Continuing our look back at later developments to stories we brought you on Geeks Are Sexy this year, we turn our attention to July. Tesla encouraged the public to sign a White House petition calling for an end to laws in several states that prevent manufacturers from selling direct (in person) to the public, something […]
Continuing our look back at later developments to stories we brought you on Geeks Are Sexy this year, we turn our attention to June. The court hearing finally began in the battle between the US government and Apple over its role in the e-book market. Specifically the government claimed that Apple and book publishers unfairly […]
Continuing our look back at later developments to stories we brought you on Geeks Are Sexy this year, we turn our attention to May. Facebook was awarded a total of $2.8 million from people who’d registered addresses such as “faacebok.com” and “facegbook.com”. They were judged to have violated the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act of 1999 […]
Continuing our look back at later developments to stories we brought you on Geeks Are Sexy this year, we turn our attention to April. The developers of online game The War Z took the game offline after hackers got hold of user names, e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords. The game later returned to action and […]
Continuing our look back at later developments to stories we brought you on Geeks Are Sexy this year, we turn our attention to March. Dennis Tito, the first commercial space tourist, announced plans to fund a 501-day trip for a couple to orbit Mars. To keep weight down, the urine and fecal liquid of the […]
Continuing our look back at later developments to stories we brought you on Geeks Are Sexy this year, we turn our attention to February. Google paid around $81 million to French publishers who had complained they should get a share of revenue from advertising when “snippets” of their stories appeared on the Google News Site. […]
As we come to the end of 2013, a year in which “geek” was not only reclassified as a positive but selected as word of the year by one dictionary, it’s time to look back at some of the stories we covered on Geeks are Sexy and see what happened next, starting with January’s news. […]
A woman who took part in an online Secret Santa has discovered the identity of the man who gave her the gift: a certain Bill Gates. The user, known only as Rachel (with the username NY1227) took part in a Secret Santa anonymous gift exchange organized by Reddit. It may well be the biggest such […]
A British dictionary has chosen “geek” as its word of the year. It comes only a few months after the same dictionary changed its definition of the term to be more of a positive. The verdict comes from the Collins Online Dictionary, which picked it from a shortlist of a dozen terms. It’s a somewhat […]
Eight of the biggest online tech firms have formed a campaign group calling for a major overhaul of the way the government uses the Internet for gathering intelligence. The group has urged President Obama and Congress to follow five principles to defend individual freedoms. The “Reform Government Surveillance” group is made up of AOL, Apple, […]