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Judge in Jeremy Hammond Case Won't Recuse Herself

Jeremy Hammond loped into a federal courtroom in Lower Manhattan this morning with an awkward gait, his wrists handcuffed before him and his ankles shackled tightly together. Dressed in a navy blue prison jumpsuit, Hammond, the 27-year-old activist and hacker, is facing 30-years-to-life on charges r ... More >>

The People Trying To Ruin The Internet: Joe Lieberman

At the Voice, we have been regularly following internet policy developments. We figured it would be cool -- maybe even a public service? -- to ID people who keep pushing for web-killing proposals such as SOPA and PIPA in this new, occasional feature: "The People Trying To Ruin The Internet." Enjoy! ... More >>

IP Address Does Not Even ID a State, Judge Decides in Landmark BitTorrent Lawsuit

Just a few weeks after a New York judge decided that an internet protocol address is not enough evidence for lawsuits against accused illegal file-sharers, a California judge has ruled that an IP address can't even pinpoint one's state. As detailed by CNET, the judge tossed out lawsuits against 15 ... More >>

Michael Bloomberg Talks Trash: Will Mayor's Waste-to-Energy Plan Survive Critics?

New York has a lot of trash! (Both the people-kind and the garbage can-kind.) Today, though, Mayor Mike is concerned with the latter: He wants to build what's called a waste-to-energy plant, a fancy way to describe an electricity-generating, trash-processing factory. His administration is accepting ... More >>

Ray Kelly Warns Cops: Look Out For Those Handcuff Key Bracelets

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is warning cops about rope bracelets containing hidden handcuff keys, according to an internal NYPD memo obtained by the Voice. Kelly sent out photos of the product to all commands earlier this week. The key is plastic, so it won't set off metal detectors. He says pris ... More >>

Take Cover from the Space Storm! Two Solar Flares Hit Earth, NASA Says

Today's space-weather report tells of a different kind of sunny sky: Two flares, including the second biggest of the Sun's 11-year solar cycle, hit earth early this morning and could cause the biggest solar storm in five years, NASA says. Now, what the hell does this mean, exactly? Every so often, ... More >>

Justin Bieber Becomes Robot Spokesman

This item almost makes you wish for the good ol' days -- when pop stars would make headlines for booze-fueled buffoonery rather than just shamelessly shilling random shit. Alas, Justin Bieber has signed on to endorse a robot at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week ... More >>

Steve Jobs Interview Coming to a Theater Near You

​Did Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography leave you hungry for more access to the Apple founder? Would you mind if that access came in the form of a 16-year-old interview transferred from a VHS tape onto a 70-foot movie screen? No? Good news! The Los Angeles Times reports that in mid-Novembe ... More >>

Poop-Scooping Robot Revolutionizes the Way Robots are Humiliated

If the machines plan on rising anytime soon, they'll have to pay their dues first. Researchers from Penn's GRASP Lab have programmed a robot to pick up dog shit. The P.O.O.P. S.C.O.O.P. (Perception of Offensive Products and Sensorized Control of Object Pickup) is a retooled PR2 personal robot and i ... More >>

Windows 8: A Guide

​Last week, journalists and software designers were treated to a preview of Microsoft's latest operating system: Windows 8. The preview was held at Microsoft's Build conference in Anaheim, and those in attendance report a wildly different Windows. CNN calls it "radical" and CNET says it will b ... More >>

Verizon Workers in the Bronx Take Picketing to Job Site in the Field (VIDEO)

Striking Verizon employees confront workers on a pole on Alexander Avenue in the Bronx​As the Verizon strike enters its fifth day, we've come across various picket lines near Verizon buildings, here in the East Village and around the city. But what we hadn't witnessed until today was a scene w ... More >>

The Government May Soon Track Everything You Do Online

​While most of Washington was bickering about the debt ceiling late last week, a bill made it through committee that, if passed by Congress, could affect your life much more than anything related to the deficit default. A House panel approved the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers ... More >>

Netflix Fee Increase: Humanity's Most Trying Moment

​Each week, Death by Science sends out an all-points bulletin for the latest science and technology news, tracks it down and beats a confession out of it. This week, we take a look at Netflix's monthly fee increase and the fervor surrounding it. The Internet boldly takes a stand and says, "Six ... More >>

Jason Valdez Facebooks Holding a Woman Hostage in 16-Hour Police Standoff

​A 36-year-old Ogden, Utah, man named Jason Valdez has taken social networking to unprecedented levels by updating his Facebook status to reflect that he had taken a woman named Veronica hostage in a motel after the cops tried to give him a warrant for a felony drug offense. He then held her f ... More >>

