Showing posts with label November 26. Show all posts
Showing posts with label November 26. Show all posts

Saturday, November 26, 2016

New photo from Facebook November 26, 2016 at 08:14PM

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Cyberculture agenda: “Digital Security Tips for Protesters

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Digital Security Tips for Protesters

After the election, individuals took to the streets across the country to express their outrage and disappointment at the result of the U.S. presidential election. Many protesters may not be aware of the unfortunate fact that exercising their First Amendment rights may open themselves up to certain risks. Those engaging in peaceful protest may be subject to search or arrest, have their movements and associations mapped, or otherwise become targets of surveillance and repression.

 

What Will an IPO Mean for Snapchat?

Snapchat’s parent company Snap Inc. has reportedly filed for an IPO. So what will that mean for the app?

 

If you believe one study, it’s not just fake news that polluted the internet during the US election… it’s bogus accounts, too. Researchers at the international Project on Computational Propaganda report that the use of politically minded Twitter bo…
AI Has Beaten Humans at Lipreading
A pair of new studies show that a machine can understand what you’re saying without hearing a sound.
The death of net neutrality begins today

Months later, when net neutrality comes and end, today is the day we’ll look back at as the one that started it all. If appointing a climate change contrarian to the EPA didn’t get your blood boiling, maybe President-elect Trump messing with where you get your porn will. Hell hath no fury like the people of the internet when you mess with their porn. It’s no secret Trump isn’t a fan of net neutrality. Today, he shattered any notions of fandom by appointing two long-time adversaries of the FCC to his transitional team — Jeffrey Eisenbach and Mark Jamison. Eisenbach…

The idea of owning a real Transformer is now a reality thanks to BMW. If you’ve got deep pockets, and a plane ticket to Abu Dhabi, you can own ‘Antimon,’ the BMW 3-series that transforms from car to robot in 30 seconds. “We want to show our power all over the world,” Turgat Alpagot, sales and marketing director for Letrons, the Turkish startup behind the transformer told CNN. “We think if we do something like this it’ll get great exposure all over the world.” It’s not drivable or street legal, but you can pilot Antimon by remote control.

Propaganda, psychological warfare, and real-time surveillance were all on the agenda at the Sixth Annual Conference on Social Media Within the Defence and Military Sector.

Artificial intelligence is not only reshaping the technology these tech giants use but how they organize and operate their businesses.

White nationalists on Twitter are readying themselves for a life without the social network.

Several prominent members of the “alt-right” were banned from the platform on Tuesday, including Richard Spencer, whom some consider to be the “father” of the internet-savvy white nationalist movement.

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In a rarely allowed rally last night, Women in Istanbul marched for the international day for the elimination of violence against women….

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PHOTO: Women in Istanbul march for the international day for the elimination of violence against women.
At least 1,134 women have been murdered in Turkey in the past five years, according to a website that keep tracks of femicides. The “kadincinayetleri.org” website counts the femicides that have been covered by the media between 2010 and 2015.

 

Turkey: Thousands protest against proposed child sex law

Protests are held in Istanbul at a bill to clear of statutory rape men who marry their victims.

Turkey: Motion ‘protecting child marriage’ draws debate

Critics accuse proposal of “encouraging child rape” but officials say it will protect those too young to marry legally.

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New photo from Facebook November 26, 2016 at 04:20PM

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Representative Democracy- Turkish style…

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This image is from yesterday’s Turkish Parliament. Images on the chairs belong to pro-Kurdish HDP deputies who are in jail at the moment…

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Since September 11 trustees have been appointed to 1 MHP municipality, 3 AKP municipalities and 34 DBP municipalities. 37 co-mayors from 27 DBP municipalities are under arrest as of November 17.

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Thursday, November 26, 2015

New photo from Facebook November 26, 2015 at 10:00PM

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New photo from Facebook November 26, 2015 at 09:01PM

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Giant billboard, instead of a cultural center, at the Taksim Square…

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AKM Used as Billboard
Poster of the movie “Ertuğrul 1890” was hung on AKM, which yet to be restored as of 2008.

 

photo by Nihan Bora

Istanbul set to host major gastronomic events

Sirha Istanbul, the benchmark event for hospitality and food service professionals, will take place at the Istanbul Congress Center on Nov. 26-28, 2015 .

Protesters gather outside Russian consulate in Istanbul

Close to 4 mln reside in İstanbul’s natural disaster-prone zones

Around 3.5 to 4 million people in the metropolitan area of İstanbul live in areas that are subject to the risks of landslide, tsunami and flooding, …

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Yet another dark day for Turkish media: Bülent Mumay fired, Can Dündar, Erdem Gül and Bülent Keneş face jail…

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An Istanbul prosecutor has demanded the arrest of daily Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Can Dündar and the newspaper’s Ankara representative Erdem Gül on Nov. 26 as part of an investigation into media reports about intelligence trucks bound for Syria

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Two editors of weekly news magazine Nokta were charged on Nov. 25 with “inciting an armed uprising against the Turkish government,” with the Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office demanding up to 20 years in prison for each of them

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An Istanbul prosecutor has demanded up to eight years and two months in jail for Today’s Zaman’s editor-in-chief, Bülent Keneş, for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on social media and in his statements

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