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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 ...
Cool Ideas for Cutting Down on Data Server Cooling Costs
One of the biggest – yet least talked about – challenges facing data centers today is the amount of energy they consume in order to process and store the masses of big data generated by big businesses around the world. The problem was highlighted by Pike Research in a recent study; according to them, data ...
Mind Control: Tomorrow’s Technology, Today
We’re still a few years away from possessing the psychic capabilities of Professor X, but nevertheless human mind-control techniques have come a long way since our favorite paraplegic superhero made his debut back in the 1960s. SiliconANGLE previously reported on how EEG (emotiv electroencephalography) headsets can be used to play video games using the power ...
Yet More Cloud Storage Options – This Time, From Russia With Love
Hot on the heels of Baidu’s new cloud storage offering, the Russian-language search engine Yandex has just announced the removal of the invitation-only policy for its Yandex.Disk cloud storage service. From now on, anyone wishing to sign up and get themselves up to 20GB of free storage can do so without having to beg one ...
Apple Patents New “Kill Switch” That can cut off your Smartphone from the Net
There’s been plenty of fuss about Apple and all their patents recently, so how about this one to kick up a controversy? According to a report in ZDNet, the Cupertino-based company has just patented a newly developed technology that would allow the government and/or police to disable phone cameras and block the transmission of multimedia ...