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Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format
Tokyo, Japan - March 10, 2014 - Sony Corporation ("Sony") and Panasonic Corporation ("Panasonic") today announced that they have formulated "Archival Disc", a new standard for professional-use, next-generation optical discs, with the objective of expanding the market for long-term digital data storage.
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The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Adam Carolla’s Settlement with Podcasting Troll
Big news from Texas: Adam Carolla has settled with the podcasting patent troll Personal Audio. Although the settlement is confidential, we can guess the terms. This is because Personal Audio sent out a press release last month saying it was willing to walk away from its suit with Carolla. So we can...
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How to Get into Y Combinator
Aptible's experience with Y Combinator and what it meant for the company's early direction on security and compliance infrastructure.
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Troll-Proofed Defensive Patent License Launches with 23 Patents
In the movement toward patent reform, the Patent Office, Congress, and the courts aren't the only targets for change. Individual and corporate patent owners have steps they can take to reduce the harmful effects of software patents and disempower patent trolls, largely through alternative licensing...
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Clang and FSF's strategy
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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We are being sued for refusing to take down a website
In May, 2014 we were contacted by Andy Lehrer who requested that we takedown the website causepimps.ca because he claimed the page http://causepimps.ca/andy-lehrer/top.html contained defamatory material (queue Streisand-effect in 3-2-1...go!) We reviewed the website to see if there were any material violations of our…
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Mozilla and KDDI Launch First Firefox OS Smartphone in Japan
Mozilla, the mission-based organization dedicated to promoting openness, innovation and opportunity on the Web, is excited to announce that KDDI will relea
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MIT indefinitely removes online physics lectures and courses by Walter Lewin
MIT is indefinitely removing retired physics faculty member Walter Lewin’s online lectures from MIT OpenCourseWare and online MITx courses from edX, the online learning platform co-founded by MIT, following a determination that Dr. Lewin engaged in online sexual harassment in violation of MIT policies.
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How “Legal” Are Seed Libraries?
After the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture cracked down on a community seed library, hundreds of seed libraries in the U.S. are suddenly wondering if they are breaking the law. According to PA regulators, in order to give out member-donated seeds, the Simpson Seed Library in Cumberland County would have to put…
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Letter to MIT community regarding support of students behind ‘Tidbit’
The following email was sent this evening to the MIT community by President L. Rafael Reif.
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Orchard and Fig are joining Docker
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Google Fit: An effortless, comprehensive view of your fitness
When it comes to improving our fitness, every little effort counts. That’s why we’ve created Google Fit – a fitness app that helps you to...
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Microsoft Says: Come Back with a Warrant, Unless You’re Microsoft
Update (March 28, 2014): Microsoft has announced a new policy which is described in a new post. EFF has long argued that law enforcement agencies must get a warrant when they ask Internet companies for the content of their users’ communications. In 2013, as part of our annual Who Has Your Back...
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Your SaaS product is too cheap if you never lose customers because of pricing
Learn why lowering your SaaS prices isn’t the answer. Focus on providing more value to keep customers happy and willing to pay what your product is worth.
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Segment (YC S11) Raises $15 Million Series A
Build amazing customer experiences on the Twilio platform with APIs for SMS, RCS, voice, and email, plus conversational AI for smarter engagement, and identity verification for trust.
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Microsoft Board Names Satya Nadella as CEO
The latest news and stories about how technology is helping people around the world solve problems, innovate and do more each day.
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