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Iranian drone flies straight over US carrier in Persian Gulf and takes pics
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Smile for your close-up, F/A-18s. (credit: IRNA)

Today, Iran's IRNA news agency broadcast video apparently taken from an Iranian Revolutionary Guard unmanned aircraft as it flew directly over an American aircraft carrier operating in the Persian Gulf. The US Navy has confirmed that an Iranian drone flew "directly over" the USS Harry S. Truman and near...

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Supreme Court takes up copyright case over resold textbooks—again
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Petitioner Supap Kirtsaeng in 2014. (credit: Doug Kari)

Supap Kirtsaeng built himself a business on eBay buying textbooks in Asia and reselling them to students in the US. That practice made him the target of a copyright lawsuit by John Wiley & Sons, a large textbook company that didn't like Kirtsaeng undercutting their US prices. Lawyers for Wiley said...

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Couple takes pics of Star Wars figure they bought, gets DMCA notice from Lucasfilm
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These aren't the figurines Lucasfilm is looking for. (credit: Star Wars Action News)

For the last decade, Marjorie Carvalho and her husband have produced Star Wars Action News, a podcast dedicated to Star Wars collectibles of all sorts. Predictably, they've had a lot to talk about, as waves of action figures and other collectibles have been launched in...

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Tech Moves: Former Concur exec takes over Shiftboard, Indochino gets a new chief, and more
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Sterling Wilson
— Early Concur executive Sterling Wilson is the new CEO of Seattle-based employee management software company Shiftboard. He joins the 13-year-old company as the Shiftboard founder and former CEO Bryan Lhuillier transitions to a Chief Product Officer role, a position he has held from time to time over the years. Shiftboard makes cloud-based tools to help organizations — from nonprofits to 10,000-person...
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This campaign takes racist comments and posts them in the trolls’ neighborhoods
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Criola
This is one way to deal with online haters. An organization in Brazil is publicly calling out people who post racist comments online. As the BBC reports, a civil rights group called Criola run by Afro-Brazilian women have launched the campaign called “Virtual racism, real consequences,” in which they take real online comments and post them on billboards for all to see....
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Marc Andreessen takes aim at Trump on Twitter
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Photo via Wikipedia/Donald Trump
One of Silicon Valley’s most prominent voices — Marc Andreessen — has taken to Twitter to express his disdain for Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. Here’s one of the biggest jabs, thanks to this big piece by Politico about grandfather Friedrich Trump, who ran a “kitchen and a bar and [that] advertised ‘private rooms for ladies’...
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