Social Media:
- Virtual Worlds May Be the Future Setting of Scientific Collaboration
- ESPN Muscles in on Staff Tweets
- Sex, Murder, and Facebook: The Perils of Social Media
- Twitter post leads to lawsuit
- Video game site lets players bet on their skills
- Online video more popular than Facebook
- Warning: The Wrong Tweet Can Get You Sued
- Bill Gates Leaves Facebook, Says It’s Too Much Hassle
- Chris Anderson on the Economics of ‘Free’: ‘Maybe Media Will Be a Hobby Rather than a Job’
- Who needs newspapers when you have Twitter?
- Need a job? Show them you can Twitter
- iPhone Suicide Case Spotlights Tech?s Dark Side
- Who’s Really Reading Your Facebook Top Five Lists?
Education:
Amazon:
- Amazon sued over Kindle deletion of Orwell books
- The Future of Book Banning?
- Amazon.com CEO apologizes for Orwell incident
- Amazon fails to remember the physical
Apple:
- Apple Screws Up Again, Censors iPhone Dictionary App
- Apple Backs Down On Bluwiki Threats
- Is Apple Hiding Problems with Fiery iPods?
Google:
- Civil liberties groups warn of Google Books privacy concerns
- Don’t Let Google Close the Book on Reader Privacy!
- Google Tries to Silence YouTube Critics
Ancestry:
Misc. Tech:
- Talking Paperclip Inspires Less Irksome Virtual Assistant
- If You’re Happy, Then We Know It: New Research Measures Mood
- Artificial Brain ’10 Years Away’
Misc:
- No Public Option in Secret Baucus Health Plan…Baucus Tops Congress in Campaign Funds From Private Health Industry
- Crawling Death: How Lice Thwarted Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia
- Getting Around the EU Ban: Germans Hoarding Traditional Light Bulbs
Privacy:
- Who Knows Where You Are, And Why?
- Obama’s Military Is Spying on U.S. Peace Groups
- OC man charged with modifying video game consoles
- EFF Releases Interim Report on the Automated Targeting System
- Cars.gov Terms of Service: What Glenn Beck Gets Right and Wrong
- EFF Defends Wikipedian’s Right to the Public Domain
- Defendant in Mass. music-sharing trial: ‘I did it’
- US Snooping Rights in Europe: Criticism Grows over Banking Data Deal
- Big Brother Is Watching Your Blackberry: How Wired Gadgets Encroach on Privacy
- SF Chronicle: Obama Position on Wiretapping is “Mind-Boggling”
Security:
- New Epidemic Fears: Hackers
- Halted ’03 Iraq Plan Illustrates U.S. Fear of Cyberwar Risk
- TECH CHRONICLES / Common Web safeguard might not be all that safe, conference attendees learn
- Report: Shortage of cyber experts may hinder govt
- Researchers to Spotlight Darknets at Black Hat
- New Technology to Make Digital Data Self-Destruct
Software / Computing:
- NCSA Researchers Receive Patent for System that Finds Holes in Knowledge Bases
- Behaviour of Building Block of Nature Could Lead to Computer Revolution
- Intel Taps Facebook Multitudes for Massive Research Efforts
- Computers Unlock More Secrets of the Mysterious Indus Valley Script
- DNA Computation Gets Logical at the Weizmann Institute
- Can Computers Decipher a 5,000-Year-Old Language?
- Yale Researchers Create Database-Hadoop Hybrid
- NICTA Opens Its Software to the World
Robotics:
- Call for Debate on Killer Robots
- We, Robots
- SPACE FLIGHT / Business of space fails to blast off as expected
- Robo-Ethicists Want to Revamp Asimov’s 3 Laws
High-tech Devices: