share A Finnish District Court has ruled that the owner of an open WiFi network is not liable for copyright infringement by others using that network. “The applicants were unable to provide any evidence that the connection-owner herself had been involved in the file-sharing,” the defendant’s attorneys wrote in an English-language press release on [...]
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When the trailer for The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel started appearing in Manhattan cinemas last autumn, I was struck by how many laughs it got and figured, given its golden cast, that it would be a success, but I was also curious to see how – a few years on since Slumdog Millionaire – another [...]
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This is how I first came to know of her: She was Lady Lili Chatterjee of the MacGregor house in The Jewel in the Crown, the wonderful Granada TV serial adaptation of Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet. In that role, Zohra Sehgal was elegant and knowing, the very person you would want to live with on [...]
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For Zohra-ji on her 100th birthday
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- The most chilling moment of a reflective ceremony came when Mary’s good friend addressed the press before the service and HollywoodLife.com was right there.
- Researchers are saying that piling on the cals during pregnancy increases the chance for diabetes and high blood pressure. Basically, the data implies this: Don’t do what Jessica Simpson did!
Kerry Kennedy Calls Mary Kennedy An ‘Angel Claimed By Forces Of Evil’ At Funeral
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Pregnancy: Eating For Two Can Increase Risk For Diabetes and High Blood Pressure
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- The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) on Friday banned Shah Rukh Khan from entering Wankhede Stadium for five years. The decision came after SRK misbehaved with officials after Wednesdays game between Kolkata and Mumbai. A guard was caught manhandling SRK’s daughter and her friends who were playing during the game and SRK reacted strongly, which created chaos [...]
Shah Rukh Khan loses temper during IPL game, banned for 5 years
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Last year we reported that Google was working on a secret project codenamed Majel that was meant to be a direct response to Apple’s Siri. A trusted source told us a working Android app was already in testing and we thought it could debut in December, but then Alexia Tsotsis of TechCrunch reported that the [...]
Expect Assistant, aka Majel, to be shown off at Google IO
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Finnish court rules open WiFi network owner not liable for infringement
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AMD Trinity A10-4600M Processor Review
Posted by ahsanMay 17
share We won’t burn up too much of your bandwidth setting the stage here. AMD’s second-generation Bulldozer core processor microarchitecture, codenamed Piledriver, has made headlines at HotHardware many times in the past few months, including our CES sneak peek of the chip that AMD is launching today for the mobile market, codenamed Trinity. What [...]
Solyndra for sale: Company’s high-tech plant to be sold
Posted by ahsanMay 17
share For sale: manufacturing and office facility with 411,618 square feet, state of the art electrical, air, and power distribution systems — and a troubled past. As part of its bankruptcy proceedings, Solyndra is reportedly very close to landing a buyer for its mammoth, high-tech production plant in Fremont, Calif. The listing agent recently [...]
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Iranian physicist sentenced to prison
Posted by ahsanMay 17
share Omid Kokabee, an Iranian graduate student who has been imprisoned in Tehran for the past 15 months, was sentenced to 10 years on Sunday for allegedly conspiring with foreign countries against Iran. Judge Abolghasem Salavati of Branch 15 of Tehran’s Revolution Court — who is famous for his harsh sentences — tried 10 [...]
A year in jail without trial for Iranian student accused of spying
Posted by ahsanMay 17
share Omid Kokabee, a physics student accused of spying by Iran, has spent one year in Evin jail in Tehran without being judged. In a hearing on 31 January the trial was postponed for at least another four months, according to sources in Tehran. The trial has already been postponed twice before, in July [...]
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Is Mozilla Punting on Web Apps for Linux?
Posted by ahsanMay 17
share While Mozilla is a leading light in the open source community, every so often I’m reminded that the same isn’t always true in the Linux community. There has been an ongoing thread over the course of the last week about Mozilla’s lack of initial support for the Web Apps Marketplace on Linux. That’s [...]
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Oops! Five CEOs Who Should Have Already Been Fired (Cisco, GE, WalMart, Sears, Microsoft)
Posted by ahsanMay 17
share First came the hubbub about Scott Thompson, CEO of Yahoo, inflating his resume to include a computer science degree he did not actually receive. According to Mr. Thompson someone at a recruiting firm added that degree claim in 2005, he didn’t know it and he’s never read his bio since. A simple oversight, [...]
