Mois : septembre 2013 (Page 7 of 10)
New is easy. Right is hard
I’m excited to announce Calico, a new company that will focus on health and well-being, in particular the challenge of aging and associated diseases. Art Levinson, Chairman and former CEO of Genentech and Chairman of Apple, will be Chief Executive Officer.
Netflix Vice President of Content Acquisition Kelly Merryman says that popularity on file-sharing platforms determines in part what TV-series the company buys.
« Anger spreads faster and more broadly than joy, say computer scientists who have analysed sentiment on the Chinese Twitter-like service Weibo ». (via Most Influential Emotions on Social Networks Revealed | MIT Technology Review)
Ces vidéos fleurissent sur les sites de partage d’images : on y voit des automobilistes et autres motards se filmer en train de battre des records de vitesse, faisant fi de la loi et des règles élémentaires de prudence. Mais trois de ces vidéastes amateurs viennent d’être confondus par les gendarmes de Lodève.
Le Brésil suit désormais une politique active pour mettre fin à l’hégémonie commerciale des États-Unis sur Internet. Il s’agit par exemple de ne pas passer par des moteurs de recherche américains (cela concerne 80 % du trafic brésilien), de délaisser certains sites (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter…) et d’opter pour des solutions de stockage à distance nationales (cloud computing).
FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack
« It wasn’t ever seriously in doubt, but the FBI yesterday acknowledged that it secretly took control of Freedom Hosting last July, days before the servers of the largest provider of ultra-anonymous hosting were found to be serving custom malware designed to identify visitors ».
Censorship of Chinese sites is sometimes inconsistent and is known to rely heavily on people screening posts manually. But the software the Harvard researchers bought to run their site came with an unexpectedly complex toolkit of automated censorship tools, says King, and the company that provided it was happy to give advice on how to use them. “The options were really quite astounding.”