Why Facebook is beating the FBI at facial recognition If you’re worried about Big Brother and computerized facial recognition, this summer has given you plenty of reason to be scared. Law enforcement has been toying with facial recognition for a while, but the FBI is getting set to deploy its own system, called Next Generation Identification (NGI for short),… Read More »
The NSA Is Targeting Users of Privacy Services, Leaked Code Shows If you use Tor or any of a number of other privacy services online or even visit their web sites to read about the services, there’s a good chance your IP address has been collected and stored by the NSA, according to top-secret source code for a… Read More »
Windows 8.x goes into reverse gear — loses market share as both Windows 7 and XP show growth By Wayne Williams I’ll be honest, although Windows 8.x losing market share is a shocking state of affairs — and a new low for an operating system which has struggled since launch — it’s something that’s been coming for a… Read More »
Could Windows 9’s Killer Feature See It Outsell Windows 7? If there’s one thing that Microsoft is keen to achieve with each iteration of its operating system, it’s universal appeal. We last saw this with Windows 7, which admittedly was launched at the start of the tablet and touchscreen notebook craze, but nonetheless, it’s the last operating system I remember that all my… Read More »
Microsoft to double OneDrive free space, slash extra storage prices up to 73% Will also bump Office 365 Home, Personal subscribers’ allotment to 1TB next month Microsoft today announced it would double OneDrive’s free storage space for consumers to 15GB from its previous allowance of 7GB. The expansion of the free tier, and other changes to OneDrive, will… Read More »
With the Americas running out of IPv4, it’s official: The Internet is full In April, ARIN, the (North) American Registry for Internet Numbers, announced that it had reached “phase 4” of its IPv4 countdown plan, with fewer than 17 million IPv4 addresses remaining. There is no phase 5. APNIC, the Asia-Pacific registry, reached the 17 million (one “/8”… Read More »