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Facebook data hoarder speaks out
Security researcher Ron Bowes tells BBC News why he collected and published the personal details of 100m Facebook users.
29 Jul, 2010
Google cleared of wi-fi snooping
No "significant" personal data was grabbed by Google when it snooped on wi-fi networks, says the UK data protection office.
29 Jul, 2010
Amazon offers new look UK Kindle
Online retailer Amazon launches its popular Kindle e-reader into the UK market for the first time, with a new look and more books.
29 Jul, 2010
Nintendo game copiers 'illegal'
A High Court has ruled that devices that allow gamers to play pirated video games on the Nintendo DS console are illegal in the UK.
28 Jul, 2010
Engadget
LG VL600 LTE / CDMA modem for Verizon in the wild?
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29 Jul, 2010
Apple UK
Apple Updates Safari 5
Apple has released Safari 5.0.1, turning on Safari Extensions and introducing the Safari Extensions Gallery. With the Safari Extensions Gallery, users can quickly find extensions that add powerful new features to Safari, from toolbars that display live web feeds to sophisticated programs that filter web content. Safari 5.0.1 allows users to download and install extensions either from the Safari Extensions Gallery or directly from a developer?s site.
28 Jul, 2010
The ultimate all-in-one. Turbocharged.
Apple has updated its all-in-one iMac line, widely praised as the world?s best desktop computers, with the latest Intel Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 processors and powerful new graphics. Starting at £999 inc VAT, the new iMac line is the fastest ever, with dual-core processor speeds up to 3.6GHz and quad-core speeds up to 2.93GHz. ?We took the world?s best all-in-one and made it even better,? said Philip Schiller, Apple?s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. ?With the latest processors, high-performance graphics and signature aluminium and glass design, customers are going to love the latest iMac?.
27 Jul, 2010
Gadget Show
The brain game
The human ability to create evermore impressive technology never fails to astound me. It wasn’t long ago we were all marvelling at a box that could display moving pictures in black and white. Then we were astounded when these moving pictures were suddenly in technicolor. Now we don’t even look at a television unless it’s about an inch thin!
That’s just one example of the evolution of technology, but that’s just for entertainment purposes. What about in science for instance? Well, now we’re being told that a fully functional artificial human brain could be built within the next ten years!
Think of the possibilities. Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project, speaking at a conference in Oxford, told of how a synthetic brain would be beneficial to helping find treatments for mental illness.
Apparently the Blue Brain Project, which was launched in 2005 and aims to reverse engineer the mammalian brain from laboratory data, has already simulated elements of a rat’s brain. These simulations have been helping the researches to find clues about how the brain works. Show the brain a picture for instance, and you can follow the electrical activity in the machine!
It’s clever stuff, and an understanding of technology way beyond mine, but if this sort of tech can take off and eventually help some of the two billion people on Earth afflicted with mental health disorders, then surely it’s worth investigating further. And this is just the beginning. Think of where this tech could be beyond 2010. After all it wasn’t that long ago we were all watching black and white TV sets…
Read The brain game on FiveFWD23 Jul, 2009