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How Detention Without Charge Links Israel and Apartheid South Africa

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How Detention Without Charge Links Israel and Apartheid South Africa

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 by Electronic Arts is hands-free and makes a genuine effort to mimic a real-world physical activity.

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Video Game Review: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13, From Electronic Arts

Apple sold 4 million units of the new iPhone 4S on its release weekend, soundly beating the previous iPhone launch record of 1.7 million. The device’s early success serves as a well-deserved tribute to the late Apple founder Steve Jobs. But it also raises some serious environmental concerns. As Apple and other smartphone manufacturers churn out newer and increasingly amazing gadgets, consumers worldwide keep tossing out perfectly functional old phones. And all this electronic refuse threatens water, soil and air. Read full article > >

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Replacing olds smartphones with newer models creates environmental problems

How the federal government dumps half a million worn-out computers and countless other electronic devices every year may help expand the $5 billion electronics recycling industry. The Environmental Protection Agency and General Services Administration are considering new rules of engagement for contract recyclers as they start requiring agencies to dispose of old computers, monitors and other electronic waste. Read full article > >

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E-waste: Recyclers, scrap haulers vie to keep U.S. computer trash home

State and federal officials negotiating a settlement with the nation’s biggest banks over shoddy foreclosure practices are hung up on how they should deal with a Reston-based company that has acted as a proxy for financial firms throughout the country for more than a decade. Some officials refer to the dilemma as the “MERS morass,” referring to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems , whose vast but controversial registry contains roughly 65 million mortgages. The pending multibillion-dollar settlement with banks centers on “robosigned” documents and court filings and other problems related to mortgage servicing that caused a national uproar last fall. Much of that flawed paperwork flowed through MERS. Read full article > >

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‘MERS morass’ is hanging up negotiations on foreclosure settlement

Judge Stephen G. Milliken was waiting at the Gallery Place Metro station for a train Thursday morning when a youth snacked his iPhone from his hand. The D.C. Superior Court judge isn’t alone in having his electronic device stolen. Metro Transit Police said they’ve seen a spike in “snatch-and-grab” robberies of iPhones and similar devices. “We’ve had a great increase in the snatching of iPhones and iPads over the last couple of years, not just here but in transit systems across the country,” Metro Transit Police Chief Michael Taborn said. Read full article > >

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‘Snatch-and-grab’ robberies of electronic devices up in Metro

When the dust settled on LinkedIn’s IPO on Thursday afternoon, the company was valued at $8.9 billion, making it worth more than household names like JC Penney, Electronic Arts and Chipotle.

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LinkedIn IPO a big social media moment

With Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters, Electronic Arts has produced a superb game worthy of the Masters moniker.

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Video Game Review: The Course Is the Star of a Celebrity’s Game

Government investigators have rejected claims that electronic defects caused Toyota cars and trucks to accelerate out of control, a finding released Tuesday that offers a measure of long-awaited vindication for the world’s largest automaker and shifts blame to the drivers who reported the incidents.

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U.S. report finds no electronic flaws in Toyotas that would cause acceleration

Should your emails have the same legal protection as your letters? We assume the answer is yes, but the real answer is no. As the New York Times points out , the Electronic Communications Privacy Act gives law enforcement officers a much easier path to your private online life than your offline one. As a greater share of our affairs have moved to the Internet, this means that there has been a mass erosion of civil liberties sanctioned by a law passed back in 1986 when almost no one had email and the Web had yet to be invented. For example, the Feds don’t need a warrant to read emails that are more than 180 days old, whereas if you had letters in your home, they’d need a court order. Leaving aside the time element, which seems plucked from thin air, it seems impossible to justify why one mode of communication would receive greater legal protection than another. In this case, the law should not take the medium for the message. 

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Why Don’t the Legal Standards That Govern the Privacy of Letters Apply to Emails?

The daughter of The Choice’s “Mom U” blogger shares the contents of the electronic early-decision letter she opened at 3:02 Monday afternoon.

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The Choice: Judgment Day

A 16-year-old has been arrested in connection with pro-WikiLeaks denial-of-service attacks on Visa and Mastercard. He’ll appear in court in Rotterdam on Friday, according to a Dutch media report . Police said they were investigating a much larger group and that more arrests could be on the way. The group Anonymous has been coordinating denial-of-service attacks through Internet Relay Chat and other online gathering places. As described in an article in The Economist , the group operates by rough consensus , using a simple piece of software to coordinate the technical side of the attacks themselves. Anonymous has targeted companies that bowed to U.S. pressure to cut off WikiLeaks. When they hit a site like PayPal, Visa, or Mastercard, they temporarily disable the company’s websites. Some like Evgeny Morozov see the use of denial-of-service attacks as a high-tech form of civil disobedience , but others, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, have condemned the attacks. WikiLeaks, itself, put out a statement saying they neither ” condemn nor applaud these attacks .” Regardless, the infowar has heightened the rhetoric on all sides, much like the disputed arrest of Julian Assange. Via @Cyberwarzonecom .

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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is developing a digital newspaper exclusively for the iPad and other electronic tablet devices, according to the Women’s Wear Daily website.

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