Facebook to improve security measures with encryption

According to an announcement on the Facebook blog, it seems that Facebook will take some serious steps related to improving the security of their social network, and these steps include encrypted connections.

Since we all share personal information on Facebook, it’s more than necessary to ensure that your personal information is safe from malicious users, therefore Facebook decided to use encrypted pages.

According to Facebook, encrypted pages could take longer to load, but with HTTPS you won’t have to worry whether will anyone track your personal data. In addition, Facebook is planning to add another feature that will help you to protect your account if it ever gets compromised. For example, if someone gets your login data, and starts using your account, Facebook will require that person to identify pictures of your Facebook friends. This sounds like a great idea, but you might have to delete all those people that you don’t know, in case that you somehow compromise your own account

According to an announcement on the Facebook blog, it seems that Facebook will take some serious steps related to improving the security of their social network, and these steps include encrypted connections.

Since we all share personal information on Facebook, it’s more than necessary to ensure that your personal information is safe from malicious users, therefore Facebook decided to use encrypted pages.

According to Facebook, encrypted pages could take longer to load, but with HTTPS you won’t have to worry whether will anyone track your personal data. In addition, Facebook is planning to add another feature that will help you to protect your account if it ever gets compromised. For example, if someone gets your login data, and starts using your account, Facebook will require that person to identify pictures of your Facebook friends. This sounds like a great idea, but you might have to delete all those people that you don’t know, in case that you somehow compromise your own account

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Gallery: Sony NGP / PSP 2 – eyes only

I’m don’t sure about you, but I’m still getting used to the fact that it won’t be officially called the PSP anymore but instead the “Next generation portable”, aka NGP. As you can see in the gallery below, the NGP will be the first portable entertainment system to feature two analog sticks.

The new PSP NGP will boast both 3G and WiFi connectivity, a five-inch multi-touch OLED display and run on an ARM Cortex-A9 core CPU. The new portable playstation system also incorporates a unique multi-touch pad on the rear, together with a front touch display panel.

I’m don’t sure about you, but I’m still getting used to the fact that it won’t be officially called the PSP anymore but instead the “Next generation portable”, aka NGP. As you can see in the gallery below, the NGP will be the first portable entertainment system to feature two analog sticks.

The new PSP NGP will boast both 3G and WiFi connectivity, a five-inch multi-touch OLED display and run on an ARM Cortex-A9 core CPU. The new portable playstation system also incorporates a unique multi-touch pad on the rear, together with a front touch display panel.

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Kraft and Intel team up to build a kiosk that knows what food you want

This is a new idea from Intel and Kraft, and it is a kiosk that can apparently scan your face and tell what you want to eat.

What happens is that when the user passes by the kiosk, the digital signage with Anonymous Video Analytics technology can determine the gender and age group and guess what products would be right for you.

Shoppers can even swipe their local market’s loyalty card or their mobile phone, and the smart kiosk will make recommendations based on past purchasing history. It will even allow shoppers to add recipes, shopping lists, to smartphones with a barcode scanner. You can see a video of it after the jump.

I suppose this is good, as my Source says that most homes don’t have much variety in the way of meals. I know my house has dinners of spaghetti, Hamburger Helper, Gyros, chicken, and it gets shuffled around each week.

Of course, this does have an agenda, to sell more Kraft products. Something tells me that you’re going to get a lot of recommendations for Mac and Cheese.

I wonder if all businesses will be trying like this. Are we looking at a future where the front area of the grocery stores will be all kiosks? I just am trying hard to picture that without getting a dystopian image. Now, if there were a way of doing the kiosk from home with a webcam, this would be easier.

This is a new idea from Intel and Kraft, and it is a kiosk that can apparently scan your face and tell what you want to eat.

What happens is that when the user passes by the kiosk, the digital signage with Anonymous Video Analytics technology can determine the gender and age group and guess what products would be right for you.

Shoppers can even swipe their local market’s loyalty card or their mobile phone, and the smart kiosk will make recommendations based on past purchasing history. It will even allow shoppers to add recipes, shopping lists, to smartphones with a barcode scanner. You can see a video of it after the jump.

I suppose this is good, as my Source says that most homes don’t have much variety in the way of meals. I know my house has dinners of spaghetti, Hamburger Helper, Gyros, chicken, and it gets shuffled around each week.

Of course, this does have an agenda, to sell more Kraft products. Something tells me that you’re going to get a lot of recommendations for Mac and Cheese.

I wonder if all businesses will be trying like this. Are we looking at a future where the front area of the grocery stores will be all kiosks? I just am trying hard to picture that without getting a dystopian image. Now, if there were a way of doing the kiosk from home with a webcam, this would be easier.

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