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Tweet The World Wide Web Consortium has approved Encrypted Media Extensions, a new internet DRM standard which has many people concerned, though all major browsers have been supporting it for years. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Parenting is tough. Not only are babies incapable of listening to your rationale pleas for sleep, but they are tiny, fragile things that require your constant vigilance and protection. Or at least that’s the messaging around parenting in the U.S. To support new parents an entire industry of products from baby monitors to sensors placed under the mattress have emerged. So of course someone decided to connect them. In…

Tweet A new system designed to combat copyright infringement was launched in the U.S. on Monday, a joint venture between content companies and internet service providers known as the Copyright Alert System. The name sounds harmless enough, and its supporters argue that it is an appropriate balance between copyright and an open internet — but critics argue that the so-called “six strikes” process is the thin edge of an increasingly…

Tweet A report by the Wall Street Journal has outlined anxiety within Google regarding Samsung’s massive marketshare within Android, causing many at Google to wonder where Samsung is headed. Read more… Neowin

Tweet The Federal Communications Commission proposal to open up a big swath of new spectrum for Wi-Fi is encountering opposition from an unlikely source: the auto industry. Carmakers aren’t against the idea of more unlicensed airwaves, but they are concerned that devices using those frequencies  would interfere with the talking car networks they want to launch in the next few years. Last month at CES, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced…