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Who’s the better translator: Machines or humans?

By doris | Published: October 8, 2009

Full Story at  CNN.com But, so far, there have been several hitches in that plan. Not everyone has access to a computer and a broadband connection. Some governments still censor the Internet. And of course, we don’t all speak the same language. For the World Wide Web to be truly global, shouldn’t Chinese speakers be [...]

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Twitter hit by denial-of-service attack

By doris | Published: August 7, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com It’s unclear if the attacks were coordinated against the social media sites. Twitter says its site’s blackout was caused by a “denial of service attack,” which likely means a hacker used a herd of infected computers to send bad information to the site to overwhelmed it. A post to Twitter’s blog [...]

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Web site tracks policy changes at popular sites

By doris | Published: June 5, 2009

Full Story At Tech.yahoo.com A new Web site unveiled Thursday will track policies imposed by popular Internet sites such as Facebook and Google, hoping to help users spot potentially harmful changes. TOSBack.org, the brainchild of privacy advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation, will track terms of service modifications within hours of an update. The site will [...]

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