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WASHINGTON — Scammers are targeting E-ZPass holders with a phishing scheme that leads victims to believe they owe money on their accounts. According to AAA, cyber criminals have been sending emails to E-ZPass customers in the D.C. area, claiming the drivers are indebted for traveling on toll roads. The message directs the victim to clink…
Written & Produced by Bob Chipman Special Thanks this episode to Megan Kearns REALLY THAT GOOD is a new kind of film-criticism series, built around the radical premise that just because “everyone knows” a movie is a classic doesn’t mean it stops being worth a deeper look. That THE AVENGERS changed the landscape of action…
coins metadata inserted by kblog-metadata Casual games mirror women’s work, teaching their players that affective labor counts At the start of Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, you, the player, learn how to fold a shirt. You tap your smartphone’s touchscreen a few times to have the customizable cartoon avatar straighten a clothing display. Kim Kardashian soon appears,…
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Add eagles to the list of things that don’t like drones. An Australian drone operator found that out the hard way when a wedge-tailed eagle “punched” his high-tech toy right out of the sky. “This is the last thing a small bird sees when a Wedge-Tailed Eagle decides that you are dinner,” Adam Lancaster, the drone…
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) campaign has reportedly reached out to Black Lives Matter activists to potentially set up a face-to-face meeting in Washington. Shortly before Sanders spoke on the issue of racism at the Iowa State Fair on Saturday, BuzzFeed News reported his campaign had floated having “a more formal interaction”…
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I’ve always wanted to be a spy, but have never got over my inability to keep a secret, my wanton desire for attention and my half-hearted pacifism. But thanks to Dead Drops, an international community building “an anonymous, offline, peer-to-peer file-sharing network in public space”, I can at least live out my dream of putting…
How to make your own ‘Dead Drops’ is open for participation! Your are free to go for your own Dead Drop! If you want to install a Dead Drop in your city/neighborhood please follow ‘how to’ instruction below and submit the location and pictures when you are done in the form at the bottom of…
City taxpayers will be shelling out to settle another suit with Occupy Wall Street protesters — this time, $25,000 for a group that set up Web access for demonstrators at the 2011 rally downtown. Isaac Wilder, founder of the Free Network Foundation, set up a Wi-Fi source called the “Freedom Tower” in Zuccotti Park and…