Supercomputers aren’t what they used to be. The Chinese are building a supercomputer with their own microprocessors, shunning American chip giants Intel and AMD. The Spanish are building one with cellphone chips.
The rootkit belongs to a company called Carrier IQ and it seems that it has low-level access to the system that allows it to spy on pretty much everything that you do with your handset. This, on the face of it, seems like an extremely serious breach
After watching this video you will suspect every photograph of "The Truth". "We all know about photoshopping and the way it has made photographic "evidence" the least rather than the most believable indicator of underlying reality."
On Wednesday morning, Adobe delivered the eulogy for its multi-media Flash platform for mobile, stating the company would no longer invest resources in porting its once-indispensable cross-browser technology to smartphones and tablets.
When every cellphone can record video and take pictures, everyone is a potential news source. Reporter Paul Lewis tells two stories that show us the future of investigative journalism.
(Google) How would you like to fund this or buy the company?" And they came back and said, "We're really sorry, but our whole business plan is based on knowing everything about everybody. So this goes against our business plan."
Fewer than 10 minutes of that crucial videotaped conversation made it into Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires, but the rest — believed to be lost in shipping — is now heading for movie theaters Nov. 16 and 17.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a new volume of its roadmap aimed at accelerating the adoption of its previously released Federal Cloud Computing Strategy.
As Moore predicted, computers continue to become exponentially faster, while their components have become much cheaper. William Nordhaus, an economist at Yale University, examined 100s of devices—from the first computer to the Apple II to modern PCs—
For the past few years fears have been mounting amongst the top Internet security experts in the world that a cyber war could break out that is 'catastrophic' to the entire integrity of the Web.
Now, one of the leading experts, the Russian math g
Tech Tonic: Yesterday we looked at the creative process behind making an app. In Part II of our industry of apps series with Anthony DeRosa, what makes an app succeed?
A quick trailer I cut together of scenes from TNT's The Pirates of Silicon Valley. Cut and edited to the original trailer for The Social Network. I sampled some footage of old Windows/Mac operating system shots for the beginning. I personally think t
Futurists like Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil have argued that the world is rapidly approaching a tipping point, where the accelerating pace of smarter and smarter machines will soon outrun all human capabilities.
The outage started in RIM's European data center, and cascaded across the world. Mr. Lazaridis said the outage was the largest in its history and likely caused by a hardware problem. "We don't know why the switch failed in the particular way that it
The people who work at IBM's Emerging Technologies lab in Winchester, England can read minds and move things with mere thought. Four hundred years ago they would have been burned at the stake. But these high-tech sorcerers aren't in league with Bee
(Reuters) - Facebook released its long-awaited iPad app on Monday and introduced support for social games on the mobile versions of its online service.
I come neither to praise the QR code nor to bury it, but rather to heap on some fresh data that might help us to find a middle ground in this debate. In addition, I'll provide some actionable insights for how marketers can make QR experiences work be
Despite multibillion-dollar investments in cybersecurity, one of its root problems has been largely ignored: who are the people who write malicious code?
Effusions of gamma rays, clouds of X-rays, “filaments, clouds, shells”, all known technically, if I recall, as space gush. Columbia Hubble Fellow Joshua Peek collaborated with app developer Xperia to make an Android app, The Invisible Universe
Finally the CopBlock Android app is here!!! Before we put it into the Android market we wanted to release it to get some feedback and see how you — our beta testers — like it. If we receive positive feedback we’ll upload it to the android market next
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