The Anti-Piracy and Content Protection Summit in Los Angeles had a number of interesting speakers several week ago. Stephens has revealed his wish-list for future 4K content protection with Sony just confirming that its new 4K player will debut in weeks. The Sony CTO says that 4K players should have an Internet connection in order authenticate each video playback, in addition to watermarking files with the identity of the user. ...

Well, that certainly didn't go the way Apple would've liked. A UK judge presiding over one of many lawsuits involving Apple products—specifically concerning the Galaxy Tab line's alleged infringement of the iPad's design—has ordered Apple to publicly post on the UK version of its website that Samsung did not copy the iPad. Said the internet, "Oh, snap!"
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Windows Phone 8, the next-generation mobile operating system from Microsoft, was made official only a few weeks ago, yet the hype around it is already growing.

Apparently, there’s a good reason for that, as Microsoft didn’t reveal all the features and capabilities of the platform during the unveiling event in San Francisco the other week.
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Did Microsoft actually come up with a better design than Apple? Maybe the better question is, why not? ...

A bill already passed by the Senate and set to be rubber stamped by the House would make it mandatory for all new cars in the United States to be fitted with black box data recorders from 2015 onwards.
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The U.S. Navy is paying a company six figures to hack into used video game consoles and extract sensitive information. The tasks to be completed are for both offline and online data.
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