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Nok Nok Labs Hates Passwords, Wants Them Dead.
Passwords are going to have a battle on their hands if they want to play a part in the future of online security. If it isn’t Google imagining cryptographic rings as a replacement for the standard random digit security codes, it’s some other upstart that’s vying to win over the confidence of netizens. This week ...
Looking For Love With Big Data
Could Big Data be used to help lonely hearts find their soul mate this Valentine’s Day? Well, if you’re one of those that believes the ‘dating game’ is actually just a ‘numbers game’, then the answer would be absolutely yes. There are “plenty of fish in the sea”, or so our ‘cozied up’ friends constantly ...
Mike Lynch, The World’s #1 Confidence Trickster?
Is Mike Lynch the world’s most successful conman or what? Judging from today’s revelation that he’s just secured backing to the tune of £1 billion (about $1.57 billion) for his new investment fund, it’s hard not to jump to that conclusion. Either he’s a damn good liar, or he’s hooked up with some similarly crooked ...
Google Pays Apple $1 Billion A Year To Be Default Search Engine on iOS
It’s no secret that Apple hates Google, so why is it that the latter always seems to worm its way into being the default search engine on iOS devices? Because money talks, that’s why, and this is especially true if you’re in a position to throw around as much of it as Google can. For ...
Healthy Big Data: Mapping The Kumbh Mela
Big Data meets the biggest gathering of humanity in the world. That’s the most apt description for Harvard University’s study of the 2013 Kumbh Mela anyhow. The university’s South Asia Institute has sent a team of Big Data experts to study what is commonly believed to be the world’s largest public gathering, in a bid ...
Yandex Surpasses Bing In Search Engine Wars
Bing just got bitch-slapped. Despite Microsoft’s very best efforts in attempting to claw back Google’s overwhelming lead in web search, stepping up its “Scroogled” campaign and integrating Bing apps with its new Office platform, it’s just been humiliated by the Russians – with Yandex shunting it out the way and to become the world’s fourth-biggest ...
RIOT: The Big Data Social Tracking Tool From Hell
Another day, another surveillance tool that falls into our laps. Only this one seems to be getting a few more pairs of knickers in a twist than usual, because not only can it track a random individual’s movements, but it can even be used to predict where they’re likely to be on any given day ...
Egypt Plans To Dump Microsoft & Go All-Out With Open-Source
One of the problems with Microsoft is that, while most experts agree it offers the best suite of business tools and the most dependable operating system around, its gear isn’t exactly what you’d call cheap. And if you happen to have several hundred thousand computers lying around in schools and offices, all needing to be ...
George Gets Bush-Hacked: Nude Self-Portraits + Family Secrets Exposed
A number of email accounts belonging to former US President George W. Bush and several of his family members and close friends have been hacked, with a huge amount of sensitive information and private photos published online. Without doubt, some of the most embarrassing items exposed include two images of naked self-portraits of the former ...
Facebook Redirect Error Takes Out Half Of The Internet
You probably didn’t notice it, but for a short period yesterday afternoon Facebook took out the entire internet. A temporary glitch caused anyone who tried to visit a third party website integrated with the social media site to be redirected back to Facebook.com, where a message popped up saying “An error occurred. Please try again ...