What’s This? Jessica Fee2013-02-18 16:48:26 UTC Last week on Mashable commenters discussed a potential country-wide ban on porn by Iceland. If the ban comes to fruition, Iceland will be the first Western country to censor the buying or downloading of porn online. Some of our readers argued that porn encourages violence against women and hoped … Continued
11 February 2013 Last updated at 07:00 ET Games Workshop’s space marines have appeared in video games as well as in tabletop games An e-book at the centre of a row over who can use the term “space marine” is back on sale on the Amazon website. The Spots the Space Marine story was taken … Continued
When Raytheon isn’t busy building a railgun or tinkering with exoskeletons, it apparently spends some time coding software to help keep tabs on what folks are doing online. The Guardian got ahold of a video from 2010 that reveals a Raytheon employee demoing such software with the moniker Rapid Information Overlay Technology, or Riot for … Continued
4 February 2013 Last updated at 21:31 ET By Judith Burns BBC News education reporter The charity ChildLine has seen a big increase in calls about online pornography Pupils as young as five should be given lessons in how to use the internet safely, urge campaigners. The call comes amid fears that children are increasingly … Continued
What’s This? Seth Fiegerman2013-01-16 20:27:59 UTC When Mark Zuckerberg set out to build Facebook in the fall of 2003, he was still trying to figure out exactly what the website should be. One conclusion he arrived at pretty early on was that it shouldn’t be branded as a dating site. “I don’t think people would … Continued
Samsung brought the party to Las Vegas just hours ago, and we were there to call the shots as it happened with our liveblog of the event. We were introduced to plenty of wicked new televisions — some smart, others massive, and one that’s just downright impressive — along with cameras, a pair of laptops … Continued
What’s This? Kate Freeman2013-01-10 04:15:04 UTC We’ve all seen (and some of us have been) that person on Facebook — the over-sharer. Some of us may be happy to divulge every intimate detail of our personal lives; others are more private. Social networks for families (FamilyLeaf, MyFamily.com, Rootsy, Origami), neighbors (Nextdoor), and select groups of … Continued
Christine Erickson2013-01-07 23:28:02 UTC Traditional television and YouTube have been at war for what seems like years now. So who’s winning? Neither. At least not yet. YouTube struggles with quality and regularity, while TV networks still scramble to decipher the Internet. Both must accept that they are really two different ecosystems, and people want both. … Continued
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