Tag: INTERNET
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Scientists Use Sheep To Provide Internet Access In The Countryside
It may be one day possible to connect to Wi-Fi in the open countryside, while looking for the nearest sheep! Experiments have been conducted in the UK by the University of Lancaster to equip the sheep with electronic necklaces to turn them into Internet access points. After airships and military drones, perhaps sheep will be used…
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SmartyPins Lets You Test Your Knowledge Of Geography Using Google Maps
If you are a lover of Geography and often like to play games for testing your knowledge about Geography then Google’s SmartyPins game is perfect for you. The game has been designed using the platform of Google Maps. You have a quota of 1000 miles to find the correct locations in response to the given questions.…
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Your computer Might Be Infected With Spyware Computrace
What if your laptop or desktop computer was infected with a virtually undetectable spyware? The same argument has been made by Kaspersky which is a company specializing in antivirus. It estimates that more than 2 million computers worldwide are affected by spywares! We decrypt the case for you and inform you about how to know if…
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China Restricts Its Web Users To Prove Their Identity Before Uploading A Video
The Chinese government is now implementing a new measure to control the video publishers on the internet. The internet users now have to first prove their identity before uploading a video on a video sharing site. This decision is being implemented by the State Administration for Radio, Film and Television of the People’s Republic of China. The…
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The Pursuit Internet: Scientists Want To Create Peer-To-Peer Distributed Internet Instead Of Servers
Internet has now spread to most parts of the world and there are performance and server overloading problems. In order to solve this problem, some researchers are working on a new way to connect to the web, inspired by the peer-to-peer model: the “Internet Pursuit”. We explain this innovation in detail. This project builds on…