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Netflix, Closed-Captioning, and the Difficulty of Means
A couple of weeks ago, Chris Morran at The Consumerist reported on an unexpected, but reasonable, legal decision against Netflix. Netflix recently asked a court to dismiss the lawsuit brought by the...
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Fighting Poverty by Removing the Extortionist (I Mean Legitimate Businessman)
From David Talbot at Technology Review, a brief story about how something that seems so simple can make such a big difference. In India, hundreds of millions of people have essentially no access to...
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Re-Coding Hero Gender in Video Games
Lots of people have talked about gender stereotypes in video games. Few games have uniformly positive female images that young girls can look up to. Even fewer have female lead characters who are the...
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Rationalizing Bad Behavior? Carriers Reject Kill Switch for Stolen Smartphones
In April 2012, I posted about the efforts to create a national stolen cell phone database. Those concerned with trying to reduce the lure of cellphones for thieves wanted to create a database that...
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