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Is It A Laptop? A Tablet? A Phone? No, It’s A Credit Card
Now this is a pretty cool thing – Mastercard has just released a new kind of credit card that features a built-in keyboard and an LCD display. The next-generation credit card, known as the Display Card, features touch-sensitive buttons and has the ability to create one-time passwords (OTPs), which will do away with the need for ...
Nate Silver’s Presidential Predictions Show Why You NEED Big Data
Now that the dust has settled and Barack Obama has landed safely behind his desk at the White House for another four years, we can finally see who the real winners and losers were at this general election. And no, it wasn’t any political party. You want to know who really came out on top ...
What Imagination’s Acquisition of MIPS Means for Mobile Chip Diversity
Mobile graphics chip designer Imagination Technologies has just thrown down the gauntlet in the smartphone arena, with the acquisition of CPU architect MIPS Technologies for a cool $60m. The deal, which will see Imagination Technologies step up its challenge against an increasingly dominant ARM Holdings, sees the company takeover MIPS’ entire business operations and many ...
Big Brother’s Big Data: Locking Down Our Borders
The police are no strangers to big data, using analytical software to help them predict crime hotspots, and license plate scanners to identify stolen cars and disqualified drivers on the road. So it should come as no surprise to learn that other arms of law enforcement, specifically customs, are looking at data-driven solutions to help ...
Dotcom Hopes Dashed: Me.ga Takedown Is A US “Witch Hunt”
Kim Dotcom’s plans to relaunch file-sharing service Megaupload as Me.ga appear to have been dashed, after the Gabonese government, which owns the .ga domain, announced it had suspended the site ahead of its planned January launch. Dotcom unveiled his plans for Me.ga just last week, launching a homepage preview on the domain featuring a big ...
Google’s Popularity Declines in UK, Share Falls Below 90%
Google has taken a hard hit in the UK, where its share of the search market has slipped below 90% for the first time in more than five years. Experian Hitwise, which monitors website traffic around the world, analyzed the searches of more than 8 million UK internet users to determine that Google’s share had ...
State-Backed Chinese Hackers Get Coked Up
It’s been revealed that Coca Cola’s internal computer network was infiltrated by Chinese hackers for more than a month without its knowledge. The fizzy pop firm’s defensives were breached after an email containing a malicious link was sent to an executive in 2009. At the time, Coca Cola chose not to disclose the hack, according ...
20Gbps Broadband Speeds In Just Three Years?
A team of British researchers is working to create commercially viable broadband speeds up to 2,000 times faster than the slickest of connections available today, and say that their project could become a reality in just three years. It might sound like a fantasy, but the scientists at Bangor University in Wales are deadly serious ...
FEMA Launches RUMOR CONTROL To Dispel Sandy Misinformation
Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter were awash with rumors last week as Hurricane Sandy smashed into New Jersey, and the spate of misinformation has continued into the weekend, hampering the relief efforts of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Responding to this, FEMA has now set up a “rumor control” section on its ...
Russia’s “Crime-as-a-service” Exposed – Just Look At What You Can Buy
Fancy buying yourself a complete botnet to fool around with? Or maybe you’d just like to borrow someone else’s for a couple of hours? Or alternatively, thrash out a million spam emails carrying the message of your choice? Or perhaps spying is more your thing, in which case, being able to access someone’s emails, text ...