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Tor Browser update adds improved HTML5 support and DuckDuckGo search engine

Edit DNA India 02 Jun 2016
This involves using several layers of encryption that are progressively peeled away like the layers of an onion. Data is transmitted through a global network of Tor relays, decrypting only one layer of encryption at once to reveal the next relay. The final relay peels away the last layer to send the original data to its destination without ever knowing its source ... Tor's most widely used application takes the form of a web browser ... ....

IBM and Cisco Team on Internet of Things, Watson Tech

Edit Newsfactor 02 Jun 2016
The global partnership will allow organizations in remote locations to access IBM’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology without having to upload heavy data sets to the cloud, the companies said ... “For an oil rig in a remote location or a factory where critical decisions have to be taken immediately, uploading all data to the cloud is not always the best option."....

Karen was tiny, pretty, 21 years old – and lived under Waterloo bridge

Edit New Statesman 02 Jun 2016
After Karen died, her family told me she wasn’t really homeless, and she “liked a lot of boys”. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img=""> ... I don’t know why Karen ran away from her home in north London. After she died, Gareth told me that she didn’t like to talk about it ... he stopped taking my calls....

IBM and Cisco are taking IoT analytics to the edge

Edit PC World 02 Jun 2016
The devices could take in data from local sensors and analyze it on site with a small, built-in Linux computer ... enough to send to the cloud and what could just be thrown away....

‘Big four’ grocers come out fighting in high street wars

Edit Scotsman 02 Jun 2016
The latest data from Kantar Worldpanel indicates the market was “essentially flat” during the period, posting value growth of just 0.1 per cent, but the figures show consumers are sharing their spending around retailers rather than turning away from the big four ... Lidl and Aldi remain the fastest growing retailers, taking market shares of 14.2 per cent and 11.4 per cent respectively....

Editorial: Beyond the GDP headline

Edit Yahoo Daily News 02 Jun 2016
Going by the headline numbers, it would appear the economy is in good nick ... But scratch the surface, and things are not quite so rosy ... Indeed, as some economists had forewarned, the overestimation in manufacturing data is beginning to correct—growth slowed from 11.5% in Q3 to 9.3% in Q4 ... Economists now expect new projects to start taking shape only in 2017. The poor global trade outlook also takes away the boost exports give to GDP ... ....

Companies once thought they’d make big money off big data–now it’s their biggest liability

Edit Quartz 02 Jun 2016
In the future, successful data companies will not own any data. The data economy is the engine of growth for all digital businesses ... We are heading for a data crunch. Data has huge economic value but it is becoming businesses’ biggest liability. As a consequence, in the future, data companies will not own data....

Melita Data Centre sponsors Finance Malta annual conference

Edit The Malta Independent 02 Jun 2016
Melita's state-of-the-art data centre facility in Madliena was designed to offer top tier security features and Tier III specifications on Malta's largest footprint of its kind, including perimeter fencing, solitary buildings on high grounds, away from flight paths and redundant power generation and connectivity systems ... "The growth rate of data centre services is unprecedented....

Arnold Schwarzenegger got chased by elephant

Edit Indian Express 02 Jun 2016
The 68-year-old former California governor shared a video of his close encounter the animal blocking the road in front of his group’s vehicle, and then walking around the car and chasing it as it drove away ... In the short clip, the driver shuts off the engine to avoid startling the behemoth, but when he turns the car back on the elephant bellows and backs away ... We need to stop killing them – take a photo, not a shot....

Govt. To Generate Geo-Data And Digital Mapping For Planned Development: HPM Sheikh Hasina (Bangladesh Awami League)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Jun 2016
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her government would soon form 'National Spatial Data Infrastructure' (NSDI) to generate geo-data and digital mapping aimed at country's planned development ... Sheikh Hasina said, 'NSDI will preserve geo-spatial data in a same platform helping all users to use the data according to their need, which we feel very much at the time of taking a project.'....

June 2, 2016: NJHA, LeadingAge Offer Webinar on New Staff Reporting Requirement (NJHA - New Jersey Hospital Association)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Jun 2016
The 'go-live' date for long-term care staff reporting is one month away. Electronic submission of staffing data through the Payroll-Based Journal (PBJ) is required of all nursing homes this year. Facilities will have up to 45 days to submit data from July 1 to Sept ... The last day to submit data for the quarter is Nov ... To register to submit data....

India's Iranian oil imports dip in May as MRPL shut units - tanker data

Edit Yahoo Daily News 02 Jun 2016
Indian refiners took about 379,200 barrels per day (bpd) of Iranian oil in May, down 13,700 bpd from the 392,900 bpd imported in April, according to preliminary tanker arrival data from trade sources and ship-tracking services on the Thomson Reuters terminal. May shipments were 3 percent higher than the 368,000 bpd taken in during the same time a year ago, the data showed....

Expert fears LRT could interfere with delicate uOttawa chemistry lab equipment

Edit Canada Dot Com 02 Jun 2016
Moving one takes a month and costs $40,000 ... That's where the LRT comes in. It's expected to cause vibration, but the university can take steps to dampen the vibrations before they reach the spectrometers ... Data collection often takes hours and may take days, so there's no way to start and stop work when a train comes through. The manufacturer says spectrometers should stay 100 metres away from a field like the one the LRT will create....
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