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Microsoft’s Vision For Futuristic Gaming: A Holodeck In Your Living Room
Remember how cool the Holodeck in Star Trek was? Well, you’re not the only one. Microsoft does too, but rather than just waste time dreaming about how great it would be, they’re actually working on a way to transform our living rooms into one. The images on this page represent Microsoft’s vision for its futuristic ...
Fat Facebook Users Being Spied On – But – At Least They Can Get Insurance
Ever feel paranoid that someone’s spying on you through Facebook? Well, if you’re a student, and you go to school in India, you might just have good reason to feel that way. But don’t worry too much – if the spies go as far as hacking your social media accounts, you could be entitled to ...
“Live” Google Earth: One Step Closer To Reality
Google Earth’s a pretty stunning piece of software, what with us being able to zoom in up close on any part of the globe at resolutions high enough to make out individual cars and even people. But it’s also pretty static, with most of the images we see being several years out of date. Just ...
Healthy Big Data: Healthy Apps You’ll Actually Want To Use
A quick search in the Google Play store or iTunes for health-related apps throws up a seemingly endless list of tools designed to get you into shape, remind you to take your medicine, monitor your heart rate, check for skin cancer and a whole lot more. All well and good, but wouldn’t it be great ...
Flame Malware Analysis Spawns Three New Malicious Threats
If it’s true that the USA and Israel are the brains behind the infamous Flame malware that’s been causing havoc in Iran and other Middle Eastern nations, then our ‘cyber spies’ have been much busier than we first thought. According to the security provider Kaspersky, the Flame malware has been linked to no less than ...
Box Goes Blazing Fast With Data Transfer Accelerator Network
With more than 11 million customers, including 125,000 leading multinational companies among them, the cloud storage company Box knows that it can’t afford to let them down even for an instant. To make sure it doesn’t, the company is today launching its new Box Accelerator – a kind of intelligent routing technology that aims to ...
Coke Gets Social With Interactive Drinks Vending Machine
Tons of modern day gizmos and gadgets can claim to be powered by an embedded Intel Core i7 processor these days, but the latest device to carry one should raise a few eyebrows. I mean, seriously, an Intel chip in a coke vending machine? Apparently, that is the case, as Intel proudly showed off its ...
Strange Big Data: A World On The Move
The UN reckons that more than 200 million people – approximately 3% of the world’s population – live outside of the country in which they were born. Given the complexity and magnitude of international migration, the issue has become a highly charged one for just about every single nation in the world. There are differing ...
Crowdsourcing Project Aims to Put a ‘Human’ Face on Big Data
Visualizing big data is tricky enough – so can you imagine what it would be like trying to photograph it? Line after line of HTML codes and financial transaction data – this isn’t exactly the most enticing subject material from a photographer’s perspective, but that hasn’t stopped renowned photojournalist Rick Smolan from attempting what will ...
Chinese Android Malware Mayhem Goes Into Overdrive
Complacent Android users beware: the volume of malware targeting such devices is growing at a terrifyingly exponential rate, rising by 216% or 700% over the last three months, depending on which security company you believe, and it’s all coming from China. Meanwhile, it’s been separately revealed that as many as 50% of all Android devices ...