remote without numbers? Samsung gets touchy with the Smart Touch Remote and the Smart Wireless Keyboard, ...

iPad holds 73 percent of the tablet market
Washington Post
March 6 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc., set to release a new iPad tablet tomorrow, doesn't have an Android-based competitor with more than 5 percent of the market, Forrester Research Inc. said in a report published today. Apple, based in Cupertino, ...

Bentley's hideous SUV becomes must-see at Geneva show
USA TODAY
By Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY When we heard today from Rebecca Lindland, research director for IHS Automotive, from the floor of the Geneva Motor Show today, we had to pass on her thoughts. She is never lost for a colorful opinion.
 
USA TODAY

FCC: Cellphone jammers are illegal
Washington Post
Given the recent interest in cellphone jammers — which block cellphone signals — the Federal Communications Commission felt the need to release a document that states, unequivocally, that the devices are illegal. “In recent days, there have been ...

Android Market checks out, Google Play moves in
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google's digital marketplace for mobile applications, music, movies and books is unifying under a new name in an effort to spruce up the shopping experience. Beginning Tuesday, the Android Market will be known as the Google Play ...

The Associated Press

Apple TV: Growing from Appliance to Television
The Mac Observer
You probably know from listening Mac OS Ken, or reading my column on The Mac Observer, that for quite some time I've hated the idea of an Apple Television. Apple TV 2 I love. Got it the day it came out for US$99 and I use it every day.

Chevy Volt: Why production was halted and what it means
Washington Post
GM announced that it would temporarily cease production of its much-hyped electric vehicle. The Associated Press reports: General Motors Co. is suspending production of its Chevrolet Volt electric car for five weeks amid disappointing sales.

Titanic Sunk by "Supermoon" and Celestial Alignment?
National Geographic
Just weeks before the Titanic shipwreck's hundredth anniversary, scientists have a brand-new theory as to what might have helped spur modern history's most famous maritime disaster. (See pictures of Titanic's rediscovery in 1985.) ...

National Geographic

Verizon Introduces 4G LTE-Based Broadband Service
Tom's Guide
Don't want to subscribe to your local broadband company? Verizon has a 4G LTE deal for you, but it's a little costly. On Tuesday, Verizon Wireless introduced HomeFusion Broadband, an in-home internet service that will be ideal for consumers residing in ...

Guffaws and awkward laughter: game devs react to Indie Game: The Movie
Ars Technica
By Kyle Orland | Published March 6, 2012 3:40 PM Before the showing started, the screening room was a bustle of activity, with attendees shaking hands and hugging colleagues they might not have seen since the last Game Developers Conference.

Apple, Google Dominate US Smartphone Market
Bloomberg
Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Android consolidated their control of the US smartphone market in the three months ended January, with three out of four devices using their software, ComScore Inc. (SCOR) said today. Apple software was found ...

Verizon: In the game of 4G, spectrum trumps technology
GigaOm
By Kevin Fitchard Mar. 6, 2012, 1:54pm PT No Comments Verizon Wireless has seen the future of cellular networking — and it doesn't look much different than today. In a highly detailed, yet heavily redacted, filing with the Federal Communications ...

Robotic Cheetah Sets a New Robot Land Speed Record, Leaves Humans in its Dust
PCWorld
By Kevin Lee, PCWorld Mar 6, 2012 2:00 PM [Photo: Boston Dynamics]From the makers of the Terminator-esque Petman and the load-bearing Alpha Dog, comes Boston Dynamics's latest robotic terror: a robotic Cheetah. The new Cheetah Robot is the latest ...

Intel Uncloaks New Xeon Chips for the Data Center Set
Wired News
By Robert McMillan A batch of Intel's new Xeon processors. Intel says the Xeon E5 is 80 percent faster than previous chips. (Photo: Intel) Intel has introduced new Xeon chips it expects will become the workhorses for corporate datacenters, ...

Wired News

2012 Geneva: 2013 Fiat 500L Looks Ready To Tackle The Mini Countryman
MotorTrend Magazine
The 2013 Fiat 500L was unveiled today at the Geneva Motor Show, and with it the Fiat brand's desire to capitalize on the 500′s success. With an extra set of doors, the 500L could be just the ticket to help Fiat's sagging sales in the US The “L” in the ...

