Knowledge Junkie. Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm. A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social networking websites.
A video obtained by the Guardian reveals how an "extreme-scale analytics" system created by Raytheon, the world's fifth largest defence contractor, can gather vast amounts of information about people from websites including Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare. Raytheon says it has not sold the software – named Riot, or Rapid Information Overlay Technology – to any clients. But the Massachusetts-based company has acknowledged the technology was shared with US government and industry as part of a joint research and development effort, in 2010, to help build a national security system capable of analysing "trillions of entities" from cyberspace.
Using Riot it is possible to gain an entire snapshot of a person's life – their friends, the places they visit charted on a map – in little more than a few clicks of a button. How Sony’s SmartWatch 2 Stacks Up To The Pebble And The MetaWatch Strata. Sony’s first go at the smartwatch mostly went unnoticed – a lot of people, myself included, had to be reminded of its existence when the Pebble made big waves for its huge Kickstarter funding success.
But Sony’s not letting its early mover advantage go to waste, nor is it letting the SmartWatch brand die on the vine: Today it unveiled the SmartWatch 2, a successor to its original that improves specs and functionality in a number of ways. The Sony SmartWatch 2 has competition from the aforementioned Pebble, and from fellow Kickstarter success MetaWatch Strata, which is another smartwatch category incumbent. If fact, so is Pebble, which means that this entire generation of devices is actually not the first, but may well be the first with the chance to actually gain some traction with the wider consumer market.
Accordingly, a tale of the tape is definitely in order. Platform support Battery Connectivity Display Water resistance. New iOS App Lets You Record What You Heard Five Minutes Ago. Have you ever wished that you could record something that already happened?
Your kid’s first words. That perfectly timed comeback. The email address your boss told you to have those important documents sent to within the next 10 minutes. If only there was a way to record the important bits of your life, without having to record all of it. The Shorty Awards - Honoring the best of social media. Volkswagen Hover Car: Is that what the future car will ... Thinking / The New Big Screen Hybrid Gadget in Town - Lenovo IdeaCenter Horizon PC Usage. Volkswagen XL1 Gets Green Light - VWVortex. Just ten years ago a car like this being sold to the public was a mere dream.
Now Volkswagen has announced production of the XL1 1-liter fuel (per 100km or 261mpg) vehicle. We won’t see it on our shores (at least this generation) but Volkswagen has learned much from this project and you’ll see some of the technologies trickle down into other products, particularly as costs continue to drop. The longer, technical version of the Volkswagen AG press release follows below with all the details… XL1 – the most fuel-efficient car in the world: New XL1 from Volkswagen consumes just 0.9 l/100 km (261 mpg) World’s first 1-liter fuel economy car to be produced now Two-seat XL1 brings vision of 1-liter car to production maturity.
The O.R.B. - Meet The Future Of Bluetooth Headsets. Bluetooth headsets evolved a lot from those bulky big ear hook pieces to the stylish little gadgets we buy today.
Although overall quality improved (battery, sound, microphones), the today Bluetooth headsets of today have the same issue they had since their begging – if you do not like to wear them (but you have to) you’re stuck keeping them attached to your ear, or put them in a pocket and break the ear hook or even damage the actual headset. The O.R.B. Bluetooth headset is here to solve this issue. While in use, the O.R.B has an S shaped form attaching to the wearer’s ear. DJ Storm's Blog. “Considering how long this has been in development, and the number of similar projects that have fallen by the wayside including a mooted Paul Greengrass directed biopic, and a fictional road trip style movie, we figured the Andre 3000 starring Jimi Hendrix movie was not going to happen.
Hell, even as far back as 2008 the actor/rapper himself said, “The funny thing with the biopics [is their uncertainty], I mean, it’s the same thing with ‘Hendrix.’ It’s kinda like, until you are on set doing it you can’t say what’s going on, because everybody wants to do the movie, but there are so many things that go into a biopic.” Well, it looks like the movie is actually going ahead. Titled “All Is By My Side,” the film is gearing up start lensing in three weeks in Ireland, with a six week production schedule mapped out. Cars of the Future. Web Hosting, Domain Names, eCommerce - Bluehost.com. MS Windows, Tech News, and Freeware Daily / Infopackets.com. Top 10 Tech Reports: Freebies / Infopackets.com.