last decade

Christian Engstrom, one of the Pirate Party's elected officials in the EU Parliament, has a straightforward, but completely worthwhile read, about how copyright law today simply doesn't fit with what technology has enabled.

He worries that the laws are making nearly everyone a criminal -- and worse, that the direction of change has to make it even worse, not better.

For all the talk of how content creation is going down the drain due to lax copyright enforcement, it seems that everywhere we look, we just keep seeing more and more and more content creation.

The latest is a report that Facebook currently hosts 4% of all photos ever taken.

Specifically, it hosts 140 billion photos out of 3.5 trillion photos taken in history. Now, obviously, technology change is at work here.

Linux.com: Are you still taking screenshots? That is sooo last decade.

Night Vision Goggles technology has been advanced quickly over the last decade. Night vision contacts, however, are almost sci-fi material.

Over the last decade, most of us have slowly found ourselves increasingly dependent on a single type of battery: a lithium battery.

As cell phones have spread, so have large cell towers — those unsightly stalks of steel topped by transmitters and other electronics that sprouted across the country over the last decade.

BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen talks to CNN money to discuss the rapid growth of BitTorrent in the last decade. Among other things he says that he never really considered that BitTorrent could be used to distribute video, because there wasn’t really any video online at the time.

The CR-48 marks a huge transition by Google into several potential new markets that it has scarcely touched over the last decade. Hardware, operating systems,

The booming popularity of e-book readers has added a new focus to the piracy debate. As with MP3s in the late 90s, and video and movie files during the last decade, the technology to read digital books has become mainstream.