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A soldier rides a donkey in Nineveh, Iraq. 2006. (photo: Peter van Agtmael)
Magnum photographer Peter van Agtmael has received the 2012 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. The annual grant aims to recognize a photographer who has “demonstrated an exemplary commitment to documenting the human condition in the spirit of Smith’s concerned photography and dedicated compassion.”
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Cyberspace has become the platform of the best and worst things that people can come up with when they’re online. While it’s a hotbed of game-changing ideas and artistic expression, it has also turned into a breeding ground for trolls and cyberthugs. That being said, well-meaning Pinoy lawmakers thought it best to pass Republic Act No. 10175 or The Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.But, wait! There’s a catch. This very same law that professes to protect us from those who would do us wrong via digital means also threatens to take away our freedom to say what we want.
Senator Tito Sotto proudly owned up to the fact that he was responsible for inserting the libel clause into the law. Senator Chiz Escudero called the insertion a “mistake” and has said that he’ll move to have the law repealed. Meanwhile, Senator TG Guingona (along with the other senators who didn’t back the law) continues to be against the law. For its part, Malacañang said President Noynoy Aquino thoroughly reviewed the law before he affixed his signature to it—a fact which strikes some people as strange. There are those who have remarked that if P-Noy’s father, Ninoy, was still around, he probably be among those protesting what has come to be called as “cyber martial law.”
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I-Pad docking station called ‘Venus of Cupertino” created by London-based designer,Scott Eaton.
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Apple has won a round of their ongoing battle with Samsung, scoring a complete four-patent victory at the US International Trade Commission.
Samsung had filed the case with the trade arbitrators alleging that Apple, with the production of its iPhone and iPad, had infringed upon four of the Korean smartphone and tablet maker’s patents relating to CDMA systems, packet-data reliability, phone-number dialing, and digital-document user interfaces.
Not so, said USITC judge James Gildea in anotice published on the commission’s website on Friday, which said that “no violation” had been made by Apple on any of the patents in question.
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GoDaddy, the domain registrar and Web hosting company, experienced outages Monday, perhaps taking millions of websites down as a result.
“Status Alert: Hey, all. We’re aware of the trouble people are having with our site. We’re working on it,” @GoDaddy tweeted.
While GoDaddy.com’s site is up and running, websites hosted by the company are still experiencing outages.
“Some services are back online,” a GoDaddy spokesperson told CBS News. “It’s been intermittent and impacted our site and some of our customer sites. It started at about 10 a.m. PT and we are working to restore all service.”
