Wondering why the FBI doesn’t name phone and internet service providers that help them in surveillance programs? They’re trying to protect those companies from the wrath of the snooped-upon customers.
The explanation comes from an FBI section chief named David M. Hardy, as part of a court declaration recently made public following a …
Disney must really be regretting its August 2010 purchase of social gaming company Playdom by now. Not only has Playdom already cost Disney an additional $34 million on top of its $534 million price tag (in the process becoming one of the main reasons behind Disney’s disappointing financial quarter, according to CFO Jay Rasulo earlier …
Well, well, well… what have we here? Seems U.S. officials have found many things while searching Osama bin Laden’s million-dollar Abbottabad hideout. And what have they found most recently? Yep. Porn.
“The pornography recovered in bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, consists of modern, electronically
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The Wall Street Journal reports that Google has earmarked “$500 million to potentially resolve a case with the Justice Department” involving advertisements Google accepted from online pharmacies that violate U.S. prescription laws. The ads in question have appeared alongside search results as part of Google’s popular AdWords marketing …
Bloggers at Google-owned blogger.com were locked out of their blogs for a number of hours overnight, apparently after a behind-the-scenes update that went awry.
Users were warned on Monday that there would be an hour-long outage on Wednesday, for maintenance. But according to Netcraft, the site went down on Thursday and has largely
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There comes a time for many amateur photographers when they decide to abandon easy-mode point-and-shoot cameras, and switch to a proper DSLR.
That’s when the learning starts.
And it’s not easy to get your head around the complexities of taking good pictures. It’s not just understanding exposure, shutter speed, aperture and so on, but
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Perhaps you’ve seen them popping up in your own timeline: insular, blocky chunks of bar graph data curiously sent out by the people you follow. These visual representations are actually lines of unicode, or standardized web terms used to represent text. On Twitter they’ve been coined Spark Tweets, and they’re the brainchild of two Wall …
Due to a strict adherence to Sharia law, the Taliban have long shunned modern technology, particularly personal televisions and computers. But in the wake of a recent offensive campaign in the Afghan city of Kandahar, the group has emerged on a new, if unlikely, modern platform: Twitter.
At the the time of writing this, the account in …
It’s the social network bombshell no one in a zillion years saw coming: millions of Facebook users are underage. I know. Gasp.
That’s according to Consumer Reports‘ annual “State of the Net” survey, in which the watchdog routinely checks with over 2,000 U.S. households about Internet usage and related online behavior. Last year the …
Microsoft has officially announced its purchase of VoIP provider Skype for a whopping $8.5 billion. As we reported late last night, it’s Microsoft’s most expensive acquisition to date.
(Read More: A Brief History of Skype)
This is a big, big gamble for Microsoft, but one that could ultimately pay off in several key areas. I’d …
What can you do if your camera’s been stolen?
Not much, to be honest. Apple’s iPhones and iPads might have built-in locate-me technology, but the same cannot be said of most cameras, even the expensive DSLR ones.
A website called Stolen Camera Finder might be able to help, though.
It makes use of the data that your camera saves …
Low on the funds to see the Colosseum in person? That’s ok! Instead, just shell out the money for a tablet that runs Android 2.1 or above, keep the change, and take the trip for free through a new Google Earth update.
Google launched an Android version of Google Earth last year, but now they’ve optimized the application for …
