News of the Week; March 19, 2014

1. The Madden ambulance, and other features the NFL made EA remove or tweak

2. Double Fine Unchains Game IP, Fans Work To Make The Game For Them

3. How Kinect Can Help Stroke Victims

4. Xbox One, PS4 drive US retail sales up 9% in February – NPD

5. PS4 hardware, software, accessories see rare price increase in Canada

6. Xbox One approaches US sales parity with PS4 during February

7. LEGO franchise has sold 1.6m games since 2013

8. SimCity can now be played offline

9. Before GDC, academics skewer the games criticism industry

10. Interview: David Craddock (Stay Awhile And Listen) – A History of Blizzard Entertainment

11. Twitch: When Watching Beats Playing

12. This Guy Makes Millions Playing Video Games on YouTube

13. Laralyn McWilliams: “It was time to be willing to stand up”

14. Prominent GitHub Engineer Julie Ann Horvath Quits, Alleging Gender-Based Harassment

15. GitHub Puts Co-Founder On Leave After Harassment Allegations

16. Report: NSA Plans to Infect ‘Millions of Computers’ With Malware Uncovered

17. Are Google, Facebook and Twitter the Reason Mass Surveillance is Possible?

18. U.S. To Give Up Key Internet Governance Role

19. Yes, online anonymity is hard — but like anything valuable, it is worth fighting for

20. If We’re Going To Change DMCA’s ‘Notice & Takedown,’ Let’s Focus On How Widely It’s Abused

21. My long, sad Garcia v. Google post

22. Garcia v. Google: Works Within Works

23. It’s Over! Viacom and Google Settle YouTube Lawsuit.

24. Civil Rights Principles for the Era of Big Data

25. Everyone Wins With Copyright Takedown Notices — Except the Public

26. Copyright Trolling, An Empirical Study

27. Can the Canadian UGC Exception Be Transplanted Abroad?

28. The Web We Want: Could Canada Lead on a Digital Bill of Rights?

29. How Bitcoin Cyberpunk’d Us

30. The Sword, the Printing Press, and the Algorithm: Three Technologies That Changed the World

31. The Future May Be Getting Close to Reality in Vancouver, With D-Wave and General Fusion

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