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Hilary Clinton wants Silicon Valley to help combat terrorism
Hillary Clinton is far from the only politician taking advantage of the recent attacks in Paris to call for weaker encryption, but she’s one of the biggest. While she stopped…
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Europe just dealt a massive blow to American technology companies
The controversial “Safe Harbor” laws that allowed technology companies to move user data between the Europe Union and the United States were ruled invalid by the European Court…
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Amazon has joined the anti-Flash campaign
Amazon has decided to join the ever-growing list of tech companies that are trying to finally kill off Flash by making their services less reliant on it or just banning…
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Yelp is in big trouble if it can’t reverse its losses
A year ago, Yelp was making a small but still respectable $2.7 million profit, but that number has transformed into a $1.3 million loss. Even with the company raising its revenue…
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BlackBerry wants to start releasing fewer smartphones every year
Reductions, reductions, reductions. That’s been the gist of BlackBerry’s strategy these past couple of years, and not just with the company’s workforce either. According to…
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After almost a decade, the music industry has killed Grooveshark
Grooveshark has been around for almost a decade, and has been in legal battles with the music industry for just as long. Unfortunately for users of the music streaming service…
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NASA’s Opportunity rover is getting a memory wipe and reboot
NASA’s Opportunity rover is still trundling across the surface of Mars, more than 11 years after its 90 day mission began. But its software is getting bogged down, so NASA’s doing…
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A shoddy WordPress plugin enabled 50,000 websites to be backdoored
Online security can be quite a challenge to maintain these days actually, and it does not help when users are less than knowledgeable. In fact, approximately 50,000 sites have…
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The invisible.im project wants to provide spy-proof chat for whistleblowers
A group of security experts have joined forces to create a secure, spy-proof instant messaging platform that the team hopes “will become the de facto standard for instant message…
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Using Linux and lasers, researchers can now control the minds of fruit flies
Imagine you’re a fruit fly, sniffing your way to your next feast of overripe produce. Suddenly, out of the blue you become engulfed in indigo light. Immediately you forget about…
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Voicemails on two U.K. mobile providers are wide open to being hacked
With the phone-hacking scandal still playing out in the courts, it should be safe to assume that UK mobile operators have put measures in place protect customers’ own voicemail…
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Dell to cut over 15,000 jobs this week amid shrinking PC market
PC powerhouse Dell is to axe over 15,000 jobs this week as part of a restructuring effort aimed at addressing its place in the ailing PC market. The decision will see 15 per cent…
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