Author: mediahitman

This holiday season, if you shop at Benetton, you may be under surveillance. Of course, we are all pretty used to the idea of security cameras trained on the entrance of a store, or over a counter of particularly expensive goods, and we’ve become accustomed

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After this week’s earlier entry, Chinese Architecture, Old and New, I just had to run this short follow-up. Homeowners Luo Baogen and his wife refused to allow the government to demolish their home in Wenling, Zhejiang province, China

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By NBC News staff A different sort of research took place at the Detroit Public Library on Tuesday, as FBI officials armed with search warrants entered the library’s main offices and scoured through records, according to local news reports.

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By Wayne Besen Truth Wins Out expressed concern today that the International House of Prayer (IHOP) is whitewashing its close ties to cult leader Tyler Deaton, who is under suspicion for allegedly ordering a sect member to murder his wife, Bethany, who he feared was on the verge of revealing his cult’s secrets to her therapist.

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By Gary Merson Samsung’s 2012 top-of-the-line plasmas and LED HDTVs offer new features never before available within a television including a built-in, internally wired HD camera, twin microphones, face tracking and speech recognition. While these features give you unprecedented control over an HDTV, the devices themselves, more similar than ever to a personal computer, may allow hackers or even Samsung to see and hear you and your family, and collect extremely personal data.

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