Today’s Links: Elizabethan-era book piracy vs. today’s. New Google keyboard version. $178 Windows convertible tablet

What Elizabethan Book Pirates in the 1500s Can Teach Us About Piracy Today (Vox) Back then, piracy was rampant—and for a simple reason. After the invention of the printing press in 1440, many countries restricted which printers could print which books. In England, Queen Elizabeth I gave certain printers a monopoly over key books like […]

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