This week set the stage for two lawsuits in history, one in the US and the other in the EU, brought against Microsoft due to its "anti-competitive" practices related to Internet Explorer. (more…)
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On this day, January 30th, 1925, Douglas Engelbart, pioneer of the personal computer, developer of the NLS computer system and inventor of the computer mouse, was born. (more…)
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Following the leak of documents suggesting government agencies spy on smartphone users through apps like 'Angry Birds', creator of the game 'Rovio' was quick to dispel rumors that they were handing information about their users to the government. (more…)
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Stratasys has unveiled the world's first multi-material 3D printer, capable of printing in a full color range. (more…)
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Microsoft is joining the Open Compute Project, and sharing the plans and code behind the datacenter servers which power its massive cloud services. (more…)
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Google is holding its fourth Pwnium hacking contest at a security conference in Canada, in order to find exploits in its web-based Chrome operating system. (more…)
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The state-run Xinhua newswire in China reports that the Yutu 'Jade Rabbit' moon rover has encountered a potentially fatal mechanical problem and, writing from the rovers perspective, bids the earth and all its people a melancholy 'Goodnight'. (more…)
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Facebook awarded its highest bug bounty ever to security researcher Reginaldo Silva, who discovered a severe bug in Facebook's OpenID system which could have been used to take over an entire Facebook server. (more…)
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Corning, the company that makes Gorilla Glass, has unveiled a version of the glass embedded with ionic silver which serves as an antibacterial agent. (more…)
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An anonymous bunch of Bitcoin enthusiasts are launching an extremely ambitious project that aims to create a decentralized Internet, in which all storing, routing and bandwidth are carried out by nodes running "bitcloud". (more…)
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Google will soon be expanding its fiber optic Internet service into more neighborhoods in the city of Provo, Utah, after obtaining local fiber optic service iProvo. (more…)
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French company Induct has perfected and launched an autonomous vehicle which can navigate routes from memory and it is now on sale with several units already sold. (more…)
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Google has launched a service called ‘Video Quality Report’ for customers to test how well their ISPs can serve up YouTube videos, and to offer ISPs ratings according to how well they manage the video service. (more…)
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Security researchers from Ben Gurion University have discovered a major exploit in Android 4.3 that can be used by malicious applications to bypass a VPN connection, and reroute the traffic to another network address as plain, readable text. (more…)
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French telecommunications company Alcatel-Lucent and the BT Group in London achieved a record-setting data connection at a staggering 1.4Tb/s during a trial over a 410 km fiber optic link. (more…)
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Recent leaks have resulted in a number of Android screenshots from Sony's upcoming D6503 ‘Sirius' phone, which reveal a large amount of cool functionality, including 4K and slow-motion video recording. (more…)
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Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing and perfecting a new way of harvesting solar energy, which has potential to increase the efficiency of solar electricity by more than a factor of three. (more…)
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Director of the unnamed seventh Star Wars film has confirmed that the screenplay is finished, and that filming will commence in May. Though he would not share any details, there is both doubt and courage to be found in the script's confirmed influences. (more…)
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Created by engineer Chris Granger, the Light Table integrated developing environment shows a real-time preview of data flowing through written code, and uses documentation to make the task of reading it easier. (more…)
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Researchers from Berkeley Lab have discovered a "3D" material which shares the electrical properties of graphene, which could be used to create faster transistors and more compact hard drives. (more…)
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