FBI head criticizes Apple, Google over data encryption
Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey hit out at Apple and Google on Thursday over new data-security measures designed to reassure customers wary of government prying.
Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey hit out at Apple and Google on Thursday over new data-security measures designed to reassure customers wary of government prying.
Internet
Sep 26, 2014
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The computer found it first – Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69 – but University of Virginia astronomer Anne Verbiscer was the "human backup" who found it next. She confirmed the finding for NASA by using the same technique ...
Space Exploration
Jun 13, 2016
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Be careful what you say in front of your new television, following reports that Samsung's new Smart TVs are now being programmed to listen to every word you say and send it over the internet to a third party cloud service.
Security
Feb 10, 2015
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Microsoft plans an update to its Windows 8 system to address some of the complaints and incorporate other feedback received since the radical makeover to the operating system came out in October.
Software
Jun 5, 2013
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(Phys.org) -- Computer scientists at the University of Glasgow are participating in a new project to develop a search engine which will draw its results from sensors located in the physical world.
Computer Sciences
Jun 11, 2012
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(AP) -- Google has identified social networking sites like Facebook as growing competitors in search, a company spokesman said Monday.
Internet
May 25, 2009
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Structured decision-making support: The research project "ArgumenText" in the field of Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing has found a way to filter concrete pro and con arguments on any topic from amongst the noise of the internet.
Computer Sciences
Sep 14, 2018
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After Microsoft and Intel, the next big US technology giant to find itself in the sights of EU competition regulators may be Google with its ubiquitous Internet search engine and online ad business.
Business
May 13, 2009
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US Internet giant Google is preparing changes to its dominant search system to satisfy EU anti-trust authorities, the Financial Times said on Saturday.
Business
Apr 13, 2013
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(Phys.org) —An app that responds to search terms as personal as "that restaurant I visited on a rainy day last spring" could someday be a reality thanks to Rutgers researchers.
Computer Sciences
May 27, 2013
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