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| Paul Marks / New Scientist: |
The computer that never crashes
— A revolutionary new computer based on the apparent chaos of nature can reprogram itself if it finds a fault — OUT of chaos, comes order. A computer that mimics the apparent randomness found in nature can instantly recover from crashes by repairing corrupted data.
Feb 16, 2013, 1:55 AM–
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| Paul Marks / New Scientist: |
Honeytrap reveals mass monitoring of downloaders
— Anyone who has downloaded pirated music, video or ebooks using a BitTorrent client has probably had their IP address logged by copyright-enforcement authorities within 3 hours of doing so. So say computer scientists who placed …
Sep 4, 2012, 2:45 PM–
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| Jacob Aron / New Scientist: |
Kinect to watch your emotions and serve up ads
— Online adverts are already tailored to your search and browsing history, but now Microsoft has plans to add emotions to the mix. In a recently revealed patent application the company suggests that using its Kinect sensor to analyse your face …
Jun 13, 2012, 12:15 AM–
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| Jacob Aron / New Scientist: |
Over-55s pick passwords twice as secure as teenagers'
— People over the age of 55 pick passwords double the strength of those chosen by people under 25 years old. That's according to the largest ever study of password security, which also found that most of us choose passwords that are less secure than security experts recommend.
Jun 2, 2012, 12:25 PM–
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| Jacob Aron / New Scientist: |
Touché brings touch control to everyday things
— Forget smartphones or tablets - the future of touch control could be doorknobs, furniture or even your own body. Researchers at Disney Research in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have created Touché, a system that can detect a variety of touch gestures on everyday objects.
May 5, 2012, 1:50 AM–
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| Paul Marks / New Scientist: |
Google ‘Seaview’ gives you underwater reef tour
— Video: Explore underwater life with Google Seaview — An underwater variant of the Google Street View service will from today begin giving web users an unprecedented photographic tour of Australia's Great Barrier Reef …
Feb 23, 2012, 6:50 PM–
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| Jim Giles / New Scientist: |
FBI releases plans to monitor social networks
— The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has quietly released details of plans to continuously monitor the global output of Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, offering a rare glimpse into an activity that the FBI and other government agencies are reluctant to discuss publicly.
Jan 26, 2012, 11:25 AM–
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| Paul Marks / New Scientist: |
Apple power adapters could remember your passwords
— Apple has worked out a way in which the power cords for computers or smartphones can help people recover their forgotten login passwords - or the answers to secret questions (like “what was the name of your first pet?") that are often used to recover them.
Jan 5, 2012, 3:50 PM–
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| Jim Giles / New Scientist: |
Inside Facebook's massive cyber-security system
— FACEBOOK has released details of the extraordinary security infrastructure it uses to fight off spam and other cyber-scams. — Known as the Facebook Immune System (FIS), the massive defence network appears to be successful …
Oct 27, 2011, 1:45 AM–
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| Jim Giles / New Scientist: |
Senator: ISPs hijacking searches is a violation of trust
— A group of US technology companies may face federal and congressional action after they were revealed to have been hijacking and redirecting search queries destined for Google, Bing and Yahoo. — The group, which includes …
Aug 9, 2011, 7:50 PM–
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Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Cloud Foundry:
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Rackspace Blog:
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).