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Normally, reports of the North Koreans launching something send western governments into a mad panic, with emergency meetings being hastily convened and threats of sanctions issued. However, the latest launch by the secretive communist regime will probably have much less of an …
Fake Twitter Followers: Stupidity or Something More Sinister?
Buying fake Twitter followers to boost your credibility is nothing new, but could the same tactic also be used in reverse – e.g., to smear your rivals in public? Following the revelation that Mitt Romney gained an astonishing 140,000 new followers over …
Romney And Iran Find Common Ground: They Can’t Stop Internet Porn
Mitt Romney probably doesn’t see himself as the kind of man who’s willing to make too many concessions to Iran any more than the rest of us do, but could it be that the two ‘entities’ have more in common than they …
Big Brother’s Big Data: Opportunity Knocks in the UK
A new report from a prominent British think tank has suggested that the UK government could be saving up to £33 billion ($51.6 billion) a year without cutting any of the services, if only it were to make better use of publicly …
Facebook Gets the Vote in Washington State
The State of Washington is set to revolutionize the way in which voters can register for the upcoming presidential elections this week, offering residents the chance to register their vote via Facebook for the first time. For many people, Facebook has already …
Guess What Facebook? Users Actually Prefer Google +
Facebook’s IPO has turned out to be a bit of disappointment for its investors since its launch on NASDAQ back in May, but one thing we didn’t expect was that its customers are also feeling dissatisfied with the service. According to the …
Safe Skouting Kids: Flirting App Overhauls Security for Teens
The popular flirting app Skout has welcomed back teens to its mobile social network, after having barred them for almost one month following three high profile rape cases in which teenage users were abused by adults they’d met through using the app. …
Future Big Data: Troubling Changes for Big Business
Big data is set to pose some seriously big challenges for businesses in the next few years, as the issue of storing all of this information comes to the fore. So massive is the tidal wave of big data that for many, …
Healthy Big Data: Predicting and Preventing the Spread of Disease
Big data has many uses. Banks use it to make money and improve customer care, automobile makers are hoping it will help them to develop better production processes, and even pizza companies are using it to make sure they never run out …
Social Media is for Girls
You’d be forgiven for thinking the opposite might be true, given that most guys love nothing more than to show off their latest gadgets and demonstrate their expertise with all things technical. But, from a social viewpoint at least, you might be …