A good rule of thumb in any company: When it comes to bad news from within, you can occasionally bullshit those outside your office but you can never sell it to the people under your own roof. They work there; they know better. Lying to them only pisses them off. Yesterday, ...read more
I don't know what's up with Bill Gates lately. Earlier this week I read that he's encouraging ground-breaking new designs for condoms, such as magic flutes made of beef tendons and fish skin, and now Microsoft is unveiling plans for a "smart bra" that can detect stress in the ...read more
Take a journey back in time with these incredibly rare photographs capturing astonishing moments in human history. The photos we selected portray events from an alternative perspective, giving us further insight into complex events that have often been too neatly packaged by ...read more
It keeps happening. Last Thursday, Glenn Greenwald published another bombshell article in The Guardian based on one of Ed Snowden's leaked documents. The article details how Microsoft has provided user data for NSA's PRISM surveillance database. Then, before the ink was dry on ...read more
by Christie Thompson, ProPublica On Wednesday, the Guardian published documents revealing the government has been collecting months' worth of telephone "metadata" on millions of Verizon customers. The Washington Post and the Guardian followed with news that both the National ...read more
From Information Week: Google warns that government attempts to remove online information are increasing and that some of the governments making censorship requests are Western democracies. U.S. authorities, for example, made 6,192 requests seeking the removal of information ...read more
by Lois Beckett: Microsoft and Yahoo are selling political campaigns the ability to target voters online with tailored ads using names, Zip codes and other registration information that users provide when they sign up for free email and other services. The Web giants provide ...read more
