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India orders clampdown on Internet porn, sparks censorship debate

August 3, 2015 admin actress-during, adult-film, another-person, group-corp, said-on-monday, social-nuisance, takes-pictures

By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has blocked hundreds of adult websites to prevent pornography becoming a social nuisance, a government official said on Monday, sparking a debate about censorship and freedom in the world's largest democracy. In India's first big crackdown on Internet porn, service providers have been directed to block 857 websites, N.N. Kaul, a spokesman at the department of telecommunications, told Reuters

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Los Angeles police return Afghan immigrants’ lost wedding album

July 31, 2015 publisher airport, angeles, couple-landed, dobuzinskis, pedregon, terminal-last, wedding, work

By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Los Angeles airport police used Facebook to track down an Afghan immigrant couple who accidentally left their wedding album at the international terminal last year, leading to a ceremonial presentation this week of the long-lost memento, an official said on Friday. The couple landed at Los Angeles International Airport in September 2014 from Afghanistan, where the husband was a military interpreter and faced threats due to his work, said Rob Pedregon, a spokesman for Los Angeles Airport Police. On the day the couple flew into the airport, their wedding album was discovered tucked into a briefcase left in the international terminal, Pedregon said.

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Facebook CEO Zuckerberg and wife expecting a baby girl

July 31, 2015 publisher airport, angeles, couple-landed, daughter, facebook, mountain, mountain-view, page-on-friday, pedregon, pregnancy, priscilla-chan, san, wedding, zuckerberg

By Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are expecting a baby girl, he said on his Facebook page on Friday. Zuckerberg, 31, did not say when their daughter is due but said the pregnancy was far enough along that the risk of miscarriage was low.

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Texas Christian University student disciplined over social media comments

July 31, 2015 publisher after-posting, airport, baltimore, couple-landed, facebook, mountain, officials-said, said-on-friday, san, university

A Texas Christian University (TCU) student has been disciplined after posting online comments seen as racially offensive about current events, including rioting in Baltimore and the rise of the Islamic State, TCU officials said on Friday.

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Google refuses French order to apply ‘right to be forgotten’ globally

July 31, 2015 admin 30th-corrects, data-protection, european, exposing-itself, french, from-the-french, julia-fioretti, million-removal, request-search, ruling, search, search-engine, zurich

(This version of the July 30th corrects story to read “partly” of a political nature, not “mostly” in paragraph 10) By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Google Inc is refusing to bow to an order from the French privacy watchdog to scrub search results worldwide when users invoke their “right to be forgotten” online, it said on Thursday, exposing itself to possible fines. The French data protection authority, the CNIL, in June ordered the search engine group to de-list on request search results appearing under a person's name from all its websites, including Google.com. Google complied with the ruling and has since received more than a quarter of a million removal requests, according to its transparency report

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LinkedIn’s revenue beat fails to connect with investors

July 30, 2015 creative 30th-corrects, business, double-its, julia-fioretti, million-removal, mountain, request-search, said-it-now, search-engine, shares-were, widening-losses

LinkedIn's shares were down 3.9 percent in after-hours trading, however, as investors focused on the company's widening losses and an underwhelming full-year revenue forecast. LinkedIn has been spending heavily to acquire businesses and build up its sales and development teams in an effort to leverage off its 380 million members.

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Researcher says can hack GM’s OnStar app, open vehicle, start engine

July 30, 2015 creative app-inside, encinitas, general-motors, mobile-phone, mountain, request-search, said-it-now, saying-hackers, unlock-cars

By Jim Finkle and Bernie Woodall BOSTON/DETROIT (Reuters) – A researcher is advising drivers not to use a mobile app for General Motors Co's OnStar vehicle communications system, saying hackers can exploit a security flaw in the product to unlock cars and start engines remotely. “White-hat” hacker Samy Kamkar posted a video on Thursday saying he had figured out a way to “locate, unlock and remote-start” vehicles by intercepting communications between the OnStar RemoteLink mobile app and the OnStar service.

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Expedia beats Wall Street view, shares rise

July 30, 2015 publisher 449-6-million, expedia, general-motors, larger-dividend, media, mobile-phone, name-as-well, thomson-reuters

(Reuters) – Expedia Inc on Thursday posted a second-quarter profit above analysts' expectations and announced a larger dividend as travel bookings grow, sending its shares up more than 7 percent in after-market trade. Expedia, which became the world's largest online travel services company by bookings in the first quarter, earned $449.6 million in the second quarter. On an adjusted basis, it earned $118.6 million, or 89 cents per share, compared to analysts' average estimate of 84 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S

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NBCUniversal close to investing in BuzzFeed: source

July 30, 2015 publisher 449-6-million, employees-work, expedia, general-motors, larger-dividend, media, television-unit, thomson-reuters

Comcast Corp's NBCUniversal film and television unit is close to making an investment in online publisher BuzzFeed and is in talks to raise its stake in Vox Media, a person with knowledge of both sets of discussions said on Thursday.

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Facebook says drone ready for real-world testing later this year

July 30, 2015 creative aquila, couple-landed, internet, mountain, officials-said, remote-parts, san, thursday, will-provide, world, yasmeen

By Yasmeen Abutaleb MENLO PARK, Calif. (Reuters) – Facebook Inc announced on Thursday it has completed building its first full-scale drone, which has the wingspan of a Boeing 737 and will provide Internet access to the most remote parts of the world. The plane will weigh about 880 pounds (400 kg), said Yael Maguire, the company's engineering director of connectivity