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Monday, 17th January 2011

Roku Brings That Mouth-Agape Experience Back to Internet TV

One of the big drawbacks to most Internet TV systems is that the viewer has to actually make a choice, rather than sitting back and letting the glorious glow of cable TV wash over them. Roku, a simple device that brings Internet content like Netflix, Hulu Plus and Amazon Video-on-Demand to your television, has just taken the first step in…

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Why You Might Reconsider Your Password-less Smartphone

I'll admit it - I can be lazy when it comes to security. I don't have a passcode on my iPhone because it never leaves my pocket and I'm not one to misplace things. An article in Ars Technica has me rethinking my passé attitude toward passcodes and privacy, however. According to the article, a recent decision holds that "police officers may…

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Foursquare Releases Two Open Source Development Tools

Today Foursquare released the code for two applications on GitHub: Rogue, a MongoDB query domain-specific language written in Scala, and Full-Loaded, "a caching image loader for iOS." Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai announced the projects on Twitter today. More source code from Foursquare can be found here.

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Florida Virtual School: Is This What the School of the Future Will Look Like?

Although there's been much talk that the future of education will be online, the Florida Virtual School (FLVS), the country's first state-wide Internet-based public high school, is actually over a decade old. So for the 97,000 students who took classes via FLVS during the past school year, that future of online education is here now. FLVS doesn't…

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Tweet Costs Soccer Player Nearly $16,000 in Fines

"Free speech" is one of those things that can cost you. For professional soccer player Ryan Babel, that price is nearly $16,000. Babel was recently fined by the soccer league's regulatory committee over a tweet, reports the BBC, and warned not to do it again. This isn't the first time we've heard of someone being fined over the contents of…

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