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Published time: 11 Aug, 2017 19:05 A Danish inventor has been charged with killing a Swedish journalist that was onboard his homemade submarine when she was reported missing. The submarine sunk Friday after its owner, Peter Madsen, was rescued by a private boat but there was no trace of the woman. Madsen told police she […]
Shiva Ayyadurai, seen here in January 2017. (credit: Boston Globe / Getty Images News) History is not fixed; like memory itself, it is an act of reconstruction. Shiva Ayyadurai understands this. Ayyadurai has spent nearly six years publicly proclaiming himself the “inventor of e-mail.” But this claim about e-mail—as everyone but Ayyadurai’s supporters understand the […]
“Seedlip = like going to a hooker for a hug.” Ben Branson, the inventor of Seedlip, enjoyed that insultfrom the Twittersphere enough to retweet it. “I just thought it was genius,” he laughs. It gets at the prevailing obstacle to his big idea, he says: a variation on “What’s the point in that?” The point […]
Mike Masnick in 2012. (credit: Joel Sage / flickr) Michael Masnick, who founded the popular Techdirt blog, filed a motion (PDF) today asking for a defamation lawsuit against him to be thrown out. Masnick was sued last month by Shiva Ayyadurai, a scientist and entrepreneur who claims to have invented e-mail in 1978 at a medical […]
Enlarge (credit: Fairfax Media / Getty Images News) Shiva Ayyadurai (credit: Darlene DeVita) Shiva Ayyadurai, the man who says he invented e-mail, has already sued two different tech publications for writing about his controversial claims. Now he also wants posts that he believes are defamatory to be removed from at least one social media network. Charles […]
