Tag: PROTESTS

The Egyptian government restored the country's Internet services today, as the army urged protesters to end demonstrations and "bring stability back to the country." Hassan Kabbani, chief executive of mobile service provider MobiNil, confirmed that sites previously blocked were rendered accessible around noon, including the Central Bank of Egypt's website and social networks like Facebook. The ...

Social networking gives us a cross-section of virtually every political opinion known to man. Are there racists and bigots? Of course. Tree-huggers and granola-munchers? Absolutely. And that's the magic. They may not subscribe to the same worldview or all check the same box every November, but the political masses are here, online, making their presence known. What we have before us is, for ...

After Governor Chris Christie proposed widespread cuts in funding for New Jersey's educational system, one former New Jersey high school student took it upon herself to organize a statewide walkout, via Facebook. Eighteen-year-old Michelle Ryan Lauto, a student at Pace University, created a special event on Facebook calling for all students to take to the streets in protest during regular ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/02/04/twitter-undermines-hugo-chavezs-media-takeover/ '; As we learned last summer in Iran, whenever a dictatorial regime senses trouble in Totalitarianville, one of the first things it does is tighten its grip on the media. And whenever the thick walls of censorship go up, Twitter is there to slip through the cracks. Share Case in point: Venezuela, ...

As TV manufactures galore loaded into the Las Vegas Convention Center for CES 2009, something began stirring deep in the bowels of the Earth. Whether it was black-magic or the alignment of the planets, we're not sure, but scores of undead walking television sets descended upon the Las Vegas pavement to extract revenge on their manufacturers. Or at least that's how the 'story' goes. In ...

Like us, you're worried about the coming robot invasion. But who isn't? Well, certainly not the artist who recreated a Guantanamo Bay-style waterboarding torture scene with robots out in New York's Coney Island. He's got his 'bots under strict control. The installation, just steps from the location of the famous annual July 4 hot dog eating contest and the Cyclone roller coaster, depicts robots ...