Croatian international striker Nikica Jelavic joined Hull City from Premier League rivals Everton on Wednesday after signing a three-and-a-half-year deal with the Tigers. The 28-year-old, who has joined Hull for a reported club record £6.5 million ($…
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Rare video footage of Liu Xia, the wife of imprisoned Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, reading two self-written poems under house arrest was posted online Wednesday. Chinese authorities have not charged Liu Xia with any crime but have restricted her…
Late last year, Valve unveiled what is potentially its largest-scale project to date: the expansion of the Steam platform. As part of that growth, the company that brought the world Half-Life, Portal and Team Fortress is bringing to the table a game…
Customs & Border Protection recently “discovered” additional daily flight logs that show the agency has flown its drones on behalf of local, state and federal law enforcement agencies on 200 more occasions more than previously released records indicated. Last July we reported, based on daily flight log records CBP made available to us in response to our Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, that CBP logged an eight-fold increase in the drone surveillance it conducts for other agencies. These agencies included a diverse group of local, state, and federal law enforcement—ranging from the FBI, ICE, the US Marshals, and the Coast…
To the extent there’s a poster child for patent abuse, it’s MPHJ, the infamous “scanner troll.” This week’s revelations show us for the first time just how much damage the patent troll has caused. Hint: it’s a lot. MPHJ owns a handful of patents, which it claims covers the basic technology for scanning documents to email. You read that right—simply scanning documents to email. On Monday, MPJH sued the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in federal court in Texas. Apparently, the FTC has been investigating MPJHJ since this summer, using its subpoena power, which allows it to get information that ordinary…
In the week leading up the two-year anniversary of the SOPA blackout protests, EFF and others are talking about key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day, we’ll take on a different piece, exploring what’s at stake and and what we need to do to make sure the law promotes creativity and innovation. We’ve put together a page where you can read and endorse the principles yourself. Let’s send a message to DC, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Brussels, and wherever else folks are making new copyright rules: We’re from the Internet, and we’re here to help. This is a guest…
If you’re a longtime Winamp user and just can’t let go of the MP3 player software that whips the llama’s ass, you were probably pretty bummed at AOL’s announcement that they were discontinuing the software, which has seen its popularity dip…
If you’re banking on hitting it big by creating a mobile app, you should know that you have a better chance of being diagnosed with cancer this year than creating a financially successful app (sad, but true). According to new research from Gartner…
JERUSALEM — Spoiled by sunshine for about 520 days a year, Jerusalemites are strangely phobic about cloudy weather, as if a grey day could infect them with Nordic melancholy. Sunday was one such day: the streets empty, the air quiet and chill. So…
Just two days ago, we learned a whole hell of a lot about the forthcoming Galaxy S5, arguably the most popular smartphone next to Apple’s iPhone, and certainly tech-giant Samsung’s flagship device. Tentatively scheduled for a Spring 2014 release…