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There’s a new phenomenon taking Indian TV by storm at the moment. Satyamev Jayate, which has amassed a staggering 400 million viewers a week in just 13 episodes, would rightly make the headlines for that incredible achievement alone. But there’s another reason …
SQL Injection Attacks Rise as Hackers Go for the Money
Hacking used to be a much more honorable ‘profession’ back in the good old days, when spotty-faced teenage geeks would compete with each other to see how many websites they could deface with flashing messages like “H@X0rs Rulez”. But those days are …
New Disney Tech Can See Through Your Big, Hairy Beard
Disney Research recently made headlines at this year’s SIGGRAPH conference, announcing a number of innovative new touch interfaces that can create virtual textures and even turn plants into interactive toys, but this isn’t the only new technology that the group is trying …
Motorola Cuts 4,000 Jobs; Shifts Focus to High-End Smartphones
Motorola is to shed some 4,000 jobs worldwide – equivalent to 20% of its workforce – as part of restructuring efforts aimed at restoring the company to profitability. The mobile phone maker, purchased by internet giant Google just last year, announced that …
Building Big Data: How Can Connected Cars Cut Down on Data Costs?
What’s the most connected device you currently own? Most people would point to their iPhone or their iPad, or some kind of Android device. But in a few years time they could well be pointing to something much bigger – their cars. …
AntiLeaks Takes Down WikiLeaks
Following five days of sustained distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, the WikiLeaks website has been taken offline. The whistle blowing website had reportedly been under attack since August 3, apparently from a previously unheard of group known as AntiLeaks, whose mysterious …
What is it about Paris that Makes it Look Like, Well, Paris?
Some people might say that the city possesses a certain je ne sais quoi, others might point to the iconic Eiffel Tower, but for a new machine-learning program created by Carnegie Mellon, it’s the window balustrades, third-floor cast-iron balcony railings, molding on …
Burn After Using: The New Fake Number App That Lets You Cover Your Tracks
Ever been approached by an ugly, or even worse, creepy looking stranger who insists on you giving them your cell phone number? Well, if this has happened more than once in your life, you might just be interested in the new Burner …
Social Mobile Slows, Dominated by Facebook
New figures show that almost 82 million people in the US, or 26 percent of the nation’s population, are now accessing social networks from their mobile phones. But if you happen to be thinking this could be a golden opportunity for your …