Online Stalking: How to Google Your Way Out of Love [CHART]
Feb 28, 2011 Technology
The most common form of online creepiness.
Google Rumored To Have YouTube-Based Movie Streaming Service On Deck
Feb 28, 2011 Technology
If it’s not Apple, it’s Google clogging up the rumor mill pipeline. Recently, the search giant has been at the center of rumors that they could be launching a new music service to compete with iTunes, and now, The New York Post is reporting that Google may be considering the opening of a YouTube subscription-based movie service in the UK….
Hosting Company: Anti-Pirates Stole $138,000 and Hijacked Our Email
Feb 28, 2011 Technology
After seizing back equipment wrongfully seized by Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN, the owner of the servers which previously housed a huge warez topsite has spoken out.
LinkedIn says China has unblocked its service
Feb 28, 2011 Technology
Business networking site LinkedIn says it is back online in China, a day after access was blocked by the authorities there.
Sony’s War Against Makers, Hackers, and Innovators
Feb 28, 2011 Technology
Phil of Make Magazine has composed a top-seven list of Sony’s most egregious abuses of the law to attack gear hackers/innovators. Phil starts with Sony’s legal threats against security researchers who discovered that Sony-BMG had deliberately (and illegally) infected millions of computers with a rootkit as part of a DRM scheme, and goes all the way through to the latest round of PS3 action. He finishes with the irony of ironies: Sony’s eight-year fight for consumer rights when it introduced the Betamax VCR and was sued by the Hollywood studios — an era when the company’s slogan was “experience the freedom of total control.”
Humanoids run world’s first robot marathon race
Feb 28, 2011 Technology
Robovie-PC, a toy-sized humanoid, won the world’s first full-length marathon for two-legged robots by a whisker Saturday, beating its closest rival by a single second after more than two days of racing.
Lion may pack Find My Mac, Mobile Documents cloud folders
Feb 28, 2011 Technology
More discoveries in the Lion developer preview have implied that Apple’s MobileMe revamp may bring new features to the Mac as well. A finding in the code shows references to a “Find My Mac” identifier that would help users track a lost or stolen Mac. The 9to5 tip didn’t glean functionality, but it would presumably use Wi-Fi geolocation much as Snow Leopard can already use Wi-Fi positioning to get the local time.
Cyber bullies to be ‘poked’ on Facebook by cyber police
Feb 28, 2011 Technology
Cyber bullies using the internet to target their victims are to be warned they face prosecution by cyber police patrolling websites such as Facebook.
The Brain Seeing the Person Behind the Face
Feb 28, 2011 Science
Neuroscience sleuths are on the case of face blindness, a strange malady that makes some people unable to distinguish friend from foe.