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The latest installment of the snowden files published in the "washington post" this weekend exposed the vast number of innocent americans caught up in the nsa internet surveillance dragnet and for first time detailed the kind of intimate correspondence that has been collected and stored by the nsa. a four-month analysis of 160,000 e-mails provided by snowden led the post to conclude that approximately 90% of those whose data was collected were regular web users with no ties to terrorist activities. swept up alongside detailed activity were the every day activities of ordinary americans, ment...

Right? now people are just shopping online on monday. it was also the biggest on the biggest online shopping day ever -- or she is allergic to the supreme court. >> declining to hear a case that affect all online shoppers. sales taxes and why you should be paying it. states lose $2 billion a year from uncollected tax from web users. the supreme court decided yesterday not to get involved in appeals from amazon.com and overstock.com. the court let ruling from internet retailers to collect sales taxes even if they have no physical presence in the state. do you follow me? the issue effectively en...

Countries and cultures and often acquiring it in not so lovely ways. the author of the j. paul getty trust explains why the museum like the metropolitan museum are essential to understanding the modern world, globalization and diverse cultures and a force for good. it is a brilliant book, brief and very well written. now for the last look. it's tough to read the mood of an entire nation but even tougher with the traditionally stoic chinese. is the national mood cheery or glum? are they as a nation excited or mellow? now, we have a way to know because the so-called water cube from the 2008 olym...

The artist and designer have co coated the building with l.e.d. lights that change based on how the chinese people feel. how do we know? big data, of course, from china's web users of which there are nearly 600 million. each day software analyzes millions of emoticons from sites like the chinese version of twitter. they analyze data and control the pace and brightness of the lights. fast pulses for a more excited populous, a softer glow for a calm country. next, new world meets old world. the colors, yellows, reds, blues, purples are determined from the ancient chinese text. what it may lack i...

I don't know why. i don't think we know enough about this case. but this is not a new fact scenario. date rape, and wendy will agree with me, has been around forever. but right now what we are seeing is this kind of date rape or teens drinking in combination with rape and then social media. and it is just these two worlds being hurled together. it is the worst possible circumstance. and it is something that we need to start talking about more. we have been talking about bullying, yes. but we now need to start talking about the sexual assault of young women as well. >> sunny, wendy, thank you v...