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Foreseeing Future Faces is Now Easy
Now you can see accurately what your children will look like as adults ‘If you’re a parent wondering what your child will look like as an adult, now you don’t need to wonder anymore. Researchers at the...
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All About Warrantless Phone Searches
The amount of info inside your phone is an issue ‘The court has long allowed police to search people without a warrant at the time of their arrest. But as privacy advocate Andrew Pincus points out,...
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The Real Dark Side of Amazon Publishing?
‘My Amazon bestseller made me nothing.’ Patrick Wensink claims. ‘My novel shot to the top of the site’s bestseller list last summer. You won’t believe how little I got paid.’ ‘This past summer, my...
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Internet Growth Slowing
infographic As Internet Growth Slows, Tablets And Mobile Data Are The Industry’s Best Hope ‘Growth in Internet usage on the whole is slowing, technology investor and analyst Mary Meeker warned in her...
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A Fake News Organization For Social Engineering (Brainwashing)
‘Despite their disparate origins, many of the intrusion groups we track every day at iSIGHT Partners use similar methods. They rely heavily on spear-phishing emails and web exploitation, for instance,...
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Surprising Social Media Traffic Stats
Social Media Active Users by Network [INFOGRAPH] Believe it or not, Google+ is ahead of Twitter and in third place ‘Are any of these numbers accurate? Nope. They’re changing by the second, literally,...
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Social Media Intrudes Into Prenups
New Prenup Trend: a Social Media Clause More couples are drawing up contracts dictating online behavior ‘Couples Are Signing ‘Social Media Prenups’ To Prevent Spouses From Posting Unflattering Photos...
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New Rights for European Online Shoppers
Online shoppers across Europe now have new rights ‘While shopping on the web has exploded in popularity in recent years, there are still some who prefer to buy their stuff in good ol’ fashioned brick...
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Spy Drone Caught on Soccer World Cup
Someone flew a drone over France’s World Cup soccer team practice last week. ‘France’s manager, Didier Deschamps, was not amused. Soon after, he filed a complaint with FIFA, alleging that the drone...
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The Rise of Robot Journalism
Should we celebrate it? ‘…Narrative Science has been generating sports stories — game wrap-ups, etc. — and earnings-based reports for a number of clients including Forbes magazine for a couple of years...
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Emotion-Manipulation Study Gets Facebook in Big Trouble
Facebook Faces Investigation in UK Following Emotion-Manipulation Study That’s the smaller trouble. Here’s the big one: Facebook Emotional Experiment Linked To Pentagon Research On Civil Unrest...
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Every G Glass User a Possible Thief
Google Glass wearers can steal your password ‘Cyber forensics experts at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell have developed a way to steal passwords entered on a smartphone or tablet using video...
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Flight 17 Grave Robbers in Facebook
‘In a sick revelation, scammers have set up fake Facebook profiles using the identities of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 victims amid claims that credit cards may have been stolen from the crash site....
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3 Projects to Prove Privacy Is Not Dead
‘…Services such as Britain’s Mydex offer the ability to store, manage and share personal information in an encrypted central repository called a data store, which only the person who creates the store...
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Smuggling People with Social Media
eCoyotes: The Central American people smugglers who ‘Like’ Facebook ‘When Alan Villeda began smuggling people from Honduras to the United States in 1998, he could only communicate with customers via...
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Trolling of Zelda Williams Triggers Suspension of Twitter and Facebook Accounts
Robin Williams’ daughter swears off social media after trolls trash her Twitter ‘Although most of the world expressed its condolences and well-wishes to the daughter of Robin Williams, cruel posts by...
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Know Your Device Rights While Travelling
‘You’ve left the plane and collected your luggage, and the last thing you want to do is submit to a customs search. Getting your souvenirs and taxable items out is a hassle, but nothing like the...
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A Great Way to Catch a Thief Online [Video]
OFW’s stolen watch ‘for sale’ online leads to arrest of suspect on airport theft ‘An OFW leaving for Dubai reportedly fell victim to an airport theft; his luggage were forcibly unzipped and his more...
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How Translation Amplifies Ideas
‘Shortly after model Geena Rocero gave the TED Talk “Why I must come out,” she was Skyping with an LGBTQ activist in Hong Kong. This activist mentioned how powerful it would be for Chinese speakers to...
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Brain-to-brain verbal communication in humans achieved
‘…At the BCI end, the words “Ciao” and “Hola” were translated into binary. This was then shown to the emitter subject, who was instructed to envision actions for each piece of information: moving their...
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