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UK Confirms Plans For Coronavirus Tracing App
Last week it was revealed that Google and Apple were in a collaboration to create a Coronavirus tracking app. The main purpose of it was to give people a quick and convenient means of finding out if they’d been in contact with anyone who had been diagnosed with COVID-19. Well,…
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Chinese ISPs Reportedly Told To Start Recording Customer Data
Chinese Tech Companies Reportedly Start Holding Customer Data It’s hardly any secret that China has perhaps the most stringently regulated internet in the world. It’s no exaggeration to say that pretty much every single piece of content available on it (through legitimate means at least) has been reviewed and approved…
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US Google Employees Reportedly Raise $200,000 Strike Fund
US Google Employees Prepare To Strike! Since it was revealed that Google was working on a search engine catered towards the Chinese market, many of its employees have been very unhappy. Throughout the world, there have been a number of ‘walk-outs’ in protest including several resignations of senior staff members.…
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Senior Google Staff Publicly Criticise China Search Engine
Senior Google Staff Publicly Criticise Company For around 6 months now, we have known that Google has been quite keen to work on introducing a version of their search engine to China. To comply with their censorship regulations, this would clearly have to allow some searches while blocking others. It…
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Google Doesn’t Answer Key Questions On China Search Engine
Google Doesn’t Answer Key Questions On China Search Engine It’s been known for quite some time now that Google is working on a search engine for China. The engine would, of course, have to be specifically designed to not only work but also encompass the rather strict censorship and regulation…
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Google’s China Search Engine Links To Phone Numbers
Google has been working in conjunction with the Chinese government to provide a search engine that would be compatible in filtering out the content which is not allowed by the government. As you might be aware, China has rather strict rules regarding what is and isn’t allowed on their internet.…
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Amazon Patent Warehouse Worker Tracking Device
Amazon Warehouse When the zombie apocalypse comes, I think I’m going to head to an Amazon warehouse. I fancy that there would be enough there to keep me going. There is, however, one downside, the company might want to track my movements within it. Why? Well, apparently Amazon has patented a device…
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Mionix Announces Colourful New DeskPad Line
Mionix Mionix unveiled their colourful options for their Avior mouse over two months ago. Now they are following it up with a complimentary DeskPad that provides significant workspace matching the Avior. As the name suggests, it is not a mousepad but a DeskPad, which means it covers a much greater…
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Honey Bees in Manchester Go Online with Tracking Devices
Bees are very interesting creatures! Did you know that the Bee is the symbol of Manchester? No? Well me neither. It is, however, fitting that such research should be conducted there as a hive of honey bees have been fitted with tracking devices. As you can imagine, this was quite…
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Affordable LitleCane Mobile Gimbal Hits Kickstarter
More and more people are using their smartphones to capture photos and videos on the go, at events, and so much more. As the technology continues to advance, it’s becoming increasingly possible to use phones for professional pictures and videos. The downside is that mobile devices often lack stabilisation features…
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Researchers Claim Anonymized Web History Not So Anonymous
Researchers from Standford and Princeton University have released a study showing that anonymized web behaviour can still be identified via social media profiles. Google and Facebook for example, are able to track users and know their identities due to users willingly giving them access but the researchers claim that a…
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Microsoft Files Patent for Automatic Object Tracking for AR Displays
While many see augmented reality as just another gaming platform, Microsoft has another idea in mind: automatic object tracking so you will never feel that frustration of trying to remember where you last placed your house keys, or your glasses, or your wallet, or everything else in your life. Microsoft…
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Audit Reveals CalGang Database Contains Babies!?
We’ve all heard of the big government databases, tracking everything from our search history to the latest episode of Game of Thrones you watched illegally. Now it would seem that yet another database has come under question as an audit has found that a gang database is tracking all the…
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Nanotech ‘Tattoos’ Can Track Facial Expressions
While people may enjoy tattoos, a new trend could see temporary ‘tattoos’ tracking muscles and could eventually even see its use in artificial prosthetics. The new technology has been reported by researchers from the university of Tel Aviv. The new non-invasive carbon electrodes that appear similar to cybernetic tattoos and…
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Wearable Technology Could Be Revealing Your PIN to Everyone!
When it comes to technology, wearable technology is the next big thing, offerings users the ability to enjoy their phones without them ever leaving their pockets. If a generic wearable isn’t enough for you, sport based wearables often let you measure everything from heart rate to the distance your morning jog…
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