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CISPA is SOPA 2.0

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CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (H.R. 3523), is a successor, of sorts, to the loathesome SOPA legislative proposal, which was shot down in flames earlier this year. EFF’s chilling analysis of the bill shows how it could be used to give copyright enforcers carte blanche to spy on Internet users and censoring the Internet (it would also give these powers to companies and governments who’d been embarrassed by sites like Wikileaks).

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Analysis, Internet, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Teens in the U.S. are waiting longer to drive

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Teens are not rushing to get a driver’s license.

Getting a drivers license has been as much a rite of passage as the high school prom, but a new study suggests that young Americans are no longer rushing to get a driver’s license the moment they are eligible – and the Internet may be a major reason for that delay.

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Analysis, Business, Internet, Science & Technology News

30% of all internet traffic is pornography

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Biggest porn site on the internet gets over four billion hits a month.

‘The internet is for porn,’ is the title of a song on hit musical Avenue Q.  And it turns out the lyricists had touched on a home truth, because researchers have discovered that a staggering 30 per cent of all internet traffic is pornography.

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Big Problems, Breakthrough Thinking, Business, Corporate Manipulation, Crazy Stuff, Culture, Historical Perspectives, Hot Issues, Internet, Latest News

Rupert Murdoch employed hackers to destroy a Pay-TV rival

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Rupert Murdoch

Everybody’s favorite octogenarian media tycoon is at it again. This time, Rupert Murdoch is accused of hiring hackers to crack a pay-TV rival’s encryption system and then post the hack on the internet in order to financially cripple them. It worked: they’re now bust…

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Internet, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

100 million televisions will be connected to the internet by 2016

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By 2016, the living room TV will become as hyper-connected as the people watching it.

Researcher NPD In-Stat predicts that 100 million homes in North America and Western Europe will own television sets that blend traditional programs with Internet content by 2016. These new hybrid devices, capable of displaying interactive content related to TV shows, are a bid to hold the viewer’s attention in a device-cluttered world.

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Analysis, Entertainment, Internet, Latest News, Twitter

Twitter to musicians: share Tweet-friendly media, and skip the publicists

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Tweet-friendly media can now be shared by musicians.

As South by Southwest transforms from a massive tech party to a massive music festival, Twitter has unveiled Twitter for Musicians and Artists, a page offering tips on how musicians can use the service to connect with their fans.

Even if you’re not a world-famous musician, many of the suggestions will be pretty familiar…

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government, Internet, Science & Technology News

295 words and phrases blocked by Chinese internet censors

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The Chinese government is not shy about its Internet censorship, even launching an official campaign known as the Golden Shield Project, or “Great Firewall.”

Most people in the world who get into trouble on Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites fail to exercise a bit of healthy self-censorship. A new Carnegie Mellon University study has identified the 295 words and phrases the Chinese government looks for when it steps in and forcibly blocks communication between its own citizens.

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Green Friendly, Internet, Plant Life

Wi-fi sensor gives your dying plants a voice to plead for help

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Is you plant smiling or dying?

If you’ve been using Koubachi’s iOS app to remember when it’s time to water your plants, the company’s new wireless sensor will give your greenery an even better fighting chance of survival if you’re lacking a green thumb.

Whereas the app used your location, the local soil conditions, and the type of plant to make an educated guess as to when it needed watering, misting, or fertilization. Koubachi’s new Wi-fi plant sensor takes the guesswork out of the equation, automatically measuring moisture, temperature, and light…

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Internet, Science & Technology News

Firefox add-on Collusion shows you who’s spying on you online in blow against Google’s new snooping policy

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Firefox is the world’s second most popular web browser after Internet Explorer.

The maker of Firefox, Mozilla, has unveiled a new add-on for the popular web browser that gives web users an instant view of which companies are ‘watching’ them as they browse.

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