Worst IT fail ever? US agency spends millions in useless security
By Patrick Lambert in IT Security, From Tech Republic A branch of the U.S. Commerce Department recently trashed perfectly good computers and wasted millions on a bogus malware infection. How did this happen? Hackers and malware are everywhere, waiting for…
Scientists are studying the biological basis of fear in the hopes of curing it
From Chris Bell, The Telegraph From Business Insider From theme park rides to horror films, science has long known how to toy with our most primal instinct. But can fear be ‘cured’, too? And to what end? You’re swimming a…
corpses of failed tablets
Recent tech history is littered with the corpses of failed tablets By Brad Reed From BGR Whom the gods wish to destroy, first they have enter the tablet market. After Microsoft announced yesterday that it was writing off $900 million…
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Tony Blair allegedly earned thousands in secret contracts with a Saudi oil company [registered in Cayman Islands] By Joshua Barrie From Business Insider Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair allegedly earned £41,000 a month after signing a contract with a…
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Digicel responds to the proposed acquisition of Columbus International by Cable & Wireless Thursday 6th November 2014 – Kingston, Jamaica. Digicel notes today’s public announcement in relation to the proposed acquisition of Columbus International Inc. (“Columbus”) by Cable and Wireless…
Cable & Wireless shares plunge following announcement it will buy Columbus
From Caribbean360 LONDON, United Kingdom, Thursday November 6, 2014, CMC – Telecommunications giant Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) fell by 8 per cent after issuing shares to pay for a US$1.85 billion Caribbean deal. The company is buying privately owned…
China hands ‘death sentence’ to 75% of solar cell makers
By Toru Sugawara, Nikkei staff writer SHANGHAI — The Chinese government is pushing for a drastic shakeout of the country’s overcrowded solar cell industry, supporting only a quarter of players and practically telling the rest to get out of the…
F.lux gets updated to work around your personal sleep schedule
By Greg Kumparak From Tech Crunch F.lux! If you haven’t heard of it, be warned: once you get used to f.lux, you’ll probably find yourself annoyed whenever you use a computer that doesn’t have it. The theory behind f.lux: your…
Times Square
From The Boston Globe Opinions vary on the transformation of Times Square from seedy to touristy, but the changes seen in the last decade were not the first, nor will they be the last, to the so-called crossroads of the…
Learning by leaning: The Dreisch tricycle rides like a bike
By Ray From Core77 I can’t for the life of me recall where or when, but I once heard that you turn a bicycle (“cornering,” as we call it) not by steering with the handlebars but by ‘pointing your belly…
