Getty Images Decides It’s Mostly Better To Compete Than Sue, Frees Up Millions Of Images (via Techdirt)
Getty Images has something of a reputation as a copyright maximalist. The company’s representatives have testified before Congress and pushed for copyright expansion in the past. It’s also well known for filing copyright lawsuits on those it claims…
Facebook Seeking to Block Illegal Gun Sales (via slashdot)
Facebook wants to regulate gun sales on its social networks, and plans on blocking users under the age of 18 from viewing any sort of gun-related offers from individuals or groups. “We have strict rules about how businesses can use our advertising…
It’s a complaint that is as old as technology itself. Ever since the first caveman discovered fire, the older generation has been seeing all of the new gizmos and gadgets embraced by their children and grandchildren and wondered what kind of negative impacts these new-fangled devices will have on society.
When radio first became available, there were those who wondered if it were a blessing or a curse. When the printing press first made possible the efficient reproduction of written works, Johannes Trithemius (a respected polymath) feared the damage that could be done when trained scribes were no longer needed. And even the invention of writing had its naysayers, including Plato, one of the most respected minds ever to live.
[Read more…] about Icarus Tech: Is New Technology Flying our Society too close to the Sun?
For all the bloggers who like to get in on where the action is and shoot their own videos, capture and process their own photography while adding a unique and professional touch to their work, I’ve found some fun and powerful gadgets for you. Forget about Photoshop, that requires a special skillset to spice up your photography work and forget about Instagram or Youtube, you have to rely on their presets, filters and templates for your stuff.
Here are some Kickstarter products in the Apple Gazette Store that will get your creative juices flowing toward your next project or publication. [Read more…] about 4 Affordable Kickstarter Power User Tools for Multimedia Bloggers
Over at the Forevergeek Kickstarter Store they have two OUYA game consoles they are giving away in a Twitter competition:
We have two consoles to give away, to enter simply follow @fg_store on Twitter and make sure you Tweet the following also:
Win an OUYA from @FG_store and @PlayOUYA – RT and follow to enter http://bit.ly/1fmR9SY #OuyaForevergeek #win
Entry for this competition closes on Friday February 28th at 5pm EST and the winner will be announced the following Monday. Entry is also only open to residents of the US and Canada.
Good luck!
For a long time, robots were the preserve of science fiction. We’ve always been fascinated by the idea of intelligent machines, whether it was the development of Asimov’s three laws of robotics, the bickering Star Wars droids, or Douglas Adam’s manically depressed Marvin. Yet, the impact of robots on day-to-day life has been slow to emerge. Few of us have the android domestic staff that was the stuff of 1950’s visions of the future, for example, but, in fact, robots are in more areas of our existence than you might think.
The first robotic patents for machines to be used in industry were granted in 1961, so they have a longer history than you might think. These were mainly for simple transfer systems that moved components from one place to another to aid assembly processes.
Because they were able to repeat tasks over and over again to the same level of accuracy, robots quickly found their place on the production line. This was something that came to public consciousness with the Fiat car adverts of the late 1970s. By this time, robots were undertaking other repetitive tasks such as welding and paint spraying. [Read more…] about Charting the Rise of the Robots