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'Russian Federation', 'Russian' and 'Sergey Lavrov' translated into Ukrainian as (in English) 'Mordor', 'occupier' and 'sad little horse' respectively do to a "glitch" in Google Translate's software. Google has since apologized for the "mistranslations" and fixed the "glitch". :giggle: Google...

What are your thoughts on this problem: There is an out-of-control trolley heading towards 5 people. You can switch the track so it goes to another track, but there is 1 person there. Do you switch the track? There are no other options. Part 2: The trolley is heading towards 5 people. You...

Great video (check out last year's too if you haven't seen it yet): SAIEamakLoY

With all of this discussion over censoring sensitive or anger-prone speech and ideas of the internet and even radio by governments, one must wonder if the true sense of informative freedom and news generation is in danger because of these proposed strides toward centralization. The reason that...

In an ongoing class action lawsuit between a group of authors and Google, Federal Judge Danny Chin has yet to make a decision. The case involves Google's play to digitize thousands of out-of-publish books online for free, but some authors and copyright groups are claiming that it breaks their...

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/02/google.kansas.topeka/index.html?hpt=T2 :giggle: Ah, the fools created by capitalism.

In an ongoing class action lawsuit between a group of authors and Google, Federal Judge Danny Chin has yet to make a decision. The case involves Google's play to digitize thousands of out-of-publish books online for free, but some authors and copyright groups are claiming that it breaks their...

Google is considering pulling out of China after they discovered highly-sophisticated attacks on Gmail accounts of human rights activists coming from within China as well as attacks on several other corporations. The company is still investigating and has not officially said that the Chinese...