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An interesting approach to US Israel relations, taken from a Haime Dighlawi from a Facebook Status. From a working, tax payer American To our Ally ISrahell; I would like to take this time to list some reasons for thanking and blessing Israel, our lone ally in the Middle East, for everything she has done for … Read more
Participation in a quick internet discussion can easily tell you how easy for people to mislead and herd, and how easy it is to deny or believe things. After participating in a discussion as such, i felt to share the episode so others who may encounter the same may benefit. The discussion ensued under a … Read more
Bitcoin, the digital crypto-currency has gone over $1000 for the first time this week, at the most prominent Bitcoin exchange, Mt.Gox. Last week it was around $600. The fast ascent of Bitcoin value can be tied to recent acknowledgments it received from various governmental and organizational institutions around the world, including but not limited to … Read more
One of the major SSD (solid state drive) manufacturers, OCZ is being forced to bankruptcy by an investment firm which lent them a mere $30 million. The firm is Hercules Technology Growth Capital, and they are forcing the bankruptcy because some clauses in their meager $30 million lending contract have been breached. As a consequence, … Read more
Recent Snowden leaks reveal that the governments of Singapore and South Korea are actively helping NSA, the US military intelligence organization, to spy on Asia. According to leaks, Indonesia and Malaysia have been major targets for Australian intelligence and Singaporean intelligence. NSA calls the countries cooperating with it “Five Eyes”. And apparently, these governments are … Read more
Three of the top BlackBerry execs, namely those in positions of Chief Financial Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, and Chief Operating Officer, have left the company suddenly. The real reasons are not known, but may be linked to BlackBerry’s bid to go private – which has failed. It is also possible that new interim CEO John … Read more
A university in Cyprus, Nicosia University, is now accepting Bitcoins as payments for anything. The university also launched a course program on digital currencies, and stated that they wanted to make Cyprus a Bitcoin trading hub in Mediterranean. In case you were living in a cave, Bitcoin is the online digital crypto-currency which has been … Read more
AMD announced that it’s going to show a Windows 8.1 gaming tablet in CES this January. It is called “Project Discovery”, and has 64 Bit x86 architecture, using 28 nm chip, which can go down as low as 2 watts in energy usage. This enables fan-less, thin tablets. Tablet has a docking station, and has controllers … Read more
City Council of Cupertino approved the new Apple headquarters about which we have written a while ago. The headquarters was devised and presented by Steve Jobs before his death. In exchange, Apple agreed to shell out more money to the city in the form of sales taxes, by reducing the returns they were getting from … Read more
The search company Yahoo started encrypting all their data in the wake of the recent Edward Snowden leaks which showed that NSA was aggressively targeting internet giants like Google, Yahoo for the data of their users with no remorse. Companies like Google had encryption in many their services since a while, however Yahoo didn’t even … Read more
