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Get The Right Digital Camera

I’m not going to talk you through all the different features on a digital camera or tell you which models are best (something that is really quite individual and which changes regularly over time) however there are.........

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Twitter Can Censor by Country

9:57 PM Anonymous No comments

BEIJING—Twitter Inc. says it can now make content selectively available to users based on geography, and plans to use that ability to enter countries with "different ideas" about freedom of expression as a human right—reflecting the difficult ethical questions facing Internet companies.Twitter says it can now make content selectively available to users based on geography, and plans to use that ability to enter countries with "different ideas" about freedom of expression as a human right. Tom Loftus reports for Digits.The announcement, published on the official blog of the microblog operator, said Twitter is now able to withhold content from users...

The Flying Car Gets Real

9:55 PM Anonymous No comments

The team at Terrafugia is about to fulfill the fantasy of every driver - pilot: a consumer vehicle that can take to the highways and the skies. All they have to do is finish the first one.Transition is not a flying car. The vehicle, set to go on sale this year, will cruise smoothly on the road and through the sky. It will have four wheels, Formula One–style suspension, and a pair of 10-foot-wide wings that fold up when it switches from air to asphalt.And when the engineers at Terrafugia in Woburn, Massachusetts, let me sit inside their just-finished proof-of-concept vehicle and grab the steering wheel, it’s easy to imagine piloting this thing...