Huff Post: Alexis Kleinman — “I have 422 friends, yet I’m lonely.” That’s how writer and director Gary Turk starts his poetic tirade against technology, “Look Up.” He calls his very popular video “a spoken word film for an online generation.” With more than 11.6 million views on YouTube in only 10 days, […]
Source: BBC Dismissing the implications of highly intelligent machines could be humankind’s “worst mistake in history”, write astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, computer scientist Stuart Russell, and physicists Max Tegmark and Frank Wilczek in […]
Huff Post: by Taylor Casti — A marketing stunt for the upcoming Ubisoft game “Watch Dogs” is inadvertently allowing users to check how well they’ve set up their Facebook privacy settings. The campaign called “Digital Shadow”, which currently is available only in the US, requests permission to access a user’s account […]
Continue reading the main story in BBC Aerospace and Defence Boeing gets $4.6bn China plane order Australia: Second airport for Sydney Easyjet pledges 2,500 jobs at Luton Boeing 787 design […]
swissinfo.ch and agencies April 6, 2014 – 11:31 The United States pressured the watchmaking Swatch Group to open its factories in Switzerland to anti-terrorism experts, the chief executive has revealed in a newspaper interview. “They no doubt wanted to check if it was possible to conceal explosives, poison or […]
Source: CNN Money By James O’Toole @jtotoole April 4, 2014: 3:53 PM ET The ultra-slow Wi-Fi at your local coffee shop could soon be getting a big boost. Qualcomm (QCOM, Fortune 500) announced plans this […]
Facebook.com Today in Mighty Girl history, Hedy Lamarr, the glamorous movie star from the black-and-white era of film who co-invented a device that helped make possible the development of GPS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi technology, was born in 1914. Originally from Austria, the mathematically talented Lamarr moved to the US in […]
BBC: by Patrick Howse — Overuse of baby equipment and electronic screens can impede the physical and emotional development of under-threes, a charity has warned. What About The Children? (Watch?) says modern lifestyles could be harming infant brains. It highlights strapping small children into pushchairs, and the increased use of […]
Source: CNN Money By Adrian Covert @CNNMoneyTech March 13, 2014: 3:23 PM ET Microsoft knows that its Office software isn’t quite as crucial as it once was. But its decision to launch a cheaper Office 365 ‘Personal’ for $70 a year is perplexing at best. Office 365 Personal can be installed on […]
Latest Edward Snowden revelation is that Yahoo webcam videos have been scooped up. program codenamed Optic Nerve gathered millions of stills Dreamstime image By: Heather Mallick Columnist, Published on Mon Toronto star, Mar 03 2014 Whenever British journalist Luke Harding, working on his new book about spying whistle-blower Edward Snowden, […]
HONG KONG (CNNMoney) Yuan Ye has just sunk his $17,000 in life savings into an unusual investment: Yu’ebao, a fund run by Chinese e-commerce heavyweight Alibaba. Yuan, the owner of a […]
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Forbes: by James Lyne – This kind of malware is now all over the web and your chances of running in to it and being exploited are uncomfortably high. Some of the more widespread examples such as CryptoLocker even include a count down timer which claims if you don’t pay […]
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Source: the Local German hackers said on Monday they have been able to get past the new biometric identification system contained in the latest generation of Apple’s iconic iPhones. […]
Can the language barrier be breached? Google certainly thinks so: Under the leadership of a computer scientist from Germany, the company is making progress toward a universal translation tool. But […]