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- White House Chief Technology Officer Steps Down
- New submitter Krazy Kanuck writes The White House is running a story on their OSTP blog that Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra is stepping down after being appointed to the post by
- DARPA Funding a $50 Drone-Droppable Spy Computer
- Sparrowvsrevolution writes At the Shmoocon security conference, researcher Brendan OConnor plans to present the F-BOMB, or Falling or Ballistically-launched Object that Makes Backdoors. Built from just the disassembled hardware in a commercially-available
- North Star May Be Wasting Away
- sciencehabit writes The North Star, a celestial beacon to navigators for centuries, may be slowly shrinking, according to a new analysis of more than 160 years of observations. The data suggest that
- Flaw In YouTube Takedown Process Exposed
- New submitter BraveThumb writes One independent rap group found it impossible to post their song on YouTube. When they tried to put up their video, they were informed that the copyright belonged
- When Viruses Infect Worms
- An anonymous reader writes Bitdefender reports that there exist viruses which, when they encounter other viruses, will merge and combine effects so that they create a new virus. A virus infects executable
- The ACTA Fight Returns: What Is At Stake & What You Can Do
- An anonymous reader writes The reverberations from the SOPA fight continue to be felt in the U.S. and elsewhere, but it is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement that has captured increasing attention this
- Bill Gates Gives $750M To AIDS Fund
- redletterdave writes Microsoft chairman and philanthropist Bill Gates pledged $750 million to the troubled global AIDS fund on Thursday and urged governments to continue their support to save lives. Since the fund
Digg Technology
- Facebook gets into texting game with Facebook Messenger
- Facebook has already started to supplant traditional email providers as a dominant way that people communicate online. With a new standalone mobile app called Facebook Messenger with SMS-like functionality, the social networking giant is poised to delve even deeper into
- How to Spot an Android Trojan
- A recent report warns that Android malware is twice as common as it was six months ago. Heres how you can separate the bad apps from the good.
- Facebook gets into texting game with Facebook Messenger
- Facebook has already started to supplant traditional email providers as a dominant way that people communicate online. With a new standalone mobile app called Facebook Messenger with SMS-like functionality, the social networking giant is poised to delve even deeper into
- Apple Granted Twenty New Patents
- Apple has been granted 20 new patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office.
- Apple, publishers conspired against $9.99 Amazon e-books, says lawsuit
- According to a new lawsuit, the Kindle combined with discounted $9.99 e-books so terrified the publishing industry that it joined forces with Apple in a scheme to force Amazon to raise its prices.
- Perceptive Pixel Outs 82" 1080p Multi-Touch Display
- What if you mix multi-touch in with that massive size? Thats what Perceptive Pixel has done, and theyve just introduced the worlds largest projected capacitive display at the SIGGRAPH 2011 conference.
- Inside Mango, Windows Phone's Next Big Update
- The beta version of Mango has several truly inspired features that integrate social networks into every aspect of the smartphone
CNET News.com
- Hang your smartphone nearly anywhere with Bondi
- This cute, bendy little guy works not only as a smartphone hanger-upper, but also a stand, a charging base, and even a doorstop.
- Will the Nintendo Network...work?
- Nintendo says its streamlining their online experience across multiple platforms. Heres what the company needs to do in order for it to work.
- It's official: Motorola Droid Razr Maxx runs forever
- We clocked Motorolas new Droid Razr Maxx to serve up a fantastic 19 hours and 47 minutes of video playback.
- PlayStation Vita will launch with 8GB card for limited time
- Sony has announced the Launch Bundle version of its PlayStation Vita will include a 8GB card and free game for the same price as the 3G/Wi-Fi model.
- Sony's lovely Xperia S may land on AT&T soon
- Beautifully crafted and artfully sculpted, Sonys Xperia S was one of the slickest smartphones we saw at CES 2012. Now it looks like it could arrive on AT&T.
- EU Commission: Go ahead, Sony, own 'Sony Ericsson'
- The European Commission OKs Sonys buyout of the Sony Ericsson brand, bringing them one step closer to Sony-branded mobile phones.
- Kinect coming to laptops? Why?
- Microsofts Kinect motion control technology might be on laptops sooner than you think. Whether it makes sense...well, thats another story.
ZDNet
- iPad lead over Android tablets cut in half, say reports, as Kindle Fire surges ahead
- A year ago, the Apple iPad dominated the tablet market with a nearly 40 point lead over Android. Now, two reports show Apples lead has been cut by more than 20 points, with the Kindle Fire...
- Facebook's stock symbol will be 'FB'
- While we still dont know if Facebook will be listed on NYSE or Nasdaq, we do know the company will have the stock symbol "FB" - thats what you have to look for if you want to track Facebooks stock.
- Why you can't afford to resist the cloud
- Large and small enterprises are creating new business opportunities through their use of the cloud, at the expense of those who are slower to adapt.
- Facebook testing seven ads per webpage
- Facebook seems to have increased the maximum number of ads it shows per webpage from six to seven. Just two months ago, the number was increased from five to six. Where does it end?
