Celebrating Nelson Mandela, a film installation is taking over the electronic billboards in New York’s Times Square. The short presentation was commissioned by the Tribeca Film Institute, the arts organization co-founded by Oscar-winning star Robert De Niro. Inspiring quotes will be played across many of Times Square’s screens this month to celebrate the anti-apartheid innovator’s 95th...
The intensive manhunt for the bombers behind the deadly Boston Marathon attacks didn’t take place just on the streets with professional police officers and SWAT teams. In an age of digital interactivity, it also unraveled around the country from laptops and desk chairs filled with regular folks. Fueled by Twitter, on online forums like Reddit and 4chan, smartphones and relays of police scanning...
Michelle Obama’s office reported on said Thursday that it had opened up a Twitter account, as the US First Lady turned 49 today. The account is @ FLOTUS, the acronym for First Lady of the United States, and it will be managed by the first lady’s team. Tweets penned by the firt lady erself will certainly have her initials– mo As of midday Thursday,...
As of the first of the year, it is officially illegal to request a Facebook password when interviewing prospective employees in California. A pair of bills signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in September took effect on Tuesday. Brown signed the Assembly Bill 1844 and Senate Bill 1349, which “prohibit universities and employers from demanding your email and social media...
Information reaching us at Technology Africa is that the U.S. airlines are planning to spread Web accessibility from their domestic fleets to the ones that take travelers overseas. United, Delta, and American all state they expect to have their first international flights with Wi-Fi gain access within a several weeks. United is aiming to have Internet on 300 planes...
Barack Obama’s decision to nominate Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank has been well received. The prevailing view is that Kim is a smart solution to a tricky little problem: How to maintain a strong U.S. role in the bank while bowing to the growing economic might of developing nations such as China. I don’t think so. First and foremost, the appointment of Kim, a U.S. citizen, would perpetuate the indefensible custom by which an American heads the World Bank and a European runs the International Monetary...
Former professional wrestler, Terry Bollea, otherwise known as Hulk Hogan has sued his ex-best friend, Bubba Clem, a disc jockey and a gossip web after a sex tape including him and also his ex-best friend’s ex-wife, Heather. In the two claims, Hogan restated that whatever he did with Heather was consensual and with the knowledge of his best friend at their home...
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A DIFFERENT James Eagan Holmes, appearing in public for the second time since he was detained in connection with the July 20 shootings at a midnight showing of a Batman movie, entered the Arapahoe County courtroom where he was formally charged on a staggering 142 counts, including 24 counts of first-degree murder, 116 counts of criminal intent to commit murder. Also...
USA: American researchers took control of a flying drone by hacking into its GPS system – acting on a $1,000 (£640) dare from the US Department of Homeland Security. A University of Texas at Austin team used “spoofing” – a technique where the drone mistakes the signal from hackers for the one sent from GPS satellites. British Broadcasting Corporation reports...
By now you have likely seen reports that contain news of the list of terms the Department of Homeland Security searches for online, as it tracks what people are saying around the Internet. The list is extremely long, vague, and often quite humorous (even in the face of its importance). As the Daily Mail notes, the Department of Homeland Security was forced to release the...
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