NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “In SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, the Boston case in which the defendant is represented by Prof. Charles Nesson and his CyberLaw class at Harvard Law School, the defendant has requested that audio-visual coverage of the court proceedings be made available to the public via the internet. Taking the RIAA at its [...]

The firms not mentioned here are just as important as the ones that are, as the privatization of space has just inched closer to reality. Rather than NASA handling ISS resupply chores itself or farming the job out to mega-corps such as Lockheed Martin or Boeing, the agency has instead awarded one contract each to [...]

The firms not mentioned here are just as important as the ones that are, as the privatization of space has just inched closer to reality. Rather than NASA handling ISS resupply chores itself or farming the job out to mega-corps such as Lockheed Martin or Boeing, the agency has instead awarded one contract each to [...]

The rumour looked pretty solid, but confirmation is always swell. The next Metal Gear game will indeed be on the iPhone, and it’s called Metal Gear Solid Touch.
What’s more, courtesy of Konami we now have some details on the game. It’s an original title set in the MGS4 universe, and consists of 8 stages (with [...]

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The Houser brothers aren’t going anywhere — at least not anywhere that’s out of the reach of Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two. The company has announced a new long-term employment agreement with “key members of the creative team” behind Grand Theft Auto IV, including Rockstar rockstars, Sam and Dan Houser. The initial term [...]

It’s not often that tremendous advancements are made in the realm of binoculars, but these LightSpeed specs are something special. Aimed primarily at military / surveillance uses, this device is able to transmit video and audio via Infrared, theoretically enabling rooftop spies on opposite buildings to communicate. Furthermore, this method of communication is undetectable and [...]

Like a high-school binder come to life.

Double Fine certainly has had trouble hanging onto publishers. Its first game, the critically adored but widely ignored Psychonauts, was originally to be published by Microsoft, though in the midst of a protracted development process, the [...]

theodp writes “Nicholas Carr is not pleased that Apple has applied for a patent to extend DRM to tennis shoes and other articles of clothing. Apple apparently views tennis-shoe DRM as a way to head off a potential plague of sneaker hacking. ‘Some people,’ the patent application observes, ‘have taken it upon themselves to remove [...]