- Genius wireless mouse does away with batteries
- The Genius BlueEy DX-ECO mouse uses a rechargeable gold capacitor to keep charged up.
- Using Dragon Dictation on the iPad 2 with a Bluetooth headset
- There is no easier way to enter text on a mobile device than by speech. Using Dragon Dictation with a Bluetooth headset may be the fastest entry method.
- Hackers pounce on just-patched Windows Media vulnerability
- The end result is a malicious Trojan with rootkit capabilities. The attack happens silently in the background and all the user sees is a blank WMP application playing a file.
Wired Technology
- Solar-Storm-Fueled Auroras Make for Awesome Backyard Photography
- The sun is waking up. After several quiet years, it bombarded the Earth with a one-two punch of solar storms this week, which generated consecutive nights of spectacular auroras.
- How to Deploy Your Drogue from a DIY Space Capsule
- What a great week!I managed to finish the basic seating structure completely, now only awaiting ergonomic foam build up and coating. But, even better Claus Nørregaard and I managed to perform the first two tests of the drogue separation system
- Galaxy Formation On a Benchtop
- Astrophysicists have simulated the magnetism of newborn galaxies using carbon rods and lasers in a small laboratory setup.
- Stone Age Social Networks May Have Resembled Ours
- Ancient Stone Age humans may have paved the way for their modern brethren -- us -- to cooperate with each other by developing the first sets of what are now-common social characteristics.
- Spiders Hunt With 3-D Vision
- Jumping spiders keen vision makes them the cats of the invertebrate world, but scientists have puzzled over how their miniature nervous systems manage such sophisticated hunting behavior. A new study fills in a key ingredient: an unusual form of depth
- Digital Textbooks Go Straight From Scientists to Students
- Last January, electronic textbook publishers turned down David Johnstons big idea: to make the first interactive marine science textbook. Frustrated by the experience, Johnston set out to create open-source software to publish the book himself.
- iPad Textbooks: Reality Less Revolutionary Than Hardware
- Much as tablet computers went mainstream in the iPads wake, Apples latest educational project heralds an age of tablet-based textbooks. But will kids really learn more and better on tablets? Thats far from clear.
Tom's Hardware
- What Does One Petabyte Of Storage (And $500K) Look Like?
- Were big fans of big technology, and with more than 1 PB of
- Amazon Kindle Touch Review And Fourth-Gen Screen Quality Update
- Amazon Kindle Fire tablet received all of the glory. But the company also has a new e-book
- Install A Hard Drive Or SSD In Your Notebook's Optical Bay
- You want a performance-oriented SSD in your notebook, but you also need the
- AMD's FX-8150 After Two Windows 7 Hotfixes And UEFI Updates
- Introducing a new processor architecture takes a colossal effort. AMDs modular Bulldozer design ran into
- Best SSDs For The Money: January 2012
- Welcome to the years first SSD recommendations. We updated our list to reflect recent price drops on second-gen SandForce-based hardware. There
- Radeon HD 6990M And GeForce GTX 580M: A Beautiful Lie
- We’ve been more than outspoken about the naming AMD and Nvidia use for their mobile
- In Pictures: The Girls Of CES 2012
- CES 2012 was packed to the brim with new tablets and 3D display technology, but somehow exhibitors found a way to
Ars Technica
- Kingdoms of Amalur's "Online Pass" continues a slippery slope for used games
- Review copies of Electronic Artss Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning are starting to reach critics, who have made a surprising collective discovery: an insert containing a code to download a House of
- The world's first computer password? It was useless, too
- If you’re like most people, you’re annoyed by passwords. You’ve got dozens to remember — some of them tortuously complex — and on
- How the craziest f#@!ing "theory of everything" got published and promoted
- Physicists have been working for decades on a theory of everything, one that unites quantum mechanics and relativity. Apparently, they were being too modest. Yesterday saw publication of a press
- Kinect tech built into laptop prototypes
- Kinects vision and depth perception technology could soon be integrated into laptops. The Daily has seen two prototypes, believed to be from Asus, that incorporate an array of sensors above
- Twitter uncloaks a year's worth of DMCA takedown notices, 4,410 in all
- On almost any given day, Twitter receives a handful of requests to delete tweets that link to pirated versions of copyrighted content—and quickly complies by erasing the offending tweets from
- HP makes printing to an iPad easier with Wireless Direct printing
- Hewlett Packard is showing off a range of new printers at Macworld|iWorld 2012, largely aimed at the home office and small-to-medium business segments. However, a new feature of its latest printer
- WiiU to use near-field communications for easy online purchases
- The rise of purely digital online game sales has changed the industry in a number of ways, but the most important change might be the introduction of games as impulse
Hard OCP
- ardware Round-Up II
- Cases & Modding: Antec Three Hundred Two Case @ techREACTIONCooling: Glacialtech Igloo H58 Heatsink @ FrostyTechProlimatech Lynx CPU Cooler @ Hardware Secrets Swiftech Apogee HD Water Block @ OCIAETC.: Cooler Master QuickFire Keyboard @ LanOCTt eSports Shock Spin Gaming Headset
- Star Trek Enterprise Coffee Table
- Nothing says I am saving my virginity for....ever quite like a Star Trek Enterprise coffee table. The craftsmanship is rather impressive though! Comments
- Is Facebook Really Worth $100 Billion?
