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Charlie Ergen, chairman and co-founder of Dish Network, was the keynote speaker on the first night of the D:Dive Into Media conference in Dana Point, California., and without question, he’s going to be a tough act to follow. The hour-long conversation touched on everything from Ergen’s expertise at the blackjack table to his belief that there are just two kinds of people in the world — “those who get results, and those who make excuses” — but host Peter Kafka dove right into the major issue at hand: the Hopper. Head on past the break for a rundown of the interview.

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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea is believed to have conducted a widely anticipated nuclear test Tuesday, following an earthquake that monitoring agencies around the globe said appeared to be unnatural.

The South Korean Defense Ministry, which raised its military alert level after the quake, said it was trying to determine whether it was a test. Nuclear blasts can create tremors but they are distinct from those caused by natural earthquakes.

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When Raytheon isn’t busy building a railgun or tinkering with exoskeletons, it apparently spends some time coding software to help keep tabs on what folks are doing online. The Guardian got ahold of a video from 2010 that reveals a Raytheon employee demoing such software with the moniker Rapid Information Overlay Technology, or Riot for short. Instead of sifting through streams of tweets and Foursquare checkins to figure out a person’s haunts and schedule, Riot collates data for users and displays it in everything from maps (saved in .kml files) and charts. Riot is even savvy enough to pull out location information saved in the exif data of photos posted online. One visualization feature in the program arranges a target’s info in a spider web-like view and highlights connections between them and people they’ve communicated with online.

According to The Guardian, Raytheon shared the Riot tech with the US government and “industry” organizations in 2010 through a research and development initiative that aimed to build a national security system that could analyze “trillions of entities” online. Raytheon says it hasn’t sold the software to any clients, but we think this is a fine reminder that your friends, family and secret admirers may not be the only ones interested in your tweets and check-ins. Head past the jump to catch a video of Riot in action.

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