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Bathroom scale plugs into Google Health
Share your weight with Mountain View Not content with knowing where you go, both in real and cyber space, Google will soon know how much you weigh too – thanks to wi-fi-connected scales.…
Continue reading »File Sharing Sofas: When Technology Becomes Addictive
There’s no limit to imagination when file sharing is at play. Some hotels and cyber cafes have find a new way to attract (young) customers – USB sofas! Yeah, that’s right – sofas that let you transfer files while laying back. Each of these …furniture/device pieces allows 14Gb’s of space for file sharing.
Continue reading »Millions of File-Sharers Hide Their Identities Online
As pressure from anti-piracy outfits on governments to implement strict anti-piracy laws increases, millions of file-sharers have decided to protect their privacy by going anonymous. In Sweden alone an estimated 500,000 Internet subscribers are hiding their identities. Many more say they will follow suit if the Government continues to toughen copyright law.
Continue reading »Cyberattacks: Espionage now, sabotage soon
In April 2009, the US National Academies of Science suggested that it was time for the US to get serious about cyberwarfare , setting official policy for its offensive use and spearheading the development of international norms governing its deployment. Less than three months later, the US and Korea were each hit by a series of network-based attacks that are thought to have originated in North Korea.
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