Category Archives: Identify

10 rejected Mother’s Day gift ideas

By doris | Published: May 6, 2011

Full Story at DigitalLife.today.com I have to admit, my mother is hard to shop for — she doesn’t seem to want anything. I got her a Kindle for her birthday a couple of months ago, which went over well, but I’m currently tapped out of ideas for Mother’s Day. The problem is that I’m always [...]

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10 perplexing puzzles that you’ll never solve

By doris | Published: April 30, 2011

Full Story at Gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com I’m not much of a puzzle kind of guy, but I will say that if I solved some of these puzzles, I might just weep with joy at my accomplishment. I’m talking full-on weeping. Then again, some of these gadgets also have the power to hurl me into a rage out [...]

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How Google is teaching computers to see

By doris | Published: April 17, 2011

Full Story at  CNN.com Santa Monica, California (CNN) — Computers used to be blind, and now they can see. Thanks to increasingly sophisticated algorithms, computers today can recognize and identify the Eiffel Tower, the Mona Lisa or a can of Budweiser. Still, despite huge technological strides in the last decade or so, visual search has [...]

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5 Holiday Tech Scams to Avoid

By doris | Published: November 27, 2010

Full Story at News.Yahoo.com The holiday shopping season is a great time to get tech products at discounted prices, but it also creates a golden opportunity for the Web’s scam artists. The FBI, McAfee, the Better Business Bureau and F-Secure are all warning about cybercriminals who will try to take you for a ride this [...]

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FCC probes Google’s Street View data collection

By doris | Published: November 15, 2010

Full Story at  msnbc.com WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission is looking into Google “Street View” maps service to see if the company violated federal laws. Google said last month that it was “mortified” to learn its Street View cars mistakenly collected e-mail addresses, passwords and other personal information. “In light of their public disclosure, [...]

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US studying Australian Internet security program

By doris | Published: October 18, 2010

Full Story atnews.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON – The government is reviewing an Australian program that will allow Internet service providers to alert customers if their computers are taken over by hackers and could limit online access if people don’t fix the problem. Obama administration officials have met with industry leaders and experts to find ways to increase [...]

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Red Light Gets Green Light: .XXX Domain Moves Toward Approval

By doris | Published: June 29, 2010

Full Story at TechNewsworld.com After a decade of failed attempts, it looks as though the online adult entertainment industry will get its own top-level domain — .XXX. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced the decision on Friday after an independent review countered its previous refusals. Exactly when the .XXX domain name [...]

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Blippy users’ credit card numbers exposed in Google search results

By doris | Published: April 26, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (Mashable) — Sharing your credit card and online purchases with friends on the web sounds risky and it is. We’ve just discovered that several credit card transactions shared on social networking site Blippy have been exposed — with full credit card numbers included — in Google search results. Tipster Trey Copeland [...]

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So, how real are robots?

By doris | Published: April 20, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com You won’t after a quick chat with Noel Sharkey. The professor of robotics and artificial intelligence at the University of Sheffield in the UK says robots already fold clothes, watch children, feed older people, fight wars, surveil cities, dismantle bombs, answer questions from tourists, aid surgeons, clean floors and provide sexual [...]

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Two U.S. Internet companies leave China

By doris | Published: March 25, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – Two U.S. companies that sell Internet addresses to Web sites said Wednesday they had stopped registering new domain names in China because the Chinese government has begun demanding pictures and other identification documents from their customers.

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Emergency Internet control bill gets a rewrite

By doris | Published: March 18, 2010

Full Story at news.cnet.com Sen. Jay Rockefeller alarmed technology and telecommunications firms last year when he announced a plan for the president to seize “emergency” control of the Internet. Now the West Virginia Democrat is trying again with a new version that aides hope will be seen as less extreme. During a closed-door meeting on [...]

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Making the Case That Linux Isn’t Scary

By doris | Published: January 2, 2010

Full Story at technewsworld.com This story was originally published on June 26, 2009, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. When I was asked to write a guest column for LinuxInsider, I sat down and thought long and hard about what I wanted to convey. I believe [...]

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