UK to read all texts and emails
The UK intelligence service must be finding things hard these days as they are turning their attentions to the general public, the governments listening post at GCHQ in Cheltenham want to monitor every single email, text message and web page viewed by everyone in the UK.
Not only that they want to keep these records on [...]
The robot with a brain
Science fiction has become a reality with a research team who have built a robot with a difference; this one does not need a computer for commands because this machine has an organic brain, which has been built by using cultured neurons.
There have been other robots with a similar process but they have always required [...]
Online ID mistakes
For some people going online is a new experience, which means that all of the security scares that have affected many internet users over the years have gone unnoticed by them. This is why there are so many people being caught out by the scammers.
The surprising thing is that many of these people are being [...]
The problem with MobileMe
Apple boss Steve Jobs has admitted in a company email that releasing the application MobileMe at the same time as the iPhone could have been a mistake. The company really had their hands full with the launch of these products, which if they went off ok, then everything would have been fine, but they didn’t.
Now [...]
Students taught how to hack
It is probably one of the least expected subjects to be taught to students at university but in a computer lab in California, which could be mistaken for a secret underground bunker, the students are being taught how to spam, create viruses and hacking.
However, before anyone starts to panic, this work is being done [...]
When recession can easily turn into depression
Over the years we have seen recessions come and go, certainly they are frightening for some people and by the time that it ends, there are many victims. But how far does a recession have to go before it becomes a depression?
Fortunately there has only been one depression in recent times, but it lasted for [...]
The Spam experiment
McAfee the computer security firm have been conducting an experiment, firstly they needed fifty volunteers who would be given a free computer and the user were to see how much spam they received, but to make it worse they had to reply to the spam messages to see what would happen.
Although the results are due [...]
Top Music Sites
With music and copyrights frightening off many people who would have already been copy music for their own pleasure, after all they have probably been doing it since the first cassette tape came out.
But there is way where they could continue to copy and save the music that they like, which is both free and [...]
Google is sued over tools
It used to be Microsoft who was normally associated as being “Borg-like” but they have now passed on the baton to Google. Are they really roaming around the internet assimilating all that gets in their collective paths?
Some people think so and to back this up there is evidence emerging from Google’s partners that clearly show [...]
Security flaws hit Firefox 3
At the time of writing there have been over fourteen million downloads of the new Firefox 3 which it has to be assumed most users have been happy with, but within hours of the now famous world record being achieved by Mozilla there are already some security issues.
But as this issue has not been resolved [...]