I fear the Apocalypse may be here. No, don't worry; this has nothing to do with our recent Presidential election. Many others have already opined on that, from all perspectives, and I'll leave any further discussion about it to them. No, what struck a nerve with me is something that drew much less attention: a U.S. university has given out what is believed to be the first varsity scholarship for esports. That's crazy, right? We know what college sports are, and they're not esports. Are esports even sports? Why would a university be giving out athletic scholarships in them?...
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FCC's Wheeler Says That If These Lame Net Neutrality Rules Don't Work, He'll Implement The Real Rules Next Time
Mike Masnick | Tech Dirt | April 30, 2014
Following his weak attempt to diffuse concerns about his bogus "open internet" rules, FCC boss Tom Wheeler has decided to try again, by basically repeating what he said last week with slightly stronger language about how he won't let broadband providers violate net neutrality. Of course, as many people have explained, the problem is that the new rules clearly aren't strong enough, and leave open all sorts of ways to kill off basic neutrality online.
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Firefox OS To Fuel Panasonic TVs, Chromecast-Like Devices
Eric Brown | LinuxGizmos.com | January 7, 2015
Panasonic will embed Firefox OS in its 2015 smart TVs, and Matchstick announced a Chromecast-like Firefox OS platform, to be used by Philips/AOC and TCL...
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