The scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web spoke out Friday against what he called a "growing tide of surveillance and censorship," warning that it is threatening the future of democracy. Tim Berners-Lee, who launched the ...
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Google is paying $17 million to 37 states and the District of Columbia to make amends for the Internet search leader's snooping on millions of people using Safari Web browsers in 2011 and 2012. The settlement announced Monday stems from a ...
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Google and Microsoft have introduced software that makes it harder for users to search for child abuse material online, the companies said in a joint announcement Monday. Writing ahead of a British summit on Internet safety, Google's ...
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo is expanding its efforts to protect its users' online activities from prying eyes by encrypting all the communications and other information flowing into the Internet company's data centers around the world. ...
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While Digital Lumens focused its SIL Europe presentation on adaptive controls as expected, it was surprising to hear both Dialight and Xicato make lighting networks and controls a central theme of their Investor Forum presentations. ...
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That's a question we all should start to ponder. In this day and age, when a large and established company such as Adobe can get hacked, are any of our passwords safe? If Adobe had been storing their customers' banking and shopping ...
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It's amazing how coconut oil has recently been acknowledged for the healthy oil that it is after having been vilified for decades as a heart attack oil. Now it's been discovered to boost even brain health. Defaming coconut oil saturated ...
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It was considered the largest oil-related natural disaster in the history of the world, so it only follows that the fine would be historic too. Gargantuan oil company BP has agreed to pay the largest criminal penalty in U.S. history for ...
A U.S. survey found drivers who access the Internet via phone while driving nearly doubled in five years -- up from 13 percent in 2009 to 24 percent in 2013. The annual State Farm Distracted Driving survey also found a significant ...
MAM Software CEO Mike Jamieson (center) receives a Product Showcase Award from AAPEX representatives. MAM Software Inc., formerly Aftersoft Network NA Inc., received a Product Showcase Award in the "Business Tools" category during the ...
Facebook and Microsoft are winning plaudits from security researchers for launching an initiative to offer bounties to bug hunters who discover and report vulnerabilities in widely used products. Unlike other bug bounty programmes, the ...
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Mobile connected devices may make life easier for consumers in the long run, but today they present a bundle of user headaches, a panel of industry leaders said Tuesday. Smart homes, Internet-connected cars and wearable devices represent ...
Trend Micro’s Integrated Data Loss Prevention product has won DLP Solution of the Year at the prestigious Computing Security Awards. The internet security specialist was handed the award at a ceremony in London’s Russell Hotel ...
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Over a quarter of businesses are not equipped to deal with the convergence of new technologies, including mobility, social networks, big data, cloud computing and the Internet of Things, according to research from international standards ...
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China is moving to further tighten its grip over social networking services, citing possible threats to national stability. On Friday, Chinese authorities released a new blueprint for the country’s future that covered economic and ...