The Saudi messengers of hate on Twitter
Saudi clerics with millions of followers love to ‘smash skulls’ and ‘sever limbs’… Traditionally opposed to modern technology, a growing number of religious clerics in countries such as Saudi Arabia, are now using the likes of Twitter and Facebook to promote their messages. A study conducted by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, [...]
How a teenager from New Jersey took on the world’s largest tech companies… When Apple released the first iPhone in 2007, it was in exclusive partnership with the US network AT&T. A teenager from New Jersey had other plans though. George Hotz decided he wanted to use the phone on a different network, [...]
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People power 2.0 and how civilian tech helped to overthrow Gaddafi… After weeks of skirmishes in the Nafusa Mountains southwest of Tripoli, Sifaw Twawa and his brigade of freedom fighters are at a standstill. It’s a mid-April night in 2011, and Twawa’s men are frightened. Lightly armed and hidden only by trees, they [...]
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The ZX Spectrum is 30 years old… The ZX Spectrum is 30 years old. The successor to Sir Clive Sinclair’s ZX81 – at the time the world’s best selling consumer computer – it introduced colour “high resolution” graphics and sound. It also offered an extended version of Sinclair Basic, a computer language with [...]
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As technology pushes more and more print media online, one Indian newspaper is still written by hand… The earliest forms of newspaper were handwritten and now ‘The Musalman‘ probably is the last handwritten newspaper in the world. This Urdu language newspaper was established in 1927 by Chenab Syed Asmadullah Sahi and has been published daily [...]
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Kony 2012 may herald a new blueprint for activism, but let’s not pretend that awareness alone actually leads to intervention… We are all aware of it; it’s plastered all over twitter. It’s covering our newsfeeds. It’s an online campaign, possibly the most successful of all time, a brain child of U.S. based group [...]
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Government of the people, by the lobby groups, for the corporations… European officials probably thought that no-one would take much notice when they signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a controversial international treaty on intellectual property rights. Two months later, mass protests have erupted in cities all across Europe against the treaty, amid criticisms about [...]
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Even the artist who once painted the company’s walls could be worth $200m… The announcement of Facebook’s $5bn public offering has required the company to release a number of previously private details. Facebook has 845 million users, with 483 million of them logging on every day The graffiti artist who painted the company’s [...]
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