Meet the man behind one of the most hated websites on the internet.
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Meet the man behind one of the most hated websites on the internet.
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Strangers keep coming to Mike and Christina’s house looking for their stolen cell phones. Nobody knows why. We travel to Atlanta to find out what’s going on, in our thorniest Super Tech Support yet.
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In the tight-knit online gaming community Epic Mafia, Eris was an infamous celebrity. So when news of his suicide reached the forums, many players were grief stricken. But in a virtual world where it pays to lie, could it really be true?
http://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2016/feb/22/death-of-a-troll
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Steve Henn of NPR’s Planet Money team profiles some entrepreneurs who are working on a novel business model to start up a new tech company. It’s pay for service. What a concept.
http://www.npr.org/2014/09/22/350662122/some-tech-firms-capitalize-on-privacy
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An appeals court has ruled against a group of authors, deciding in favor of a consortium of universities in a case that hinged on copyright law and provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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In a "remix culture" where sharing is a business and virality a science, Bob asks if copyright has lost all meaning.
http://www.onthemedia.org/story/aggregation-and-ownership-digital-wild-west/
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Huffduffed from http://www.npr.org/2014/10/18/357153450/chinese-find-number-urls-easier-than-letters
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As one couple found out, visual texting is surprisingly good for emotional expression.
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Ethan Zuckerman recently confessed to "the Internet’s original sin," saying he helped create pop-up ads in the medium’s early days. The director of MIT’s Center for Civic Media tells Robert Siegel that it’s not to late to repent, and to build a better Web — without ads.
http://www.npr.org/2014/08/18/341409795/pop-up-ad-man-fesses-to-an-internet-sin-but-hopes-to-fix-it
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Europe’s highest court left Google with the responsibility of balancing the privacy rights of citizens with the public interest — and it’s a tough balancing act.
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