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A US Senate hearing Wednesday highlighted concern over the growing use of facial recognition technologies, both for law enforcement use and in big social networks like Facebook.
Virginia voted this year to close the so-called “Amazon loophole,” which allows the online retailer to avoid paying the same local sales taxes that brick-and-mortar establishments charge. California and Texas have taken steps to do the same.
As government agencies in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia push for increased surveillance powers, one pioneering American is pushing back. New York-based entrepreneur Nicholas Merrill is making progress on a project he
Frustrated by the lack of impact from Anonymous’ otherwise famous hacks and data dumps, and the slow pace of material coming out of WikiLeaks, participants in the Anonymous collective have launched a WikiLeaks-like site called Par:AnoIA
Apple’s 2012 Friday the Thirteenth turned memorable for the company yesterday with news outside Apple traveling fast and furious that a hacker was offering instructions on a YouTube video, telling iOS users how to wrest free access to paid iOS app co
As government agencies in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia push for increased surveillance powers, one pioneering American is pushing back.
Facebook and other social platforms are watching users’ chats for criminal activity and notifying police if any suspicious behavior is detected. It begins with scanning software that monitors chats for words or phrases
Google is hiring up to expand its Internet access business – called Google Fiber – beyond its testing grounds of Kansas City, according Capstone Investments analyst Rory Maher.
Surface, Microsoft's iPad competitor, will be available for sale in October and a lot is riding on it
Friends, it happend again. Back on June 1, Google flagged the Daily Paul as being a distributor of malware. Today it happened again.
Yahoo is looking into a major hack that slurped up the usernames and passwords of 450,000 accounts Wednesday. According to the security firm TrustedSec, a hacking group known as D33D Company picked up the passwords from Yahoo Voices, the Sunnyvale
Supreme Court Lets Stand Student's $675,000 Penalty For Downloading ...
Facebook and Yahoo have agreed to settle a patent dispute, averting a potentially lengthy battle over the technology running two of the Internet's most popular destinations.
Ron and Rand Paul are set to shift the central focus of their family's long libertarian crusade to a new cause: Internet Freedom. KY Senator Rand and his father Ron Paul, who has not yet formally conceded the GOP presidential nomination
Amazon.com acquires a mapping service.
As money floods into their market, and the stakes get ever higher, app makers are getting paranoid. Paranoid that competitors are buying traffic spikes, using porn to attract users, and spamming everyone and their mom on the way to the top of the lea
Cisco Systems told users of its new high-end home routers -- in a roundabout way -- they couldn't use their routers for porn or to send certain types of e-mail and a whole list of other things.
Starting that day, computers still infected with the notorious DNSChanger malware will be unable to connect to websites.
Twitter will provide biannual reports about U.S. and foreign government demands for information about its users, just as Google has been doing for the past two years. U.S. government agencies accounted for most of the inquiries
Ward Cunningham, the creator of the wiki, is proud of his invention. “We changed the world together,” he says of those who contributed to his software development site C2, which spawned the online collaboration software that underpins Wikipedia and c
Newcastle crown court heard Anton Vickerman’s site had up to 400,000 users a day and made about £35,000 a month in revenue. While UK prosecutors did not pursue a case on copyright offences, Vickerman was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud and face
As we upload more and more videos to the Internet—one hour of new video every second to YouTube alone—experts are finding new ways to mine them.
A court in New Zealand has ruled that the search warrants used by New Zealand police when they raided the home of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom were invalid.
An unsecured wifi network triggered a SWAT team raid on the wrong home in Evansville, Indiana last week after officers began investigating specific threats made in an online forum.
A court in New Zealand has ruled that the search warrants used by New Zealand police when they raided the home of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom were invalid.
Some 60m euro is stolen from bank accounts in a massive cyber raid, after fraudsters raid dozens of banks around the world.
Microsoft has agreed to purchase Yammer, a San Francisco startup that offers a Facebook-like social network designed specifically for businesses.
NASA Eyes on the Solar System
Two British hackers pleaded guilty in a London court to plotting attacks against computers of international firms, law enforcement bodies and government agencies including the CIA, in a cyber crime spree that gained global attention.
The addition of Internet radio to the music service's iPhone app could also be a boon to its bottom line.
