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Kinect-enabled Shopping Cart May Aid Shoppers at Whole Foods
Now that Microsoft has released their development kit that brings Kinect software to Windows, many venues are beginning to look for applications for the video game sensor. Right now, Whole Foods is looking into a prototype that would use a Kinect system on a shopping cart to make the shopping experience a little bit more ...
ZeuS Trojan Botnet Learns a New Trick: Peer-to-Peer
In what seems to be the next evolution of malware, the Zeusbot/SpyEye Trojan network has been discovered in the wild that doesn’t rely on a centralized command-and-control server—instead, the new variants use a peer-to-peer architecture to get the job done. According an article in The Register, security researchers at Symantec have dissected the new code ...
The Pirate Scene Nimbly Adopts New x264 Video Codec
Where it might take giant corporations years to come to a conclusion on a major standards change, pirates from the video scene lead to an implementation in a matter of days, a source tells SiliconANGLE. Over the years, the video scene for many major piracy networks have used XviD as their primary encoding for video ...
Rumors Abound About Blizzard’s Free-to-Play Project
Of course, on this subject Blizzard Entertainment is mum. Best known for their mighty massively multiplayer online phenomenon and game title, World of Warcraft, the gaming studio might be looking to go where many other MMOs are starting to go: into the world of free-to-play. Recently DC Universe Online saw a huge boost in revenue ...
Infragard Can’t Catch a Break: Anonymous 0wns FBI-Affiliate Once Again
June of last year, Infragard Atlanta—an affiliate with the Federal Bureau of Investigation—found themselves the target of LulzSec during their rampage across the Internet. Due to their close proximity to the FBI and law enforcement, their websites have been constant targets for vandalism. Friday morning, Anonymous announced via the Anonops blog that Infragard had yet ...
Reddit Looks to Democratized Lawmaking with “The Free Internet Act”
After the roaring success of reddit in helping combat the Internet-censorship bills SOPA and PROTECT-IP, the community there decided that they would try their hand at drafting legislation. As a highly collaborative forum for discussion and a democratizing technology, reddit forwards a great opportunity for an actual “We The People” style of producing legislation or ...
Google’s Internet-enabled Spectacles Will Bring Cyberspace to Your Eyes
It looks like all those rumors about Google working on cyber-glasses are beginning to take shape and, according to reports, we might even see them on the market before the end of 2012. No more constantly flicking on a smartphone to check on the state of the world, instead we’ll be able to stream that ...
Stuxnet: Still a Telling Feat of Political Cyberwar Over a Year Later
The existence of Stuxnet really brings modern cyberwar into the realm of life imitating science fiction. The video speaks about how Stuxnet is the implicit case for weaponized code—truthfully any tool can be turned into a weapon. The compelling case for this virus is that it was designed with only one purpose: to infect and ...
The Battle Over The Pirate Bay Censorship Rages On Across Europe
Thunderstorms have been rumbling in the cloud over what to do with the file sharing site, The Pirate Bay, and most of the drama centers around how different nations treat copyright infringement. As a site TPB would exist in a sort of legal limbo because the site does not provide direct access to files (copyrighted ...
Google’s Self-Driving Cars May Soon Be Driving Legally in Nevada
In what will be a momentous occasion for Google, Nevada has just unveiled the intent to draft legislation that will make them the first state in the United States to approve autonomous, self-driving cars. As we at SiliconANGLE noticed before, the search giant with a penchant for pushing the technological envelope had been testing self-driving ...