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H+ Teaser Video: The H is for Post-Apocalyptic Transhumanism
Science fiction has always been a gold mine for the hopes and dreams of geeks everywhere—in fact, people might still think about the whole meme of “It’s the 21st century, where’s my flying cars?” One of the aspects of data technology is that it helps us become more than human, in fact, every device that ...
How Does Enterprise Solve “The Dropbox Problem” ShareFile Provider Citrix Speaks
It’s been a lot like the poem The Highwayman recently with the IT industry a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas and as a result many in enterprise have been looking to how to provide cloud locker services to their employees and also maintain a secure perimeter. New, shiny applications have always found their way ...
Hacker Dojo Auctions Off Its Geek Smarts for Charity
Geeks have always been greater than the sum of their stereotypes and the developer community center Hacker Dojo is taking that to the next level. The idea of an incubator isn’t one lost on us technological folks and bringing together great minds to saunas and summits or simply setting aside a space to be a ...
Dropbox Acknowledges Employee Hacked; Threats Don’t Always Hit the Clients Directly
Over the recent weeks, fears of a breach at Dropbox fueled a great deal of speculation when clients of the cloud-storage service discovered an increase in spam coming to e-mail addresses they registered there. To their credit, Dropbox quickly got the ball rolling on an investigation into what happened and how they could have leaked ...
What We can Learn from What Netflix Learned from the AWS Failure
Late in June (last month) the Amazon Web Services suffered a catastrophic series of failures often now referred to as an “AWS Storm” and Netflix found themselves caught up in the middle of it as their own servers were intimately linked to Amazon’s. Of course, an actual storm caused the AWS storm, but the effects ...
Where We Can Go With Augmented Reality: The Spartan Gamified World Revisited in SIGHT
With Google Glasses and other potential competing products coming into the limelight, the technological consciousness is going to slowly merge with the expectations set for us by science fiction books and futurist designs. To understand how one element of augmented reality—the ability to overlay UIs and instructions on vision—can affect our social interaction and our ...
MakerBot Gives Life to the Physible and Decade-Lost Nostalgia with the Mixtape Kit
MakerBot, the builder of a 3D printer-extruder platform for consumers, is mixing it up (almost literally) by releasing a mixtape kit. The kit enables the MakerBot to build a USB flash-player version of the vintage concept of making a cassette tape for your friend filled with your favorite music. Nowadays cassettes tapes are so far ...
Anonymous Readies to Expose 40GB of ISP Data from Australian Providers
In what would reveal sensitive information about over 600,000 Australian Internet subscribers, a cell of the hactivist collective has revealed that they’re about to expose a leak of 40GB of data taken from an ISP Down Under. The news comes from an article penned in The Register, and even speculates that the likely victim is ...
Gaming Site Gamigo Hacked, 8 Million User E-mail Addresses and Passwords Leaked
About four months ago free-to-play publisher and gaming site Gamigo warned users about a potential hacker breach of their databases, and last week that warning came to fruition: over 8 million usernames, e-mail addresses, and encrypted passwords have been published to the web from that hack. Forbes contacted the data breach alert service PwndList about ...
Anonymous Bleeding Oil Companies With Repeated Leaks
It looks like the hactivist collective Anonymous has been targeting Big Oil by hitting Shell, Exxon, BP and two Russian firms—Gazprom and Rosneft—in what appears to be part of a protest against a form of drilling that damages the Artic environment. The most recent leak published around 1,000 credentials, e-mail addresses belonging to the firms, ...