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In February, the ACLU of Massachusetts released a damning report[1] detailing prejudice in social media surveillance efforts by the Boston Police Department (BPD). The report revealed that between 2014 and 2016, the BPD had...
Read more: Why Police Should Monitor Social Media to Prevent Crime
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For nearly 30 years, PostgreSQL[1] (a.k.a., Postgres) has arguably been the most common SQL open source database that you have never heard of. Call it the Zelig of databases, its technology either sat...
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Less than an hour into a Tinder date in a Moscow restaurant last year, Patrick Wardle began to wonder about the laptop he'd left in his hotel room. Wardle had come to the city for a security...
Read more: The 'Do Not Disturb' App Protects Your Mac From 'Evil Maid' Attacks
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The beginning of April is GitHub mark 10 years since it launched out of private beta. Though the San Francisco-based code repository startup is celebrating April 2018 as its official birthday, October 2017 is the company’s unofficial 10th...
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, if Apple wants to sell more iPhones - and quarterly iPhone sales are the metric that many are using to measure how the Cupertino giant is performing -...
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Read more: Marketing Lessons Learned from 16 Years of Building Moz - Whiteboard Friday
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Ericsson has reported its first-quarter results for 2018, recording a net loss of 700 million Swedish Kronor (SEK), an 18.5 percent improvement on last year's 10 billion SEK net loss, on net sales of 43.4 billion SEK,...
Read more: Ericsson plans continued 5G R&D as net loss reduces to 700m SEK
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I do a lot of reading on my tablet every day. While I have bought a few eBooks, I enjoy finding things for free on Project Gutenberg...