Author: gyasistory
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Why The Gmail Scan That Led To A Man’s Arrest For Child Porn Was Not A Privacy Violation
By Sarah Perez No one will argue against the outcome of a case which saw a man arrested on child pornography charges, after Google tipped off authorities about illegal images found in the Houston suspect’s Gmail account. But the nature of how the discovery came about led some to questions about the methodologies used behind…
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Microsoft Offers Chinese Workers A Free Windows Phone To Quit
By Alex Wilhelm News broke today that Microsoft is offering employees in China a Lumia 630 device to leave the company voluntarily. Microsoft’s mass layoffs are not going over smoothly in China. Reports of protest have cropped up, with workers reacting in anger about the company’s impending job cuts that will eventually total 18,000 across…
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Humble Bundle offers 6 Android games, but is it really a good deal?
By Rick Broida It can be hard to calculate the real value of a collection like this. Let’s take a closer look at the math. Source: C/Net Feed
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Unclouded App Lets You See What’s Eating Up Your Cloud Storage
By Sarah Perez Back when the PC was king, a number of software programs were available that would let you analyze your hard drive utilization, allowing you to delete and relocate files in order to free up more storage space. But now that we’ve moved to using cloud services, where overuse isn’t just an annoyance,…
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Yahoo Snags Netflix Exec To Be Its CIO
By Alex Wilhelm Yahoo announced this morning that it has hired Mike Kali, formerly of Netflix, to take on its chief information officer role, along with the title of senior vice president of infrastructure. Kali’s background in video is fitting, given Yahoo’s recent attempts to bolster its video content efforts. Yahoo also recently hired Alex…