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May 31, 2006: Pirate Bay Raided, Shuttered

2006: Swedish police raid The Pirate Bay website and shut it down.

“Pirate Bay was a huge source of pirated films for people around the world, and today they are no longer.”

That was a statement issued exactly five years ago Tuesday by Kori Bernards, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture Association of America.

After all, Swedish police that day had just raided the file sharing site’s offices and carted away a boatload of servers.

Tuesday, 31 May 2011 13:00

The Perils of Cloud Computing

What would happen if your future arrived too early? If you got the keys to your first car when you were eight? Landed your first big management job at 15?

I’ve been asking those questions while playing with the Cr-48 laptop, the first implementation of Google’s cloud-based Chrome operating system. After a few months with it, I feel like it’s important, but I also think it’s from a future we’re simply not ready for.

La chinese est pleine de contrastes extrèmes. Pour le nouvel an chinois, il est de tradition de faire exploser des petards pour éloigner les mauvais esprits. Et personne ne déroge à la règle. C'est le cas de cette famille qui a ajouté un drone ! Et voici le résultat...

The chinese is full of extreme contrasts. For Chinese New Year, it is customary to blow up firecrackers to ward off evil spirits. And no exception to the rule. This is the case of this family who added a drone! Here is the result ...

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Tous ceux qui ont joué avec une caméra vidéo connaissent ce phénomène. Mais le résultat change d'un appareil à un autre. Dans tous les cas, on peut s'amuser pendant des heures jusqu'à être hypnotisé par l'écran.

Everyone who has played with a video camera familiar with this phenomenon. But the result changes from one device to another. In any case, we can have fun for hours to be hypnotized by the screen.

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Review: Get Your Game On With Sony's Xperia Play Android Phone

Where most slider phones have a keyboard, Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play sports Playstation controls. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com.


Mothers, lock up your gamers. The PlayStation phone has arrived.

And while it’s a bit on the chubby side, we think that, for Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play, big is beautiful.

You could almost call the Xperia Play the shorter, fatter cousin to the svelte Xperia Arc, which Sony Ericsson once described as the “world’s thinnest smartphone.” At .62 inches, the Play looks positively bulky compared to its Xperia-line relatives — a veritable Jan Brady to the Arc’s Marcia.

Après les retouches des images, la technique permet maintenant de retoucher également les vidéos. En voici un exemple avec l'actrice Michele Valley qui s'est prétée au jeu. Est-ce que cela sonne le glas de la chirurgie estétique ?

After retouching images, the technique now also allows to retouch the videos. Here's an example with Michele Valley actress who has construed the game. Is this the death knell of the aesthetical surgery?

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While vacationing in France, you find a DVD of Ishtar. Score! (It’s never been released on DVD in the US). But when you get home, you discover that you’ve purchased a Region 2 disc, which, in your Region 1 player, is as useful as a coaster. This raises two questions: Why do you want to watch Ishtar? And why do we still have region codes?

The answers: taste and money, respectively. Though there’s no accounting for the former, those codes may soon be gone.

Regional restrictions began in 1997, as DVD technology was rolling out. They have nothing to do with the NTSC and PAL...

One Brain, Hundreds of Eyes: Darpa Plots Manhunt Master Controller

Thought military tracking technology couldn’t get any creepier? Hold onto your tinfoil hats and hide behind the nearest curtain because the next generation of manhunting gear just took another step closer to reality.

Ce sera une découverte pour certains et un souvenir pour d'autres, voici une petite saga sur l'évolution des jeux vidéos depuis 1958. On peut mesurer le chemin parcouru.

It will be a discovery for some and a memory for others, here's a little saga about the evolution of video games since 1958. We can measure the progress.

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The 990FX Chipset Arrives: AMD And SLI Rise Again

AMD is laying the foundation for its Socket AM3+, Bulldozer-based Zambezi processors with the 990FX chipset, functionally identical to 890FX. The big news is that motherboard vendors are licensing SLI again, and we want to compare performance to Intel.

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