Reuters / Arnd Wiegmann Tags Corporate news, FBI, Gizmos, Hacking, Information Technology, Intelligence, Law, Police, Security, Snowden, USA Apple, Google, and a host of other tech companies and cryptology experts have signed a letter sent to President Obama calling on his administration to stem any proposal that seeks to weaken encryption security to benefit policing […]
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Attention Span is Shortening Significantly by the Year – But Why?
A study from Microsoft involving more than 2,000 people has found that the average attention span has dipped to a low 8 seconds – down from 12 seconds in 2000. A goldfish has an attention span of 9 seconds. There are many effects from smartphones and the like on the human body which are never […]
Analysis: European cloud computing firms see silver lining in PRISM scandal
By Leila Abboud and Paul Sandle PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) – France has its “Sovereign Cloud” project while across the Rhine data firms have created the label “Cloud Services: Made in Germany”, all trying to reassure big companies that their information is stored away from the prying eyes of U.S. spies. European firms believe revelations that the […]
Jewish Porn industry XXX domain names now up for sale
Webmasters, entrepreneurs and budding pornographers alike yanked their credit cards from their pockets worldwide this morning to purchase highly-anticipated .xxx domain names as they finally became publically available. The official registrar for the urls, ICM, says that the move is ten years in the making and comes as a maneuver to put as much pornography […]