Google Can Read Your Emailed Bills and Remind You to Pay Up
Google GOOGL -2.74% already scans users’ Gmail email accounts to show more relevant ads. Now the Internet giant is scouring emails for bills. The …
Cyber crime: First online murder will happen by end of year, warns US firm
Governments are ill-prepared to combat the looming threat of “online murder” as cyber criminals exploit internet technology to target victims, the European policing agency …
Facebook Not Sorry For Psych Experiment On Users, Just Sorry You Got Mad
As previously reported, Facebook revealed that it had conducted a psychological experiment on over 600,000 of its users without their consent. This experiment, which …
Podcasts are back — and making money
They were too clunky to download. The topics were sometimes a little too obscure. And they didn’t really make any money. Podcasts, the short-form …
Online security: Pakistani helps Google avoid privacy disaster
A Pakistani security researcher has helped Google fix a major security flaw in its Android operating system for smartphones, protecting the personal data of …
Does sharing photos of your children on Facebook put them at risk?
There is an unwritten rule that one does not post photos of other people’s children on Facebook. I know this. And yet in October …
Oculus Rift hands-on: why the latest version is a watershed moment for gaming
I have seen the future, and I’m worried it’s really going to mess me up. Specifically, I have a cutting-edge virtual reality device, halfway …
IBM Brings Bare Metal Intel TXT Security to Cloud
IBM today announced that it is bringing Intel’s Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) to its Softlayer cloud service. Intel’s TXT is a trust mechanism that …
Apple transparency reports allude to Patriot Act demands
Apple removed text from its latest transparency reports, which suggests that the company has received a top secret data demand. These so-called “warrant canaries” …
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