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Surveillance state would have appalled Martin Luther King Jr. 27 Aug 2013 | 09:16 pm
So much has changed since that hot day in August 1963 when Martin Luther King delivered his famous words from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. A black family lives in the White House and official se...
Clooney gets stuck in space, Johansson man-eats in Venice Films 27 Aug 2013 | 09:12 pm
Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- George Clooney and Sandra Bullock get stranded in outer space, Scarlett Johansson stalks male hitchhikers, and Zac Efron treats wounded President John F. Kennedy in movies premi...
Boehner the Scrooge?: How the GOP congress could ruin your holiday 27 Aug 2013 | 08:54 pm
Yesterday afternoon, in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, the Treasury Department set a firm (or firmer) deadline of mid-October by which Congress has to increase the debt limit. Before Monday, ...
Norwegian hotel chain bans pay-per-view porn 27 Aug 2013 | 08:52 pm
A Scandinavian hotel chain has banned pay–tv porn from its guest rooms effective immediately. The adult channels in the rooms of Nordic Choice Hotels' Oslo boutique establishment The Thief have alread...
This summer’s mosquito epidemics are brought to you by climate change 27 Aug 2013 | 08:43 pm
This summer, Central America has seen 120,000 cases of dengue fever, and so far, 60 deaths. A heavy rainy season, combined with excessive heat, are making conditions particularly favorable for the mos...
A wearable computer more powerful than Glass 27 Aug 2013 | 08:36 pm
Steve Mann, a pioneer in the field of wearable computing, has been touting the benefits of head-mounted computers for decades. Now, the University of Toronto professor is also lending his weight and e...
Your Facebook friends can affect your credit score 27 Aug 2013 | 08:35 pm
We already know that nothing we do online is sacred or secret, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise to learn that people with hard-to-access credit histories may now have to start monitoring their socia...
Kevin Spacey’s anti-piracy business model: Give the audience control 27 Aug 2013 | 08:27 pm
Where was Kevin Spacey when the music industry really needed him? Over the weekend, Spacey gave a lecture on the lessons of "House of Cards" at the Edinburgh Television Festival in Scotland. The bott...
Hey, tech journalists: Stop referring to everyone as “the next Steve Jobs” 27 Aug 2013 | 08:20 pm
Even before his death nearly two years ago, writers of all stripes began to wonder, "Who is the next Steve Jobs?" It was fitting, in a ghoulish sort of way: People were lusting for the next model befo...
Hans Blix: U.S. has “poor excuse” for Syria incursion now 27 Aug 2013 | 07:59 pm
Following Secretary of State John Kerry's Monday announcement that it was "undeniable" that the Syrian regime had used chemical weapons in a rebel-held suburb, calls among western leaders for military...
