Facebook pays users to find security breaches on the site.

Social networking offering financial awards to those that find security problems online.

Facebook has announced that it is offering financial rewards for those that find bugs and viruses within its site. The social network has already spent an astonishing $40,000 (£25,000) in the first 21 days of the program. The ‘bug bounty’ program was established in order to encourage security researchers and professionals to help protect Facebook from potential attacks.… - Read More >

Camera man records his environment using prosthetic eye

Rob Spence lost his eye as a child in a shooting accident but this camera man has now taken a futuristic step forward by installing a camera within his eye socket.

This cyborg camera man said that this type of thing usually only happens in films and yet it was surprisingly easy to get financial backing.

He said, “It wasn’t easy, but because it’s so like pop fiction, engineers had a … - Read More >

Modern words like ‘retweet’ and ‘follower’ will enter the dictionary.

Social networking has produced a number of phrases and words that have become a part of general parlance.

The word retweet has made it into the Oxford English Dictionary, signalling that microblogging site Twitter may be more than just a flash in the pan.

To retweet means to repost or forward a message posted by another user – the acceptance of this new vocabulary by the sacrosanct British wordbook, which … - Read More >

New chips could mimic human brain.

IBM uses human brain as a basis for creating new computer chips.

IBM has produced the first ever ‘brain chips’ that can rewire and repair connections in real time as it encounters new information. It achieves this by acting in a similar way to how biological synapses work. This essentially means that through replicating this technology computers could begin to learn.

It is believed that once fully developed cognitive computers could be used to … - Read More >

Stanley Kurbrick’s 2001 is Samsung’s new best friend.

With the recent and still ongoing patent wars, it’s nice to see that finally 2001 is getting the respect it deserves, as being credited as the creator of tablet PCs.

Stanley Kubrick was well known for his passion for mobile computing devices and was widely rumored to have an iPhone 2 prototype as early as 1997 and he actually invented the capacitive touch screen, so it comes as no surprise that he … - Read More >

Google has agreed to pay out $500 million to avoid going to court in a Canadian drugs row.

The search engine is in trouble with the US Department of Justice over claims it made money from Canadian adverts selling prescription drugs to US consumers.

Now when I mention Google, US prescription drugs like Viagra and Vicodin probably aren’t the first thing that spring to mind but in a bizarre twist the search engine has agreed to pay out a staggering … - Read More >

Apple founder Steve Jobs has resigned as chief executive of Apple and will be replaced by the company’s chief operating officer Tim Cook.

 Mr.Jobs, who is 56, is a pancreatic cancer survivor and has been on medical leave since 17th January,  with an undisclosed condition.

 This is currently his third medical leave since his diagnosis of cancer seven years ago, in his      resignation he said he is no longer able to meet his chief executives duties and expectations.… - Read More >

Libya is reconnecting with the online world after a six month internet block out.

North African state Libya is beginning to show signs of integration on the internet after six months of web blackout imposed by the Colonel Gaddafi regime.

Traffic on both Akamai and Google showed spikes in web traffic on 22nd August and the state-run internet service provider (ISP) carried a simple message proclaiming ‘Libya, One Tribe’.

Libyans have claimed that the connections are intermittent although there does appear to be … - Read More >

Social networks may face reform after they helped to facilitate UK rioters

A British Parliamentary body has recently requested the presence of Twitter, Facebook and Blackberry bosses, in order to discuss their role in the London riots.

Headed by Kieth Vaz, the Chairman Home Affairs Committee of the House of Commons, the meeting is being called to address how easy it was for rioters to organise their activity using social networks.

Mr Vaz commented that it was clear that social … - Read More >

The top ten searches on Google have been revealed.

The list of summer searches highlights the topical news stories that hit the headlines in the last couple of months.

The death of Amy Winehouse was the subject most searched for on Google this summer as web surfers tried to find information on the award-winning star’s drug and alcohol overdose.

The singer died at the age of 27 last month, which triggered the sharp rise in searches related to her name. … - Read More >

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