VIIRS View Spinning Marble App Raytheon’s VIIRS View app provides a glimpse into the type of data meteorologists and climatologists use every day to track the weather and monitor the Earth’s environment. VIIRS View illustrates three types of data… Read More ›
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Anonymous claims Parliament Wi-Fi hack during London protest
Cyber assaults ‘slow traffic’ as miscreants slurp email logins By Jasper Hamill Posted in Security, 12th November 2013 16:03 GMT Anonymous hacktivists have claimed they used laptops to launch cyber attacks against the British government whilst attending a protest in… Read More ›
Your iPhone amazingly uses more energy than your refrigerator
The majority of the energy is used for cloud services, not charging the iPhone The majority of the energy used to power the cloud comes from coal In the next two decades, servers will require almost as much energy as … Read More ›
Radar gun spots vehicles with illegal GPS jammers / They could disrupt Power, Financial Institutions etc, etc…
17:33 02 August 2013 by Paul Marks For similar stories, visit the Crime and Forensics Topic Guide The battle against truckers and motorists who jam GPS signals has moved up a gear. A new handheld radar can pinpoint which vehicles… Read More ›
Hacker’s Appeal Paints Him as Whistle-Blower
By ROSE BOUBOUSHIAN (CN) – A hacker who is serving 3 1/2 years in prison for publicizing an AT&T server security flaw has appealed what he calls a “remarkable and unprecedented” felony conviction. Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer, now… Read More ›
NYC mayor pins crime rate spike on iPhone, iPad theft
If it weren’t for Apple kit, crime would be down By Neil McAllister in San Francisco Posted in Security, 29th December 2012 06:31 GMT Free whitepaper – Media and Entertainment Goes Digital Major crime is on the rise in New… Read More ›
Personalised pricing: driving prices down? Yes, a Price Just for You !
The Office of Fair Trading is probing whether some websites use data to hike prices for individual consumers – legal expert Vanessa Barnett says the opposite is likely to be the case. Personalised pricing is similar to supermarkets’ loyalty schemes,… Read More ›
Insight: In India, gift-giving drives drug makers’ marketing: shower Indian doctors with gifts, posh junkets abroad, and cash payments disguised as consultancy or other types of fees
By Frederik JoelvingPosted 2012/09/17 at 7:20 am EDT MUMBAI, Sep. 17, 2012 (Reuters) — Sales representatives for Abbott Laboratories Inc’s Indian subsidiaries know what it takes to get a doctor to prescribe the drugs they market: a coffee maker, perhaps,… Read More ›
Japan firms close Chinese plants after protests
By Agence France-Presse Monday, September 17, 2012 7:05 EDT Topics: china ♦ japan ♦ plants Japanese firms including Panasonic suspended operations at plants in China, companies and reports said Monday, after mass anti-Tokyo protests at the weekend over disputed islands… Read More ›
‘Humiliating punishments for working too slow, bars on the windows and squalid dorms’: Inside the factory that makes the iPhone 5
By Eddie Wrenn PUBLISHED:09:51 EST, 12 September 2012| UPDATED:11:59 EST, 12 September 2012 For Apple’s American workers, today is a big day, with the release of the iPhone 5. But behind the scenes at the Foxconn factory in China, tasked… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 