Kaplan’s TechStars-powered startup accelerator — the latest to launch for education entrepreneurs — is announcing the startups in its inaugural class, reports GigaOm. Kaplan is a leading international provider of educational and career services for individuals, schools, and businesses. The Kaplan EdTech Accelerator will select startups using technology to create products and services across the [...]
Steven Levy explains How Google Will Use High-Flying Balloons to Deliver Internet to the Hinterlands. Project Loon sails through the stratosphere, where there are different wind layers. Using wind data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the balloons are maneuvered by identifying the wind layer with the desired speed and direction and then [...]
In a roundtable discussion, three NSA officials Thomas Drake, William Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe — previous NSA whistle-blowers — tell USA TODAY that Edward Snowden’s claims vindicate them. When Edward Snowden, a Booz Allen contractor, revealed top-secret details this month on the government’s collection of Americans’ phone and Internet records, he went straight to [...]
Google earned more than half of the $8.8 billion advertisers worldwide spent on mobile ads last year, reports E-Marketer. The company accounted for nearly one-third of all digital ad dollars spent globally, according to eMarketer’s first-ever figures on worldwide digital and mobile advertising revenues. eMarketer estimates that Google made $4.61 billion in mobile internet ad [...]
Top law enforcement officials from New York and San Francisco will ask for help on Thursday from the companies that make those devices. They want smartphone makers to be smarter about security. In the U.S., one-third of robberies involve the theft of a mobile device, the FCC reported last year. More than half of all [...]
Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.) said lawmakers learned “significantly more” about the spy programs at the National Security Agency (NSA) during a briefing on Tuesday with counterterrorism officials. “What we learned in there,” Sanchez said, “is significantly more than what is out in the media today.” Lawmakers are barred from revealing the classified information they receive [...]
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