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May 31, 2006: Pirate Bay Raided, Shuttered

2006: Swedish police raid The Pirate Bay website and shut it down.

“Pirate Bay was a huge source of pirated films for people around the world, and today they are no longer.”

That was a statement issued exactly five years ago Tuesday by Kori Bernards, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture Association of America.

After all, Swedish police that day had just raided the file sharing site’s offices and carted away a boatload of servers.

Review: Get Your Game On With Sony's Xperia Play Android Phone

Where most slider phones have a keyboard, Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play sports Playstation controls. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com.


Mothers, lock up your gamers. The PlayStation phone has arrived.

And while it’s a bit on the chubby side, we think that, for Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play, big is beautiful.

You could almost call the Xperia Play the shorter, fatter cousin to the svelte Xperia Arc, which Sony Ericsson once described as the “world’s thinnest smartphone.” At .62 inches, the Play looks positively bulky compared to its Xperia-line relatives — a veritable Jan Brady to the Arc’s Marcia.

Et pour finir la semaine, voici un timelapse un peu particulier. En effet ce dernier a été enregistré uniquement avec des prises de vue infra-rouge donnant au paysage un aspect extra-terrestre...

And to finish the week, here is a special timelapse. Indeed the latter was recorded only with infra-red shots giving the landscape an extraterrestrial aspect ...

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Pour apprendre à drifter, il faut user de la gomme. Mais voici une technique qui va vous permettre d'apprendre plus facilement tout en préservant vos pneux.

To learn drifter, we must use the eraser. But here's a technique that will allow you to learn more easily while preserving your tires.

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L'évolution de la technique permet maintenant de faire voler des drônes à près de 50 km/h de manières complètement autonomes. A l'aide des ces caméras stéréoscopiques et des ces processeurs, il "voit" et analyse en temps réel son environement et adapte sa trajectiore. Enfin, comme le code est sous licence open source, vous etes en mesure de pouvoir faire exactement la même chose.

Developments in technology now allow drones to fly at nearly 30 mp/h completely autonomous ways. With the help of these stereoscopic cameras and these processors, it "sees" and real-time scanning its environment and adapts its trajectiore. Finally, as the code under open source license, you are able to do exactly the same thing.

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Robotics lab Boston Dynamics est heureux de vous annoncer la naissance de spot. C'est un robot quadrupède totallement indépendant et capable d'affronter n'importe quel terrains. Il se déplace tout seul et sait garder l'équilibre. Impressionnant.

Robotics lab Boston Dynamics is pleased to announce the birth spot. It is a quadruped robot totally independent and able to tackle any terrain. It moves by itself and knows how to keep the balance. Impressive.

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Une nouvelle version d'Android est sortie. Elle se nomme Marshmallow et pour l'annoncer, Android a sortie cette petite animation qui a une raisonnance un peu particulière.

A new version of Android is released. Her name is Marshmallow and to announce it, Android has released this short animation that has a rather special raisonnance.

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The 990FX Chipset Arrives: AMD And SLI Rise Again

AMD is laying the foundation for its Socket AM3+, Bulldozer-based Zambezi processors with the 990FX chipset, functionally identical to 890FX. The big news is that motherboard vendors are licensing SLI again, and we want to compare performance to Intel.

While vacationing in France, you find a DVD of Ishtar. Score! (It’s never been released on DVD in the US). But when you get home, you discover that you’ve purchased a Region 2 disc, which, in your Region 1 player, is as useful as a coaster. This raises two questions: Why do you want to watch Ishtar? And why do we still have region codes?

The answers: taste and money, respectively. Though there’s no accounting for the former, those codes may soon be gone.

Regional restrictions began in 1997, as DVD technology was rolling out. They have nothing to do with the NTSC and PAL...

Mark Cronell, un vétéran de l'US Air Force, a perdu la vue depuis plus de 20 ans et grace à la technique, il peut voir ses amis pour la première fois. Un moment très émouvant pour lui.

Mark Cronell, a veteran of the US Air Force, lost his sight for more than 20 years and thanks to technology, he can see his friends for the first time. A very emotional moment for him.

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