Topic: MUSIK - on September 11, 2013 at 3:03:00 PM CEST
An Oral History of Electronic Music in East Germany
In conjunction with RBMA Radio’s September pop-up station in Berlin, this month we’re taking a deep dive into German music history. Today, we present the English translation of an article that first appeared in Groove. A few years ago Florian Sievers compiled Mandarinen Träume: Electronic Escapes from the Deutsche Demokraktische Republik 1981-1989 for the Permanent Vacation label. Upon its release, he tracked down the artists responsible for an oral history of electronic music in East Germany before the Wall fell.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 11, 2013 at 3:01:00 PM CEST
Drogendealer im Görlitzer Park: Das grüne Experiment
Die Grünen wollen Cannabis im Görlitzer Park in Berlin legal verkaufen, die CDU will das Grundstück einzäunen: Am Streit um den richtigen Umgang mit Drogendealern zeigen sich die Linien der deutschen Drogenpolitik. "Ich will den Verkauf kontrollieren", sagt Bezirksbürgermeisterin Herrmann.
Berlin - Bis zum ersten Angebot dauert es keine 20 Schritte: "Dope?", fragt der junge Mann kurz hinter dem Eingang zum Görlitzer Park. Zehn Meter weiter wartet schon der nächste Dealer auf Kundschaft: "Brauchst du was?"
Ein Wochentag im "Görli", wie sie den Park hier in Berlin-Kreuzberg nennen. Es ist gerade mal 10.30 Uhr, doch die Dealer sind schon da. Sie sind immer da, an manchen Tagen bis zu hundert, so schätzt die Polizei. Massive Razzien blieben wirkungslos, nach kurzer Zeit waren die meisten Verkäufer - oder Nachrücker - zurück an ihrem Platz.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 10, 2013 at 4:29:00 PM CEST
Afghanistan's cannabis production rises
The amount of Afghan farmland planted with cannabis fell by nearly a fifth last year after one province launched a fierce eradication campaign, but a bumper crop meant that actual production rose compared with 2011, according to the UN.
Officials in southern Uruzgan province, which borders Kandahar and Helmand, largely stamped out farming of the drug because of worries it was financing the Taliban. In 2011 there were over 1,000 hectares of the crop there, but last year under 100 hectares were sown.
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Topic: MUSIK - on September 10, 2013 at 2:49:00 PM CEST
Elvis Costello & the Roots – Wise Up Ghost: Exclusive album stream
Fans of pop trivia will know that Elvis Costello's first-ever claim to fame was that he contributed backing vocals to Secret Lemonade Drinker, the song his dad, Ross MacManus, performed for an R White's Lemonade TV advert in the 70s. Several decades later, ?uestlove of the Roots used this knowledge to woo Costello – covering the song when the latter walked on stage as a guest on the Jimmy Fallon show on US TV, where the group are installed as the in-house band.
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Topic: PHOTO - on September 10, 2013 at 2:45:00 PM CEST
Einer flog über den Moskauer Kreml
(22 Fotos)
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Topic: LEGO - on September 10, 2013 at 2:40:00 PM CEST
LEGO: Can You Explain It?
Here are three impossible #LEGO constructions for you to solve. Can you explain them?
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Topic: GFX - on September 10, 2013 at 2:38:00 PM CEST
Manipulating objects in photos in 3D
This is a bit of a mindblower...this software presented at SIGGRAPH Asia lets you pluck objects out of photos and edit them as if they were in 3D.
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 10, 2013 at 2:36:00 PM CEST
Yahoo files lawsuit against NSA over user data requests
Yahoo on Monday joined other US technology giants in launching legal action against the federal government over the NSA surveillance revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Yahoo filed a suit in the foreign intelligence surveillance (Fisa) court, which provides the legal framework for NSA surveillance, to allow the company to make public the number of data requests it receives per year from the spy agency.
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 9, 2013 at 5:10:00 PM CEST
NSA hat angeblich Infrastruktur von Google und SWIFT gehackt
Die NSA spioniert gezielt interne Netzwerke großer Unternehmen, fremder Regierungen und von Finanzinstitutionen aus. Das berichtet der brasilianische Fernsehsender Globo unter Berufung auf neue Dokumente des NSA-Whistleblowers Edward Snowden. In einer Auflistung geknackter Netzwerke findet sich demnach unter anderem das des größten brasilianischen Erdölunternehmens Petrobras, die Infrastruktur von Google, ein internes Netz des französischen Außenministeriums und das Netzwerk von SWIFT, über das alle länderübergreifenden Finanztransaktionen laufen. Andere Ziele habe der Journalist Glenn Greenwald zum Schutz von US-Interessen vor der Übergabe des Dokuments geschwärzt.
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Topic: CARS - on September 9, 2013 at 3:48:00 PM CEST
1.100 PS - Semi Truck Drift Gymkhana 1
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 9, 2013 at 2:37:00 PM CEST
How to foil NSA sabotage: use a dead man's switch
The more we learn about the breadth and depth of the NSA and GCHQ's programmes of spying on the general public, the more alarming it all becomes. The most recent stories about the deliberate sabotage of security technology are the full stop at the end of a sentence that started on 8 August, when the founder of Lavabit (the privacy oriented email provider used by whistleblower Edward Snowden) abruptly shut down, with its founder, Ladar Levison, obliquely implying that he'd been ordered to secretly subvert his own system to compromise his users' privacy.
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Topic: Green - on September 9, 2013 at 1:25:00 PM CEST
Formula E to use Qualcomm technologies in electric cars
Smartphone chipmaker Qualcomm has signed a sponsorship deal with the forthcoming Formula E championship.
The FIA international motorsports body plans to launch the electric-car competition next year as an alternative to Formula 1.
Qualcomm will provide wireless-charging and augmented-reality technology to help the teams taking part and the public watching the races.
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