This is an amazing thing, and they've been doing it for a decade! A German entrepreneur created a search engine that, for approximately every 45 searches on its site, they plant a tree! They've built renewable power plants. They have a branch of the company (heh, heh) that monitors satellite imagery of the areas they've planted to make sure ( Read more... )

The good news is that a non-technical jury found that Google's use of Java to create Android was not infringing. Oracle has been suing Google over this for years and the jury came back after three days of deliberation and said Google was OK with what they did. Considering that Sun, who was bought out by Oracle, also thought it was OK even though ( Read more... )

It's interesting. We're used to being presented with a Captcha box with squiggly letters that supposedly only humans can decifer (which software could in some circumstances), now Google will be presenting us with a checkbox that says 'I am not a robot ( Read more... )

The text Lorem Ipsum is faux Latin taken from a passage by Cicero, it was most commonly used as a placeholder in texts or web pages to check layout before actual content was available. It doesn't mean anything, it's mangled Latin ( Read more... )

PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy, a VERY strong crypto system that gives excellent end-to-end encryption for email users. It has been released to security researchers to poke at it to find flaws, it's not yet available to the general public but will be in the form of browser add-ins ( Read more... )

There’s so much data available on the internet that even government cyberspies need a little help now and then to sift through it all. So to assist them, the National Security Agency produced a book to help its spies uncover intelligence hiding on the web ( Read more... )

"The Justice Department is defending the government's refusal to discuss - or even acknowledge the existence of - any cooperative research and development agreement between Google and the National Security Agency. The Washington based advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center sued in federal district court here to obtain documents about ( Read more... )

Heh. Yes, named after Majel Barret Roddenberry, the voice of Star Trek's computers. It'll be interesting to see how it shapes up, Google has such a huge data mine to work with it should be quite viable. I use Siri occasionally, mainly as a lark. Last night I was playing with it as a joke and I said "play one song", and got Pink Floyd's One Slip ( Read more... )

The thot plickens. BT alleges that Android violates: * 6,151,309: a 2000 patent for "service provision system for communications networks ( Read more... )

NFC is similar to the payment fobs tied to your credit cards that you can wave at some gas pumps to pay for purchases. It is a more sophisticated in that it's built-in to some cell phones and requires that you enter a PIN into your phone to complete the transaction, so it has a slightly higher level of security: you must have possession of the ( Read more... )