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Keccak Chosen as SHA-3 Competition Winner, But Will Take Years To Make Its Mark
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finally chosen a replacement for one of the most widely-used computer security algorithms, following a five year contest among the world’s leading cryptographers. NIST hopes that the new algorithm will reassure those security experts who previously raised concerns over its existing Secure Hash Algorithm gold standard, ...
ZocDoc “Checks In” So You Can Check Out Faster
ZocDoc, the web-based medical booking platform that allows users to find and book appointments with doctors online, has added a new feature to its service that aims to speed up the whole ‘checking in’ process by letting patients fill out those irritating medical forms before they arrive. Known simply as “Check-In”, the new feature will ...
Big Data Startup Trifacta Sets Its Sights On The Holy Grail
Gathering big data, crunching it, storing it somewhere – all of this is relatively easy thanks to the Moore’s Law and the unstoppable march of storage technology. The difficulty with big data comes with trying to glean actual information from it, and turn it into something that people can work with and benefit from. Enter ...
Screw The Advertisers, Let’s Start Selling Our Data
Are you sick of advertisers tracking your every move online? If so, then join the club – according to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, almost two thirds of Americans feel exactly the same way, yet the online behavioral advertising industry (as the stalkers like to refer themselves) continues to grow unchecked as more and ...
Ellison: No More Major Acquisitions, Oracle’s Focus is on Cloud Products
Despite rumors to the contrary, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has insisted that the world’s 3rd biggest software maker is not pursuing any more acquisitions, claiming that the company is fully focused on promoting its current suite of cloud products. Speaking to CNBC’s Maria Baritoromo following his second keynote at Oracle OpenWorld, Ellison ruled out making ...
Big Brother’s Big Data: New Data Strategies for a Digital World
Governments have already enjoyed some limited success through their intelligent use of big data, combating water shortage problems and fighting crime amongst other things, but up until now these projects have largely been localized ones, affecting very small segments of the population. One of the major roadblocks for governments has been recognizing and overcoming the ...
Russia Blocks Anti-Islam Film: Could YouTube Itself Be Next?
There are fears that YouTube could be blocked in Russia following a court decision that ordered the highly controversial trailer for the movie “The Innocence of Muslims” to be taken down. A judge at the Tverskoy Court in Moscow ruled on Monday that the 14-minute video, which has enraged Muslims across the globe for its ...
Fujitsu Unveils Prototype Eye-Tracking Technology
If you spent anywhere near as much time sat in front of your computer screen as I do, you’ll agree that the whole pointing and clicking thing with the mouse gets really tiresome. Wouldn’t it be great if someone came up with a way to navigate through your browser and files without actually having to ...
It’s Official: Internet Addicts Are Mentally Ill
Parents whose children make a habit of checking their emails every 20 minutes, or fly into a rage upon being told to put down the video game they’re playing, need to be concerned. According to a new study, kids that are addicted to the internet could well be suffering from mental illness. It was probably ...
OpenWorld: Oracle Shifts Focus to Integration of Enterprise Platforms
Oracle is hoping to boost adoption of its software and service lines by pinning its hopes on the shared interface and unity of its enterprise platforms. In a frank discussion at Oracle OpenWorld yesterday, executives from the company’s RightNow, Taleo, JD Edwards and PeopleSoft divisions were among a number of panelists playing up the advantages ...