Earlier this year a number of high-profile websites went dark as a form of digital protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act. SOPA was eventually scuttled, but it's not the only internet-related legislation on the horizon, and a group calling itself the Internet Defense League is putting into place a system that could rally thousands of sites for similar protests at a moment's notice.
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@NotTildaSwinton isn’t quite parody, though—or, at least, not just that. There is a trippy piety to the tweets, a combination of uproarious nature-worship and makeshift self-help proferred freely to her followers (or 'tildren,' as she calls them).
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A cool trailer for a nonexistent movie.
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This week, YouTube announced the launch of a new Human Rights channel in partnership with advocacy nonprofit WITNESS, and social news-gathering service Storyful.
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The video of the highly acclaimed Turing and his Times event organised by The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) is now online. The event, held on 26 April 2012, was to mark the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing and was the second of three Turing-themed events linking three of the top computing museums in the world.
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CNET has learned that the FBI has formed a Domestic Communications Assistance Center, which is tasked with developing new electronic surveillance technologies, including intercepting Internet, wireless, and VoIP communications.
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If you want to earn some extra cash, then there are few more satisfying - and addictive - ways than 'mining gold' in a make-believe world.
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In the latest RSA Animate production, Manuel Lima explores the power of network visualization in our increasingly complex world. A senior UX design lead at Microsoft, Lima explains how the world wide web we’ve mapped out on the Internet is eerily similar to many natural phenomenon in the world and universe at large.
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Can anyone be a data journalist?Simon Rogers on what we can learn from a 1977 diagram.
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Single-seater aircraft with 207ft wingspan aims to reach Morocco via Madrid and is being seen as a trial for a round-the-world flight.
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Although magazine publishers have embraced mobile, the web is still not all that important, executives at Conde Nast and Meredith Corp. say.
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Last Wednesday, with relatively little fanfare, Google introduced a new technology called Google Knowledge Graph.
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New inexpensive, environmentally friendly solar cell shines with potential.
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Alteration to regulations may leave Britain out of step with EU law in implementation of continent-wide directives.
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What made Ridley Scott revisit the world of his his iconic movie Alien more than 30 years later?
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For all its valuation, the social network is just another ad-supported site. Without an earth-changing idea, it will collapse and take down the Web.
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The situation at HP is putting a nail in the coffin of webOS, effectively killing it off yet again.
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There's so much we already take for granted about the digital revolution that's rocked our world. But it can still strike awe.
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Dirt: Showdown and Hollywood don’t care much about rules of the road, and more games could learn a thing or two.
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One day, your doctor may tell you to eat two teaspoons of quantum dots and call her in the morning. Well, sort of.
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At the very least, the advent of electronic and social media has vastly improved the ability of individuals to act as catalysts for change in the Arab world, stimulating and galvanising people to think and act more freely, even if they disagree with his views.
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On the 25th anniversary of the genesis of his game series Metal Gear, creator Hideo Kojima reflects on a career spent battling the stigma of working in video games in the second of a two part interview feature, exclusive to the Guardian.
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On the 25th anniversary of the genesis of his game series Metal Gear, creator Hideo Kojima reflects on a career spent battling the stigma of working in video games in the first of a two-part interview.
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Ding, dong, the patent witch is dead! Well, maybe not dead, but at least melting a bit.
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We've gathered some of the best recordings from the Robert Moog recordable Google Doodle synthesizer.
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