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Supreme Court Won’t Hear Digital Free Speech Cases [VIDEO]Should schools be allowed to censor students who create fake social media profiles that defame other classmates or authority figures? It’s a tricky legal question, and one that still awaits final clarification after the United States Supreme Court declined to hear a series of ca... Want to Avoid Getting Banned on Social Media? Learn the RulesAnn Smarty is a search marketer and full-time web entrepreneur. Ann blogs on search and social media tools. Her newest project, My Blog Guest, is a free platform for guest bloggers and blog owners. Follow Ann on Twitter @seosmarty. For as long as I have been actively participating in social media... It’s Not Over: SOPA’s Chief Sponsor Isn’t Backing DownEven though a co-sponsors of SOPA and PIPA pulled their support for the bills on Wednesday, SOPA’s lead backer says he’s not backing down and “expects to move forward” with the bill next month. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the House Judiciary Committee chairman, told The Wall St... How Do the Latest Ultrabooks From CES 2012 Measure Up?If there was a star product from CES 2012, it was the Ultrabook. Not excited? It’s hard to blame you — the whole move toward slim, lightweight laptops that actually perform well is essentially an outgrowth of Apple’s MacBook Air line of laptops, introduced four years ago this w... The Best, Worst and Craziest Ultrabooks From CES 2012 [PICS]If there was a star product from CES 2012, it was the Ultrabook. Not excited? It’s hard to blame you — the whole move toward slim, lightweight laptops that actually perform well is essentially an outgrowth of Apple’s MacBook Air line of laptops, introduced four years ago this w... How to Train Your Plants to Tweet for Water [VIDEO]Technology has come to the aid of those born without green thumbs. SparkFun’s Botanicalls Kit lets your plants tell you when they’re thirsty. The petal-shaped chip connects to your house plant and tweets you as soon as the moisture drops. The kit consists of an Arduino microc... Get on Board: Italian Cruise Ship Meme Goes Viral [PICS]Italian cruise ship Captain Francesco Schettino won’t be able to leave behind the backlash his actions created on the Internet. “Vada A Bordo, Cazzo!” is the latest meme circulating the web. It translates to “get on board, d__k.” The phrase came from an exchange C... Google Apologizes for Stealing Customers From Kenyan StartupGoogle has apologized — via Google+ and by phone — to the CEO of an African startup whose databases were compromised by a Kenya-based team working for Google. Nelson Mattos, Google’s vice president for product and engineering for Europe and emerging markets, stated on ... Mass Effect 3 Gets XBox Kinect Function and Demo DateA new Mass Effect 3 trailer has hit the Internet showcasing the highly-anticipated action role-playing-game’s new Kinect functionality. The video shows players using their voices to give commands to allies, pick up guns or even shoot weapons, activate special abilities and throw grenades. It... Making Light of a Dark Day: 6 SOPA Memes Worth SeeingZing for Wikipedia Image from Someecards.com.Click here to view this gallery. As many popular websites go dark on Wednesday to protest the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA), amusing memes about the situation are making the rounds online. Sure, SOPA and the Protect... |