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  • On Thursday, the Supreme Court upheld an Arizona law that lets local officials revoke business licenses of businesses that are found to have hired…

  • The Microsoft CEO was in Beijing for the opening of a Microsoft R&D facility. He used the occasion to complain that Microsoft is seeing only…

  • Because of computer errors, prison officials in California released 450 inmates with a "high risk of violence" by mistake. These inmates were…

  • May 27, 2011

    Twitter book club

    1book140 is a new book club founded by editors at The Atlantic and Jeff Howe, a journalism professor at Northeastern University. They took some 300…

  • We talked on our Friday show about how Google Wallet works. Here's some video that's started showing up already.

  • A newer, even more aggressive form of malware for Mac does not require a user password to install itself and screw up your computer. We recently t…

  • Facebook honcho Mark Zuckerberg spoke at the e-G8 conference in France yesterday and his remarks have been getting a lot of play. He backed off…

  • Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) sent a letter Wednesday to Apple and Google saying he wants the companies to have privacy policies for all apps sold for…

  • Twitter is apparently prepared to give British investigators information about users accused of violating a "super injunction". The injunction…

  • May 26, 2011

    Lady book pirates!

    That was the most succinct headline I could think of for a new study about women over 35 downloading pirated material. The British law firm Wiggin*…