Author: Vinod Rawat

GOP flip-flops over supporting digital copyright reforms

Activists protest the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act earlier this year. (Credit: CNET) In an bizarre policy flip-flop, a group of more than 160 House Republicans appeared to endorse extensive digital copyright reform on Friday, then disavowed its position the next day. The House Republican Study Committee, an influential collection of conservatives that tends to pull the House leadership to the right, published a set of recommendations that could have been penned by Larry Lessig and the Electronic Frontier Foundation: expanded fair use rights, lower penalties for “willful” infringement, and dramatically abbreviated copyright terms

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GPS pioneer takes aim at the future of navigation

GPS pioneer takes aim at the future of navigation The pace of modern consumer technology has been so swift in recent decades that you can still meet the people who helped change the world, and find that they’re still at it and working on what’s next. Bob Rennard is an example. CNET Conversations is part of a CBS Interactive special reporting project

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‘Twilight’ Supercut: All Of Edward Cullen’s Intense Stares

FROM FILM.COM It’s easy to joke that “Twilight” is nothing but the characters giving each other very serious stares, but it’s not until you edit them all together that you realize how much staring their really is. ]]> The folks over at Film.com have made a supercut of all of the time Edward Cullen stares very intensely

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