Apple is using copyright to try and suppress information that it doesn’t want made public
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« Retinal projection requires precise alignment and optical focusing, a major engineering challenge that has pushed other companies toward simpler technologies when creating wearable displays. (Including Google, which considered retinal projection for Glass.) Avegant seems to have solved that problem in two ways: a frame that expands to accommodate different face widths and high-quality optical elements that can be individually adjusted. Where most wearable displays have crude, fixed optics, Avegant’s eyepieces wouldn’t look out of place at an ophthalmologist’s ». (via Avegant Virtual Retinal Display – Wearable tech – CNET Reviews)
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Of those questioned for the survey, 47% (representing around 1.7 million people) said they use a streaming music service such as Spotify. Even more impressively, just over half (corresponding to 920,000 people and 25% of Norwegian Internet users) said that they pay for the premium option. While TV show piracy has reduced by half in four years, it actually peaked at the start of 2011 with 200 million shows copied without permission. However, since then with the introduction of legal alternatives, unauthorized copying is down more than 72%. For movies the decline has been more steady but with the introduction of Netflix into Norway during October last year, figures for 2013 should be even more encouraging. (via Piracy Collapses As Legal Alternatives Do Their Job | TorrentFreak)
« Copyright removal requests received for Search in the past month
22,792,190 URLs Requested to be Removed – 36,518 Specified Domains – 3,531 Copyright Owners – 1,870 Reporting Organizations (Copyright Removal Requests – Google Transparency Report)
Barton Gellman, the Washington Post reporter who broke the news of the NSA online content collection program PRISM, says the government asked him to suppress the names of the nine companies participating in the program. Speaking at a Cato Institute conference on Wednesday, Gellman said The Washington Post has a practice of talking to the government before running stories that may impact national security. According to Gelman, there were “certain things” in the PRISM slides that they agreed raised legitimate security concerns. But, he said: The thing that the government most wanted us to remove was the names of the nine companies. The argument, roughly speaking, was that we will lose cooperation from companies if you expose them in this way. And my reply was “that’s why we are including them.”
« I avoid reading the announcement of his death when reading through his Timeline. It’s hard to stomach the fact that this trivial medium was the bearer of such a devastatingly personal fact. But weighed against the absurdity of Kadian’s death, Facebook’s triviality doesn’t matter. My biggest concern with the book is where to put it. It seems too precious to leave on a coffee table – but also too precious to tuck away where it might not be seen ». (via ‘My son lives on through Facebook’ | Life and style | The Guardian)
« After 3 long years of R&D, the RoboRoach is now ready for its grand release! We are excited to announce the world’s first commercially available cyborg! With our RoboRoach you can briefly wirelessly control the left/right movement of a cockroach by microstimulation of the antenna nerves. » (via The RoboRoach)
(via Beast)