SAN FRANCISCO, June 16 (Reuters) – Connecticut’s Attorney General is concerned over Facebook’s use of facial recognition technology to identify users and has requested a meeting with Facebook officials to discuss ways to alleviate those concerns. Attorney General George Jepsen said in a letter to Facebook earlier this week that the world’s No. 1 Internet social network appeared to have overlooked consumer privacy by analyzing the faces in photographs posted [Read the rest...]

This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details. International Business Machines Corp., more commonly known as IBM, turned 100 years old on Thursday. Surviving a century is impressive for a human being; it’s astonishing for a tech company that got its start a mere three years after the Ford Model T began production. IBM dates back to June 16, 1911, when three small companies — [Read the rest...]

Facebook has enabled facial recognition technology, without your permission. While this feature makes tagging easier than Facebook had intended, it has caused a storm of controversy and warning among security experts and Facebook users. And we want to help you make your choice. The facial recognition technology can identify people in the photos uploaded on Facebook, and suggest who they might be. By confirming Facebook’s guess, you can let the [Read the rest...]

Amazon Web Services’ Elastic Compute Cloud, which offers computation as a service to thousands of businesses, and its Relational Database Service, began experiencing errors shortly before 2 a.m. PDT on Thursday at Amazon’s US-EAST data center in Virginia and the service interruption has been ongoing for more than nine hours now. The technical problems have slowed or disabled access to the websites of customers utilizing AWS US-East resources, including Engine [Read the rest...]

A new lawsuit is alleging that Apple’s iPhone and iPad does not do enough to prevent unauthorized purchases of applications by children, allowing the company to bank “millions” of dollars in ill-gotten gains. Garen Meguerian of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, is the lead plaintiff in the class action lawsuit claiming that Apple’s purchase policy makes for “unlawful exploitation” of children by not doing enough to prevent purchases from iTunes and Apple’s App [Read the rest...]

It looks like the good old commodore is coming back and no it’s not running the old Basic OS. It now has a new OS which can still run the vintage applications. There are currently three different editions available. There is the vintage Commodore which is a full modern PC built into the vintage Commodore keyboard. The other two are VIC-Pro and VIC-Slim which don’t resemble to old design but [Read the rest...]

A little while ago I wrote a blog post about what I learned about how technology companies are fueling the genocide taking place in the Congo. I thought it was important for everyone to know about what is going on and to find out what corporations are involved. Today both Intel and Apple have announced that they will begin to comply with the rules and stop purchasing the minerals unless [Read the rest...]

(Reuters) – More than one million website pages have been hit by a sophisticated hacking attack that injects code into sites that redirect users to a fraudulent software sales operation. The so-called “mass-injection” attack, which experts say is the largest of its kind ever seen, has managed to insert malicious code into websites by gaining access to the servers running the databases behind the Internet, according to the technology security [Read the rest...]

Over 1/2 million objects orbit earth. Old satellites, abandoned spacecrafts, and unused rocket stage are all still orbiting our earth after decades of disuse. Scienists suggest that they post little threat in and of themselves however, there is so much space-junk up there that it’s bound to collide with stuff we need like working satellites and space stations…

Our Sun remains an enigma; and scientists are still trying to make sense of solar eruptions…