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When I first heard four hours ago that Steve Jobs died today, I couldn't take in the information. And I still can't take it in even though I knew about his battle against pancreatic cancer and his liver transplant. I figured when he resigned from Apple in August that his health was an issue. So, I'll just place a few links here.Steve Jobs's Stanford speechMy Neighbor, Steve JobsGoodnight, Steve

The following piece has been cross-posted and also updated at BlogHer.com.I am puzzled today and a tad distraught. Through a friend's Facebook post, I learned of a website for a supposed video game that may be real but is more than likely, ostensibly, bogus. It's called "Slavery the Game." While its website requires that you enter an age to verify you're old enough to see the horror behind the

Following Learn Out Loud's lead, I think today is a good day to post Steve Jobs's 2005 commencement address to Standford University graduates, sometimes called the "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish" speech. Stanford also posted the transcript here. As has been reported all over the Net, Jobs, who is an Apple co-founder and the company's CEO, has been battling pancreatic cancer and yesterday he

More than likely, any attempt to remove your personal data from Spokeo.com will only result in Spokeo having more information about you.Everytime I look around on Facebook lately, someone is posting a warning about Spokeo.com, the same website discussed in the video above. Spokeo is a personal information aggregator promoting itself as a search engine with the tagline "not your grandma's phone

Nintendo is warning buyers of its new 3DS that exposure to 3D gaming could stunt eye development in children under six years old. I saw this story at CNN, where the writer says it's possible to switch off the 3D functionality. Nintendo further warns:"... everyone who plays the 3-D gaming system to take periodic breaks from the games as often as every hour or 30 minutes."It seems all visual 3D

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyWikileaks founder Julian Assange says he designed the website exposing government "secrets" so that he would not know the identities of people who leak information to the site. Consequently, he tells NBC's Today show that he does not know Army Specialist Bradley Manning, 22, (pictured) the U.S. private who's been accused of

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, 39, who is receiving a flood of support from around the world, has been released on bail with tight restrictions, report news sources. Per Sky.com:He was granted conditional bail for £240,000, thanks in large part to an address being put forward where the Australian national could reside. ... Vaughn Smith, a former Army captain who founded and runs the journalist

CNN's John Sutter defines the term "cyber attack" in the video above and says a cyber attack is an attack that takes place online, in cyberspace, and not in the real world. He also says the term "cyber war" regarding the attacks in support of Wikileaks and Julian Assange is an exaggeration.These attacks generally involve bombarding a website's servers with request that cause its actual customers

Julian Assange has been arrested on those Swedish rape charges. Does this mean we can expect him to release that "poison pill"? The Daily Mail reported days ago that Assange would "release poison pill of damaging secrets if killed or arrested." CNN says it's been called a "doomsday file," and Assange calls it his insurance. It's an encrypted file that you need a password to open, and Wikileaks

When I wrote The Cylons Cometh at BlogHer, I had not yet heard about the caravan of driverless vans (video below).Four driverless electric vans successfully ended a 8,000-mile (13,000-kilometer) test drive from Italy to China — a modern-day version of Marco Polo's journey around the world — with their arrival at the Shanghai Expo on Thursday.One of the engineers in the MSNBC video talks about how