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WikiLeaks releases a searchable archive of hacked Sony Pictures emails and documents

Apr16
by on April 16, 2015 at 5:59 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, India, Insider

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WikiLeaks today released “The Sony Archives,” a searchable online database that the organization claims contain the 173,132 emails and 30,287 documents that were stolen as part of the 2014 Sony Pictures hack. According to WikiLeaks, the archive details email exchanges between the company and the White House, with “almost 100 US government email addresses” in the database. Some of the emails offer insight into the connection between Sony and the Democratic Party, such as Sony employees’ attendance at a fundraising dinner and campaigns to help get Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo elected. “This archive shows the inner workings of an influential multinational corporation,” WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange…

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Bing speeds up mobile image search with smart suggestions to minimize typing

Apr16
by on April 16, 2015 at 5:50 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Searching for images on mobile devices can be kind of clumsy given the limited real estate, but Bing now wants to make your life easier by minimizing the amount of typing you need to do. Now when you look up images, Bing will feed intelligent suggestions. When you enter search terms, these will be grouped into different “bubbles” that allow you to explore related items. If you want to refine your search, you’ll see suggestions below the search box that could help pinpoint the images you’re looking for. If you want a better sense of how it all works, Bing’s…

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Google now lets you install relevant apps right from Search on Android

Apr16
by on April 16, 2015 at 5:41 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Google is adding a new feature to its search engine that will likely please Android developers – Google will now recommend that you install apps straight from search. Google introduced App Indexing in 2013, which allowed developers to list content from their apps right on the search engine. It looked something like this: However this wasn’t really helpful if the users didn’t have the app installed, so instead Google will now prompt users to install apps that contain the content they’re looking for, taking them to the Google Play Store when they click. Once installed, the app will take you…

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Why micro learning is educating the ADD generation

Apr16
by on April 16, 2015 at 5:11 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, E-learning, Insider, Investigations, micro-learning

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Roman Kostochka is the founder and CEO at Coursmos, a micro-learning platform. In 2012, Mashable had published an article called “Technology Creating a Generation of Distracted Students” which reported the results of a study done by Pew Research Center. According to their data, about 90 percent of 2,500 education professionals agreed that contemporary technology had created a generation which struggled to concentrate, was prone to distraction, yet apt with web search and quick to find any information. Those changes in our capacity to concentrate has society-wide effects: a recent article by Fortune publicized the findings of Educational Testing Service (ETS)…

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Star Wars emoji hit Twitter – #C3PO, #StormTrooper and #BB8 plus #TheForceAwakens

Apr16
by on April 16, 2015 at 4:23 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Emoji, Insider, star wars

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With ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ almost here and the Star Wars Celebration on right now, Twitter’s introduced three custom Star Wars emoji: Celebrate @starwars #TheForceAwakens & #SWCA with one of three new #StarWarsEmojis on Twitter. Now introducing: #C3PO pic.twitter.com/o7Q7XJbYob — Twitter (@twitter) April 16, 2015 #SWCA is here can you feel it? Now introducing #StarWarsEmojis on @Twitter… #StormTrooper pic.twitter.com/JaoM1r4EfH — Star Wars (@starwars) April 16, 2015 BOOM! #BB8 #StarWarsEmojis pic.twitter.com/8Svc3hWvXQ — Bad Robot (@bad_robot) April 16, 2015 The third emoji is of BB-8, the new rolling droid who popped up in the Force Awakens trailer. You also get a little BB8 head…

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