Tag: apple
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Secret New Police Software Determines Your “Threat Score” (Video)
This week on New World Next Week the marriage between technology and the intelligence community grows with Emotient, Beware and Palantir all vying to download you.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Apple Gets Emotient-al, Beware Your Threat Score, CIA’s Crystal Ball (Audio)
This week on New World Next Week the marriage between technology and the intelligence community grows with Emotient, Beware and Palantir all vying to download you.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode242 – Nobel Peace Lies, Volkswagen Fraud, Happy Birthday
Ex-Nobel exec admits Obama’s “Peace Prize” a fraud; Volkswagen crashes after lying about carbon emission standards; Phony “Happy Birthday” copyright finally pulled from Warner.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode204 – SWIFT Alternatives, Audit the Fed Again, Good News Grab Bag
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode204 – SWIFT Alternatives, Audit the Fed Again, Good News Grab Bag Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Russia, China In Talks to Make SWIFT Alternative Apple…
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The Police Tool That Pervs Use to Steal Nude Pics From Apple’s iCloud
from wired.com: As nude celebrity photos spilled onto the web over the weekend, blame for the scandal has rotated from the scumbag hackers who stole the images to a researcher who released a tool used to crack victims’ iCloud passwords to Apple, whose security flaws may have made that cracking exploit possible in the first place.…
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Apple’s Next Big Move: iPhone-controlled ‘Smart Homes’
from asia.nikkei.com: Apple has thrown its hat into the ring in smart homes, detailing plans to launch a service for remote control of appliances this autumn by tying up with electronics manufacturers. The move by the company behind the iPhone is expected to add momentum to an emerging field that already includes Google and Microsoft.…
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Music Industry Optimistic About Apple-Beats Deal
from abcnews.go.com: A day after the sale of Beats By Dre on Wednesday to tech giant Apple Inc., members of the music industry were abuzz about what the $3 billion deal might mean for an area thought to be in an irreversible decline. Label executive Jimmy Iovine and business partner Dr. Dre’s move to Apple…
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Apple Patent Could End Butt Dialing Forever!
from appleinsider.com: Apple is famous for its pioneering touchscreen devices, but a new patent shows the company has also dabbled behind the scenes in touch-sensitive buttons that would be able to distinguish between accidental activation and an actual finger press. The concept comes from a patent continuation published this week by the U.S. Patent and…
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#Amazon Announces Its Own Streaming Device
from businessinsider.com: Tomorrow, Amazon will amp up its bid to take over your living room. At a media event in New York City, the company is expected to announce a new gadget — either a dongle or a box — that will let users stream video to their TVs from Amazon’s video library, as well…
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Tech Giants Call on #Obama, #Congress to Rein in Internet Spy Programs
from mercurynews.com: In an unusual joint statement, leading Internet companies called Monday for new legal restrictions on government spy programs that the companies view as an increasing threat both to their customers’ privacy and their own business interests. “The U.S. government should take this opportunity to lead this reform effort and make things right,” Facebook…
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#Twitter, #Facebook Demand Sweeping Changes to US #Surveillance
from theguardian.com: The world’s leading technology companies have united to demand sweeping changes to US surveillance laws, urging an international ban on bulk collection of data to help preserve the public’s “trust in the internet”. In their most concerted response yet to disclosures by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook,…
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New iPhone Has TouchID Fingerprint Authentication
from wired.com: When Apple bought AuthenTec for its biometrics technology — reported as one of its most expensive purchases — there was a lot of speculation about how the company would incorporate biometrics in its product line. Many speculate(d) that the new Apple iPhone…will come with a fingerprint authentication system, and there are several ways it…
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Police Now Can Switch off iPhone Camera and Wi-Fi
from veteranstoday.com: Police throughout the globe have been embarrassed to see online videos of their officers pepper spraying tied captives. In our age of mobile gadgets the pictures can be uploaded online in seconds, making supervisors to answer the questions. But now the police may not need to fear scrutiny anymore, because Apple has recently…
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Apple, Facebook, Twitter Hacks Said To Hail From Eastern Europe
While many security experts have been pointing the blame at China for the recent wave of cyberattacks on U.S. companies and newspapers, Bloomberg reports that some of the malware attacks actually may be coming from Eastern Europe.