Iran’s president has urged the country’s ruling clerics to be more open to the Internet. Hassan Rouhani has accompanied his call by allowing 3G and 4G services for the first time. Historically the country has been at best suspicious of, and at worst hostile to, the idea of citizens communicating online. Many leading Western-based services […]
The Internet Archive has uploaded around 2.6 million historical photographs to Flickr. The man who found a simple technique to create and automate the upload hopes to inspire other digital libraries to do the same. The images run from the 16th century to 1922, putting them all in the public domain in the US. They […]
According to Comicbook.com, Disney plans to release the original Star Wars trilogy on Blu-ray in its original, non-special edition form. Whether anyone believes that is another matter. For its part, the site says that “two independent reliable sources” say: According to our sources, Disney has plans to release the original cut of the Star Wars […]
Facebook has confirmed it is experimenting with labelling some links as satire to help users confused by spoof headlines. Arstechnica’s Sam Machkovech spotted that “[Satire]” has been added to the start of the text in some links to the Onion. At the moment the text only appears in the related articles section, which shows three […]
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Wired writer Mat Honan has carried out an intriguing experiment on Facebook: he “liked” everything where he had an opportunity to do so, whether on Facebook itself or on third-party sites. He managed to do so for 48 hours before feeling he had to abandon the project. The full piece is well worth a look, […]
Facebook messages claiming to give you the chance to change the color of the site are, perhaps unsurprisingly, a phishing scam. Cheetah Mobile has the details: Once clicked, it leads users to a phishing website. Cheetah Mobile researchers have found this issue to be happening due to a vulnerability that lives in Facebook’s app page […]
You may remember that earlier this year more than a million players worked together to beat Pokemon by issuing commands in a chat window of gaming streaming site Twitch. Now a fish is attempting to do the same, though it probably doesn’t know it: Two students have hooked a camera up to a fishbowl, divided […]
Communications firm Broadview has put together a map of the average broadband speeds (apparently for downloads, though that isn’t clear) for each state. Using Akamai’s “State of the Internet” Report, we were able to find the average internet speed in each state. The speeds are measured in megabits per second (mbps) which is simply a measurement […]
This great shot of a Macaque Nigra in Indonesia is — according to Wikipedia at least — in the public domain. That’s because although it came from a photoshoot by David Slater, the picture was actually taken by the monkey itself after getting its hands on the camera. Wikipedia says that means the picture can’t be […]