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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 ...
E3: Sony PS4 Takes Early Lead With Used Games, Cheaper Price & More
Sony finally unveiled its eagerly-awaited PlayStation 4 console yesterday, but while the boxy games machine might look similar to Microsoft’s rival Xbox One, there are big differences elsewhere. Not only will the PS4 be cheaper than the Xbox One, but there’s also good news for those worried about used games, the need to be online ...
US Tech Firms Will Pay The Price For NSA Spying
Was anyone really that surprised at last week’s news? Surprised that is, at reports that NSA spies have been secretly helping themselves to all of our emails, voice communications, chat records, photographs and other communications over the last few years? No? What with the level of pessimism towards the US government these days, I doubt ...
Early Images of Intel’s “Obsidian” Smartphone User Interface
New images have emerged of the smartphone interface being cooked up by Intel. The chip maker reportedly intends to re-jig Tizen and possibly even Android devices with a new theme that’s been given the code name “Obsidian”. According to Ars Technica, the software will be released later this year on an Intel reference device called ...
NSA Whistleblower Ed Snowden Speaks Out on NSA Spying
Over the weekend, ex-CIA employee Ed Snowden revealed himself as the whistleblower responsible for exposing the NSA’s PRISM spying program in an exclusive interview with The Guardian. Snowden, who is currently employed at defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, claims to have been working at the NSA for the last four years as an employee of ...
Google’s Buying Waze For $1B To Spite Facebook & Apple
If you haven’t had the pleasure of using the navigation/traffic jam app Waze, you probably will do soon, one way or another. That’s because Google is said to be on the verge of buying the Israeli startup for a massive $1 billion+. The deal would give Google a huge lift in its ongoing struggle for ...
NSA Spying Denials Prove That Google is Truly Evil
Google has finally been exposed as the deceitful, two-faced entity it really is, and now it’s desperately trying to spin the revelations of the NSA’ s pervasive spying program to its advantage. The company that loves to portray itself as the defender of the internet, espousing its “Don’t be Evil” propaganda whilst appearing to fight ...
Trust In Twitter: They Won’t Grass You Up To The NSA… Yet
Looking at the list of nine US tech firms that are alleged to be participating in the NSA’s vast surveillance gathering program PRISM, there’s one notable omission – Twitter is not on the list. Actually, we probably shouldn’t be surprised that Twitter isn’t bending over backwards to feed your personal data to the feds – ...
Lenovo Chief Targets Push in Servers, Storage and Smartphones
The world’s second biggest PC maker Lenovo is setting its sights on the server, storage and smartphone business as it looks to expand its horizons in the post-PC era. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, Lenovo’s CEO Yang Yuanqing revealed that storage and server were a critical area of expansion for ...
NSA Secretly Mining Data From Google, Apple, Facebook & Others
It’s worse than we thought. Just 24 hours after it first exposed how the NSA was secretly tapping phone call metadata from Verizon, The Guardian newspaper and the Washington Post have revealed the existence of a massive, warrantless government surveillance program known as PRISM. The program is reportedly capable of collecting data “directly from the ...