Back in 2009, Microsoft announced a new technology that would help identify horrific photos of child abuse online. It donated the technology to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to help stop the spread of child pornography on the Internet. The technology uses what is called ‘robust hashing’, which calculates the...
Daily Archives: May 19, 2011
Facebook combats child pornography with Microsoft’s PhotoDNA
Back in 2009, Microsoft announced a new technology that would help identify horrific photos of child abuse online. It donated the technology to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to help stop the spread of child pornography on the Internet. The technology uses what is called ‘robust hashing’, which calculates the...
White Paper: Saving Your Servers from Disaster
In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the key features of virtualization — specifically VMware virtualization solutions — that help defend your datacenter against disaster. Virtualization offers hardware independence — a huge time saver in recovering from a disaster. In addition to this core capability, virtualization provides several other ways to...
Peer-to-patent: the pilot scheme that might just kick-start the UK IP revolution
In November 2010, UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans to transform the UK into a major global hub for innovation and technology. His vision was to make London’s vibrant Tech City one to rival Silicon Valley. During his speech in London’s Shoreditch area, Cameron revealed the Government’s Blueprint for Technology paper, which outlined...
Peer-to-patent: the pilot scheme that might just kick-start the UK IP revolution
In November 2010, UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans to transform the UK into a major global hub for innovation and technology. His vision was to make London’s vibrant Tech City one to rival Silicon Valley. During his speech in London’s Shoreditch area, Cameron revealed the Government’s Blueprint for Technology paper, which outlined...
Internet Explorer emerges as only browser not vulnerable to huge memory leak
The developer teams at Microsoft may have something to smile about this morning after it has emerged that the company’s Internet Explorer browser is one of the only modern web browsers that is not susceptible to an memory leak which occurs when an image attribute is invoked. The issue has been posted to the Chromium issue...
Going to rob an Apple Store? Don’t do it while the cops are outside.
A group of five thieves weren’t counting on the presence of plainclothes police right outside when they robbed the Las Vegas Apple Store, the Las Vegas Sun reports. Five thieves entered the Las Vegas Town Center Apple Store late in the afternoon and began stealing display electronics from the tables. Police were notified over...
Guy asks for an app crack, developer gives him free copy instead
Here’s your funny story for the day: a random guy asked if anyone had a crack for The F-ing Word of the Day iPhone app on the XSellize forums, and wound up with a free copy. To the original poster’s surprise, the developer himself, Chris Baker, responded, saying he was flattered — that the...
The Future of the Smartphone: Holograms & Folding Screens
eYeka, a crowdsourcing company that specializes in “online co-creation” of products, has published some intriguing concepts for future smartphones. eYeka’s community came up with the following list of requirements for a next generation smartphone: a minimalistic, non-complicated design; more features (which may clash with the previous requirement); a design which feels like an extension...
Second Life Co-founder’s New Project CoffeeandPower: Exchange Virtual Currency for Real-World Tasks
CoffeeandPower, the latest project from Second Life co-founder Philip Rosedale has launched in test-mode in the San Francisco area. The service describes itself as a “sort of live version of Craigslist.” There have been a number of startups take aim at Craiglist as of late. That’s no surprise, really. The UI is wretched, there’s...