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Inside the Dark Net: Digitizing the cure for child pornography
“Almost everyone,” replies a Filipino woman in an interview on Showtime’s series Dark Net, episode 3, when she is asked how many kids in her neighborhood are earning money, or being forced by their elders to make money, by interacting with people on sex cams. “I hate foreigners,” she says, “using our children as commodities.” The ...
‘No, I’m Spartacus!’: It’s not just Apple vs. FBI, it’s Us vs. Them
Apple Inc. is in good company as it goes head to head in a legal battle with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) concerning the latter demanding the former to hack one of its iPhones. Apple did not comply, “delivering an epic F.U. to the Feds” in the words of our own Duncan Riley. A ...
If you don’t have $3,000 for Microsoft’s HoloLens developer kit you can at least experience the HoloLens emulator
Not everyone has a spare $3,000 for the Microsoft HoloLens Development Edition, which will start shipping in the U.S. and Canada March 30th. If that’s the case, and your yearning to get involved with writing apps for the headset then no sweat, Microsoft has announced a HoloLens Emulator will also be available for budding developers. ...
Facebook is making sure you’ll see more Live Videos in your News Feed
You can expect to see more Live Video content on your Facebook News Feed following the company’s latest move which will mean the videos appear higher in News Feeds as those videos are actually happening. The move, Facebook says, is due to popular demand – people apparently spend three times more time watching a live video than they ...
The future is holographic, and Microsoft HoloLens is here right now to prove that
While we knew last year that Microsoft’s augmented reality (AR) headset HoloLens wasn’t going to be released to the general public for some time, we also knew at the same time that the developer kit would be coming in the first quarter of 2016. This has now been set in stone following Microsoft’s announcement that ...
Microsoft gets Apple’s back in fight with FBI
Microsoft has come out and supported Apple Inc. in its ongoing struggle with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) concerning building a backdoor into its iOS. Microsoft had previously been quiet on the issue but the company President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith recently came out and said that Microsoft “wholeheartedly” supports Apple. On ...
Microsoft may have just made a very smart move getting its hands on mobile app development platform Xamarin
Microsoft just announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Xamarin, Inc. (named one of nine top start-ups running the internet), a platform provider for mobile app development. At the moment both companies have not disclosed the financial terms. The news is not a great shock as the two companies have worked together for some ...
Microsoft’s ingenious new keyboard app is a helpful cure for the frustrated phone user
It’s hard not to like Microsoft’s brilliant new Android keyboard app, ‘Hub Keyboard’, after you’ve watched the video demonstration of the app below. At first glance it’s a time-saver; it’s a headache reliever; it makes life in the productivity lane a little easier. The bad news is, after looking through early user reviews it seems ...
Inside the Dark Net episode 2: Hyper-connections mark the end of privacy as we know it
“We are in a consciousness crisis with technology,” Chris Dancy told SiliconANGLE, a man said to be more connected to computer technology than any other living human. Dancy had recently been featured in the second episode of the new series, Dark Net, thanks to his vigilant use of self-monitoring systems to live a healthier lifestyle. ...
Microsoft says RIP to its rather homeless video messaging app Skype Qik
Due to a bunch of updates for Skype, including group video chat for up to 25 people for mobile, Microsoft has decided to give its messaging app for Skype, released in 2014 and called Skype Qik, early retirement. In a blog post the Skype team summed-up the reason to get rid of Skype Qik saying, ...