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ClassedIn: The New Learning Social Network That’s Set To Take Education By Storm
Imagine this: Students, teachers, parents, all connected on a safe social networking platform, which allows document sharing for homework and assignments, provides online testing, a massive educational library, and real-time interactions – wouldn’t that be a great idea? Well, it already is, and it’s about to take off in a big, big way any day ...
Hack Attacks, Cyber Wars, Data Theft… Just A Normal Day At The Office
It’s been a rip-roaring 24 hours or so in the hacktivist world, with dozens of Swedish government websites being forced offline in suspected DDoS attacks; Armenia and Azerbaijan engaging in Cyber-Wars, and the hacker group AntiSec stealing over 12 million Apple device IDs from the FBI, later posting a million of them online. Swedish Websites ...
Apple Shoots Down App That Tracks Military Drone Strikes
iPhone apps fit into just about every category there is, include media and games apps to keep us entertained, social apps that let us stay connected, and news apps that keep us informed about what’s going on in the world. Josh Begley, developer of an app called Drone+, probably thought that his creation would fit ...
Big Brother’s Big Data: Just Go With The Flow
There are plenty of reasons to be paranoid about the government’s use of big data and how authorities could one day use it to control every aspect of our lives. This is the ultimate fear of many (usually the same people who believe in Armageddon and conspiracy theories), but in general, most of the stories ...
Watch What You Think: Scientists Can Now Hack Into Your Brain
There’s nothing quite like the privacy of our own minds. It’s the most secure place we can ever go to, an intimate place where we can store our darkest secrets and safely think even the most unspeakable of thoughts. Of course, we don’t always like our thoughts – indeed, sometimes we’re even ashamed of them, ...
Twitter Tests Out Targeted Tweets
If you’re a regular twitterer, you’ll know all about the data that it collects on you as you follow various interests through the microblogging platform. Now, the time has come to put that data to use – and advertisers are beside themselves with excitement at the prospect of it. It seems like years ago that ...
Baidu’s Bigger, Better And Faster Mobile Experience
China’s got a well deserved reputation for being one of the biggest copycats of them all, but that doesn’t mean it lacks the capability to innovate. As Baidu has shown recently with a number of new product announcements at his year’s Baidu World, China’s more than capable of not just adopting western ideas, but enhancing ...
Judgement Day Beckons: Scientists Grow ‘Light-Activated’ Muscle Tissue For Robots
Robots are pretty advanced these days, but could the kind of futuristic, life-like androids that we see in Terminator and Blade Runner one day become a reality? Up until now, the idea of creating convincingly ‘human’ robots such as Arnie Schwarzenegger’s Terminator was thought to be the stuff of fantasy. However, recent developments at the ...
Paranoid Russians Develop Home-Grown Tablet Device Powered By RoMos
Fed up with having Americans spying on their every move, the Russians are now going the way of North Korea, developing their very own tablet device that boasts a high level of encryption, an Android-like OS, and a home-grown global position system. The device, which was unveiled yesterday at the IFA in Berlin, was developed ...
Bahraini Government Using “Stealth” Malware To Spy On Dissidents
A Google engineer and a computer science student believe that authoritarian government regimes are using special surveillance software designed for criminal investigations to illegally monitor political activists. The New York Times reports that FinSpy, an elusive espionage tool designed to evade computer security software, is supposedly only sold to governments on the understanding that it’s ...