Digital Life
- George Takei's take on net neutrality, Edward Snowden and the future of 'Star Trek' WaPo
- The leaked New York Times innovation report is one of the key documents of this media age
- Russia threatens to disrupt GPS navigation in fight over sanctions
- Why the '90s are literally disappearing from history—"As the 1990s recede from view, their most important cultural artifacts are collecting — and turning into — dust." Salon
- Amazing "Sesame Street" video wants you to get off social media and enjoy the world—"Zachary Levi and Bert sing a perfect tune about putting your tiny screens aside and enjoying a beautiful day
Mozilla
- Mozilla Ditches Plans To Display Ads In A New Tab—It looks liked for a while they weren't going to back down.
- Driven by necessity, Mozilla to enable HTML5 DRM in Firefox—"Browser company fearful that users would follow Netflix to other browsers." EFF weighs in.
- Mozilla Adblock bug can dramatically boost memory usage
Copyfight
- Pols to Ad Networks: Pretend We Passed SOPA, and Never Mind About Violating Antitrust Law
- Music Distributor Claims Right to Monetize JFK Speech—"After uploading part of a JFK speech to YouTube, a TorrentFreak reader had a surprise when a music distribution company filed a complaint, claiming full monetization rights on the clip. Why would they do that to material in the public domain ? With the company involved refusing to respond, TF took a closer look."
- Unconstitutionally Long Copyright Terms Stifle Content Creation, Just Ask Disney
- Led Zeppelin is Officially Getting Sued Over 'Stairway to Heaven'
- Worst of DRM set to infest physical law school casebooks—"Offer from AspenLaw: Pay $200 for a bound book … but you have to give it back."
- The Trans-Pacific Plague: How TPP Spreads the United States' Terrible DRM Policies
- Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work—And there's no indication of compensation for subscribers. Offline still wins.
Patents
- Amazon's latest patent is sillier than the peanut butter sandwich patent—"Groundbreaking process includes angled lights, elevated platform, white backdrop."
- Ten states pass anti-patent-troll laws, with more to come—"With reform stalled in the Senate, states do what they can—which isn't much."
- Truce time: Apple, Google's Motorola dismiss patent suits against each other—"The two handset vendors agreed to settle existing lawsuits but don't cross-license each other's technology."
Phones
- The Great Smartphone War—"Kurt Eichenwald explores the Korean compan's record of patent infringement and explains why Apple might win the battles but still lose the war."
- Samsung could have bought Android before Google, but instead chose to laugh Andy Rubin out of the boardroom with his offer and the whole 8-person Android team
- This single screenshot shows why iOS is years behind Android in usability
- An Apple Employee Admits That iPhones Often Won't Deliver Texts If You Switch To Android
- Apple Boosts Japanese Market Share After NTT Docomo Sells IPhone
- The evolution of the $150 cellphone—"From flip phones and VGA cameras to LTE and Android"
Haxx0red
- Significant portion of HTTPS Web connections made by forged certificates
- How I bypassed 2-Factor-Authentication on Google, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn, and many others.
- Cut Microsoft admin rights to mitigate 92% of threats, study shows
- Symantec And Security Starlets Say Anti-Virus Is Dead—"Is anti-virus finally dying? Sort of, say Symantec and its rivals."
Planes
- The Transparent Airfares Act, hiding the true cost of your flight—"A proposed new law that looks likely to pass is supposed to clarify your airfare but only muddles the picture." WaPo
- Game of Thrones: The Designers Behind Business Class—"Creating new airline seats is so complex that moving from conception to installation takes years, and new first-class seating units can cost more than half a million dollars each."
- Airbus tests prototype of electric airplane
Trains
- China Built A Prototype For A Train Capable Of Reaching 1,800 MPH
- Beijing to the US by train: China outlines plans to connect world by high speed rail network
- Catch a train from the sky! How vertical travel could transform your commute
- How a High-Speed Train Could Transform Texas—"Can Texas Central Railway's proposal succeed where others have failed? Maybe."
- This Superheroic Train Keeps New York City's Subway Safe
Automobiles
- Google: Mastering city street driving—It's using big data "to transform intractable problems into solvable chores."
- Volvo's first self-driving cars now being tested live on public roads in Swedish city
- The Robot Car of Tomorrow May Just Be Programmed to Hit You
Tesla
- Tesla Gets Missouri Break as House Lets Direct-Sales Ban Wither—"Tesla Motors Inc. won't be barred from selling its electric cars directly to Missouri customers after the state's legislature adjourned without voting on a bill the company called a 'sneak attack' on its business."
- Tesla now California's top automotive employer
- Tesla Motors Inc. Batteries: Challenge or Opportunity?
- Elon Musk's Gigafactory: It's Tesla's next big move.
- The Oatmeal: What's it like to own a Tesla Model S—Thanks to Imman's post, Musk is showing interest in helping fund the Nikola Tesla museum.
