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A Next Big Thing

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Twitter running out of steam?

It seems as if Twitter's growth is plateauing which is not good news for a company which, after eight years of successive losses, is still bleeding red ink at the rate of US$645m a year...

China steps up to the plate in drone-wars

We are now so used to seeing the USA's hi-tech "drones" policing the skies over conflict zones and unleashing hellfire missiles on insurgents on the ground below that we no longer think much about it...

Time for a mil-spec browser?

According to reports on the wires this morning, the US Department of Homeland Defense has advised people to stop using Microsoft's Internet Explorer until the latest zero-day vulnerability has been fixed...

Google's mis-step-plus

When Google decided to force Google+ on its YouTube and other users, many within those communities were outraged...

What's the problem?

There's a very interesting court case taking place in the USA at present...

If you were a student today...

The world has changed a lot since I was a student...

Should bureaucrats take Science 101?

It seems that far too many people in positions of power and control have no real idea about essential subjects such as science...

Mars, Earth's ultimate liferaft?

New data about the history of the red planet has been gleaned from the observation of ancient meteorite craters on the surface...

Leaching off open source

I read something rather stunning this morning...