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Crowdsourcing Takes Off in China with Danger Maps & More
Not to be outdone by our own crowdsourcing efforts recently, Chinese netizens are getting in on the act as well. A new project called Danger Maps that taps on the knowledge of China’s 564 million web users is helping to draw attention to pollution hot spots in the country, and is now set to expand ...
It’s Not Just US: Google Says That Iran Spies On its Citizens Too
Google may or may not be spying on its users, but it certainly knows what’s going on elsewhere around the world wide web. In an announcement yesterday, the company’s security division revealed the existence of a vast Iranian government spying campaign that’s been keeping a close eye on thousands of its citizens in the run ...
Yahoo Plans To Free Up Inactive Email Accounts
Yahoo Mail has had a bit of a torrid time of late, with no end in sight to reports of people’s accounts being hacked and used to send spam, and the fact that it’s fast losing users when compared to rival services like Gmail and Outlook.com. Last week’s revelations that Yahoo is allegedly one of ...
How To Get Out Of PRISM and Avoid NSA Spying
Admittedly, most people don’t seem to give a toss about PRISM one way or the other. But you should, and not just because certain groups claim that the NSA’s spying could be unconstitutional – there are lots of reasons why the alleged complicity of US tech firms could be bad for America, and no one ...
Google’s NSA Plea: Let Us Be More Transparent!
Google has explicitly denied passing on user data to the NSA. Whistleblower Edward Snowden begs to differ, saying he can access your emails and chat records at the click of a mouse button. So is someone not telling the truth? Or has the NSA simply found a way to access Google’s servers without it knowing? We ...
StopWatching.us Okay?
Having been angered at revelations of the NSA’s pervasive spying program PRISM, a group of high-profile rights advocates have stepped forward to demand that lawmakers take action against government spying. Led by the Mozilla Foundation, Reddit, the Electronic Freedom Foundation, the Internet Archive, and other organizations, a new movement called StopWatching.Us has created an online ...
Did PRISM Cause Bitcoin’s Value to Fall?
What with the NSA and PRISM hogging the headlines lately, Bitcoin appears to have slipped off the radar somewhat. Yet the cryptocurrency has seen a fairly dramatic drop in its value since the spying allegations emerged, falling from a high of $118 on June 7 to just $89 on June 9, prompting some BTC watchers ...
Wanna Know How The Big Boys Make Big Bucks With Big Data?
We always hear people banging on about the potential of Big Data and what it can do for big businesses, but rarely do companies come out and say exactly how their analytics programs have helped improve their bottom line. That’s all changed today though, with a whole host of multinational firms and banks breaking their ...
The 3 Phases of Evolution for Software-Defined Storage #SDS
On yesterday’s edition of theCube, co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vallante were thrilled to be able to sit down with IBM’s GM of System Storage & networking Ambuj Goyal at the IBM Edge 2013 Conference in Las Vegas. During their discussion, Goyal gave a forthright explanation of IBM’s take on the evolution of software-defined storage ...
Most Americans Approve of NSA Spying
A new study from the Pew Research Center has confirmed what most of us already knew – the vast majority of Americans couldn’t care less about the NSA leaks scandal, which according to them, barely even registers as a scandal in the first place. Pew’s poll, which was sponsored by the Washington Post, found that ...