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Google’s Sergey Brin: Governments, Legislation, Hollywood Threaten Open Web

Google co-founder Sergey Brin criticized recent legislation, media and web companies, and totalitarian governments for threatening the open internet during pointed remarks that drew on a tense year that has.

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LibraryMixer: Files-Sharing That Treats Users Like Adults

A former corporate attorney has launched a social service for sharing music, films, and other media — directly between friends. The semi-public beta is comprised of two parts. The web.

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Filesharing Religion Is Perfectly Serious, Says Spokesperson

Spokespersons for a facetious-sounding religion that advocates sharing files, even when doing so is in violation of copyright, maintain that they are quite serious about the group’s tenets. It’s not.

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Calyx Institute To Launch Privacy-Centric, Disruptive ISP

A former ISP executive with a history of standing up to government surveillance plans to launch an ISP focused on preserving user privacy.

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NYC Phone Booth Smart Screens Were Announced Over A Year Ago (Sort Of)

New York City will pilot a network of 32-inch, internet-enabled touch screen computers in old phone booths, according to recent reports. Though a report by the New York Post has.

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How Two Rogue Projects Are Making The Internet Fun Again

In the beginning, the internet was fun. You could talk to new people on a listserv, you could actually hack without going to jail, and you could hang out in.

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Kickstarter Roundup

Kickstarter is the new go-to if you want to crowdsource funding for a ridiculous gadget, an album of ambient new-age electronica, a videogame that hasn’t been written yet, or a.

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Police Could Be Spying On Your Cell Phone Location Without A Warrant

Law enforcement agencies are in a state of chaos with regards to whether to track suspects’ cell phone location information and whether to obtain a warrant in order to do.

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Browser Wars: News From The Front

Who’s winning the browser wars? It might look like Internet Explorer is starting to recover from a downward spiral while Chrome’s meteoric rise is broken, or that quite the reverse.

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Noisy Jelly Is Audible, Sadly Not Edible

Two students at ENSCI – Les Ateliers, a school for creative and industrial design in Paris, have created what is essentially musical JELL-O.

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