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Cozy, the online tool for both landlords and tenants, are announcing that Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield has joined its board of directors. Butterfield has actually known Cozy co-founder and CEO Gino Zahnd from when they worked together at Flickr. With that background relationship and having knowledge of Butterfield’s family background in... Read more
DARPA Develops Real Time Brain Implant Monitor
Internet November 4, 2013
In efforts to improve the mental health of veterans and military soldiers, DARPA has launched a $70 million project to create a brain implant that tracks neuron activity and then provides brain data. A staggering figure of one in nine medical discharges is due to mental illness, according to US... Read more
Mystery Barge Is A Google X Showroom, Not A Data Center
Internet November 3, 2013
This week there has been much interest and speculation over the strange barge building belonging to Google, located in the San Francisco Bay. Everyone seemed pretty convinced that it was a floating data center due to the ideal situation for an easy cooling source. However, it would appear the... Read more
A consortium of large technology companies, which owns thousands of patents from the Nortel bankruptcy auction, has filed law suits against Google alleging infringement. Rockstar, which is jointly owned by Apple, Blackberry, Ericsson, Microsoft and Sony has filed suit in the US District Court of Texas. It is not... Read more
Star Wars Blooper Reel Hits YouTube
Internet November 2, 2013
A very entertaining video has finally, after 36 years hidden away, made its way onto the web’s most popular video site; YouTube. At last some “Star Wars” outtake footage, that few have seen, (until now), finally makes its way onto the World Wide Web! The most watched and... Read more
Edward Snowden Gets Employment At Major Russian Website
Internet November 2, 2013
Well-known whistleblower Edward Snowden, responsible for leaking information on the US government’s spying practices, has secured a job with a “major” Russian website. Snowden, who is still on the run from the US government, is hiding at a secret location in Russia. His lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, informed a Russian... Read more
NSA Botched Update Caused Downtime Not DDOS
Internet November 2, 2013
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has vehemently denied current circulating rumours that the extended downtime of its website on Friday was caused by a DDoS attack, blaming the error on a botched system update instead. Some rumours on the web have suggested that the downtime is the work... Read more
Bitcoin ATMs Go Live In Canada
Internet November 1, 2013
Bitcoin is making its way from the ether of cyberspace into your physical wallet soon. Well, if you happen live in Canada anyways. As you know Bitcoins are usually stored in the virtual world, but, Bitcoin ATMs will soon be here. The ATM’s are built in the US by Nevada... Read more
Ingram Micro has acquired the cloud logistics and supply chain management SaaS provider Shipwire, which is based in Palo Alto. The price of this acquisition has not been disclosed. Shipwire has established itself as one of the foremost cloud logistics platforms for e-commerce companies and retailers. The company also provides shipping and... Read more
Dell users have been complaining that the Latitude 6430u Ultrabook smells of cat urine. Those affected by the issue have been advised to return the laptop so it can receive replacement parts. Dell engineers have said that it is not caused by biological contamination and does not pose a... Read more
Who doesn’t want to get the opportunity to be Batman, even if it’s only through a video game console? Batman Arkham Origins was released on October 25, 2013 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U, and as a PC game. Being released behind such big hits as Arkham... Read more
Wanderio Book Your Complete Euro Trip
Internet October 31, 2013
How many times have you visited what seems like dozens of websites to gather reams of data regarding your travel plans before you actually settle down to finding the right deal? Even then you just want to check a few more sites to see “if” you can gain a... Read more
Google Smartwatch Enters Final Production!
Internet October 31, 2013
According to the Wall Street Journal, their sources who have inside information on Google’s hardware plans have revealed that the firm is in the final stages of producing its very first smartwatch. The anonymous sources have apparently claimed that the smartwatch is nearly ready for mass production and could... Read more
British Hacker Charged With Infiltrating US Government
Internet October 31, 2013
A British man has been arrested and charged with hacking into different US government networks and then stealing “massive quantities” of confidential data. 28 year old, British hacker Lauri Love, was arrested by representatives of the recently launched National Cyber Crime Unit of the National Crime Agency (NCA) in Stradishall, Suffolk, last Friday... Read more
Google’s phone firm Motorola has announced a new project that will allow users to build their own modular smartphone. Project Ara will let users buy a plastic phone structure, named an endoskeleton, and then add-on modules such as a keyboard, battery or other sensors, giving them flexibility to customize... Read more
The Silk Road made a small fortune during its two and a half years as the web’s biggest anonymous black market for illegal drugs, but at least a $28.5 million chunk of that money now belongs to the FBI. The bureau has located and seized a collection of 144,000... Read more
Is This Google’s Floating Data Centre?
Internet October 29, 2013
At the end of Treaure Island, San Francisco, a mysterious structure is rising from a floating barge. Although no one knows what is inside the series of modern cargo containers making up the strange structure, speculation is mounting that it belongs to Google. Although Google has refused to comment... Read more
Wishbone: Education Crowdfunded
Internet October 28, 2013
Wishbone allowed Eighty kids got to attend academic summer camps and after-school programs this year. Now, the education crowdfunding platform has begun to allow children in need in the NYC and the Bay Area to apply for assistance. The non-profit startup has spent the last year increasing its fundraising... Read more