Own a piece of Occupy Wall Street
The owner of Occupied Wall Street Journal, one of the first chroniclers of the Occupy movement from inside the movement , is up for auction on GoDaddy to help finance a new site focusing on getting...
View ArticleMIT app gives humans vision like a vampire
Software from researchers at MIT selectively enhances color and motion in video images, bringing out details like a baby's pulse that are too faint or small to be seen under normal conditions. Now if...
View ArticleSmartphone cameras will crash the cloud, smother the Internet
Gartner predicts the amount of consumer data stored in the cloud will increase 1,080 percent by 2016, potentially smothering the cloud, the Internet and every advance in storage and bandwidth between...
View ArticleHow many gigabytes in a a zettabyte and why you need to know
Gartner's projection that consumers will own 4.1 zettabytes of content and put a third of it in the public cloud by 2016 raised one very pertinent question: What the heck is a zettabyte? Here's your...
View ArticleMI-5 chief warns of "astonishing," industrial-scale state-sponsored cybercrime
The head of the British MI-5 counter-intelligence agency warned yesterday that state-sponsored efforts at cyberattacks had escalated into industrial-scale events involving thousands of people. Who is...
View ArticleU.K. trial tests whether jokes on Twitter are jokes, or threats
@stephenfry: God I hope common sense & natural justice prevail #TwitterJokeTrial @Joannechocolat:</a> "All writers should be following #twitterjoketrial. The future of humour, hyperbole and...
View ArticleNew tools finally give users a way to enforce their own privacy
A rush of new products are designed to add "military grade" encryption to email, text messages and corporate data. None are perfect; none are revolutionary. Collectively they represent acceptance, for...
View ArticleHacked drones could become missiles over U.S., researchers warn
The FAA's plan to allow as many as 30,000 observation drones to fly over the U.S. by 2015 could be catastrophic, especially the big planes FedEx plans to use to cut delivery costs. GPS spoofing can...
View ArticleYear's coolest computer display is made from a soap bubble
This year's coolest digital-image display is made from bubbles, not solid materials, whose texture, transparency and other characteristics can be tuned using ultrasound to make a perfect surface for...
View ArticleWeb site security improves from appalling to merely bad
Commercial web sites show impressive gains in security during recent years, but only if you compare the 1,100 serious vulnerabilities the average site suffered during 2007 compared to 79 now. That's a...
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