Playing with apps on an Android phone is fun. Building your own apps, even more so. But what about using the phone to operate a moving, talking bot? Tim Heath and Ryan Hickman have done exactly that.
The bot they recently finished building — Truckbot — is still relatively simple. It’s got an HTC G1 phone [...]
Friday, February 12, 2010
Imagine sitting in a rural health clinic, streaming three-dimensional medical imaging over the web and discussing a unique condition with a specialist in New York. Or downloading a high-definition, full-length feature film in less than five minutes. Or collaborating with classmates around the world while watching live 3-D video of a university lecture. Universal, ultra [...]
Thursday, February 11, 2010
More censorship, this time from Iran. WTH is it with authoritarians anyway… can’t handle the idea of people having open access to information and thinking for themselves, or what? Only a government or organization insecure of the validity of its own ideology uses oppressive censorship to hide information from its own citizens.
And no, I’m not [...]
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
The world’s largest Internet search company and the world’s most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cybersecurity.
Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate espionage attack that the firm said originated in China and targeted its computer networks, according [...]
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Called Advanced Persistent Threats (APT), the attacks are distinctive in the kinds of data the attackers target, and they are rarely detected by antivirus and intrusion programs. What’s more, the intrusions grab a foothold into a company’s network, sometimes for years, even after a company has discovered them and taken corrective measures.
“APT is a very [...]
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Saturday, January 30, 2010
Google has announced a bug-bounty program that will pay researchers $500 for each vulnerability they report in the Chrome browser and its underlying open-source code.
In a post to the Chromium project’s blog , Chris Evans, who works on the Chrome security team, said the base bounty would be $500, but that “particularly severe or particularly [...]
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Data from the depths could get a lot less murky soon, thanks to a new partnership announced by Google and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
NOAA will provide data from its various ocean-science programs and Google will build tools to visualize that information, the two organizations announced Tuesday. The deal extends a collaboration that began when [...]
Thursday, January 21, 2010
U.S. intelligence officials have concluded that December’s mass cyber attack against 33 American companies was most likely the result of a coordinated espionage campaign endorsed by the Chinese government.
Google’s revelation that they’d been hit was deemed a “watershed” moment by security industry analysts, but the other 32 companies who were hit have not followed suit [...]
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Surely, the U.S. Congress that is now putting its foot down on private companies cooperating with such abusive spying elsewhere would react very angrily in the face of revelations that it was being done here. Actually, in the face of such revelations less than two years ago, they ended up on a very bipartisan basis [...]
Are you or a loved one trying to locate someone in quake-struck Haiti? Google has an app for that.
Using technologies written after Hurricane Katrina, Google has created a Web application that allows users to search an add to a vast missing persons database. The code may also be embedded into Web sites.
via Google launches Haiti [...]
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Microsoft has not commented on Google’s decision and don’t expect the company to do so. What’s to say? We value shareholder interests above freedom and democracy? Tyranny keeps our stock high? Some of our best customers are Communist Party censors?
Certainly businesses have to balance competing interests, but at some point, compromise without question becomes surrender. [...]
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
In March 2009 Villeneuve uncovered “GhostNet,” (.pdf) a cyber-spying operation originating in China that was said to have targeted the Dalai Lama and other human-rights activists. Though Villeneuve has no direct knowledge of the attacks discovered by Google, he says it’s likely that they match the methods he has been monitoring.
Villeneuve says the hackers he [...]
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
To be clear, Google is not accusing the Chinese government of anything, and a spokesman would only say that they’ve determined the latest string of attacks “originated from within China.”
But cyber security expert Alan Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, said that attacks like the one on Google can be judged to be [...]
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear that what at first appeared to be [...]
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