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#HurricaneHackers is Here to Organize Technology and Social Media Projects Related to Sandy
Right now, Hurricane Sandy is chewing on the East coast and the weather service is in a frenzy to get all its predictors in a row and even Google is getting in on this with an interactive crisis map. Everyday citizens and very smart technical geeks are also in the path of this upcoming “Frakenstorm” ...
Hurricane Sandy and the Big Data of Disaster Prediction
The science of meteorology is a game of numerous big numbers, a great deal of data from myriad sources, and historical regressive analysis of past events to understand the future. Right now, the East Coast is looking at a storm that has been seen before and NASA is using satellites to track it—Hurricane Sandy is ...
PlayStation 3 Low Level Decryption Codes Leaked, Console Hackers Descend
PlayStation 3 security isn’t what it used to be—or perhaps it’s never been so great, it’s just taken the hacker community to catch up with it. This isn’t the first time that the PS3 has been hacked, the first was a jailbreak technique, but Sony managed to defeat that with a firmware update. This time, ...
IBM Getting Smart on Big Data Security, Appoints Christina Peters as Chief Privacy Officer
IBM announced the new appointment of the top management of the company–Christina Peters was promoted to Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) and will lead a team of lawyers, experts in data security and technical staff who are engaged in policies and practices of protection of personal data of more than 400 thousand employees and hundreds of thousands ...
Telerik Unveils the Cloudy Side of Mobile Development with Icenium Tools
The folks over at Telerik have been busy, today the end-to-end mobile software application developers have announced the industry first Integrated Cloud Environment (ICE). Known as Icenium, this platform will introduce a new way for developers to produce applications that fully use the cloud in all its glory to produce, update, and maintain software across ...
Ubuntu Has the Juju in the Open Source, ARM DevOps Revolution for Cloud and Big Data
The open source community seems like a very likely place for a great deal of DevOps breakthroughs to rise out of, after all many of the products that live in that community address individuals who wear many hats: developers, system administrators, technology officers. Canonical, the company behind the popular Linux flavor Ubuntu, has been working ...
Malware Problem on the Rise, Hospitals Suffer “Rampant” Infections
With the proliferation of highly computerized and networked systems for healthcare, it’s not unexpected that they’re opening themselves up to new vectors for invasion of privacy—including the automated type presented by malware. Worse, medical information is confidential and valuable to bad people, not to mention that malware on sensitive medical equipment could lead to serious ...
CODEBREAKER: Compelling Movie About Alan Turing Premieres in the United States
TODpix, in conjunction with Story Center Productions and Furnace, has announced the U.S. Premiere of CODEBREAKER, a unique new film about British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing—focusing not just on his role in World War II and his accomplishments that led to the computer revolution; but how his own country turned against him due ...
AT&T Considers Six-Strikes Anti-Piracy Policy in the United States
November 28 will mark the date that AT&T will start sending out anti-piracy warning notices to its subscribers who get flagged for copyright violations. In the wake of these notices repeated offenders will be sanctioned by having “the access to frequently visited websites blocked,” until such time that they complete a copyright education course. All ...
Microsoft Prototypes Bulky But Cool Hand Gesture Sensor Bracelet
One of the challenges with augmented reality and human computer interaction is having a wearable computer connect with the human—for most mobile phones this is a tiny keyboard, a bunch of buttons, or a touch screen. However, with innovations such as Google Glass bringing the display from the hands and directly into the eyes, this ...