May 13th, 2012 
Gal Appelbaum Around the same time Facebook rolled out their File Sharing system a few days ago, Stuff, a blog from New Zealand discovered a new feature being tested by a few people (according to a Facebook representative) known as “Highlight Important Posts” which allows users to pay a small fee to highlight their status. the image below is [...]
May 11th, 2012 Gal Appelbaum For the past few months we’ve seen File Sharing websites like rapidshare, dropbox and others slowly going underground after the biggest file sharing website Megaupload was shut down earlier this year due to copyright infringements. With the government cracking down on copyright infringements, it would seem that file sharing would be an extremely risky business as of [...]
April 30th, 2012 Gal Appelbaum One of the top stories from the past few days on the Association of Computing Machinery was a research conducted in Queensland University of Technology(QUT) regarding facial recognition, and how they plan on improving the current systems allowing facial recognition to be used in less clear images where there are multiple individuals, environmental obstacles or even technological obstacles. [...]
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April 29th, 2012 Gal Appelbaum It is a known fact that the United States is in a shortage of graduates with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths), and in the era of technology, this lack of STEM graduates has increased the value of Engineers and Computer Scientists dramatically. In the past few weeks, a few events across the United States [...]
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