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Patents Threaten To Silence A Little Girl, Literally
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Slashdot points us to a sad story from blogger Dana Nieder, providing yet more evidence of how patent monopolies can hold back innovation and do very real damage to people's lives in the process—and how people are interested in progress, not patents. As Dana says in her post, she understandably...
Why the world needs to start embracing introverts
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For the past several nights I’ve been quiet. I’ve practiced yoga, made vegetable soups and curled up on my sofa to watch TED Talks. The truth is, I love being alone. My downtime is my time. I feel anxious when my calendar doesn’t leave time for pause and reflection. But...
This video single-handedly destroyed my faith in the future of humanity
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If you thought Rebecca Black was bad, you haven’t met Double Take. Apparently hot girls have problems too. They’re just like us. Except they’re hot. These girls are someone’s daughters, and they’re probably not evil. This video, however, is one of the worst things ever made. As a soon-to-be parent...
Apple Steps Into Patent Fight To Unnecessarily Silence A Little Girl
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We've covered plenty of stories concerning Apple's ridiculously arbitrary nature as the gatekeeper for iOS apps, approving or pulling them with little reason. And, of course, we've discussed a variety of ridiculous patent lawsuits -- including one we wrote about back in March, concerning a fight over an iPad app...
Hearing Aids, Monopolies, And Why The Health Industry Is Ripe For Disruption
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Recently, we saw a huge reaction to the story of how a patent lawsuit was threatening to silence a little girl by shutting down a speech-assistance iPad app that is her only means of communication. For many people, the focus of that story was the human cost of patent warfare—a...
Extended Mass Effect 3 trailer shows the human side of epic alien battles
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There are hundreds of games that ask you to save the world/galaxy/universe, but precious few that put that epic mission in the context of the regular people that your efforts will effect. That's part of why the new, extended "Save the Earth" trailer for Mass Effect 3 has me...
In The Patent Battle Over Speech Devices, The Real 'Irreparable Harm' Is A Child Losing Her Only Voice
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We've written a few times now about a horrifying patent dispute that literally threatens to silence a little girl. It involves an iPad app, called Speak for Yourself (SfY) that another company claims infringes on the patent it licensed. Prentke Romich Company (who makes come competing products, but not iPad...
In The Patent Battle Over Speech Devices, The Real 'Irreparable Harm' Is A Child Losing Her Only Voice
American Apparel CEO Gets $10 Million Raise Despite Sex Slave Lawsuit (APP)
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American Apparel CEO Dov Charney got a $10 million raise last year, according to a pre-proxy filing with the SEC, even as a lawsuit alleging he imprisoned a girl in his apartment as a sex slave went into arbitration.The suit isn't new—it's been dragging on for months. Plaintiff Irene...
Switch on your phones: theatre must embrace the interactive age
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The era of the no-phones-or-cameras rule is coming to an end – audiences of work such as Sea Odyssey want to tweet, share pictures and interact onlineOn Friday evening at Sea Odyssey I stood behind a family group as the not-so-little Little Girl and her dog were put to bed....
Booting Up: Patent Trolls Make Kids Cry Edition
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(Photo: ThielFellowship.org) App engineers are just like the original sheet music creators… or something. [Wall Street Journal] San Francisco-based flirting app Skout shut down its forum for 13-17 year olds following a spate of child rapes linked to the app. Question: How did anyone think a location-based flirting app for...
I Use Wikipedia More Than Makeup (How To Donate During The Off Season)
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I just donated $40 to Wikipedia, because I promised myself I would every time I poked fun at its Holiday donation drive and then just never got around to it. Did you know that you could actually donate during the off-season (Via the covert “Donate to Wikipedia” link at the far...
Imangi Taps Disney/Pixar To Launch ‘Temple Run: Brave’ Ahead Of Movie Launch
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Despite the fact that almost nothing happens but running, turning, jumping and sliding, Temple Run is one of the most popular games on mobile. In fact, in just a month on the platform the Android version of the game saw 10 million downloads. But there’s gotta be more to life...
Is Yahoo really threatening memcached and Open Compute?
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Like some sea monster that destroys an entire harbor in its death throes, Yahoo’s patent fight may end up targeting open source infrastructure technologies such as memcached and the those used by the Open Compute movement. Or maybe it’s just trying to join the Open Compute party and figured a...
Good Recovery: Clever Stripper Is Clever
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This is a note sent to a teacher in regard to a picture a little girl drew of her mommy at work. In case you can't tell, her mother shakes her ass for singles. Or does she? Yes, she does. Woman wouldn't know a circular saw if she were...
you, less than
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[Today's guest post comes from Pam Slim.] You, Less Than. I still remember the smell of damp ivy from a recent rain as I stood in the backyard, waiting for my Dad to take my picture. It was 1971 and I was five years old. I was wearing a brightly...
iPhone Creates Autism Breakthrough
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iPhone Creates Autism Breakthrough is a post from Chris PirilloGrace – TV3 – The Morning Show from Steven Troughton-Smith on Vimeo.Have any iPhone apps literally changed your life? I’m willing to bet that they haven’t, unless you are someone like Grace Domican Grace is a ten-year-old little girl who lives...
Guess what my little girl just picked up at the thrift store for a buck?! :D http://pip.io/59A
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Santorum and the bulletproof glass ceiling: Would we be as understanding of a mom?
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Rick Santorum was back on the campaign trail after taking a day and a half off to attend to Bella, his 3-year-old daughter whose ongoing struggle with Trisomy 18 sent her to the ICU. Nearly fatal pneumonia, he said, had put his little girl on a ventilator. Read full...
Daddy's Little Girl http://post.ly/g9Ru
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Toddler Tests iPad and Wonders Where the Camera Is
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Toddler Tests iPad and Wonders Where the Camera Is is a post from Chris PirilloThis little girl may very well be the CEO of a large tech corporation one day. She certainly knows her way around a touch-screen interface. Look at the way she took to the iPad as soon...
How My Little Pony turned a little girl into a computer scientist Boing Boing
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