NSA hacked Bill Clinton's email
Posted by: Joe Kukura
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 16:38:01 -0700 | technology-news
Anyone concerned that the National Security Agency can hack into anyone's email at any time just got more good reason to be concerned. And by “anyone” they really do mean “anyone.” It seems this includes former presidents of the United...
Amazon releases social gifting service
Posted by: Barry Eitel
Oakland :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 16:26:41 -0700 | technology-news
Amazon wants to crowdsource gift giving. On Tuesday, the company released Amazon Birthday Gift, a program that allows groups of people to pitch in on Amazon gift cards for a lucky someone. The new service requires connecting via Facebook. “Amazon...
Europeans closer to fulfilling ExoMars mission
Posted by: arkar
Paris :: France | updated 2013-06-18 18:34:36 -0700 | technology-news
The European Space Agency (ESA) has been working towards launching its own missions to the Red Planet, planning to send both an orbiter as well as a rover to the planet in the next couple of years. The mission, collectively...
Step Aboard The World's Largest Boat Powered Only By The Sun [PHOTOS]
Source: BusinessInsider
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 15:06:48 -0700 | technology-news
The world's largest solar boat, MS Turanor PlanetSolar, arrived in New York on Monday during the early phase of a scientific expedition to study the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic Ocean, a key regulator of climate. The boat is special...
Among Layoff Reports, An IBM Executive Explains How Big Data Can Be Used To Manage A Workforce (IBM)...
Source: BusinessInsider
Bangalore :: India | updated 2013-06-18 15:06:34 -0700 | technology-news
Although IBM is being tight lipped about about how many jobs it will slash in a round of layoffs that are reportedly happening now , IBM's worker union says that 2,833 workers have been let go so far in the...
In Transit Blog: A Royal-Style Room Has a Crib (but No Crown)
Source: International Herald Tribune
İstanbul :: Turkey | updated 2013-06-18 15:03:59 -0700 | technology-news
Follow This Blog Recent Posts June 18 The Johnny Cash Museum in Nashville includes his guitar, costumes, and, of course, a lot of music. June 18 Inspired by Kate Middleton, a hotel in London offers a nursery suite with a...
Bits Blog: Tech Moves to the Background as Design Becomes Foremost
Source: International Herald Tribune
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-18 16:44:25 -0700 | technology-news
Stephen Lam/Reuters Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president for software engineering, discussing the redesign of its mobile software system. In the last few decades, the computing industry has passed through several different eras. In the '90s, the big tech companies...
What's going on with the weather?
Source: BBC
Exeter :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-06-18 17:19:13 -0700 | technology-news
The reasons for changing weather are not fully understood Treat the following news with caution...Forecasts looking that far ahead are not usually released with a huge fanfare because the people who produce them aren't sure of them. The more distant...
Applause is a 'social contagion'
Source: BBC
Uppsala :: Sweden | updated 2013-06-18 17:19:54 -0700 | technology-news
Instead scientists have found that clapping is contagious, and the length of an ovation is influenced by how other members of the crowd behave. They say it takes a few people to start clapping for applause to spread through a...
Relaxed working hours for Ramadan
Source: Arab News
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | updated 2013-06-18 18:42:36 -0700 | technology-news
Ramadan working hours will be six for the private sector and five for the public sector. The Labor Ministry said the hours for the holy month were fixed on the basis of Article 98 of the Labor Law. A source...
Mississippi leans on Google to crack down on illegal products
Source: Reuters
London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-06-18 16:09:04 -0700 | technology-news
Topics An employee rides her bike past a logo next to the main entrance of the Google building in Zurich July 9, 2009. Mississippi's attorney general said on Tuesday he would subpoena documents from Google Inc as part of a...
Web Tools to Blur Your Digital Footprint
Source: Inc.
Pong :: Thailand | updated 2013-06-18 18:34:24 -0700 | technology-news
Shutterstock Revelations of NSA surveillance have shaken the nation , but while many of us would love nothing more than to toss our phones out the window and avoid well-trafficked search engines like Yahoo and Google altogether, the government seems...
University offers 'ignore context'
Source: BBC
Ács :: Hungary | updated 2013-06-18 18:16:02 -0700 | technology-news
More than three quarters (78%) of admissions tutors said they did not look at data on whether applicants' parents had been to university and only about a third (35%) considered that "evidence of success through a difficult start or background"...
Digital Health Meets Moneyball: Biomarkers And The 'Quantified Athlete'
Source: Forbes
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 18:04:55 -0700 | technology-news
The quantification of life seems an inevitable manifestation of this movement. These data expressions of life' can't be far off. And I can imagine a day when a potential date or even spouse will need to quantify' as terms of...
Remains of the Day: None more flat
Source: Macworld
Oş :: Kyrgyzstan | updated 2013-06-18 17:49:22 -0700 | technology-news
Apple and Mavericks have been sitting in a tree since at least 2005; Macs shine in court; and how much flatter could a title be?...If you'd been paying close attention to Apple's earlier software, you might have noticed a fondness...
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