66572103
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
It is a question for the ages, but there is one clear winner in the battle for the hearts and minds of internet users between this week's two biggest stories — the unveiling of Kim Kardashian's naked form in Paper magazine (which promised to "break the internet") and the landing of a washing machine-sizes spacecraft on a speeding comet over 500,000,000km from earth...
66524093
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
An article in The Verge this week told how Apple's Find my iPhone features works to help recover a stolen smartphone. And while in that particular case it may have, that is not my experience and a disconnect between technology and the police mean the usefulness of the feature is very limited
66481577
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
The epidemic of school shootings in the US has reached the point where authorities have adapted technology created by the military for use in war zones to use in the classrooms of schools to warn them about guns going off
66479651
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concertina226 writes:
Computer science researchers from Boston's Northeastern University have proved that e-commerce sites are tracking the online shopping habits of people and will charge individuals different prices, depending on what type of device they are using to access a website.
300 participants ran product searches earlier this year on the websites of 16 big US and international retailers, online travel agencies and car rental companies.
Their search results showed that retailers like Home Depot, Sears, JC Penneys, Macy's, Cheaptickets, Orbitz, Priceline, Expedia and Travelocity have been charging higher prices to users on Macs or Android devices, and some retailers had been giving out secret discounts to users on certain devices.
66098703
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
No longer will policemen and women need to try and decipher their own writing on the witness stand as traditional paper notebooks are being replaced by Samsung's large screen Galaxy Note 3 smartphone which will come with special pre-installed apps.
65897949
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Trying to stand out in the smartphone market is hard. So hard in fact that one Chinese company has resorted to putting a motorised, rotating camera on its latest smartphone, with the Oppo N3 promising to automatically track your subject...
65895795
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
North Korea's elite cyber-warfare unit has been building smartphone games, but unlike Angry Birds and Candy Crush, these games have been designed to infect the smartphones of South Koreans with up to 20,000 falling victim between May and September this year
65856495
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Not happy with blindly choosing what strain of cannabis you smoke? Well worry not as Budzster is hoping solve your problem by providing personalised marijuana recommendations for users, based on their personal preferences....what could go wrong?
65705253
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Up to three million visitors to some of the web's more popular websites — like Yahoo, AOL and Match.com — are being put at risk of being infected with the pernicious ransomware known as CryptoWall through malicious advertisements, with the criminal gang behind the campaign thought to be raking in $25,000-a-day
63983227
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
New research shows that Apple's mobile devices dominate the email landscape in the UK, with 46% of all emails opened there being done on an iPhone with a further 18% on iPad. Despite Android being the dominant smartphone market leader with a 60% share, emails opened on Google's mobile operating system fell by a huge 31% between 2013 and 2014.
63800601
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Leaked iPhone 6 pictures? Sure, there are dozens available. iPad Air 2? Yep, we've got a few of them too. But iWatch photos? Nada, Zip, Zilch. Zero. The reason? This is a new Apple product and even though there has been a lot of talk about it, very few people are likely to know what it looks like, unlike the iPhone 6 which is already in mass production in factories across China.
63798985
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
The popularity of Tor is growing with the anonymity network having up to 2.5 million people using it at any one time, but as it get more popular, the foundation set up to over see its development struggles to cope. And that is why the executive director of the Tor Project believe that only a company like Facebook, Google or Twitter can take it on and make it mainstream
63776451
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Researchers will publish a study on Friday which claims that apps on Android, Windows Phone and iOS are all vulnerable to a previously unseen attack vector, which can steal sensitive data like login details, credit card numbers and even pictures. Shown working on Android, the attack was successful in stealing login credentials of the Gmail app 92% of the time.
63767919
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Research suggests that if we wanted to live in a world without pop-up ads for penis enlargement tablets, then it would cost everyone $230 per year. So how many people would be willing to stump up this kind of cash? Just 2% of the population apparently...
63749137
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DavidGilbert99 writes:
Apple is still a relative new-comer to the Chinese market. In this market Xiaomi is now the biggest player, while Apple's isn't even in the top five smartphone vendors. Add to that uncertainty about enforcing patents in China, as well as a lack of detail about Xiaomi's own patents,and it is easy to see why Apple may not be willing to rock the boat — though that could all change if/when Xiaomi expands beyond China
