Posted by Max Fisher on November 10, 2012 at 11:14 am CIA Director David Petraeus speaks during a high-level meeting in the White House Situation Room. (Pete Souza/The White House via Getty Images) The beginning of the end came for… Read More ›
Google’s China service disrupted without explanation
By Agence France-Presse Friday, November 9, 2012 16:14 EST Google on Friday reported unexplained disruptions to its service in China. “We’ve checked and there is nothing wrong on our end,” a Google spokeswoman told AFP. An online tool that tracks… Read More ›
Google told to pay victim for criminal results
Thursday, 1 November 2012 Google was yesterday found liable for damages by a jury in Australia after a man complained that the website’s search results had harmed his reputation by wrongly linking him to Melbourne gang crime. Milorad… Read More ›
France makes billion euro tax claim against Google: report
31Oct2012 PARIS (AFP)French tax authorities have made a billion-euro ($1.3 billion) claim against Google to pressure it in a dispute over compensation to media websites, a French newspaper reported, a claim denied by the US Internet giant’s local arm. The… Read More ›
Analysts: China Adapting New Fighter for Carrier Operations
Oct. 22, 2012 – 12:15PM | By WENDELL MINNICK | TAIPEI — Just one month after China’s first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, was commissioned, photographs are appearing on the Internet of the Shenyang J-15 Flying Shark fighter jet operating… Read More ›
Brazilian newspapers give ‘freeloader’ Google News the boot
Published: 21 October, 2012, 13:22 Over 100 of Brazil’s main newspapers have blocked internet giant Google’s news service from using their content. They say Google News has actually reduced their site traffic and benefits commercially from material it has refused… Read More ›
Could Google disappear? Analysts warn of Google’s demise if the search engine fails to improve mobile advertising
Google shares dropped nearly 10 percent over the course of two days, wiping out more than $24 billion from the company’s value Plunge in share prices followed weak earnings report showing a 20 percent decline in profits compared to the… Read More ›
Google threatens to drop links to French media
By Agence France-Presse Thursday, October 18, 2012 17:12 EDT Topics: google ♦ Google France ♦ search engines PARIS — Internet giant Google has warned it would exclude French media sites from its search results if France adopts a law forcing… Read More ›
Study: Moon water may come indirectly from the sun
By Agence France-Presse Sunday, October 14, 2012 16:39 EDT Topics: Moon water ♦ solar system ♦ water molecules Scientists on Sunday said they had found water molecules in samples of lunar soil, and their unusual signature points to the Sun… Read More ›
Anti-Islam film prompts Saudi call for net censorship body
Saudi Arabia has called for a new international body to censor the internet, in the wake of the anti-Islam YouTube clip that recently sparked violence in the Middle East. The US consulate in Benghazi in flames after the attack that… Read More ›
Facebook ‘immoral’ for paying tax bill of £238,000
Facebook has been accused of “immoral” behaviour after accounts showed that the social media giant paid a corporate tax bill of just over £238,000 last year, despite estimated revenues of £175m. Facebook’s accounts also showed that the social networking group’s… Read More ›
The map that Apple HAS to make blurred: Taiwanese government complains new maps app is revealing military secrets
US bases also appear on the service in high resolution Google has ‘muzzed’ or distorted military installations By Mark Prigg PUBLISHED:14:51 EST, 9 October 2012| UPDATED:15:03 EST, 9 October 2012 After facing huge criticism for blurred maps, Apple has received… Read More ›
Hacker catches Facebook registering private links as ‘likes’
If you’ve sent Facebook friends a link to something out on the wilds of the World Wide Web, the social network knows and they’re telling others about it. A video published online this week by a poster on Hacker News… Read More ›
Google admits Middle Eastern governments could be spying on its users as it warns of ‘state-sponsored’ hacking attacks
By Hugo Gye PUBLISHED:16:41 EST, 3 October 2012| UPDATED:16:41 EST, 3 October 2012 Google has launched a new effort to warn its users that they could be the victims of cyberattacks from hostile governments. Account-holders working in international relations, development… Read More ›
Lockheed: No Sequestration Layoff Notices This Year ; WARN Act is now useless as taxpayers will pay the bill for ALL violations
Oct. 1, 2012 – 05:13PM | By ZACHARY FRYER-BIGGS | 1 Comments Lockheed Martin Chairman and CEO Robert Stevens has repeatedly warned that automatic budget cuts effective Jan. 2 would be devastating to the defense industry. (Lockheed Martin) After… Read More ›
From shopping to warfare, why maps shape our minds as well as our planet
Apple’s new mapping software is under intense scrutiny – but a series of new books and an exhibition demonstrate that cartography is a huge and growing influence A world map based on the writings of Claudius Ptolemy, the first… Read More ›
Discovery: Humans hunted for meat 1.6 million years earlier than previously thought
By Robin McKie, The Observer Sunday, September 23, 2012 1:29 EDT Topics: Ancient humans ♦ human hunting Evidence from ancient butchery site in Tanzania shows early man was capable of ambushing herds up to 1.6 million years earlier than previously… Read More ›
Fifteen Billion Online Devices by 2015
The internet of things is coming, and it’s not just the CIA who are excited. Last week Intel, the chip manufacturer, predicted that by 2015 there will be more than 15 billion internet-connected devices and one third of these… Read More ›
Google falls flat in China, Baidu remains Dominant: Google to end music search and download service in China
Google to end music search and download service in China By Agence France-Presse Friday, September 21, 2012 12:12 EDT Topics: china ♦ google ♦ Google China US Internet giant Google said Friday that it would stop providing music search and… Read More ›
Microsoft warns of new zero-day flaw targeting Internet Explorer
By Charles Arthur, The Guardian Tuesday, September 18, 2012 8:10 EDT Topics: internet explorer ♦ Microsoft Hackers have already targeted flaw that affects IE versions 7, 8 and 9, and could be exploited on XP, Vista and Windows 7 Microsoft… Read More ›
As Violence Spreads in Arab World, Google Blocks Access to Inflammatory Video
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Published: September 13, 2012 SAN FRANCISCO — As violence spread in the Arab world over a video on YouTube ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad, Google, the owner of YouTube, blocked access to it in two of… Read More ›
As Google prepares to launch its smart glasses, one filmmaker reveals a chilling vision of what could happen if they are misused
By Daniel Bates PUBLISHED:09:45 EST, 28 August 2012| UPDATED:09:47 EST, 28 August 2012 They have been billed as the future of the way that we will interact with computers. But a new science fiction film suggests that augmented reality glasses… Read More ›
Privacy alert over ‘scary’ site which publishes home addresses of Twitter users from around the world
Controversial site claims it is alerting users to the security risks of Twitter Privacy experts warn of increasing number of mobile phone apps that reveal your locations By Mark Prigg PUBLISHED:09:54 EST, 23 August 2012| UPDATED:12:25 EST, 23 August 2012… Read More ›
Northwestern scientists create chemical brain – Birth of Chematica
Northwestern scientists create chemical brain Giant network links all known compounds and reactions to create chemical Google on steroids Northwestern University scientists have connected 250 years of organic chemical knowledge into one giant computer network — a chemical Google on… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 