Martha Stewart Gets a Cocktail App; San Francisco Gets an Absolut

​Beer-happy picnickers were not too happy at this Sunday's first annual Brewers' Pic Nyc at Governors Island about having to wait for a whole extra hour before they could start drinking. Organizers were apparently confused about New York's blue laws, which were changed in 2006, making it legal ... More >>

English Sparklers May Dazzle Royal Wedding Guests; 200-Year-Old Bubbly Could Go for $82K

​English sparkling wines are getting so good that they might be served at the royal wedding, as they were at Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birthday party. [NY Times] Meanwhile, beer happy guests at the royal wedding won't be too pleased to learn that no suds will be served at the event. [NPR] A ... More >>

Guy Fieri Gets a New Yellow Convertible; Jersey Shore Cast Members Banned from The Box

​Guy Fieri has replaced the canary-yellow Lamborghini that was stolen last month with what calls a "bitchin' Camaro," in bright yellow. [SF Chronicle] A new iPhone app allows you to snap a picture of a dish, then converts it into a corresponding calorie count. Magic? [CNET] The new People's ... More >>

McDonald's Burgers Suck, Say You; Chefs in Love with Heart Dishes

​Farming internships are all the rage these days among ag-department graduates, career-changers, and even cooks looking to deepen their knowledge of ingredients. [NY Times] McDonald's bombed big time in a recent Consumer Reports survey of burger chains. Five Guys and In-N-Out Burger topped th ... More >>

Full Body Scanners Can Store Unidentifiable Images Of You

SUH-kurity​We're back with the privacy debate on full body scanners. They're coming to New York soon, and yesterday, CNET reported that a privacy advocate group in D.C. is taking the Transportation Security Administration to task (again) because full body scanners used by feds in other departments ... More >>

New Subway Sign Reads What V Train Riders Think: FML

via Caroline McCarthy/CNET​Subway signs recently updated to reflect the June 28 removal of the V and W lines are as bold in color as the previous signs, but some are much bolder in message, like the ones at 14th Street and Sixth Avenue, which spell "FML" with subway symbols. OMG, LOL, how di ... More >>

Update: MTA's "FML" Subway Sign to Change

via Caroline McCarthy/CNET​FML, just when New Yorkers had a funny little inside joke, the MTA had to go ahead and squash it! The subway sign we wrote about earlier today -- the one that spells out FML (a commonly recoginized pop-culture acronym for "Fuck My Life") -- will be changed so that ... More >>

The Day Our Twitter Followers Went to Zero

​If your Twitter followers are all gone (NOOOOO!) it's because Twitter is working on fixing a bug that can force one user to follow another.

Apple's iPhone Porn Purge Deletes Thousands of Apps: Reports

​The rumored removal of sexy apps for iPhones seems to have come to pass. The first shot in the war on porn apps came, per CNET, when "Apple notified developer Chillifresh that its Wobble iBoobs application was being removed from the App Store." Now it is reported that thousands of other apps ... More >>

Quick Hits

​ Avenue D and 10th Street ca. 1937. h/t The Bowery Boys. Four men dressed as the Super Mario Brothers beat up and robbed a cabbie in Staten Island on Halloween. The Staten Island Advance has the story and some bizarre footage. A mysterious powder was found on the floor of a New Jersey Tra ... More >>

Memorial Day Weekend Must-Haves (Not Really)

Planning on breaking out the BBQ this weekend? Perhaps. Gearing up for some midday suds? Definitely. Check out these fun and deliciously superfluous gadgets to spice up your holiday weekend You never can find a beer when you need one. Avoid the problem entirely by wearing your brewskies around yo ... More >>

Introducing the Noodle Waterslide--And All the Noodles Say "Weeeeeee!"

Make playing with your food a family affair with this Noodle Waterslide made by Japanese toymaker, Bandai. Available in Japan for 8,400 yen (about $85), it's like a Hot Wheels track set for your food. [TokyoMango via CNET]

Dumped via Facebook? Probably. Hooked up by stimulus bill? Maybe.

This'll break you up: Revisiting the January 2007 Facebook parody from USC, directed by Mu Sun While you're waiting for the stimulus bill to hook you back up: • It's not you, it's my social-networking. Further confirmation in this morning's Daily News of something that thousands of you alre ... More >>

Early Black Friday Reports Mixed: "Rowdy," Hopeful, Lethal

Daily Flog: It's so bad that capitalists plan to help proles

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