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Twitter has, unlike Facebook and Google, managed to maintain a good reputation when it comes to respecting user privacy, but it’s not easy. The company claims to work tirelessly to ensure its users’ privacy is secure and protected. However this becomes significantly more difficult when o
Two Nickelodeon veterans, Greg Alkalay and Taso Mastorakis, have created a new kid-friendly online network called BatteryPOP. The network gives children a safe place to watch entertaining videos from over 30 creators. The network currently has about 50-60 hours of kid-friendly content. YouTube may b
IBM on Friday said it has developed cloud storage software that’s designed to allow customers move data across multiple clouds easily. The company said its techniques, dubbed InterCloud, is patent pending and designed to add resiliency to cloud computing and better protect information. IBM is
Everyone knows by now that Americans aren’t thrilled about the use of domestic drones. So if you’re a government agency and decide to invest many thousands of taxpayer dollars on surveillance drones, it’d be good if you checked to see if you can actually fly them first. The U.S. Fo
Amazon has caught a lot of flack for introducing the idea of 30-minute drone deliveries. Since its announcement earlier this week, everyone and their mother have been concerned about piddling little details like the severing of hands as the drone tries to deliver goods and whether or not the drones
The latest top secret unmanned spy plane to be uncovered isn’t just a design idea, it’s already flying at the Air Force’s famed Area 51. Unlike the recently announced SR-72, the new RQ-180 from Northrop Grumman is believed to be currently in flight testing according to Aviation Week and Space Techno
The Supreme Court says it will return to the thorny issue of when software-related “inventions” are eligible for review under patent law. The Supreme Court decided to take the issue after the Federal Circuit Court published a messy decision with seven different opinions that have left lower courts i
A small group of robots will soon be competing at the DARPA Robotics Challenge as a part of an effort to fast-track the development of robots that can become the future of disaster response. By completing a series of search-and-rescue and crisis response tasks, the robots will be trying convince the
Jogging is one of the most popular forms of fitness activity around the world, with around 10 million people in Germany alone donning their running shoes and hitting the pavement on a regular basis. However, this popularity also translates into a large number of jogging-related injuries. In an effor
To stay in front of the LTE pack, Verizon purchased $3.6 billion worth of spectrum from a cable consortium last year, then sold off a bunch of its own to gain FCC approval. The fruit of that labor is now arriving in force, as Big Red has quietly turned on the new Band 4 frequencies in the commercial
We’re spoiled here in the US. When we want to browse what’s trending on Twitter, we just break out our smartphones, launch an app and we’re perusing the latest tweets about Joan Didion and the war on Christmas in no time. Those in developing nations don’t have that luxury. Tw
Spotify is reportedly set to offer an ad-supported, free version of its streaming-music service for mobiles devices. At the moment, using Spotify on a tablet or smartphone requires a subscription at $10 a month, though there’s been an ad-supported version on desktop since the streaming service
