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Crowdsourcing Screwed Up, But Can We Do It Better Next Time?
Last week’s dramatic Boston bombing attacks and the subsequent manhunt for the suspects provoked a deluge of activity on social media sites as the public hunted for information. As we saw, thousands of netizens took to sites like Reddit and 4Chan in a bid to ‘crowdsource’ evidence and find who might be responsible, sparking the ...
Anonymous Calls For Web Blackout, But Is Anyone Listening?
The hacktivist group Anonymous is hoping for a big response today after launching an appeal for websites to ‘black out’ their home pages in protest at the US government’s proposed Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which was passed by the US House of Representatives last week. As previously reported on SiliconANGLE, the bill ...
Facebook Building World’s “Most Advanced” Data Center in Iowa
One of the longest-running mysteries in the data center world appears to have been sold after it was revealed that Facebook is secretly funding a new, $1.5 billion facility in Altoona, Iowa. The facility, which has been referred to by officials as “Project Catapult” is touted as “the most technologically advanced in the world”, and ...
Microsoft Brings Out the Trolls to Fight Android Dominance
You might have missed the news earlier this week, but Microsoft has quietly become one of the largest patent trolls in the world. Following this week’s deal with Foxconn to license patents to original design manufacturers (ODMs), Microsoft will now reap a small fortune from all Android handsets sold in the future. According to the ...
Dell Buyout Moves Closer as Blackstone Withdraws Takeover Bid
There’s been more developments at Dell this morning, with reports suggesting that private-equity firm Blackstone Group has ended its $25 billion rival takeover bid, bring founder Michael Dell’s dreams of taking his company private a step closer to fruition. Blackstone launched its bid last month following widespread opposition among Dell shareholders to the founder’s own ...
Microsoft Has the Last Laugh as Q1 Profits Surge
Microsoft must be feeling especially smug this morning after its latest quarterly earnings report showed strong growth in both sales and profits during the first three months of 2013. Despite all the doom and gloom in recent weeks over the PC market’s continuing decline and the lukewarm reception of Windows 8, the software giant yesterday ...
Behold the Space Monkey! Cloud Storage will Never be the Same Again
We’ve been following the rise of cloud storage quite avidly here on SiliconANGLE, from its humble beginnings as a mere, albeit beautiful concept, to the rise of services like Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive and others. Each of these offers a pretty decent service – users ge their own ‘space’ in the cloud to upload and ...
Anti-Incest App Prevents Sex With Your Cousin (But Only in Iceland)
It could happen to anyone. You’re there having dinner at the home of your new boyfriend or girlfriend, getting on with their parents like a house on fire. Then suddenly.. What’s that sitting on the mantlepiece? An old family photograph with the beaming face of someon who’s a dead-ringer for your grandpa staring back at ...
BitFloor Exchange Bites The Dust
The rollercoaster ride that is Bitcoin has finally come to an end – or at least, it has for one popular US-based exchange. BitFloor, which has had a history of troubles since its launch, has announced it’s shutting up shop for good, this time due to undisclosed problems with its bank. In a terse statement ...