According to Edward Snowden, people who care about their privacy should stay away from popular consumer Internet services like Dropbox, Facebook and Google. Snowden conducted a remote interview as part of the
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iOS 8 was unleashed on the world this week after debuting earlier this summer at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. CEO Tim Cook is calling it the biggest iOS update ever – and for good reason, as the new operating system
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When Roger Shawyer first unveiled his EmDrive thruster back around 2003, the scientific community laughed at him. They said it was impossible, that it was based on a flawed concept, and couldn’t work because it goes against the laws of conservation of momentum. But somehow, despite all of the reasons it shouldn’t work, it does. Scientists
In October 2010, a Federal Bureau of Investigation system monitoring US Internet traffic picked up an alert. The signal was coming from the Nasdaq. It looked like malware had snuck into the company’s central servers. There were indications that the intruder was not a kid somewhere, but the intelligence
Pornographic websites could soon have their own top-level domain, alongside .net, .com and .org. That’s if the international body that manages Web addresses agrees to new proposals put to it at a meeting being held in Nairobi, Kenya this week. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) will hear arguments on Friday
Web browsers Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome have all enjoyed a lift after Microsoft agreed to a European Union demand that the company give Windows users a choice of which browser they’d like installed as default. A settlement with the EU
More than 200m Nokia smartphone users worldwide can now use voice-over-Internet Protocol calling software Skype on their handsets, potentially causing a headache for mobile operators everywhere