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Saturday, June 4, 2011

Week in tech: touching Windows 8 and stealing webcomics

Week in tech: touching Windows 8 and stealing webcomics: "




The Oatmeal vs. FunnyJunk: webcomic copyright fight gets personal: Matthew Inman, creator of webcomic The Oatmeal, tried to ignore the rampant online copying of his work—until he found that his entire output was mirrored on a user-generated content site called FunnyJunk.


Microsoft gives the first official look of Windows 8 touch interface: Microsoft today unveiled the new touch interface for Windows 8. Though still far from release, it looks like Redmond will finally have a truly worthy competitor to the iPad.


The crooks who created modern wiretapping law: During Prohibition, the government tapped telephones without warrants—after all, the lines left the home. It took 40 years, and the arrest of a bookie, for the Supreme Court to conclude that privacy wasn't a matter of physical location.


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