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Google renews efforts wipe out child porn images from internet
Search Engines Industry News.NetLONDON - Internet giant Google said it is spending $5 million to wipe images of child abuse off the Internet and another $2 million to create tools to find the images and eradicate them. "We're in the business of making information widely available, but there's certain 'information' that should never be created or found," wrote Jacqueline Fuller, director of Google Giving, in a blog post. "We ...
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Digg to launch alternative to Google Reader prior to its removal
Search Engines Industry News.NetSocial news website Digg is set to launch its product, an alternative to Google Reader on June 26, less than a week before Google shuts down its reader service. According to Washington Post, Digg's five-person newsreader team would launch the product in what is anticipated to be Google's alternative aiming at a simpler and uncluttered design. Digg said that the product would allow users to ...
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Google’s purchase of Waze may bring government scrutiny
The Seattle TimesGoogle is the top dog, dominating mobile maps used on smartphones, and Waze makes Google a bigger dog. The question now is whether the U.S. government pushes back and forces Google to give back its new ...
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Julia Stiles YouTube Series Blue Coming to Hulu in TV-Length Episodes
General SourcesHulu in TV-length episodes, beginning with the popular Julia Stiles-starring "Blue," Wigs announced Tuesday. The first two seasons of "Blue" launched on the streaming service Monday. Earlier this year, Fox entered into a multi-year programming, marketing and distribution partnership with Wigs, after Fox decided to extend the reach to Hulu as part of its multi-platform ...
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Google Wants to Share PRISM Information
Hispanic Business MagazineGoogle asked a special court in Washington Tuesday to let it make public information it's being forced to give to the government. Google is one of nine companies named in NSA documents as providing information to the top-secret PRISM program. The company is asking that U.S. officials give it more authority to describe the government's demands as it and other companies seek to ...
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Google Bets on Framingham Company
WBZBOSTON (CBS) – A small video game company in Framingham has attracted some major funding from Google Ventures, and its online game attracts thousands of fans. Disruptor Beam, which has developed an online game, Game of Thrones Ascent, completed the round of funding. It also included Common Angels and Romulus ...
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Microsoft says it freed millions of computers worldwide from criminal botnet
The Starsaid that an assault it led earlier this month on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings has freed at least 2 million PCs infected with a virus believed to have been used to steal more than US$500 million from bank accounts worldwide. "We definitely have liberated at least 2 million PCs globally. That is a conservative estimate," Richard Domingues Boscovich, assistant general ...
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DuckDuckGo Search Engine Surges 33
MSNBCDuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg says web traffic on his search engine, billed as an alternative to Google that doesn't store your private information, surged 33 percent after the NSA news broke. Weinberg discusses the model of his search engine, and ...
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Google wants to reveal how many secret security requests it gets
Associated PressGoogle is seeking court approval to reveal more detailed information about Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act requests it receives from the government.
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Miss. AG Hood say hell subpoena Google on drugs
Boston GlobeJACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi’s attorney general says he still considers Google’s responses on its efforts to prevent illegal sales of online drugs insufficient and says he’s sending subpoenas for company documents to further his investigation. Jim Hood urged fellow attorneys general from other states to do the same at a meeting in Boston ...
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Google challenges U.S. gag order citing First Amendment
Prison PlanetWashington Post June 18, 2013 Google asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it's forced to give the government. ...
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Google Files First-Amendment Request With FISA Court
NPRGoogle has filed a legal motion asserting its "First Amendment right to publish aggregate information about FISA orders," asking the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to remove the gag order that keeps the company from issuing that information. Google and other big U.S. tech companies have been under fire after it was reported that ...
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Google Reviews More Prominent With Official Knowledge Graph Update
ForbesWhile these new results are at their most visually-compelling on the desktop (for now), the results are mirrored on mobile devices. They do not look the exact same, but when I compared the results on the iPhone 5, iPad 2, and Samsung S3, the results were very similar and highlighted most of the same results in a Maps/Places "box." Some pundits have argued this is a move toward ...
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Google asks to make surveillance orders public cites First Amendment
ComputerworldIDG News Service - Google has asked the court overseeing terrorism-related surveillance programs at the U.S. National Security Agency to allow the company to publish information on the number of surveillance requests it receives. The Internet company, in a filing with the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday, asked the court to allow it to publish the number of surveillance ...
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Google challenges US surveillance gagging order
The IndependentGoogle has asked the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) court to allow it to publish details of the number of data requests made by a secretive body, invoking the first amendment in a legal challenge that is aimed at easing concern among users following recent revelations regarding the activities of the National Security ...
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