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Tuesday March 6, 2012

UPDATE: Iran Court Orders New Trial in Spy Case

Iran's Supreme Court has ordered a new trial for a former American Marine sentenced to death in January.

Amir Mirzaei Hekmati had been convicted for allegedly being a CIA spy.

Among the more curious allegations was the suggestion Hekmati had worked for Kuma Games, a New York City based video game company.  Iran says he was producing propaganda for the American military there.

When Hekmati's connection to Kuma Games was first reported, Day 6 producer Dominic Girard explored the idea of video games a propaganda in a Day 6 documentary.  Here once again is that story, called Propaganda Games, in case you missed it the first time around.

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Categories: Day 6 Blog, Documentary, Exclusive, Foreign, Gaming, Tech, repost

 

Friday March 2, 2012

Startups at Sea

Getting a work visa for the United States can be a long, complicated process. And with the speed things move in the tech world, there's no time to wait. That's why some Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have a solution to cut through all the red tape. 

They call it Blueseed.  They propose anchoring a luxury cruise ship twelve miles off the coast of San Francisco. That would put it outside US legal jurisdiction, so foreign-born technology innovators could live, play, and work on their possibly billion-dollar ideas.

Max Marty, CEO of Blueseed, shares with Brent his vision for the offshore incubator.

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Friday March 2, 2012

Google Privacy Policy Explained

When Google was just a little-known start-up in Silicon Valley, it's motto was "Don't be evil."

Now that it's a ginormous presence on the internet with a controversial new privacy policy, many wonder if the motto has been forgotten.

But what are the changes to the privacy policy that have people on and offline in such an uproar.

Find out in this Day 6 Explainer with Rainey Reitman from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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• March 2012
  • Tue., 6 – UPDATE: Iran Court Orders New Trial in Spy Case
     
  • Fri., 2 – Startups at Sea
     
  • Fri., 2 – Google Privacy Policy Explained
     
• February 2012
  • Fri., 3 – Facebook Shares, Should I Buy It?
     
  • Fri., 3 – Sudden Wealth Syndrome
     
• January 2012
  • Fri., 13 – Episode 60 - War Games
     
• December 2011
  • Fri., 16 – Walter Isaacson on Steve Jobs: Heartbreaker of 2011?
     
• November 2011
  • Wed., 23 – Call of Duty Modern Warfare Widow Sells Husband (sort of)
     
• October 2011
  • Fri., 14 – Mark Bowden's "Worm: The First Digital World War" - Book Giveaway
     
  • Fri., 7 – Ep. 46 - Wall Street North
     
  • Thu., 6 – Jobs Death: "Mouse" Creator on Innovating With Steve
     
• September 2011
  • Fri., 16 – Episode 43 - EuroTrashed
     
  • Fri., 9 – Episode 42 - Day 6 Round 2
     
• June 2011
  • Thu., 16 – $500,000 stolen in alleged BitCoin heist
     
  • Fri., 3 – Interview: Are cyber attacks on the rise?
     
• April 2011
  • Thu., 21 – New Mining Frontier: The Deep Sea
     
  • Tue., 19 – Iran plans for "Halal" Internet
     
  • Sun., 10 – Neuro-Cinema: Brain Scans And The Future Of Movies
     
  • Fri., 1 – Investing In Canadian Election Markets
     
• February 2011
  • Tue., 15 – Interview: Facebook Not Big in Japan
     
  • Fri., 4 – Interview: Protesting? There's an app for that.