MotorTrend Magazine

Mercedes-Benz "CLC" Coming to New York Auto Show
Washington Post
Mercedes-Benz will show the first US-bound model from the front-wheel-drive family of small cars it's developing, as a concept at next month's 2012 New York Auto Show. With one of its new front-drive models--its B-Class MPV--already in production, ...

Mega Man X Coming To 3DS This Thursday [UPDATE]
Escapist Magazine
Out of nowhere, a Super Nintendo classic is making the leap to Nintendo's latest handheld. Though, given the facts, I'm not sure why this move is so surprising. Let's examine, shall we? According to a blurb on Capcom's European community site, ...

Eye-controlled games move closer to reality
ZDNet
Eye-tracking specialist Tobii wants you to drop your mouse or joystick and just use your eyes to play its games. Eye-tracking specialist Tobii released a new version of its eye tracking technology - the Tobii IS-2 Eye Tracker module.

There, I Fixed It: MyFord Touch Update Released
MotorTrend Magazine
Customers complained, rankings dropped, Ford listened, and the fix is finally here. MyFord Touch, which went from a good thing to a controversial thing rather quickly, is about to give way to MyFord Touch 2.0 and what Ford hopes will be a brighter ...

MotorTrend Magazine

Dell XPS 13 review
Engadget
By Tim Stevens posted Mar 6th 2012 2:00PM You don't have to be a marketing skeptic to agree that "Ultrabook" is a somewhat hyperbolic term for a class of devices designed a little thinner, a little lighter and maybe a little quicker than those ...

Spider silk conducts heat, unlike most organic material: Study
The State Column
Spider silk conducts heat, unlike most organic materials, according to a press release from Iowa State University Friday. Xinwei Wang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Iowa State University, made the discovery after his curiosity ...

Venus spews solar wind: NASA
The State Column
Explosions on Venus “temporarily reverse solar winds,” NASA's Karen C. Fox reports. Citing evidence from a study that recently appeared in the Journal of Geophysical Research at the end of February, Ms. Fox reveals that scientists have discovered ...

Microsoft Previews Windows 8 Embedded
PCWorld (blog)
By Joab Jackson, IDG News Rounding out its line of recent Windows 8 releases, Microsoft has posted a community technology preview of the next Windows OS for embedded systems, Windows Embedded Standard 8. The release closely follows the preview releases ...

Mass Effect 3 Face Import Problem Being Worked On
Cinema Blend
Mass Effect veterans who tried to import their old save files into Mass Effect 3 may have noticed that Commander Shepard looks a little...different. BioWare acknowledged that they're correcting the issue. "We are aware that some players are having ...

Cinema Blend

Schumer Calls For Probe of Smartphone Apps
WAMC
NEW PALTZ, NY (WAMC) - US Senator Charles Schumer is calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate reports that some smart phone applications can be used to steal private photos and contacts without the user's consent.

WAMC

Facebook paid $1.4B to game developers in 2011
VentureBeat
Facebook paid more than $1.4 billion to game developers (and other app makers) in 2011, according to a Facebook talk at the Game Developers Conference this morning. Matt Wyndowe , games product manager at Facebook, said that the social network is ...

VentureBeat

Ford Aims Kuga, B-Max at European Market
Wall Street Journal
By MIKE RAMSEY GENEVA—Ford Motor Co. rolled out two new vehicles for the European market Tuesday that are expected to help boost revenue in a region where it forecasts heavy losses and options to cut costs are limited. These new vehicles, the B-Max ...

Wall Street Journal

Video: Lego Space Shuttle Lifts Off for the Stratosphere
Popular Science
By Rebecca Boyle Posted 03.06.2012 at 2:25 pm 1 Comment So many intrepid stratonauts send stuff into the upper atmosphere these days, it's almost hard to keep track — there's even a suborbital balloon factory now. But this weather balloon experiment ...

'Assassin's Creed' video game to be set in American Revolutionary War
NEWS.com.au
UBISOFT revealed Monday that the next installment to its blockbuster Assassin's Creed video game franchise will be set during the American Revolution. Assassin's Creed III will be released on October 30 and star a new hero in a series of games that ...

Tech Titans Fund Undocumented Students
Wall Street Journal
By MIRIAM JORDAN A group of Silicon Valley technology leaders, impatient with attempts to rewrite immigration laws, is funding efforts to help undocumented youths attend college, find jobs and stay in the country despite their illegal status.

