Friday, June 7, 2013
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Obama wants to transform US schools through faster Internet
[ Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:44:32 GMT ]
President Barack Obama on Thursday will encourage American schools to engage their digital-era students by providing more laptops with high-speed Internet connections and fewer textbooks and lectures.Obama will tour a middle school in Mooresville, North Carolina, that has improved its test scores and graduation rates through digital learning, an approach favored in countries like South Korea, whic...
[ Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:44:32 GMT ]
President Barack Obama on Thursday will encourage American schools to engage their digital-era students by providing more laptops with high-speed Internet connections and fewer textbooks and lectures.Obama will tour a middle school in Mooresville, North Carolina, that has improved its test scores and graduation rates through digital learning, an approach favored in countries like South Korea, whic...
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Notorious Zeus banking Trojan is gaining speed on Facebook
[ Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:38:52 GMT ]
Malware known as Zeus that can land on a user's computer and steal that user's bank account information is "re-merging with a vengeance" and finding its way onto Facebook. One security firm believes Zeus' reemergence "peaked in May," but is still quite active.An administrator of Facebook sports fan pages is so upset about it, he's made it his personal mission to try to get the social network to be...
[ Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:38:52 GMT ]
Malware known as Zeus that can land on a user's computer and steal that user's bank account information is "re-merging with a vengeance" and finding its way onto Facebook. One security firm believes Zeus' reemergence "peaked in May," but is still quite active.An administrator of Facebook sports fan pages is so upset about it, he's made it his personal mission to try to get the social network to be...
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Turks skip suspected censorship with Internet lifelines
[ Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:40:47 GMT ]
ISTANBUL/LONDON (Reuters) - Turks are turning to encryption software to thwart any ramp up in censorship of the Internet after six days of anti-government demonstrations and a wave of arrests reportedly for urging people to protest on social media sites.Hotspot Shield, a VPN (virtual private network) that disguises users' identities and encrypts traffic on the Web, said more than 120,000 peopl...
[ Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:40:47 GMT ]
ISTANBUL/LONDON (Reuters) - Turks are turning to encryption software to thwart any ramp up in censorship of the Internet after six days of anti-government demonstrations and a wave of arrests reportedly for urging people to protest on social media sites.Hotspot Shield, a VPN (virtual private network) that disguises users' identities and encrypts traffic on the Web, said more than 120,000 peopl...
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Pre-caffeine tech: Security issues, squid sperm
[ Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:08:15 GMT ]
Our pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning.Turns out, the CIA didn't always know who it was killing in drone strikes, classified documents show.Also, the NSA is collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily. This security firm uses "martyr" posts to on the Internet to analyze "foreign fighters" aiding Syrian rebels....
[ Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:08:15 GMT ]
Our pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning.Turns out, the CIA didn't always know who it was killing in drone strikes, classified documents show.Also, the NSA is collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily. This security firm uses "martyr" posts to on the Internet to analyze "foreign fighters" aiding Syrian rebels....
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New Viking voyage to Newfoundland discovered
[ Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:00:10 GMT ]
By Owen JarusLiveScienceSome 1,000 years ago, the Vikings set off on a voyage to Notre Dame Bay in modern-day Newfoundland, Canada, new evidence suggests.The journey would have taken the Vikings, also called the Norse, from L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of the same island to a densely populated part of Newfoundland and may have led to the first contact between Europeans and the indigenous...
[ Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:00:10 GMT ]
By Owen JarusLiveScienceSome 1,000 years ago, the Vikings set off on a voyage to Notre Dame Bay in modern-day Newfoundland, Canada, new evidence suggests.The journey would have taken the Vikings, also called the Norse, from L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of the same island to a densely populated part of Newfoundland and may have led to the first contact between Europeans and the indigenous...
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013
More than half of US adults now own smartphonesÂ
[ Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:21:31 GMT ]
More than half — 56 percent — of American adults now have smartphones, up from 35 percent two years ago. The findings from the Pew Internet & American Life Project mesh with other recent research which shows that for the first time worldwide, there are more smartphones being shipped than feature phones. Nine out of 10 Americans now have a cellphone of some kind, smart or not, Pew says. Two yea...
[ Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:21:31 GMT ]
More than half — 56 percent — of American adults now have smartphones, up from 35 percent two years ago. The findings from the Pew Internet & American Life Project mesh with other recent research which shows that for the first time worldwide, there are more smartphones being shipped than feature phones. Nine out of 10 Americans now have a cellphone of some kind, smart or not, Pew says. Two yea...
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The BlackBerry keyboard returns … but is it too late?
[ Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:07:09 GMT ]
When BlackBerry launched its latest operating system — BlackBerry 10 — on an all-touch smartphone, we scratched our heads. Physical keyboards are a defining BlackBerry feature — why the heck would they be set aside during a critical time for the company? The blunder has made the latest BlackBerry, the Q10 — along with its physical keyboard — the smartphone maker's final hope.Fortunately, the Q10 i...
[ Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:07:09 GMT ]
When BlackBerry launched its latest operating system — BlackBerry 10 — on an all-touch smartphone, we scratched our heads. Physical keyboards are a defining BlackBerry feature — why the heck would they be set aside during a critical time for the company? The blunder has made the latest BlackBerry, the Q10 — along with its physical keyboard — the smartphone maker's final hope.Fortunately, the Q10 i...
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Star astronaut Chris Hadfield's future up in the air
[ Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:07:12 GMT ]
By Elizabeth HowellSpace.comWith star astronaut Chris Hadfield recently back on planet Earth after five months in orbit, many are wondering what he will do next.Will Hadfield stay with the Canadian Space Agency? Bring his outreach skills to politics or business? Or do something different altogether?"Chris will have people knocking onhis door from every single possible area of work imaginable, and ...
[ Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:07:12 GMT ]
By Elizabeth HowellSpace.comWith star astronaut Chris Hadfield recently back on planet Earth after five months in orbit, many are wondering what he will do next.Will Hadfield stay with the Canadian Space Agency? Bring his outreach skills to politics or business? Or do something different altogether?"Chris will have people knocking onhis door from every single possible area of work imaginable, and ...
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Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Google will block sexually explicit and violent apps from Glass
[ Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:29:54 GMT ]
The only thing less surprising than the sudden appearance of a Google Glass porn app is the fact that the tech giant won't allow such naughtiness on its futuristic headgear for long. No porn, no gambling, no violence, no bullying, no piracy — the folks in Mountain View confirm that they're planning on keeping things clean. That said, the first Glass porn app is still operational — for now. "Our po...
[ Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:29:54 GMT ]
The only thing less surprising than the sudden appearance of a Google Glass porn app is the fact that the tech giant won't allow such naughtiness on its futuristic headgear for long. No porn, no gambling, no violence, no bullying, no piracy — the folks in Mountain View confirm that they're planning on keeping things clean. That said, the first Glass porn app is still operational — for now. "Our po...
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Google will block sex and violence from Glass (but hasn't yet)
[ Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:41:15 GMT ]
The only thing less surprising than the sudden appearance of a Google Glass porn app is the fact that the tech giant won't allow such naughtiness on its futuristic headgear for long. No porn, no gambling, no violence, no bullying, no piracy — the folks in Mountain View confirm that they're planning on keeping things clean. That said, the first Glass porn app is still operational — for now. "Our po...
[ Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:41:15 GMT ]
The only thing less surprising than the sudden appearance of a Google Glass porn app is the fact that the tech giant won't allow such naughtiness on its futuristic headgear for long. No porn, no gambling, no violence, no bullying, no piracy — the folks in Mountain View confirm that they're planning on keeping things clean. That said, the first Glass porn app is still operational — for now. "Our po...
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Hack a virus, win a prize: Scientist recognized for 'useful' germ modding
[ Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:03:48 GMT ]
The inventor of a viral technology behind tomorrow's electric car batteries, flexible touchscreen computers, and non-invasive cancer screening was awarded a $500,000 prize Tuesday.Angela Belcher, a materials chemist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, alters the genetic code of viruses to build things that are useful to humans. The technique is already being harnessed to produce touchscr...
[ Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:03:48 GMT ]
The inventor of a viral technology behind tomorrow's electric car batteries, flexible touchscreen computers, and non-invasive cancer screening was awarded a $500,000 prize Tuesday.Angela Belcher, a materials chemist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, alters the genetic code of viruses to build things that are useful to humans. The technique is already being harnessed to produce touchscr...
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Telescope could answer dark matter mystery
[ Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:11:23 GMT ]
By Clara MoskowitzSpace.comAn intriguing hint of a certain type of gamma-ray light at the center of the Milky Way might be a product of elusive dark matter — or it might not be. For the past several years, scientists have debated whether the light is really there, and what it means. Now, researchers are petitioning the management team of NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, the observatory that...
[ Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:11:23 GMT ]
By Clara MoskowitzSpace.comAn intriguing hint of a certain type of gamma-ray light at the center of the Milky Way might be a product of elusive dark matter — or it might not be. For the past several years, scientists have debated whether the light is really there, and what it means. Now, researchers are petitioning the management team of NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, the observatory that...
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