By Zack Adams, RP Staff, on Fri May 4, 2012 at 3:00 PM ET  The Politics of Tech In a very important ruling New York judge Gary Brown has concluded that IP addresses are not enough to identify people as copyright infringers. [TorrentFreak]
A new study has found that you are more likely to pick up a computer virus form visiting a website based on a religion than from going to a pornographic website. “’It is interesting to note that websites hosting adult/pornographic content are not in the top five, but ranked tenth,’ Symantec said in the report.” [Raw Story]
Harvard and MIT have joined forces to offer free online education courses that could lead to obtaining a “certificate of mastery.” This is exciting news for anyone even slightly interested in continuing education. With the rising costs of post-secondary education in the US anything that is stamped FREE is automatically worth checking out. [NY Times]
A video game project on the Kickstarter website has been exposed as a scam. This is leading many people to wonder is Kickstarter is doing enough to vet projects before letting the public have access to them. [BBC]
ISPs in the UK have been ordered to block The Pirate Bay website from their users. Here is more info. [Telegraph]
By Jeff Smith, on Fri Apr 20, 2012 at 8:30 AM ET  Grassley’s tweet went too far.
Yes, the president was guilty of hyperbole: although it is unusual for the Court to declare laws unconstitutional (once or twice a year on average), it is not unprecedented, as the president said.
Still, that doesn’t mean a senator should call the President of the United States “stupid.” While microblogging encourages impulsive bursts of misplaced candor/emotion, Grassley could have easily – in 140 characters – noted that the president had exaggerated, or questioned the president’s decision to take on the Court.
I will be interested to see if Grassley notes any of Mitt Romney’s serial exaggerations and distortions, which Dana Milbank nicely sums up in yesterday’s piece “The Facts vs. Mitt Romney.”
(Cross-posted, with permission of the author, from Politico’s Arena)
By Zack Adams, RP Staff, on Thu Apr 19, 2012 at 3:00 PM ET
HBO certainly doesn’t make it easy for people to watch their shows. [TechDirt]
Mystery company + James Cameron and Google + asteroid mining = Awesome. [The Verge]
“Hilary Clinton to world governments: the world will divide into “open” and “closed” societies based on their Internet policies” [boingboing]
“Why I’m suing the US government to protect internet freedom” [The Guardian]
Updated mobile 4G speeds [The Verge]
By Zack Adams, RP Staff, on Thu Apr 5, 2012 at 3:00 PM ET
600,000 Mac computers infected with a botnet and counting. 57% of infected Macs are in the US. The virus is designed to steal personal information. [ars technica]
Augmented reality glasses from Google. Badass. [NY Times]
The Pirate Bay teams up with independent artists to promote there music. [Torrent Freak]
Browse Google Maps in 8-bit. [Google Maps]
More Google magic. [Google]
By Zack Adams, RP Staff, on Thu Mar 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM ET
Flexible e-ink displays coming soon. Awesome! [Extreme Tech]
Here are some rumors regarding what we could see in Sony’s next generation Playstation. [Kotaku]
The “Holy Grail of Material Science?” How does self-healing plastic sound? [BGR]
Is this the first step in the downfall of Best Buy? [Star Tribune]
A German court has found Rapidshare to be legal. [Tech World]
By Zack Adams, RP Staff, on Thu Mar 22, 2012 at 3:00 PM ET
A Miami judge has ruled that BitTorrent downloads are protected as anonymous speech. Landmark indeed. [Torrent Freak]
Seagate is forging ahead in the production of hard drives. They have managed to squeeze 1 TB onto a square inch of space. This means that in the near future we could see hard drives as large as 60 TB. [Geek]
Google Chrome briefly became the most used web browser in the world. [Telegraph]
This amazing piece of new tech blows the traditional wheel chair out of the water. [Wimp]
Bad news in military tech – work on a new trillion dollar fighter jet is not going as planned. The jet could need billions in dollars worth of fixes. [Wired]
By Zack Adams, RP Staff, on Thu Mar 15, 2012 at 3:00 PM ET
US e-voting system gets cracked in under 48 hours. “We successfully changed every vote and revealed almost every secret ballot.” Is it supposed to be that easy? [The H Security]
“Solar panel made with ion cannon is cheap enough to challenge fossil fuels.” Sounds good to me! [Extreme Tech]
Hackers (Th3 Consortium) are threatening to out government officials who used their .gov e-mail addresses to browse porn. [The Atlantic Wire]
An English college student is facing extradition to the US for violation of US copyright laws. [ars technica]
A new printer that reverses laser printing without damaging the paper. Neat-o. [Extreme Tech]
By Zack Adams, RP Staff, on Thu Mar 8, 2012 at 3:00 PM ET  The Politics of Tech Last week we read about Google offering a reward to hackers that were able to hack Chrome. This week that challenge was accepted and completed at the Pwn2own competition. [Gizmodo]
There has been a manufacturing snag for our favorite $25 PC the Raspberry Pi. [Raspberry Pi]
“Uncle Sam: If It Ends in .Com, It’s .Seizable” [Wired]
A plea for Netflix to avoid siding with cable companies at all costs. [The Atlantic Wire]
Mercedes has gone all James Bond and made a car blend into it’s surroundings. [engadget]
By RP Staff, on Wed Mar 7, 2012 at 4:30 PM ET The new iPad has been announced, and will be available for crazy tech nuts like the RP on March 16. Here’s the story [Engadget]
By Zack Adams, RP Staff, on Thu Mar 1, 2012 at 3:00 PM ET
Wolfram Alpha is an amazing tool. Here are 10 even more amazing uses of it. [How-to Geek]
How to escape the search engine filter bubble you are most definitely stuck in (whether you know it or not). [DuckDuckGo]
“Six ways that Congress could fix copyright, now” [ars technica]
Yep, Facebook has been caught spying on its users again. This time they have been shown to read users personal text messages. [news.com.au]
Are you a hacker? Do you want to make $1 million? Well, Google will give you $1 million, all you have to do is prove you can exploit Chrome. [ars technica]
Ever wondered the differences between 3G and 4G, this article explains them quite well. [PC Mag]
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