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Getting Closer To Autonomous Cars: Vans Make The Trip From Italy To China
Back in July we mentioned that some researchers had begun an attempt to have an autonomous vehicle drive safely from Italy to China. Then, about a month ago, we also noted that Google had been successfully testing autonomous vehicles on the roads as w… Continue reading
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Google spent $1.6B on 40 companies in 9 months
AdMob, Slide, and On2 Technologies were the big winners of Google’s 2010 spending spree, but 37 other companies have cashed in so far this year. Originally posted at Relevant Results
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How ACTA Turns Limited Secondary Liability In Copyright Into Broad Criminal Aiding & Abetting
We’ve noted that one of the serious problems with ACTA is the fact that it locks in this idea of secondary liability in copyright law, making it such that third parties can be liable for actions of their users’ infringement in certain cases. Secondary… Continue reading
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Irony: Book About Recording Industry’s Mishandling Of Digital Priced Higher As Ebook Than Physical Book
A few weeks back, we noted that book publishers apparently simply did not learn from the mistakes of the recording industry — specifically pointing to DRM and (more importantly) the fact that they’ve started pricing ebooks higher than physical books. … Continue reading
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Ski Manufacturer Turns Patent Troll, Igniting Patent Response & Pissing Off Potential Customers
Crosbie Fitch alerts us to the news that skiing manufacturer Armada apparently secured a patent 7,690.674 earlier this year on a “snow riding implement,” and the company has started sending out threat letters to a bunch of competitors. Now, two intere… Continue reading
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Texas Supreme Court Cites The Wisdom Of Spock On Star Trek
NSILMike points us to an amusing bit of news concerning a recent ruling in the Texas Supreme Court, where the court cited Star Trek’s Spock (though, it’s mostly hidden in a footnote):
Appropriately weighty principles guide our course. First, we recogn… Continue reading
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Dedicated Fans Bring Movie Back To Life, Contributing $346k In Just A Few Weeks
A bunch of folks have sent over this story of how the author of the popular book Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller, had been working for years on turning the book into a movie, but in the middle of September, he posted to his website that it just wasn’t go… Continue reading
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Adobe completes Day Software acquisition
The $240 million buyout of CMS software vendor Day Software is a done deal, with Day to operate as a new product line in Adobe’s Digital Enterprise Solutions Business. Originally posted at News – Business Tech
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Why The Answer To The Smartphone Patent Thicket Is Not A Patent Pool
We recently wrote about the incredible patent thicket in the smartphone space. For some reason, in the course of a few days, about ten different publications all created a very similar graphic about “who was suing whom” in the smartphone space for pat… Continue reading
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Archive Of Geocities Released As A 1TB Torrent
In early 2009, Yahoo announced that it was going to put Geocities out of its misery and finally shut down the site entirely, even as it was still getting 11 million unique visitors per month. Soon after the announcement, we had heard about some projec… Continue reading
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