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The US government has beef with Edward Snowden and they’re willing to take any measures necessary to make that happen even if it tramples on rights as Lavabit’s CEO has detailed for the court. Ladar Levison shuttered his 10-year-old secure e-mail business in August, citing cryptic threat
Nice guys finish last. Mean guys have a chance of building multi-billion dollar companies. That’s the moral of the story, as bad as it may sound. Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos asks his employees if they are “lazy or incompetent” and after a presentation once asked an engineer “Wh
If you’re a future AT&T customer, you’re in luck. Their new data plans are intended to get you and keep you. AT&T confirmed on Friday its plan to do away with traditional data plans for new customers. Instead, those joining AT&T as of Oct. 25 will have to choose one of the co
Didn’t we already see how bad of an idea it was to put machine guns in the hands of robots? Didn’t the Terminator series already warn us of the consequences. A robot, equipped with an M240 machine gun, moves through the darkness until it stops under a stand of trees 100 yards from its sq
There is a state-controlled search engine in the works in Russia. It’s name is Sputnik and while it won’t be housing its data in orbit, it does need to hit the stratosphere in order to work. The government has made moves to boost control over the Internet, but a state-backed search engin
Edward Snowden didn’t come out of nowhere to blindside the US government. Even his supervisor at the CIA had suspicions of the man and made it known in 2009. Just as Edward J. Snowden was preparing to leave Geneva and a job as a C.I.A. technician in 2009, his supervisor wrote a derogatory repo
This isn’t science fiction. This is real life. DARPA wants there to be cheap, mass-produced mind reading devices. Thoughtcrime may be coming sooner than we think. We knew it was only a matter of time. The research into the human brain has been advancing so rapidly in recent months that eventua
In many ways, it’s like trying to find ninjas in the woods at night. You’re not supposed to find them. With the dark internet gaining more traction over NSA surveillance and other privacy issues, there has to be a way to find things. Here’s how. The newest search engine in the worl
As ICANN and other organizations abandon the US government as a priority governing body, the shift towards global internet rulings has accelerated. Does this mark the end of American domination of the internet’s various governing bodies? In Montevideo, Uruguay this week, the Directors of all t
There are no zeros that were omitted from the judgment number. An Estonian court ruled that a news agency was responsible for damages from anonymous comments on their website to the tune of $434. This may have a domino effect as a precedent that collapses the concepts of allowing anonymous comments
They better have a strong plan if they really want to achieve the goals they have set. They don’t have a ton to build on at this point, ranking 9th in the world in the second quarter of 2013. Sony Corp will move cautiously in tackling key overseas smartphone markets such as the United States [
Electric may be the future of automotive technology, but that future simply isn’t getting here quickly enough for automakers. The Prius, a car that epitomizes the eco-friendly automobile movement, is just the latest green machine to cut its price in an attempt to stimulate sales. Toyota Motor
