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Big Data and the Semantic Web: A Synergy of Infrastructure and Language
Edd Dumbill at O’Reilly Radar asks an interesting question pertaining to the relationship between Big Data and the semantic web: “Big data and the semantic web: At war, indifferent, or intimately connected?” The answer is complex and interesting, and it involves a lot of the two being all three at the same time, as both ...
LulzSec Switches Gears with Titanic Takeover Tuesday and Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
Making use of website exploits to do hacking against websites took a back seat Tuesday for LulzSec—a group of malicious Internet hackers dubbed ‘pranksters’ by much of the media—for the use of a botnet for random DDoS attacks against various gaming industry websites. While the attacks seemed fairly random, especially noting the manifestos posted after ...
Xbox LIVE Integration with Windows 8, ‘Pervasive’ Across Devices Says Microsoft
With E3 just a few days back down the road, we’re getting buried in further Microsoft revelations, especially those pertaining to Xbox LIVE. What’s been unexpected is that there would be a connection to the eventual release of Microsoft’s next generation operating system, Windows 8—still on the horizon and probably more than a year out, ...
LulzSec Continues Headline Grabbing Hacks with U.S. Senate Website and Bethesda Softworks
In what is a flurry of activity certainly leading towards some sort of crash-and-burn, now infamous hacker group LulzSec had a very busy day yesterday. First, they made threats and hints all day about hacking the databases of video game publisher Bethesda Softworks—best known for their development of the highly open-world game Morrowind and its ...
11.3m Player Deaths in Just Cause 2 Visualized as Point Cloud
Data visualization is the vehicle by which Big Data can be humanized, or at least re-rendered in a format that can be instantly digested by our powerful pattern recognition modules built deep in our brains. In fact, our brains are evolved to primarily do pattern recognition for particular contexts—most of those contexts that don’t involve ...
LulzSec Rampage Continues as they Sail Unchallenged into Sex Industry Website and Pillage almost 26,000 Passwords
The hacker group, LulzSec, who have been making the rounds like media hungry children has found a port at a sex industry website, and after a short round of cannon shelling from the Lulz Boat, they invaded and pillaged passwords and e-mail addresses. An article in Naked Security (an aptly named subdivision of Sophos) outlines ...
iCloud and the Accumulation of Cloud Hype: It’s Much More than Simple Streaming Media
In a particularly biting editorial recently, Carl Brooks, Senior Technology Writer for SearchCloudComputing.com, penned that he wasn’t pleased with the use of “cloud” to describe Apple’s new iCloud service. The crux of his argument rested on that it didn’t involve any cloud-computing; but instead presented itself as a sort of Software-As-a-Service architecture for simplified media ...
E3 2011: Battlefield Gets More Social With Free ‘Battlelog’ Networking Feature
This year at E3, video game publisher/developer Electronic Arts revealed the release of the newest of their extremely popular console-based first-person shooter (FPS) series with Battlefield 3. They demonstrated beautiful rendering and game play that will certainly push modern hardware to its extreme for the gaming enjoyment of millions of customers everywhere. This year, though, ...
E3 2011: EA Sets Sights on Zynga’s Crown with The Sims Social for Facebook
When it comes to Facebook and the social gaming sphere there is no contender as heavyweight as Zynga—the game publisher best known for Farmville and all its strange descendants—but other developers believe that growing crops and petting cows might be too staid an activity for the hip Facebooker. Enter Electronic Arts and they’re über-famous social-simulation ...
E3 2011: Nintendo Mixed PS3 and Xbox 360 Footage Into their Wii U Highlights Reel
During the E3 2011 keynote for Nintendo we saw a lot of beautiful footage outlining the capabilities of the suped-up Wii U platform. Most of those watching will probably recall a highly stylized reel with a bird flying past a cherry tree and a pond full of beautifully rendered koi. However, later on in the ...