The US Justice Department filed a case Tuesday against cyclist Lance Armstrong and his company Tailwind Sports, and Armstrong is accused of defrauding the US Postal Service by taking millions of dollars in sponsorship money while doping during his professional cycling career.
“Defendants were unjustly enriched to the extent of the payments and other benefits they received from the USPS, either directly or indirectly,” the suit alleges.
Lance Armstrong sued by US Government
Google has published a tool to help locate people following a series of explosions at the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday. Initial news reports said two people were killed and more than two dozen injured by the blasts.
Google agreed to pay a $7 million fine Tuesday after a multi-state investigation into whether the company violated consumers’ privacy rights. The case involved a software program that allowed Google to intercept emails, passwords, and other information sent over unprotected wireless networks.
Google claims a rogue engineer is to blame. The unidentified person reportedly rigged a data-collection program into equipment that was supposed to only detect basic info about Wi-Fi networks. However, the Federal Communications Commission found some of Google’s managers knew about the engineer’s plan.
Facebook has launched Graph Search, a search engine to mine the billions of friend connections, locations, likes, comments, and tags that make up its Social Graph backbone. Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement at a media event today at Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters.
(via prweek)
