Helium balloon rides to the edge of space seem to be getting more popular these days. Anyone can do it, so a bunch of kids are. It’s the new Mentos-and-Diet-Coke thing to do. Still, it’s fun, so here are few interesting “space” projects from kids.

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Chrome 11 comes with a new feature that converts your mellifluous voice into surprisingly accurate text in the browser, and we’ve got a quick guide on how to use it. Originally posted at The Download Blog

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I was saddened this week to hear of the untimely passing of Keith Aoki, a brilliant and creative legal scholar on a variety of issues, including intellectual property. While I never got to know Keith, every time he was ever mentioned there was some re… Continue reading →

TomTom, the troubled GPS navigation device maker, was forced to quickly apologize after news reports came out about how the company had sold aggregate data on driving habits it collected from the devices to the Dutch government, who then used that data… Continue reading →

We’ve discussed in the past how the DMCA notice-and-takedown process could be deemed a First Amendment issue, in that it involves government pressure to block speech prior to any hearing — in fact, just on the say so of an individual. That’s because … Continue reading →

We recently wrote about a 2008 memo and position paper from Homeland Security to the USTR warning that ACTA was a bad idea that could harm national security, and transfer private civil issues to the government to enforce. The author of the original me… Continue reading →

As the TSA is busy sexually assaulting Miss USA, apparently it’s not paying very close attention to everyone else. The TSA has confirmed that in the past five days alone, it has had to shut down security screenings three separate times, at Newark airp… Continue reading →

You may have heard that there’s some sort of big royal wedding going on in the UK in the near future. There’s been a fair bit of press coverage about it all, apparently. And, of course, there will be even more coverage of the event itself. Down in A… Continue reading →

There have been some stories about how YouTube is preparing to work with a bunch of big movie studios to sell access to movies. It’s been offering up some movies for a year or so, though it hasn’t really caught on. The hope is that with big Hollywood… Continue reading →

I assume you’ve been hearing all about how sites like the Huffington Post are exploiting workers like a slave master by having them work for free. It’s all, as Nick Carr has noted, digital sharecropping, as “free” is really all about exploiting others… Continue reading →