Today’s Tech Sightings: Vietnam Warns of ‘Toxic’ Web Use Ahead of Party Shakeup Using its new Facebook page, Vietnam’s government vows to tackle an anticipated increase in “toxic” activity on social media ahead of the country’s Communist Party congress in January. The Internet is hugely popular in Vietnam, used by nearly half of its 90-million-strong […]
Toxic Web User Warnings; 2015 Technology in Review
Posted December 30th, 2015 at 11:00 am (UTC-4)
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Tim Cook’s Apple; Cryptoine Hacked; Android Woes; Facebook’s Transformation
Posted March 26th, 2015 at 2:00 pm (UTC-4)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Tech Giants Call for Mass Surveillance Reform A slew of leading tech companies, including Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, Dropbox and others have banded together in a Reform Government Surveillance coalition to call on U.S. Congress to end government agencies’ bulk collection of communications data. The coalition has also attracted civil rights groups […]
Tech Sightings, August 20, 2014
Posted August 20th, 2014 at 2:00 pm (UTC-4)
BrightSource Solar Plant Sets Birds on Fire Federal investigators are urging a California company to put on hold its plans to expand an energy plant that concentrates solar energy to produce steam after watching birds caught between the plant’s mirrors and boilers ignite in mid air – on an average of one every two minutes. […]