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Missing: hard drive containing Bitcoins worth £4m in Newport landfill site | ... - 0 views
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"A digital 'wallet' containing 7,500 Bitcoins that James Howells generated on his laptop is buried under four feet of rubbish"
$10 Cellphones Bring Health Care to Developing World - 0 views
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"Each of these community health workers typically works with 100 families, and they used to hand-deliver patient updates to doctors by foot. But by equipping these individuals with $10 cellphones, Medic Mobile helped to create a hub-and-spoke model of health care that's revolutionized the way millions of people get well."
Mobile Med-Tech Revolution Hits Hospitals | Singularity Hub - 0 views
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"The benefits of mobile technology in a healthcare setting have not, it's safe to say, gone unnoticed. A throng of companies are trying to turn the smartphone into an assortment of medical devices, from blood pressure cuffs to otoscopes. Such devices offer patients a chance to keep up with chronic conditions and send data to their doctors on occasion."
MafiaLeaks promises whistleblowers safety from the Family | Media | theguardian.com - 0 views
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"MafiaLeaks uses the encrypted anonymising browser Tor to enable informants to securely share their secrets with the site. Currently, the recipients are limited by MafiaLeaks to the Fatto Quotidiano newspaper, the Sicilian TV station Telejato and Antonella Beccaria, an independent investigative journalist. All are known for their anti-mafia activities."
Did your Adobe password leak? Now you and 150m others can check | Technology | theguard... - 0 views
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"Nearly 150 million people have been affected by a loss of customer data by Adobe, over 20 times more than the company admitted in its initial statement last week."
Glue for the Internet of Things | MIT Technology Review - 0 views
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"OpenRemote is an open-source Internet of Things platform that could help spur smarter homes and cities. "
Doctors Faced With Rare or Difficult Cancers Can Just 'Google' Genetic Treatments | Sin... - 0 views
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"Sequencing cancer to find the breaks has become easy and cheap. But information on which drugs might or might not work on particular mutations remains buried in PDF files and scattered across medical journals."
Tesco's face scanning system: the key questions answered | Technology | theguardian.com - 0 views
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""We don't do facial recognition, we do face detection," Ke Quang, chief operating officer of Quividi, told the Guardian on Monday. "It's software which works from the video feed coming off the camera. It can detect if it's seeing a face, but it never records the image or biomorphological information or traits."
CryptoLocker Is The Nastiest Malware Ever - Here's What You Can Do - 0 views
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"Ransomware is an especially odious type of malware. The way it works is simple. Your computer will be infected with some malicious software. That software then renders your computer entirely unusable, sometimes purporting to be from local law enforcement and accusing you of committing a computer crime or viewing explicit pictures of children. It then demands monetary payment, either in the form of a ransom or a 'fine' before access to your computer is returned."
Photoshop Fail, People's Republic of China edition - Boing Boing - 0 views
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"a small city in China's central Anhui province, purporting to show vice-mayor Wang Hun pay a friendly visit to an elderly woman. There's only one problem: The image, which appears to show Wang floating above a particularly tiny woman, has clearly been modified."
Man buys $27 of bitcoin, forgets about them, finds they're now worth $886k | Technology... - 0 views
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"Kristoffer Koch invested 150 kroner ($26.60) in 5,000 bitcoins in 2009, after discovering them during the course of writing a thesis on encryption. He promptly forgot about them until widespread media coverage of the anonymous, decentralised, peer-to-peer digital currency in April 2013 jogged his memory. Bitcoins are stored in encrypted wallets secured with a private key, something Koch had forgotten."
BBC News - View to a skill: The next big education player? - 0 views
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"While the Moocs are associated with high-status universities, Alison's focus is on the vast numbers of people around the world needing to improve their vocational skills and training."
It's Your Data - But Others Are Making Billions Off It - 0 views
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"Here's the thing about privacy: It's tedious. Rather than dwell on Google being accused of illegal wiretapping with Street View, or whether Facebook got explicit consent from users before a recent update in privacy practices, we need to evolve the conversation around the monetization of our data in the digital realm toward identity. "
Wikipedia editor count down by a third - Boing Boing - 0 views
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"The volunteer workforce that built the project's flagship, the English-language Wikipedia-and must defend it against vandalism, hoaxes, and manipulation-has shrunk by more than a third since 2007 and is still shrinking. ..."
Are teenagers really careless about online privacy? | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views
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"Many younger people just don't think in terms of their future employability, of identity theft, of legal problems if they're being provocative. Not to mention straightforward reputational issues." (Paris Brown, Phippen adds, "clearly never thought what she tweeted when she was 14" might one day stop her being Britain's first youth police commissioner.)"
Top 10 Countries With the Most Digital Natives - 0 views
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"China is home to the world's largest population of digital natives, totaling more than 75 million people - that's almost twice as many as the U.S., which has more than 41 million."
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