Media
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KUSF Silenced
On Tuesday morning the University of San Francisco closed their radio station, KUSF. More precisely, they sold the bandwidth. We don’t really understand what it means to sell an FCC license, but the station is off the air, to be…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Once again, regular people are better at predicting the future than bankers. Where are all the ladies? This new Foursquare-powered tool will tell you. Xbox Kinect’s newest awesome use: robotic surgery. I’d flip for joy if I could buy one…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Android? iOS? Pssshaw. HP is working on two PalmOS tablets. You can in fact run out of space in your GMail account. If you don’t think the government should have broad powers to regulate the Internet, write to your senator…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Facebook, Facebook, Facebook: Goldman Sachs restricts Facebook investments to overseas clients, Facebook offends with ridiculous language settings, and they still don’t give two bits about privacy unless users complain. Did you see anything fun during your commute today? New York subway…
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Notable New York, This Week 1/17-1/23
This week in New York City, Walter Mosley remembers Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Chris Cleave reads from Little Bee, editors talk about the future of newspaper and magazine book sections, a special benefit for poet Dean Young in need…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Happy 10th Birthday Wikipedia! Sage advice of the week: encrypt your smartphone. Steve Jobs is taking medical leave from Apple. Print magazines and the iPad: can’t live with it, can’t live without it. The history of Wikipedia through its Jesus…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
It’s Friday . . . let’s have some frivolity. Hug your closest factory, ’cause it’s real hard to make a toaster from scratch.. Modern kids make it clear how obsolete the technology of my youth has become. Yes, Willy Wonka…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Are consoles killing PC sales? Here are some fun Apple keynote mashups. Using fancy garments to block airport scanners is a surefire way to get a pat down. I always thought that all the environmental hubbub around plug in cars…
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Sovereign Citizens, Mental Health, and Violence
Note: I have a personal policy to not name people who engage in these types violent acts, since one of the big motivators seems to be a desire for fame. I refuse to help them in that cause. The big…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Kudos to Twitter, the only company to bring secret Wikileaks subpoenas out into the open. Microsoft is fighting Apple’s attempt to trademark the term “App Store.” Everybody wants to make a smartphone, including Facebook and PlayStation. Some research on how…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
The iPhone arrives on Verizon! But it might not make sense to get one right away… The Internet’s next big rumor is concerned with a round of impending MySpace layoffs. Are data-hogging Windows products still surprising to anyone? Korean director Chan-wook Park’s…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Verizon is getting the iPhone at last . . . and AT&T is not pleased. Big brother is upon us: Obama approves unique online ID number for all Americans. Japanese people prefer privacy, which may be why they haven’t taken to…