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India Backs Down On Ban Threat After Realizing It Doesn’t Know How To Block Twitter
India’s government has said that it no longer plans to block Twitter in eight of its states, following trouble last month which sparked a mass exodus of north-easterners from southern parts of the country, driven in part by panic and rumors spread via the microblogging platform. Twitter had been blamed by India’s government for spreading content ...
AMD’s SeaMicro Unveils New Low-Power Server Optimized For The Cloud
Following its buyout of the low power sever specialist SeaMicro earlier this year, Advanced Micro Services (AMD) has just unveiled a new microserver based on its fresly-acquired technology that comes especially optimized for cloud computing and big data purposes. Fresh off the production line, the SeaMicro SM15000 boasts up to 5 petabytes of storage in ...
Go Daddy’s All Smiles Again, But Its Customers Are Pissed
Go Daddy is picking up the pieces after being hit by a suspected DDoS attack that disrupted service to more than five million websites for more than four hours yesterday. But while the sites are back online, it may be a while longer until its reputation is restored...
Taliban Insurgents Pose As Facebook “Hotties” To Spy On Military
The Taliban has come a long way since the days when, pre-American invasion, they ruled the roost in Afghanistan, banning all forms of technology in their efforts to create an Islamic civilization free from western influences. Since being forced out of power, Islamic militants have become past masters in using the internet for propaganda purposes, ...
Apple Eyes Up Russian Market with Planned iTunes Launch by Christmas
It’s been a massively long wait – ten years all told – but finally the iTunes store is coming to Russia by the end of the year, and what’s more, it’s set to be significantly cheaper than its US counterpart. The news was first broken by the Russian language business daily Vedomosti, which reported that ...
Kansas City Set for Blanket Coverage with Google Fiber
Kansas City residents have moved quickly to embrace Google’s new superfast fiber optic internet service since it was unveiled earlier this summer, with 180 of 202 eligible neighborhoods on both sides of the Missouri/Kansas state line having signed up so far. In order to make the project economically feasible, signing up for Google Fiber isn’t ...
Healthy Big Data: Straight From The Heart
Thanks to products like the Fitbit wireless monitor and the Nike+ FuelBand, fitness freaks are already one step ahead of the game, tracking their daily activity, heart rate, and calorie intake and applying this data to their exercise routines. Such devices give us some great insights into the condition of our bodies, but soon, we’re ...
Nowhere Left To Hide As FBI Unveils New Facial Recognition Program
Liberals, get ready to be outraged once again. The FBI has just announced that it’s moving ahead with its new, one-billion dollar Next Generation Identification (NGI) system, a frighteningly extensive database of mugshots, DNA records, voice samples, iris scans, fingerprints and other metrics that the bureau will be able to use in its fight against ...
Building Big Data: Farming Big Data Goes To The Cows
When we think about the people who actually use big data, we usually imagine someone sitting in a warm, cozy office, suited and booted, making calls or getting busy on their computer. Few of us imagine that someone sat in an old cow shed, wearing ragged overalls and muddy boots, would be doing exactly the ...
Sweden Tops The List For Internet Know-How
One thing we can’t get enough of is all of these “Best of” or “Top Ten” lists. As a culture, we just love to rank things, but unfortunately not everything is that easily quantified. Take the internet, for example – a commercial platform, an open forum, an educational tool and so much more – to ...