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Our innocence has been lost for a while, but our naivety got crushed this year as well with the revelations of Edward Snowden. What can businesses do to try to get that trust back? Ah, those were the days. The days before documents leaked by Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA sucks up massive amou
Flames don’t burn in space. The vacuum makes it hard. That didn’t stop the Russians from making a symbolic gesture by taking it up into space and having it passed between astronauts. The symbolic torch that will be used to light the flame at the winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, just com
If you believe movies like Looper, the cars of the future will be just like the cars of today, only with some additional gadgets connected to the fuel tank. If you believe most sci-fi movies, we’ll be flying in our cars (2015 and Back to the Future II is right around the corner). Of course, [&
Quality assurance managers got a boost from the US government. The utter failure of their healthcare website is a perfect example of why QA is so important. With millions of Americans still unable to access the troubled Obamacare sign-up site, Healthcare.gov, it was no surprise when the man who over
While there are certain things that definitely should not be automated, other activities are simply silly to do by hand when there are ways to do it better, faster, and easier. Every system administrator deals with repetition. There are certain tasks I do every day, over and over, mostly with little
Some might say that the best solution is to print it all out and offer books called… wait for it… encyclopedias. Others are heralding the idea to bring the world’s information to developing countries though technology that does not require an internet connection. The Wikimedia Foun
They said they would do it. They delivered. The media company that exposed part of the Syrian Electronic Army‘s ranks has been hit by their hackers and now Vice is reeling from the attack. On Friday, the Syrian Electronic Army, a hacker group that supports the regime of Syrian president Bashar
How many people were affected by the Adobe hack? 3 million? 30 million? 130 million? The numbers keep going up and the fears increase about the full scope of what was taken. Adobe has a lot to answer for. We’ve gone from 3 million to 130 million to 150 million possible accounts hacked. It̵
Self-regulation is always a challenge. It’s part of human nature to want to bend the rules a bit in order to help achieve particular goals. Can the US government really be trusted to do the right thing when it comes to governing itself about privacy issues? Relying on laws to keep your private
One of the greatest disappointments of childhood was the McDonald’s Happy Meal toy. They always looked so appealing on television or on the in-store advertisements but they failed to deliver. Soon, there may be something cool about them… Now, McDonald’s IT director Mark Fabes says that t
There has never been a video game movie that worked out. None. Go ahead and post your exceptions in the comments. We won’t believe you. They’ve all been awful. Blizzard hopes to make the first video game movie worth watching. In terms of execution and perception, many movies based on gam
Adam from SheekGeek has managed to put together the world’s smallest video game console. The mini-console lacks even the most basic practical features but despite this, it’s still pretty cool. In about 2006, Atari sold some key chain games that connected to your TV via RCA jacks. I am a