Google chairman: Much of Star Trek is reality today
Times of India
Dilma Rousseff, the president of Brazil, this year's "partner country" at the CeBIT, expressed the hope that "technology, when put to human interests, can certainly produce a true revolution for the well-being of the people at large.

How Technology Changes Our Relationships
By Alicia Eler
shutterstock_cyberrelationships.jpg Ah, the Internet. The once magnificent and glorious tool has transformed from being a fast-paced information highway to that place where we all admit, rather begrudgingly, that we spend too much time on.
ReadWriteWeb

The Data Charmer: Cool technology and usability in Tungsten ...
By Giuseppe Maxia
When I joined Continuent, at the end of 2010, I was fascinated by the technology of its core products. Readers of this blog know that I have had my hands full with Tungsten Replicator, but what really turned me on was the flagship management ...
The Data Charmer

Ahead of the Curve: Technology Trends and the Human Experience ...
By pabini@uxmatters.com
Research focuses on the intersection of human and technology. Sometimes, even more important than what type of technology is being developed is what people are doing with that technology and the implications that has for product ...
UXmatters

Karen Lawrence: The Artist and Disruptive Technology in Art and ...
By Karen Lawrence
As The Artist suggests, art can help us understand the dilemmas presented by technological change, just as technology can help unleash the creative possibilities of art.
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed

Tech Tuesday Live Twitter Chat – A look at the Windows 8 ...
By Kristina Libby
I'm sure that you are all now well aware of the release of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, the preview to the next version of Windows. As you'll notice, this is not a final product and instead represents a work in progress that allows users to ...
Windows Experience Blog

Tech Twurl:Whiz Kid Runs Online Enterprise From His Dorm Room ...
By Sarah Schmid
He studies neuroscience at Michigan State University in preparation for med school, and, in his off hours, he runs a successful online business called Tech Twurl, where he buys old electronics and resells them on eBay, Amazon, or to websites that buy the machines for parts. And if that's not enough, he spent his most .... Business, life sciences, and technology news — covering Boston, Seattle, San Diego, Detroit, San Francisco, New York and beyond. © 2007-2012, Xconomy, Inc.
Xconomy

Pole-dancing robots wow world's biggest high-tech fair | The Raw ...
By Agence France-Presse
The “dancers”, designed by British robot-maker-cum-artist Giles Walker, are driven by old car motors and their moves are controlled by computer via wireless technology. But despite being made from scrap, the robots don't come cheap.
The Raw Story

Solve Media Technology Lets Users Skip Pre-Roll Ads
By Elise Simmons
The ad tech company announced the launch of Pre-Roll Insurance today. The new technologyprompts viewers to enter a brand's tag line or message in order to skip a pre-roll video ad. If this sounds familiar, its because this technology is ...
Local Media Watch - BIA/Kelsey

Big Data Meets Ad Tech
By AdExchanger
The ad tech industry is evolving new approaches to media expenditures - including what industry leaders are calling a "Brand Equity Index," which aims to equate and more accurately depict the actual contribution and effectiveness of various ...
AdExchanger.com: Exchanging Ideas...

BuzzFeed Launches New Tech Blog 'FWD' | TPM Idea Lab
By Carl Franzen
“Technology is no longer a discrete category, or some thing that occasionally and clumsily intersects with culture,” wrote Buchanan in FWD's inaugural blog post. “It's reshaping culture. Creating culture. It is culture. It's wonderful. Mostly.
TPM News

UK, Palestine to Start Information Technology Cooperation ...
By occupiedpalestine
RAMALLAH, March 5, 2012 (WAFA) – British Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries Ed Vaizey Monday expressed hope to start a future cooperation between Palestine and UK in information technology fields.
Occupied Palestine | فلسطين

Incredible Lion Photos Taken With High-Tech Remote Control ...
Photography is a high-tech industry, especially when photographers try to figure out ... Conservation photographer Will Burrard-Lucas has created a high-tech ...
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New artificial heart produces no pulse, but keeps you alive ...
Read 'New artificial heart produces no pulse, but keeps you alive' from our blog Technology NewsBlog on Yahoo! News. If you checked your pulse right now ...
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