Google has finally settled its legal dispute with publisher groups over its plans to digitize books and make them searchable. But the company is still engaged in legal dispute with authors. The settlement should end a lawsuit filed by five publishing houses in 2005. Previous courtroom deals between the two sides have fallen to legal […]
The man who runs Facebook met the man who (on paper at least) runs Russia this week. The 20 minute conversation appears to have explored ways the company can expand its reach into the country without falling foul of government restrictions on free speech. Mark Zuckerberg met with Dmitri Medvedev who is officially known as […]
This 12-minute short film (which includes the credits) is quite a creative masterpiece. Created using Blender, an open source 3D content creation suite and crowdfunded from the Blender Institute in Amsterdam, it’s quite a feast for the eyes. Without giving too much away, the story is centred on a man who is trying to make […]
In my opinion, Facebook is focusing on the wrong problem here – they’ve got plenty of other things they need to research and fix! With roughly 955 million users, Facebook is concerned that not all their users are real people. And now they’re asking you to nark on your friends who aren’t using their real […]
Here’s a weird thing I never thought of: There are celebrities who honestly cannot operate a computer. DMX is one of them, as he repeats multiple times in the video above. It is bizarre on multiple levels to think that a guy who’s not afraid of getting shot is practically immobilized by typing his three-letter […]
It’s official – insurance companies are setting their sights on the social media realm. After a landmark case won by Nicola Brooks, who managed to get Facebook trolls identities legally revealed, it’s become clear that social media isn’t all just posting instagramed photos of your delicious brunch and playing Draw Something with your friends. There […]
Ever wanted to know the degrees of separation between any actor ever with Kevin Bacon? Well the geniuses at Google did. You can now go to Google and type in any actors name followed by “bacon number” and you will be given the degrees of separation between that actor and Kevin Bacon. Apparently it’s very […]
I’d like broadband speeds of 1 Gigabit per second. I suspect you’d like 1 Gbps. And it turns out large parts of Kansas City would definitely like 1 Gbps. The difference, sadly for you and I (KC residents excepted), is that we’re not getting it any time soon while the folks of Kansas City will. […]
From the makers of Star Trek: Of Gods and Men comes this attempt to revive the episodic nature of the Star Trek franchise. Star Trek: Renegades is a new web series that will supposedly take Star Trek in a new direction, “boldly going where no trek has gone before.” It’s going to be action-packed and […]
If the Kindle Fire was an experiment at marketing quality tablets at a low price, Amazon appears to have judged the results a success. The follow-up is three different models that aim to challenge every section of the tablet market. Back when reports of the first Kindle tablet surfaced, the speculation was that the device […]