Pin ItJun. 16, 2010 $2.74 Million Awarded to 12 Grantees Who Will Impact Future of News Cambridge, Mass. (June 16, 2010) – Twelve media innovation projects have been named the 2010 winners of the Knight News Challenge, a contest that funds ideas that use digital technology to inform specific geographic communities. The winners will receive $2.74 million as part of the fourth round of the five-year... 

Pin ItBaruch Sienna figured his teenage son’s laptop was gone forever. During a party in Arad, Israel, a thief had taken off with his MacBook, and there were no witnesses. “The police were very unhelpful,” Mr. Sienna said, speaking from Jerusalem. “They said, ‘You’ll never see your laptop again.’ ” Buffer jQuery(document).ready(function($) { window.setTimeout('loadTwitter_3313()',1000);window.setTimeout('loadTweetMeme_3313()',1000);window.setTimeout('loadFBLike_3313()',1000);window.setTimeout('loadFBShare_3313()',1000);window.setTimeout('loadGoogle1_3313()',1000);window.setTimeout('loadFBShareMe_3313()',1000);window.setTimeout('loadPinterest_3313()',1000);... 

Pin It 11:09AM Interesting. A data entry keyboard just for entering info into a spreadsheet. There are a number of different keyboard for specific tasks, also a date and time keyboard. 11:06AM New tool: Page Navigator. It’s a bit like the magnification loop and lets you jump through pages. Automatic image outlines — just drag your image and text reformats. 11:05AM “Like... 

Pin ItLG Display has announced its development of a newspaper-size flexible e-paper. The 19-inch wide (250x400mm) flexible e-paper is almost as big as a page of A3 sized newspaper. The product is optimized for an e-newspaper and able to convey the feeling of reading an actual newspaper. Additionally, as the product measures 0.3 millimeters thin, the e-paper weighs just 130 grams despite its 19-inch... 

Pin ItBy Graeme McMillan, io9 (Edit, to draft, Slurp) Copy this whole post to another site Slurp cancel select site advertising consumerist deadspin defamer fleshbot gay fleshbot gawker gizmodo idolator io9 jalopnik jezebel kotaku lifehacker valleywag artists gawkershop sploid So, Disney has bought Marvel, but – with both companies claiming that current licensing deals will stay... 

Pin ItA string of celebrities have been left red-faced after hackers broke into accounts on popular micro-blogging site Twitter and sent messages in their names. The Twitter service lets users send short messages – under 140 characters – to people who subscribe to their feed. Buffer jQuery(document).ready(function($) { window.setTimeout('loadTwitter_454()',1000);window.setTimeout('loadTweetMeme_454()',1000);window.setTimeout('loadFBLike_454()',1000);window.setTimeout('loadFBShare_454()',1000);window.setTimeout('loadGoogle1_454()',1000);window.setTimeout('loadFBShareMe_454()',1000);window.setTimeout('loadPinterest_454()',1000);... 

Pin ItComputer spies have broken into the Pentagon’s £200bn Joint Strike Fighter project and copied information about its design and electronics systems. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) said intruders were able to copy and siphon off data potentially making it easier to defend against the craft. Buffer jQuery(document).ready(function($) { window.setTimeout('loadTwitter_451()',1000);window.setTimeout('loadTweetMeme_451()',1000);window.setTimeout('loadFBLike_451()',1000);window.setTimeout('loadFBShare_451()',1000);window.setTimeout('loadGoogle1_451()',1000);window.setTimeout('loadFBShareMe_451()',1000);window.setTimeout('loadPinterest_451()',1000);... 

Pin ItSome computer repair shops are illegally accessing personal data on customers’ hard drives – and even trying to hack their bank accounts, a Sky News investigation has found. In one case, passwords, log-in details and holiday photographs were all copied onto a portable memory stick by a technician. In other shops, customers were charged for non-existent work and simple faults were... 

Pin ItMicrosoft is closing Soapbox, its onetime video-sharing rival to Google’s YouTube, the company said Tuesday. Last month, Microsoft told CNET News it planned to significantly scale back Soapbox. Now it turns out Soapbox will be scaled all the way down to nothing. Buffer jQuery(document).ready(function($) { window.setTimeout('loadTwitter_366()',1000);window.setTimeout('loadTweetMeme_366()',1000);window.setTimeout('loadFBLike_366()',1000);window.setTimeout('loadFBShare_366()',1000);window.setTimeout('loadGoogle1_366()',1000);window.setTimeout('loadFBShareMe_366()',1000);window.setTimeout('loadPinterest_366()',1000);...