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Mark Zuckerberg et "Hoodiegate", François Hollande et "Notmarriedgate"
En vue de préparer l'introduction de Facebook en bourse le 18 mai prochain, Mark Zuckerberg sillonne les grandes villes américaines, se présentant devant les investisseurs vêtu d'un hoodie (sweat à capuche).

Une grande décontraction qui a choqué Michael Pachter, analyste pour Wedbush Securities, qui y voit un un signe d'immaturité et un manque de respect pour les institutions auxquelles il s'adresse.

Emily Turrettini pour Le Huffington Post


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Australian passengers flouting mobile phone ban in the skies
Australian passengers are repeatedly ignoring safety bans on mobile phones and using their devices mid-flight, the national air safety investigator has found, reports News.com.au.

quotemarksright.jpgPassengers have been caught using their mobile phones more than 500 times since the beginning of last year on just one airline, a report by the Australian Transportation Safety Bureau (ATSB) says.

The ATSB investigation stemmed from a passenger complaint made through its confidential reporting scheme, REPCON, about others texting and using the internet on their mobiles during flights from Sydney to Melbourne.

Concern was raised that cabin crew may not be taking the safety matter seriously and had failed to adequately warn passengers to turn off electrical devices or put them in flight mode.

The airline responded, saying the “hundreds of reports that come through each year” from their staff showed cabin crew and members of the public took the issue seriously.quotesmarksleft.jpg

ATSB: Using mobile devices during flight - REPCON report

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Music labels force pioneering MP3tunes into bankruptcy
MP3tunes.png MP3tunes, a music locker service that has spent years locked in litigation with major record labels, announced last week that it was closing up shop.

quotemarksright.jpgThe startup scored a partial victory in court last year, helping to establish the legality of cloud music services in the process. But founder Michael Robertson says that "four and a half years of legal torment" forced his company to file for bankruptcy on April 27.quotesmarksleft.jpg

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A Camera App That Gets to Know Your Friends' Faces
mza_5601186186928902973.jpeg A new app reminds us that facial recognition is the cutting edge of what is possible versus what we're comfortable with. MIT Technology Review reports.

quotemarksright.jpgFor a couple of years, Face.com has offered websites and apps a facial-recognition service that can identify people in photographs, figure out how many faces there are in the picture, which is male or female, and how old they might be. Facebook is widely believed to be one of its customers, though Face.com refuses to comment on their relationship.

But with mobile photo sharing gaining popularity, Face.com CEO Gil Hirsch says the company—which started out by building face-finding and -tagging Facebook apps—wanted to build a mobile app that, unlike existing apps that use the company's technology, would give users real-time feedback about who their cell-phone camera is pointed at. It has done so with Klik, a free smart-phone camera app with the ability to recognize faces in real time and, if it can't recognize them, learn who it is you're shooting.quotesmarksleft.jpg

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Pirate Pay torrent 'blocker' backed by Microsoft
pirate-pay.png A Russian company has developed software it says can disrupt and prevent people from downloading pirated content, reports the BBC.

quotemarksright.jpgPirate Pay has been backed by Microsoft and has so far worked with Walt Disney Studios and Sony Pictures to stop "thousands" of downloads.

The tool poses as real bit torrent users but then "confuses" peer-to-peer networks, causing disconnections.

Critics argue that the method will be ineffective in the long term.quotesmarksleft.jpg

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