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Anonymous Outraged As Wikileaks Hides Behind ‘Paywall’
Anonymous, the faceless grouping of hacktivists that leapt the to the support of WikiLeaks in its battle against US government suppression, has turned the tables and launched a bitter attack on its ally, declaring war in retaliation for its use of a new ‘paywall’. The row first exploded on Wednesday, when Wikileaks and Anonymous clashed ...
Project Hestia Maps Carbon Emissions At Street Level
Carbon emissions have long been the ‘public enemy number one’ of environmental campaigners and ecologists. Those noxious greenhouse gases are the single biggest source of pollution in the world today, and one of the major reasons for Global Warming, hence reducing the amount we pump into the atmosphere has been the stated goal of dozens ...
Big Data Bins Hope To Revolutionize Waste Collection
The trash collection industry has always been a pretty ‘wasteful’ one, what with garbage collectors sticking to their regular, pre-defined routes whilst out and about collecting their smelly cargo. Waste disposal is a dirty job all right, but to quote an often-used phrase – someone has to do it. The only trouble is, it seems ...
RSA Proposes Splitting Passwords In Two To Foil Hackers
Following a spate of high profile password leaks over the last few months, including breaches at Sony and LinkedIn, consumers have grown concerned that their passwords might not be enough to deter cybercriminals from stealing their personal information. With these fears in mind, the security firm RSA thinks that it’s hit on a novel way ...
Lenovo Overtakes HP As #1 PC Maker; Unveils Three Hybrid Laptop/Tablets
Lenovo has apparently knocked HP off of its perch, surpassing the American firm to become the world’s number one PC manufacturer, according to new figures by research firm Gartner. Lenovo – makers of the iconic ThinkPad and IdeaPad – shipped out 13.8 million units over the third quarter, compared to just 13.55 million units from ...
Sex, Cigarettes or Facebook – Which Tempts You More?
It’s no secret that Facebook holds a lot of interest for a great many people, but could it really be more arousing than sex? Apparently so, according to a group of researchers at Chicago University’s Booth Business School, who claim that the social media site is also more tempting than the baddest of naughty vices ...
IO Data Centers Grabs $90 Million To Advance Its Green Storage Solution
Chicago-based investment firm New World Ventures has just dwarfed its largest ever investment into a startup, sinking a massive $90 million of funding into IO Data Centers. IO reportedly first asked for a ‘mere’ $75 million, but later had to increase its request in order to comply with its internal investor’s wishes. Somewhat surprisingly, New ...
Big Job Demands Around Big Data
If you happen to be a nerd who’s good with facts and figures, then your future employment prospects are looking good. Or at least, they will be if you’re happy to work in the Wall Street big data industry. Recruitment agency eFinancialCareers says that programming and development skills top the wish list of numerous Wall ...
Huawei Problems Pile Up With More Complaints
Under-fire Huawei and ZTE are attracting yet more negative press, this time in the form of a barrage of criticisms that has prompted even deeper investigation into the Chinese company’s business practices. Reuters is reporting that the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, which earlier this week warned US companies against doing business with the Chinese ...
Five Biggest Milestones In The History of Big Data
‘Information overload’ has become one of most often-repeated mantras of our time. Books are being digitized, newspapers and magazines now make up just a fraction of today’s media, augmented as it is by wave after wave of tweets and blog posts, and all the while the gadgets we use to keep up with this digital ...