OSAKA, JAPAN — Only days after a new facial-recognition method of age-verification was introduced on cigarette vending machines in Japan, a reporter demonstrated the technology can be fooled far too easily.The reporter for Sankei Sports was able to fool one machine’s...

RALEIGH, NC — The latest entry in the Looking for Something to be Offended By file comes from North Carolina, where a 60-year-old technology teacher alerted the state to the horrible truth about the letters “WTF,” which sometimes appear on government issued and sanctioned...

NEW YORK, NY — What if they won a class action suit and nobody cared enough to cash in on it? That appears to be the crocodile tear laden tragedy faced by 11 law firms poised to profit from a non-existent outrage against sex in violent games.Attorney Seth Lesser is...

CINCINNATI, OH — Thomas Jefferson once wrote that “When the people fear the government, you have tyranny. When the government fears the people, you have liberty.” By that definition, Jefferson would find little liberty for those who sell adult materials in the state of Ohio...

NEW YORK, NY — In a move to make its mobile phones more relevant in a market fragmented by software diversity, Swedish handset manufacturer Nokia Corp. has offered $410 million to buy out its partners in Symbian Ltd. and “open up” the Symbian operating system.Traditionally,...

SAN JOSE, CA — eBay has delayed for a second time implementation of a controversial “PayPal only” payment policy in Australia after clashing with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission over potentially “anti-competitive effects” of the move.The change,...

CANOGA PARK, CA — The Free Speech Coalition’s annual fundraising gala will be October 11th at the Globe Theater at Universal Studios Hollywood, the adult industry trade association announced Monday. In recognition of the presidential election to follow less than one month...

CYBERSPACE — In a wired world security is a constant concern – and few should know that better than those at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Yet both of those sites were hacked recently – with...

BERKELEY, CA — Who is more altruistic: people inside or outside the adult entertainment industry? A pair of researchers from the University of California at Berkeley set out to answer that question during Cybernet Expo ’08 June 11th and 12th, and their results surprised...

NEW YORK, NY — Tera Patrick wasn’t even born when Russ Meyer released his infamous homage to busty women, fast cars, and violence – but if multiple Academy Award winning director Quentin Tarantino has anything to say about it, she’ll be kicking ass and taking names as...