Often more frightening than terrorist attacks themselves are the asinine laws that politicians will propose in their wake. When the horrors of a terrorist attack are still fresh on everyone’s mind, and the fear of future attacks is as strong as it will ever be, that’s when politicians wi
China and the United States reached some important agreements and understandings regarding cybersecurity last month, but a lot of people are worried that it was all just meaningless talk with no real substance. While those concerns are still there, and still valid, the Chinese government’s rec
Robert Morris University in Chicago put out a call recruiting League of Legends players to its first varsity eSports team earlier this month. According to Riot Games, RMU will become the first university to offer a competitive team at the varsity level, and will offer scholarships to players “
The military expects to introduce a tablet prototype of its combat translation system by the end of the year, officials said Wednesday. Troops have depended on translators in Iraq and Afghanistan for the past decade. The Pentagon’s researching arm the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has a
Web hosting company NeoCities is throttling all connections from the FCC to its site to 28.8kbps, until the FCC signs up for an exclusive, $1000 a year subscription plan to remove the cap. Lots of companies on the web are complainingabout the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to tra
In a rare insight into the government’s thinking on the use of cyberweapons, the White House on Monday published a series of questions it asks in deciding when to make public the discovery of major flaws in computer security or whether to keep them secret so that American intelligence agencies can u
Google Ventures partner Kevin Rose says that his San Francisco home was visited by protesters today, who held up a banner calling him a “parasite” and distributed leaflets with the same message. What did he do to deserve this? Well, he invested in startups. While Rose didn’t sound happy about the pr
Australian startup Friends for Hire lets friendless people hire other people to be their friend. The service is about to launch on March 22, according to iT Wire Co-founder Josh Blundell described the site to Business Insider: “It’s definitely not a dating website. It’s for people
It’s a new year, and a whole new SXSW, but some things don’t change. Thanks to an endless stream of parties with open bars, the warm nights, and a large population of web-curious visitors descending on Austin, the tradition of the SXSW hookup lives on. And Down wants to help keep that tradition aliv
Europe could create its own communications network to prevent data passing through the United States and falling into the hands of surveillance organisations such as the NSA, according to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Speaking on her weekly podcast on Saturday, Merkel said Germany had been in dis
Hacker Jose Julio loves robotics and says his daughter loves air hockey. One day, he decided to build her an air hockey robot out of 3D-printer parts and a PS3 camera to make sure she could always play the game. This is an amazing achievement: the robot doesn’t just move in two dimensions. It can al
The quest for love is rarely easy, but it can be even tougher to find online. Lonely singles are not the only ones browsing on line dating websites. So are criminals driven by a love of other people’s money. “You hear about people getting scammed out of $2,000, but I got scammed out of $