Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge unveiled at MWC
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Samsung has presented this Sunday the Galaxy S6, and a sister smartphone, the Galaxy S6 edge, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Samsung will sell this two versions, one of which has a screen that curves round its sides. Both devices feature a 64-bit processor which is designed to be
A faster and better standardized Web: Google renounce to SPDY in favor of HTTP / 2
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The SPDY protocol was announced by Google in November 2009 and implemented for the first time a year later. SPDY protocol aimed to optimize the old HTTP by implementing compression technologies, multiplexing and encryption. Although it is currently implemented in most browsers, the protocol has not received wide
Uber database breach exposed 50000 drivers
Uber released a statement on Friday announcing that it suffered a data breach in 2014 that affected 50 000 Uber drivers across the United States. The Uber’s database was accessed by an unauthorized third party. Uber says that 50 000 driver partner names and driver’s license numbers
Federal Communications Commission approve net neutrality rules
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted to approve new rules on how the internet should be governed. New rules will prohibit internet service providers from discriminating against content producers. “Who determines how you use the internet? Who decides what content you can view and when? Should there
Google warns Blogger users over porn: clean up or the content will be made private
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Google has warned users of its Blogger platform: “content which contains sexually explicit images and videos will be made private in one month. We will not delete the blogs, but they will no longer be publicly visible”, the tech giant says. The new rules require any blog with “sexually explicit or
Android phones can be tracked just with battery power alone
We all know that a phone uses more power the further away it is from a cell tower as it tries to connect. So, an Android phone can be tracked by studying their power use over time, without using their GPS or wi-fi/data usage. Extra power is used by
PwC: cyber attacks caused damage to companies estimated at 2.7 billion. dollars
Number of cyber security incidents detected in companies in 2014 increased by 48% over the previous year, reaching 42.8 million global events, apparent from an analysis performed by PwC – The Global State of Information Security Survey 2015, based on the responses of 9,700 managers responsible
Father of the Internet, Vint Cerf, warns of upcoming “Digital Dark Age”
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In the past two years, big names oftech entrepreneurs and scientists who actively participated in the digital era evolution have expressed concern about the evolution of technology, whether we talk about about the risks involved out of control artificial intelligence or about things less “SF”. Vint Cerf, known as the
Software Defined Networking (SDN), the next Eldorado of IT
Few people know , SDN has everything it takes to become a new standard of IT. Basically, SDN brings a global expansion of virtualization from hardware and storage to further infrastructure networks. Thus, interventions on the networks will not require a manual configuration, a direct intervention
Forbes.com attacked by Chinese hackers
Chinese hackers attacked Forbes.com web site with an malicious software (malware) that target only certain visitors, which include several US defense institutions and financial services, according to cyber security companies, iSIGHT. According to iSIGHT and Invincea, someone compromised this application for three days (November 28 until December 1, 2014) or
