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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.

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...

Apple Announces iCloud, Steve Jobs WWDC Keynote

A cloud. Photo Karen Ka Ying Wong / Flickr

Apple has confirmed maybe the worst kept secret in Silicon Valley: it’s been working on a cloud service, and will announce it at the June 6 Worldwide Developers Conference.

So now we know annual developer’s conference will unveil “iCloud®, Apple’s upcoming cloud services offering,” but we don’t know yet what it is, or what exactly will reside at the domain name it may have bought for $4.5 million in April.

Alors qu'un des leaders de la vente en ligne annonce qu'il lance des recherches pour proposer à ses clients d'être livré par des drônes, l'IDSC (Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control) à Zurich présente un drône autonome capable de récupérer une balle en plein vol et de la ramener.

So what do we try to offer customers to be delivered by drone, the IDSC (Institute of Systems and Dynamic Controls) in Zurich presents a stand-alone drone capable of recovering a bullet in full flight And to bring it back.

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Pour une fois, une avancée technologique a été faite par la France, la Flyboard est une invention française de la société Zapata Racing. Voici les premiers tests très concluant. Après les soucis de réglementations avec les drônes, voici un nouvel engin dans les airs ...

For once, a technological breakthrough was made by France, is a French invention Flyboard company Zapata Racing. These are the first very successful tests. After the worries of regulations with drones, here's a new machine in the air ...

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Piloter un drône demande énormément d'heures d'entrainement. Mais grace à la technologie, c'est maintenant à la portée de tous. Vous avez besoin de prendre de la hauteur ? Lily est pour vous. Il est simple à commander et vous suit partout.

Fly a drone requires a lot of hours of training. But thanks to technology, it is now within the reach of all. You need to get high? Lily is for you. It is simple to control and follows you everywhere.

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Voici une expérience artistique mené par Nobumichi Asai avec l'aide d'intel qui risque de mettre au chomage les maquilleurs. D'un autre coté, cette technique à l'avantage de respecter la peau sans ajout de matière directement sur la peau. A quand les défilés de mode utilisant cette technique ?

Here is an artistic experience led Nobumichi Asai with the help of intel that could put unemployed makeup artists. On the other hand, this technique to the advantage of respecting the skin without adding material directly on the skin. A fashion shows when using this technic?

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Il y a des passions que l'on souhaite partager... C'est le cas de ce joggeur qui a eu l'idée de filmer son entrainement et de le transformer en hyperlapse. Et le résultat montre des paysages changeants au cours des saisons.

There are passions that you want to share ... This is the case of the jogger who had the idea to film his training and turn it into hyperlapse. And the result shows the changing landscapes throughout the seasons.

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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.

Lenovo a dévoilé hier, en Chine, quelques prototypes fonctionnelles de sa nouvelle tablette/smartphone pliable. Grace à ce produit 2 en 1, vous aurez partout avec vous, votre tablette et votre smartphone. On attend la réponse commerciale de la part de samsung et apple ...

Lenovo showed yesterday, in China, some functional prototypes of its new tablet / smartphone foldable. Thanks to this 2 in 1 product, you will have everywhere with you, your tablet and your smartphone. We are waiting for the commercial answer from samsung and apple ...

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