So, that video exposing Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbels complete ignorance of the internet? The one where they literally ask “What is the internet?” NBCs canned the person responsible for the leak. Hey NBC—it was 1994. Chill out.According to a tweet from Washington Post columnist Rob Pegoraro, the NBC employee was fired for letting the video spread across the internet—whatever the hell the internet is, anyway—and the network is now desperately trying to pull down the footage. To which we say, again, chill out. If the video were from 2011, then there might be a legitimate reason to raise an eyebrow at Gumbels consternated attempts to decipher that bizarre, swirly hieroglyph, the @ sign. But its from seventeen years ago. Take a joke. Katies early-90s haircut is more embarrassing than her knowledge of computers. [via Tech Crunch]
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Contradicting earlier reports suggesting AT&T might enable Apple’s new Personal Hotspot feature on February 13th, which would require a release of iOS 4.3 on or before that date, MacStories reports that Apple is set to issue the new software a day later on Valentine’s Day. The Apple enthusiast blog cites a reliable source in stating that Apple will release iOS 4.3 at 10:00AM PST on February 14th. Other unconfirmed reports have suggested that the new OS build would be made available before February 10th, when Verizon Wireless’ iPhone 4 is set to launch. Among the new features expected to be introduced in iOS 4.3 are AirPlay support for third-party native apps and Web apps, a new option to configure the iPad’s slide switch as mute or rotation lock, and of course Apple’s Personal Hotspot function, which turns the iPhone into a portable wireless modem.
This oddly fascinating metropolis is actually a very efficient waste management system: food scraps are fed to livestock, what can be repaired is, and everything else is recycled, sold for scrap, or burned for fuel. The Zabbaleen live at poverty levels but live a long-held tradition of scavenging as skill. Not surprisignly, many photographers have become facinated with the community.Bas Princen recently displayed a photo at the Netherlands Architecture Institute. Klavs Bo Christensen has a stunning collection of black and white images on Lightstalkers. Alexander Heilner documents a drearier day-to-day on Marketplace. At every angle, Garbage City feels like what the world would look like if someone grabbed it by the corner and shook it.Cairo has attempted to replace this mass of independent workers with multinational waste management corporations, putting an already impoverished community at risk. To make matters worse, the government ordered a widespread slaughter of pigs earlier this year in an attempt to curtail the potential spread of swine flu. These are the same pigs to whom the Zabbaleen fed compotable waste. The result has reportedly bee
Hulu has announced that it has closed a major deal with Viacom, the owner of Comedy Central, VH1, BET and TV Land. As part of the arrangement, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report will be making their triumphant return to Hulu.
According to a PDF memo available on Verizon Wireless’ website for now, the company will begin to throttle the data-throughput speeds of customers that consume an “extraordinary amount of data” and “seamlessly” optimize content for smartphones. Hit the jump to read all the details.In regards to data throttling, the memo reads:
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