by hmb1 | May 9, 2016 | News, Social Media, Technology
Last week, the European Union’s European Research Council announced that Espen Aarseth won its competitive Advanced Grant. It’s designed to allow researchers to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk projects in Europe, and it comes with a €2 million (roughly...
by Michael Bailey | Feb 9, 2016 | News
You won’t have to pay Warner to use the most popular English song in history. Since 1988, Warner/Chappell has had an iron grip on the copyright for “Happy Birthday to You.” Artists couldn’t sing it on a recording without paying up, even though...
by Michael Bailey | Dec 16, 2014 | News, Privacy and Security, Wordpress
Posted on December 15, 2014 What Are Trackbacks? You’re bound to hear about trackbacks in a WordPress related conversation on some point, but just what the heck are they? The WordPress Codex defines a trackback in WordPress this way: …TrackBack was designed to...
by Michael Bailey | Sep 5, 2014 | Mobile, News
By MOLLY WOOD, New York Times Motorola’s Moto 360 smartwatch wowed when it was announced last March, and it has been talked about ever since as the smartwatch you might actually want. The main reason? It looks good. Really good, in fact. Now that the Moto 360 has...
by Michael Bailey | Sep 4, 2014 | Mobile, News
By BRIAN X. CHEN, New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — When Apple wants to make a big splash, it returns to its history. Thirty years ago at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts, a roomy auditorium in Cupertino, Calif., Steven P. Jobs introduced the original Macintosh....
by Michael Bailey | Aug 5, 2014 | News, Privacy and Security
(Reuters) – A cybersecurity firm said it has uncovered about 1.2 billion Internet logins and passwords and more than 500 million email addresses amassed by a Russian crime ring, the largest known collection of such stolen data, the New York Times reported on...
