After, in January, gave way to pressure from large corporations, censoring searches that have as subject materials under the protection of copyright law, Google has now created a real embargo, completely censoring The PirateBay portal.
Thus, in addition to censoring autocomplete lists and results presented in Instant Search, a search containing certain keywords (BitTorrent, uTorrent, torrent, rapidshare, Megaupload, Mediafire, etc..), Google exclude all entries that refer to The PrateBay …

Google is celebrating the centennial birthday of Alan Turing, widely considered as the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, with a limited edition of Monopoly.
Apart from the search giant, Bletchley Park, where Turing worked for British codebreaking center Government Code and Cypher School (GCCS), is backing the Monopoly Turing Edition to celebrate the genius’s 100th birthday (23 June 1912).
“He might not be on a £10 note yet, but at least he is on some kind of …

Google has bought VirusTotal, a web-based security tool developer, to fortify the defenses of its Chrome web browser.
The search giant said it will uphold the maintenance of VirusTotal’s online malware scanning tool and keep its team operations a separate entity.
VirusTotal is an online security service that allows users to scan files and websites for potential malware infections through its web-based scanning tool.
The company said the Google deal will give pull in more resources and allow …

Emma Watson, popularly known as Hermione Granger in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, is the most dangerous celebrity for internet users, McAfee reports.
“In today’s celebrity culture, consumers expect to be able to go online to catch up with the latest photos, videos, tweets, and stories about their favourite celebrities. Due to the richness of the data and the high interaction, often consumers forget the risks that they are taking by clicking on the links,” said Paula …

A new front opens in the smartphones war between the ICT giants – Google and Apple – this week, with the launch of the new operating system iOS, which will no longer include maps of the service engine, reports BBC.
This release is a blow to Google, the leading provider of digital maps for mobile devices.
Android, operating system made by Google, and iOS, Apple’s OS, are used in about 85% of smartphones shipped worldwide and on a higher percentage in tablets.

Google has launched the …

Amazon has been tracking webpages visited by Kindle Fire users on its web browser to offer relevant trend-based recommendations, the online retailer admits.
Silk, the company’s web browser, is a critical application on Kindle Fire, and Amazon’s grip on these Android tablets highlights its plan to gain traction into the hardware business.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) render webpages on Silk, but Amazon now confirms it also counts webpage views to provide suggestions to its users.
The cloud …

Microsoft has launched a contest to help demonstrate how its Bing Search will fare against main rival Google Search.
The software giant is calling for people to test both online search engines in a side-by-side comparison with such confidence that its Bing service will emerge victorious.
A blog post from Mike Nichols, Corporate VP and Chief Marketing Officer for Microsoft Bing, says Bing Bing regularly outperforms Google in web search results quality based on its tests.
“Since relevancy …

Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia – the world’s largest free online encyclopedia, has charged UK government officials of engaging draconian programs to monitor cyberspace.
“It is not the sort of thing I’d expect from a western democracy. It is the kind of thing I would expect from the Iranians or the Chinese and it would be detected immediately by the internet industry,” said Wales in the long deliberations, where he participated and represented himself to discuss the UK …

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web (WWW), has launched a new website that globally studies the scope, content, infrastructure and effects of the internet.
During its launching event in London, the World Wide Web Foundation called the new service ‘Web Index’ – an annual ranking that covers 61 developed and developing countries worldwide based on their usage of the internet.
The Web Index is a numerical scale calculates the reach, content, infrastructure and political, …

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has taken into custody an alleged LulzSec member accused of participating in a hacking incident against Sony.
On Tuesday, Raynaldo Rivera, a 20-year-old resident of Tempe, Arizona, surrendered to the FBI in Phoenix on charges of taking part in a computer security breach against Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Almost one week ago, a Los Angeles federal jury opened an indictment that charged him with conspiracy and unauthorized damage to a secure computer …