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Around 70 teenagers had gathered for this weekend event which is the brainchild of Rewired State - an organisation thinking of clever ways to free up public data.

different groups as they spread themselves across the third floor of the Googleplex, taking advantage of the free wi-fi - and food - laid on by the search company.

different groups as they spread themselves across the third floor of the Googleplex, taking advantage of the free wi-fi - and food - laid on by the search company.

"At the moment, people live longer, healthier and for the most part happier lives than they used to because of medical technology.

Laurie thinks the future will see a class divide between those who can afford the latest technology and those who can't.

Among the futures envisaged is a world where human consciousness can be uploaded onto storage devices to live inside virtual environments.

"At least 85 percent of discarded computers imported to Peru are reused, as opposed to going directly to recycling. [... Thus,] the image of the trade in e-waste as mainly being about dumping unusable junk is, at least for Peru, inaccurate."

"highly dynamic flow [that] reuses and recycles almost every part and material found in a computer,"

that it is possible to stop the environmentally damaging practices without diluting or eliminating informal dismantling and collection. This informal reuse and recycling sector is valuable for generating employment in the country and in making computing technology more accessible to low-income families and small businesses, the paper contends.

easy it was to exploit security loopholes

redirect traffic

access and steal any information exchanged

If your job involves having to destroy hard disks and make sure that their data is impossible to recover, you’ll know that it can be an expensive business: properly disposing of each hard disk can cost between £5 and £10 and, when you’re managing the IT affairs of potentially large businesses, these costs can mount up.

simply chopping the platter in half wouldn’t remove the data” and confirmed that it could be recovered – but the costs of retrieving any remaining information “would be prohibitive”. That’s because you’d need “something along the lines of an electron scanning microscope” to read the data from the remains of the platter – and those currently sell second-hand for at least £40,000. Tanfield-Johnson also confirmed that, once you’d cracked open a hard disk to extract the platters within, recovering any data would become even more difficult, because you’d need “the same model and make of [circuit] board” to access each track of data on the disk. So, unless you’re willing to spend tens of thousands of pounds, it looks like your data is safe.

The date for comments to the New York court overseeing the class action suit was extended from Friday to Tuesday, after the filing system went down. As time ticks away, supporters and critics have been manning both sides of the debate to win the public case.

digitise the world's books and create a vast online library

limit application developers' access to user information,

deactivated account information should be deleted

nternet search engine. But the front pages of such sites as Google, Yahoo and Altavista are hiding hugely complex and refined systems for cataloguing and analysing millions of web pages

cheat the engines to come top of the search rankings.

find out how they were invented, how they work, and what the future holds for the programs that effectively control our access to the web.

The world's largest database on reproductive health, POPLINE, has been blocking searches using the term "abortion"

discrepancy in the retrieval

"Eliminating this term essentially blocks access to the reports in the database and ultimately to information about abortion,"

Captioning Systems has a great method of delivering captioning in the theater.

Prior to the performances the script was converted from a standard live theater/musical theater script to standard captioning format using PCS Live Theater Captioning software

One in 10 people has some form of hearing loss, and this larger group would appreciate communication enablement,