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Mac clone maker Psystar saga ends as Supreme Court denies appeal
Posted by ahsanMay 17
share The four-year-old saga of Psystar, a Florida Mac clone maker that was crushed by Apple, ended Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear its appeal of a lower court ruling. The decision to not consider the case (download PDF) upheld a ruling last September by the U.S. Court of Appeals for [...]
Diablo 3 had over 2 million pre-orders, 8000 midnight launches
Posted by ahsanMay 17
share Diablo 3 had over two million pre-orders, a record for Blizzard Entertainment. The PC game launces today amid huge interest from players – so much so that servers are at capacity and thousands are unable to log in. Blizzard’s eye-watering pre-order figure takes into account units pre-ordered as part of the World of [...]
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Online music storage firm MP3tunes files for bankruptcy
Posted by ahsanMay 15
share Online music storage firm MP3tunes Inc filed for bankruptcy in a U.S. court, following its prolonged run-in with music publishing giant EMI Group over copyright issues, court filings showed. MP3tunes is a so-called cloud music service that lets users store music in online “lockers.” Amazon.com Inc, Apple Inc and Google Inc have similar [...]
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Could a computer write this story?
Posted by ahsanMay 15
share Computer applications can drive cars, fly planes, play chess and even make music. But can an app tell a story? Chicago-based company Narrative Science has set out to prove that computers can tell stories good enough for a fickle human audience. It has created a program that takes raw data and turns it [...]
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Sides dig in as FBI warns of ‘going dark’ in online era
Posted by ahsanMay 15
share To the FBI, it would be substantively the same as what the agency has had the authority to do for generations with a court warrant: wiretap phones to listen in on possibly criminal communications. To privacy and civil liberties advocates, it amounts to another expansion of the FBI’s already excessive authority to spy [...]
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Bitcoins worth $87,000 plundered in brazen server breach
Posted by ahsanMay 15
share More than $87,000 worth of the virtual currency known as Bitcoin was stolen after online bandits penetrated servers belonging to Bitcoinica, prompting its operators to temporarily shutter the trading platform to contain the damage. Friday’s theft came after hackers accessed Bitcoinica’s production servers and depleted its online wallet of 18,547 BTC, as individual [...]
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Sonic device deployed in London during Olympics
Posted by ahsanMay 15
share The Ministry of Defence has confirmed a sonic device will be deployed in London during the Olympics. The American-made Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) can be used to send verbal warnings over a long distance or emit a beam of pain-inducing tones. The equipment was spotted fixed to a landing craft on the [...]
Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Years
Posted by ahsanMay 15
share In Star Trek lore, the first Starship Enterprise will be built by the year 2245. But today, an engineer has proposed — and outlined in meticulous detail – building a full-sized, ion-powered version of the Enterprise complete with 1G of gravity on board, and says it could be done with current technology, within [...]
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Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Gives Up U.S. Citizenship Before IPO
Posted by ahsanMay 15
share Eduardo Saverin, the billionaire co- founder of Facebook Inc. (FB), renounced his U.S. citizenship before an initial public offering that values the social network at as much as $96 billion, a move that may reduce his tax bill. Facebook plans to raise as much as $11.8 billion through the IPO, the biggest in [...]
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State paid $22K each for Internet routers
Posted by ahsanMay 12
share Nobody told Hurricane librarian Rebecca Elliot that the $22,600 Internet router in the branch library’s storage closet was powerful enough to serve an entire college campus.Nobody told Elliot how much the router cost or who paid for it. Workers just showed up and installed the device. They left behind no instructions, no user [...]
Mask ban bill penalty doubled to 10 years
Posted by ahsanMay 12
share MPs studying a bill that would make it illegal for rioters to cover their faces have doubled the proposed penalty to 10 years. Conservative MPs on the House justice committee changed the proposed law Thursday, sending the legislation back to the House of Commons with a maximum penalty of 10 years in jail [...]
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An Effort to Bury a Throwaway Culture One Repair at a Time
Posted by ahsanMay 12
share An unemployed man, a retired pharmacist and an upholsterer took their stations, behind tables covered in red gingham. Screwdrivers and sewing machines stood at the ready. Coffee, tea and cookies circulated. Hilij Held, a neighbor, wheeled in a zebra-striped suitcase and extracted a well-used iron. “It doesn’t work anymore,” she said. “No steam.” [...]
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Beware the creeping cracks of bias
Posted by ahsanMay 12
share larming cracks are starting to penetrate deep into the scientific edifice. They threaten the status of science and its value to society. And they cannot be blamed on the usual suspects — inadequate funding, misconduct, political interference, an illiterate public. Their cause is bias, and the threat they pose goes to the heart [...]
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