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Author Malcolm Gladwdell recently spoke at the Toronto Public Library and made some interesting observations about our entrepreneurial culture. The basis of his argument: humanitarians like Bill Gates will be remembered 50 years from now -- there will be statues of him all over the third world. On the other hand, people won’t even remember what Microsoft was and entrepreneurs likes Steve Jobs will have faded from memory.
Vital computer systems for London's 2012 Olympic Games have come under repeated cyber-attacks - but only from hackers who were invited to join in thousands of hours of security tests.
Let’s say you’re a cyberthief who just compromised hundreds of bank accounts worth millions of dollars. Congratulations! You’re now the scourge of the global community. Now, all you need to do is get your hands on that money. How do you do that?
Last month, the Allen Institute held its first hackathon. The idea was to bring people who weren't necessarily neuroscientists together to sift through the 6 million data points in the Human Brain Atlas, a massive database of gene expressions collected from donor brains and then stored online for anyone to access.
At a time when some pundits are questioning whether Silicon Valley’s innovation engine is tapped out, web search titan Google offered a powerful display last week of why that’s not the case.
Twitter must give a court about three months' worth of an Occupy Wall Street protester's tweets, a judge said in a ruling released Monday after the company fought prosecutors' demand for the messages.
Should teen sexting — the sending and receiving of nude photos — be considered criminal behavior or youthful indiscretion along the lines of spin the bottle and playing doctor?
I'm not a lawyer or a shareholder in any of the companies involved, so I'm less concerned with the legal maneuvering than I am with the patent wars' effects on consumers. Let's take a look at what the injunctions and the greater mobile patent wars mean for the people who are actually using the products.
Peru's equipping of more than 800,000 public schoolchildren in this rugged Andean nation with low-cost laptops ranks among the world's most ambitious efforts to leverage digital technology in the fight against poverty. Yet five years in, there are serious doubts about whether the largest single deployment in the One Laptop Per Child initiative was worth the more than $200 million that Peru's government spent.
Does Sony's acquisition of cloud gaming company Gaikai herald the end of console gaming as we know it, or is it just one more milestone in the far-flung shift toward cloud computing?
We may still be waiting for Windows 8, but it's already accomplished one thing: It's become the most surprising version of Windows ever. Even the pricing, it turns out, is a major departure from past editions.
Net Applications says that Internet Explorer retains a lead over all other browsers. Google appears to disagree.
