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The Internet of Things is changing simple homes into smart homes, where everything from your lights to your locks can be controlled from your smartphone. Here are a few products that can help you get started. Read More
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'Luckily, monkeys love to gamble' … but they're just as irrational about it as humans
If you've ever ridden a hot streak "too long" at a blackjack table or left in a huff after the dealer hit 21 three times in a row, then you are no better at gambling than a rhesus monkey.That's not exactly the conclusion as articulated by researchers at the University of Rochester, but rather my interpretation of their study that showed monkeys possess the same "hot hand bias" as humans when it comes to gambling. In other words, both species have trouble accepting the reality of randomness.From a university blog post: The new results suggest that the penchant to see patterns that actually don't exist may be inherited—an evolutionary adaptation that may have provided our ancestors a selective advantage when foraging for food in the wild, according to lead author Tommy Blanchard, a doctoral candidate in brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Microsoft accidentally reveals plans to bring folder support to Windows Phone 8.1
Microsoft is apparently bringing folder support to Windows Phone 8.1, at least according to a help document that briefly appeared on the company's Website.The document, which was spotted by The Verge, describes how users can create a folder by dragging one Live Tile on top of another. Users can then add a name to the folder and drag more tiles in and out. It sounds exactly like the way folders work on iOS and Android.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Government can exploit loopholes for warrantless surveillance on Americans
Bright minds from Harvard University and Boston University collaborated on a new research paper that looks at how the government can exploit legal loopholes as well as "technical realities of Internet communications" to get around Americans' Fourth Amendment rights and hoover up their electronic communications.According to "Loopholes for Circumventing the Constitution: Warrantless Bulk Surveillance on Americans By Collecting Network Traffic Abroad," the legal loopholes for surveillance that could be exploited include:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Supreme Court declines to hear Google's request in Street View lawsuit
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to throw out a class-action lawsuit against Google for sniffing Wi-Fi networks with its Street View cars.The Supreme Court on Monday denied Google's request to hear the Street View case after a U.S. appeals court in September refused to throw out the class-action lawsuit. The lawsuit alleges that Google violated U.S. wiretapping laws when its Street View cars accessed unencrypted Wi-Fi networks as they drove through neighborhoods.The Supreme Court, without comment, allowed the decision in Joffe v. Google by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to stand. The appeals court had sided with a U.S. district court, which had denied Google's motion to dismiss claims that it had violated the Wiretap Act.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Get ready for more ads on Twitter
You will likely see more ads on your Twitter feed that link to mobile apps in the Apple and Google stores.After a test period, Twitter said Monday that it was rolling out globally its "mobile app installs" program, which lets companies promote their mobile apps in users' feeds.Twitter began testing the program with a limited number of advertisers in the U.S. in April—tests that the company says went well. Participants in that program included mobile ride-hailing service Lyft and games publisher Electronic Arts.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Google is killing off Orkut
Google's longest-lived social project yet will shutter in the fall. Read More
Hadoop distributor MapR gets $110M from Google
MapR's product lets customers run Appache Hadoop on premises. Read More
10 security start-ups to watch
Security start-ups arise because they have fresh approaches to fighting malware and cyber-espionage or combatting the insider threat through network monitoring. In this round-up of some of the newer security firms, Distil Networks, Observable Networks and Vectra Networks fit into that category. But two others just out of the gate, Exabeam and Fortscale, are part of another trend—squeezing more out of existing log management and security information and event management products. And then there's Denver-based ProtectWise, founded by former McAfee veterans, which is still in stealth mode and only vaguely alluding to cloud-based security as a future offering. But investors are pouring money into it. ProtectWise has snagged over $17 million in venture-capital funding.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
8 ways the password is dying
The death of the passwordGoogle's massive I/O conference was chock full of trends and portents, but one of the most intriguing messages to trickle out of the show was far more subtle than the Android-everywhere blitz: Google is finally making good on its quest to kill the password.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
10 critical security habits you should be doing (but aren't)
Batten down the hatchesIt's a tough, insecure world out there, fellow PC faithful. Times have never been scarier, with website data breaches turning into regular affairs, programming flaws like Heartbleed popping up left and right, and botnets like Gameover Zeus infecting a legion of PCs, only to gobble the up personal information and financial data stored within.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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