5 billion cellphone calling records have been collected by the NSA as part of a location and data tracking system, according to The Washington Post.
Last year, 152 million user records, including emails and poorly encrypted passwords, were exposed in a breach of Adobe Systems' computers. It's been called the largest publicly known leak of user information in history.
The FBI estimates that 600,000 bitcoins are owned by Ross Ulbricht, the alleged mastermind of online drug marketplace the Silk Road.
Amazon.com plans to deliver packages to customers using unmanned aerial vehicles.
Recently Hewlett-Packard conducted a study regarding the security of business apps for the iPhone. HP concluded that many of them give themselves unnecessary permission to access phone features and user data, given the stated purposes of the apps.
How did a currency with scarce global acceptance move from $10 to over $1000 in under a year?’
Applied Sciences NYC announced its fourth applied technology graduate campus: the Carnegie Mellon University Integrative Media Program. The CMU campus follows the flagship Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island, the Center for Urban Science and Progress led by NYU in downtown Brooklyn, and Columbia's Institute for Data Science and Engineering.
High Frequency Trading (HFT) is a form of algorithmic trading where firms use high-speed market data and analytics to look for short term supply and demand trading opportunities. HFT firms usually hold their positions for less than a minute while perpetually looking for opportunities to buy and sell.
Mug shots are merely artifacts of an arrest, not proof of a conviction, and many people whose images are now on display were never found guilty, or the charges against them were dropped.
A survey released recently found that in addition to the 15 percent of adults who don't use the Internet on any device, another nine percent say they only go online at their workplace.
WildCat is a four-legged robot being developed to run fast on all types of terrain. So far WildCat has run at about 16 mph on flat terrain using bounding and galloping gaits.
The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project has been studying online adults’ social networking site use since 2005, and has seen substantial growth since then. Today, 72% of online adults use social networking sites. Although younger adults continue to be the most likely social media users, one of the more striking stories about the social networking population has been the growth among older internet users in recent years. Those ages 65 and older have more than tripled their presence on social networking sites in the last four years—from 13% in the spring of 2009 to 43% now.
New York regulators announced agreements with 19 companies accused of posting fraudulent reviews of their services or those of their clients. The companies in question have all pledged to end the practice and will pay a collective fine of $350,000.
Did you know that robots are "socially inadequate"?
Did you ever feel trapped by a site or social network? You'd like to delete your account and content, but it does not seem possible. It's at least not easy. Many companies use dark pattern techniques to make it difficult to uncover how to delete your account.
Moore's Law, named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, states that the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit doubles roughly every two years. For decades, chipmakers have succeeded in shrinking chip geometries, allowing Moore's Law to remain on track.
At least three US banks in recent months have been plundered by fraudulent wire transfers while hackers deployed "low powered" DDoS attacks to mask their theft.
As promised, below you find a list of places to dispose of your ewaste without endangering others.