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Privacy laws protecting bank account holders are more important than providing information to aid in copyright enforcement, according to a Dutch court ruling this week.

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Matthew, I don't agree with your comment, " overpopulated country of countless opinions and insensitive faceless folks." I believe this may be a perception by some but I believe this is more along the lines of "we used to like this neighborhood until it got so 'diverse'" - people only tend to cry "overpopulation" when they don't like the sort of ... (more)

It's about time we had a new new-technology panic, and here it is. This week the US State Department invoked the International Traffic in Arms Regulations to demand the removal of design files for "The Liberator" gun from Defense Distributed's "island of misfit objects", Defcad .

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This week, a history of emoticons, Barocci in London, LA's architecture mess, the birth of the Garbage Pail Kids, William Eggleston and baseball, how China censors social media, and more.

One reason I jumped at becoming The Star's first Local Network Editor was my love of reading blogs and blogging in general.

The new automatic search feature allows searches to be performed by the Newshosting software on an hourly basis and quietly in the background.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, was one of the team at CERN who set the project free twenty years ago today.