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HBO Adds Additional Encryption to Prevent Piracy-> 0

Submitted by OccamsRazorTime on Thursday April 19, @12:58PM

OccamsRazorTime writes "HBO activated new HDCP encryption on their feed to cut down on piracy but at the encryption also blocks many common user functions in media centers not enabled for this type of encryption including DVR and HDMI output.
From the article:
"HBO is terrified of piracy—so terrified, in fact, that they're willing to toss roadblocks in the path of their subscribing customers as well. Ars Technica saw some complaints on a satellite forum, and discovered that DirecTV users with older DVRs and TVs are suddenly unable to watch HBO shows, thanks to newly-activated encryption."

Here is the story over at Ars Technica:

Perhaps worst of all is the fact that the encryption used has already been cracked so the only people suffering are their actual customers."
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Who's Buying Your Congressman?-> 0

Submitted by

itwbennett

on Thursday April 19, @10:16AM

itwbennett writes "A new site called SopaTrack, created by ex-Googler Randy Meech, 'shines the light on whose votes are for sale, and for how much'. Blogger Dan Tynan spent some time poking around SopaTrack and found 'four US Congressfolk have perfect 100 percent records, which means they favor the bills that put more greenbacks in their campaign coffers every single time.'"
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Amazon's Cloud Now 1% of Interet-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18, @08:50AM

An anonymous reader writes "A Wired story claims Amazon's cloud now hosts enough companies and traffic to generate 1% of all Internet traffic (and visits from 1/3 of daily Internet users). An amazing number if its true. And a little scary for one company to host this much cloud infrastructure."
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Facebook To Buy Instagram for $1 Billion-> 0

Submitted by Dorduan on Monday April 09, @01:16PM

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Inside the fastest 3D Nano printer ever-> 0

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Tuesday April 03, @12:50PM

coondoggie writes "Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology this week said they have created a 3D printer that is orders of magnitude faster than similar devices opening up all manner of new applications for manufacturing small parts. Known as "two-photon lithography" the technology can create “grain of sand-size structures in just four minutes."
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Besy Buy lays off 400, closing 50 stores-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30, @12:17PM

An anonymous reader writes "The U.S.-based electronics chain said it would close 50 big-box stores this year, test new store formats in San Antonio and Minneapolis, and lay off 400 corporate and support workers as part of a plan to trim $800 million in costs and restructure its ailing business."
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iOS gaining new users, Android holding steady-> 0

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Fluffeh

on Thursday March 29, @05:25PM

Fluffeh writes "A recent survey by Nielsen shows that iOS is continuing to creep up on Android's smartphone market share. Overall, Android continues to lead the smartphone market in the U.S., with 48 percent of smartphone owners saying they owned an Android OS device. Nearly a third (32.1%) of smartphone users have an Apple iPhone, and Blackberry owners represented another 11.6 percent of the smartphone market. Among recent acquirers who got their smartphone within the last three months, 48 percent of those surveyed in February said they chose an Android and 43 percent bought an iPhone."
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Drug Turns Immune System Against All Tumor Types-> 0

Submitted by sciencehabit on Monday March 26, @03:41PM

sciencehabit writes "A single drug can shrink or cure human breast, ovary, colon, bladder, brain, liver, and prostate tumors that have been transplanted into mice, researchers have found. The treatment, an antibody that blocks a "do not eat" signal normally displayed on tumor cells, coaxes the immune system to destroy the cancer cells."
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South Korean Scientists to Clone Wooly Mammoth-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16, @04:07PM

An anonymous reader writes "Last year Russian researchers discovered a well-preserved mammoth thigh bone and announced plans to clone a mammoth from the bone marrow within — and they just signed a deal with South Korea's Sooam Biotech Research Foundation to bring the project to fruition. The Sooam scientists plan to implant the nucleus of a woolly mammoth cell into an elephant egg in order to to create a mammoth embryo, which would then be placed in an elephant womb. “This will be a really tough job,” Soaam reasearcher Hwang In-Sung said, “but we believe it is possible because our institute is good at cloning animals.”"
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From Anonymous To Shuttered Websites, The Evolution Of Online Protest-> 0

Submitted by silentbrad on Friday March 16, @11:49AM

silentbrad writes "The days of screaming activists marching with signs in hand to voice their displeasure at a particular politician are changing rapidly – just ask Vic Toews. Canada's public safety minister was the latest in a string of public-policy lightning rods to feel the wrath of Anonymous, a loose coalition of web-based activists who went after Toews for his overly vociferous promoting of the government's online surveillance bill. ... Graeme Hirst, a professor of computational linguistics at the University of Toronto, says that while Anonymous does share some properties of older protest movements, sometimes its motives can be called into question. "It's a kind of civil disobedience, so we can immediately make analogies to the Civil Rights movement of the '60s," Hirst said in an interview. "On the other hand, it's not entirely clear that Anonymous is as altruistically motivated as those protests were." ... Hirst viewed the January showdown as "the first legitimate online protest" that was really only about the online world and suggested that the key to its success was that it was organized not by individuals but by organizations — and ones with clout. ... Another apparently successful online campaign was the Cost of Knowledge protest started by an international group of researchers in January, following a blog post by Cambridge University math professor Timothy Gowers."
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