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Meta-data contains a great deal of information, and when gathered together it forms a startlingly clear picture of the person it comes from. A point that Professor César Hidalgo and graduate students Daniel Smilkov and Deepak Jagdish of MIT are trying to get across. They have created a new program called Immersion. It […]
There has been a great deal of news lately involving the rights to citizen privacy. It is a hot button issue that is becoming all the more intense as details of government surveillance programs in the US, UK and France continue to be unveiled. But Google is under fire for […]
A month ago TheGuardian released a story that claimed the US Postal Service had been part of a program similar to PRISM. But the claims were never officially confirmed, and so it remained a fairly obscure accusation. That is until today, when the New York Times confirmed the rumors and […]
Last year Microsoft’s Build 2012 Conference led to the announcement of the Surface tablets and details about their new Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. With Build 2013 coming, rumors are swirling like crazy about what might be on the horizon. While we can’t know for sure what they are […]
Since the story of how government agencies have been tracking information through major sources of technology came out, privacy has become a major issue on the web. While the entire world has been in a frenzy, the United States and United Kingdom, the two regions most affected, have been especially […]
The popular mobile assistant app Dragon has been updated with a number of new features, including voice composition for email, and audio notifications that can read you incoming messages. Nuance Communications has regularly launched updates for its most beloved management app. But this time around, they seem to have extended […]
We have been following the NSA scandal over PRISM, including the denial from various companies about direct involvement. Now, Apple is officially releasing some details about the information requested as part of the program. However, they still deny any knowledge of the PRISM program itself. In a public release on […]
