Beyond the log-in screen of Ramona Fricosu’s laptop computer lies what federal prosecutors say could be the key evidence in the bank-fraud case against her.
There’s only one problem: Prosecutors don’t know her password.
via Password case reframes Fifth Amendment rights in context of digital world – The Denver Post.
Two bills now pending in Congress—the PROTECT IP Act of 2011 Protect IP in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act SOPA in the House—represent the latest legislative attempts to address a serious global problem: large-scale online copyright and trademark infringement. Although the bills differ in certain respects, they share an underlying approach and an enforcement philosophy that pose grave constitutional problems and that could have potentially disastrous consequences for the stability and security of the Internet’s addressing system, for the principle of interconnectivity that has helped drive the Internet’s extraordinary growth, and for free expression.
Now scientists at M.I.T.’s Media Lab are using an ultrafast imaging system to capture light itself as it passes through liquids and objects, in effect snapping a picture in less than two-trillionths of a second.
via Speed of Light Lingers in Face of M.I.T. Media Lab Camera – NYTimes.com.
Check out these amazing before-and-after images. Hany Farid of Dartmouth has developed an algorithm that enables him to un-re-touch de-touch? photoshopped images to amazing effect
via Reality in the Age of Photoshop | Transparency Revolution.
A chance find has rescued the work of the camera-toting baby sitter, and gallery owners are taking notice
via Vivian Maier: The Unheralded Street Photographer | Photos | Smithsonian Magazine.
A journalism professor from Chicago says he was video recording police making an arrest Saturday night when the cops deleted his footage and threatened him with arrest.
via Chicago Police Delete Journalism Professor’s Video Footage Of Arrest | Pixiq.
As the technology that powers smartphone cameras has steadily improved, the point-and-shoot has become an endangered species. Taking pictures with a smartphone has become so popular, it even has its own name: iPhoneography, or smartphoneography for those with non-Apple mobile phones.
via Home & Garden | Add-ons turn smartphone into semi-pro camera | Seattle Times Newspaper.
New technology from Xerox can sort photos not just by their content but also according to their aesthetic qualities, such as which portraits are close-in and well-lit, or which wildlife shots are least cluttered.
via Beauty Now in the Eye of the Algorithm – Technology Review.
CNN is passing out pink slips in their DC, New York, Atlanta, Miami and Los Angeles offices following a three-year long review of the company’s workflow. Based on the wording of the internal memo sent out by CNN senior vice president Jack Womack, part of that analysis involved measuring the potential of leaning more heavily on the network’s citizen journalism program, iReport:
via CNN Photojournalists Lose Jobs to Cheaper, Better Cameras – Business – The Atlantic Wire.
Researchers at Duke University and Microsoft are offering a technological fix they say can help uncover if images have been doctored, and might even help find you a parking space.
via Local News | Tech researchers seek way to cull doctored images | Seattle Times Newspaper.