Facebook Wisdom in Numbers
Posted at 8:12 pm
Notice something new with your Facebook page?
Right beside “Update Status” on your wall… well, some beta testers would actually find “Facebook Questions” right there.
This new feature enables the user to post a question which will become automatically public to all users of Facebook. The scheme designers hope that this would allow the asker to have [...]
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Ministry of Justice Launches Legislation.gov.uk
Posted at 10:18 pm
Legislation.gov.uk went online today. This incredible website presents every single article of legislation in the UK, spanning around 800 years of British laws and including all revisions throughout history since 1267.
The website was put up to replace the websites for both The Office of Public Sector Information and the Statue Law Database. These two will [...]
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Is TalkTalk, Spying on its Customers?
Posted at 6:30 pm
UK’s second largest internet service provider admitted that since July, the company has been secretly scrutinizing the web usage of its 4.2 million customers in an attempt to detect malware in the network.
The issue broke through when some customers who ran their own websites noticed that their browsing activities were being monitored by Opal Telecoms [...]
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Russian Court: Block YouTube!
Posted at 2:53 am
A Russian court in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur ordered RA RTS Rosnet, a local internet services provider to block access to YouTube and four other websites because of ‘extremist content’.
A video entitled “Russia for Russians” (a Russian extremist slogan) was allegedly posted on YouTube and a Russian court made a ruling on the 16th of [...]
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iPhone jailbreaking legal
Posted at 10:03 pm
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), an independent US government agencyin charge of regularing the radio spectrum which includes radio, television, and the internet, announced this Monday that the practice of “jailbreaking” an iPhone or any other mobile phone, for that matter, legal.
The controversial law is being fought hard by Apple stating that the activity is [...]
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Phantom Eye: Boeing’s Hydrogen Powered Spy Plane
Posted at 4:19 pm
Boeing’s Phantom Eye can soar at 65,000 feet for four days without having to refuel; it needs no actual pilot; it operates on alternative energy… and as is all that were not enough to make jaws drop. The vehicle is eco-friendly!
The green airplane’s two 2.3-litre Ford engines provide 150 horsepower each, enabling the plane to [...]
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There’s a zombie on your Xbox Live Arcade
Posted at 6:03 am
“There’s a zombie on your lawn; you don’t want zombies on your lawn,” sang the sunflower on the credits of the hit Pop Cap game, Plants vs. Zombies. The sunflower has got it all wrong as zombies visiting the lawn, or pool, or even the roof has been one of the biggest hits to casual [...]
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Japanese billboard knows your age and sex
Posted at 10:39 pm
In the sci-fi action-thriller Minority Report advertising goes to a whole new level as the billboards are able to identify the exact identity of who is viewing the ad and therefore the billboard can make a suggestion to the passerby as to what to purchase and some other things that they might like.
That happenning, where [...]
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Kevin Scott’s bendable bike design
Posted at 5:06 pm
Kevin Scott of UK’s De Monfort University is looking for investors that will help fund his one of a kind idea of a bendable bike; the bendable bike by the industrial designer is a bicycle with a flexible frame that enables it to be wrapped around a pole without using a lock.
The frame itself is [...]
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Turn iPhone’s LED to a flashlight
Posted at 11:56 pm
The Flashligh for iPhone 4 does exactly what it says. No, it’s not a flashlight that you can use to view for your iPhone 4 when it’s nowhere to be found in the dark; instead, this iPhone app turns your iPhone 4 into a working flashlight.
The app works exclusively with 4th edition of the iPhone [...]
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