- Short answer? No. Long answer? Hell no! If I were Zuckerberg, right after the IPO I would cash out to pursue other interests before Facebook pulls a MySpace. Thats the question many people are asking amid rising chatter that the
- Ubuntu's Heads-Up Display Desktop
- What do you guys think of Ubuntus heads-up display desktop idea? The embedded video below shows the HUD in action: Comments
- ASRock X79 Extreme4 LGA 2011 Motherboard Review
- After the last couple of ASRock boards, I wasnt sure if I ever wanted to see another one. The ASRock X79 Extreme4 not only surpassed my admittedly low expectations, but proved to be the exact opposite of the last two
- Free Cocaine With Your Amazon Book Order
- Ordering a used book on Amazon? If you choose Super Saver Shipping you will receive a free package of cocaine at no extra charge. They went back and they tested it and he came back like 10 minutes later and
- Why History Needs Software Piracy
- Your honor, I wasnt pirating software...I was preserving it for the future of mankind. Why are you laughing? I am being serious. Wait, are those handcuffs? It may seem counterintuitive, but piracy has actually saved more software than it has
AnandTech
- AMD Posts Catalyst 12.1 Drivers, Catalyst 12.2 Preview
- AMD has posted its first Catalyst driver package of the new year, Catalyst version 12.1, the feature set of which hasn't changed much since the preview release - the banner feature is still custom application profiles,
- The AMD FX (Bulldozer) Scheduling Hotfixes Tested
- The basic building block of Bulldozer is the dual-core module, pictured below. AMD wanted better performance than simple SMT (ala Hyper Threading) would allow but without resorting to full duplication of resources we get in a traditional dual core CPU.
- The Radeon HD 7970 Reprise: PCIe Bandwidth, Overclocking, & The State Of Anti-Aliasing
- With the release of AMD’s Radeon HD 7970 it’s clear that AMD has once again regained the single-GPU performance crown. But while the 7970’s place in the current GPU hierarchy is well established, we’re still trying to better understand the
- Samsung Exynos 5250 Begins Sampling – Mass Production in Q2 2012
- Back in November, Samsung announced its next generation Exynos 5250 SoC based on ARM’s Cortex-A15 architecture. Samsung dropped the ball today during its earnings call that the Exynos 5250 has begun sampling and should hit mass
- NZXT HALE82 650W and 750W
- NZXT is a well known provider of "eye-catching" cases and peripherals, but like many other brands they offer power supplies as well. These include the HALE90 series, their first 80 Plus Gold
- Capsule Review: Rosewill's RK-9000 Mechanical Keyboard
- As enthusiasts and professionals we spend a lot of time checking out what's under the hood of the computers and devices we use, but thankfully more and more we're paying attention to how we actually interact with hardware, what the
- Windows 8 Motion Sensor Support Detailed
- Windows 8's tablet-centric focus means that it's going to pick up a lot of new features to support hardware particular to those devices - Microsoft's Gavin Gear took to the Building Windows 8 blog today to
O'Reilly Network
- Top stories: January 23-27, 2012
- This week on OReilly: Mike Loukides offered a different take on the piracy debates, Edd Dumbill looked at Microsofts Hadoop-driven plan for big data, and we learned why Amazon retail stores arent out of the question.
- Publishing News: Ereader ownership doubles, again
- One survey said ereader and tablet ownership doubled during the holidays; a second showed that Amazon may not be losing money on its Kindle Fire sales. Also, Amazon got a new print edition distributor and the library discussion elevated beyond
- Visualization of the Week: Politicians' word counts
- This weeks visualization comes from The New York Times and is an example of the increasing usage of visualizations to make political arguments.
- ValoBox wants to reward content creators and consumers
- ValoBox, a publishing startup we covered earlier this year, has launched. In this interview, co-founder Oliver Brooks describes the platform, its development, and how its social retail system works.
- Developer Week in Review: Sometimes, form does need to follow function
- The latest rumors have Apple eyeing the remote control market, but does minimalistic design work for remotes? Australia wants to impose requirements on ISPs, but at what infrastructure cost? And would you let closed-source software keep you alive?
- Four short links: 27 January 2012
- Data Jurisdiction -- information from the NineFold hosting company in Australia. Has some Aussie-specific content, but would be great to see this internationalized. (via Lachlan Hardy) Anatomy of an Idea (Steven Johnson) -- people who think the Web is killing
- Strata Week: Genome research kicks up a lot of data
- We take a look at the big data obstacles and opportunities for genomics, digital humanities scholars respond to Stanley Fishs mischaracterization of what they do with data, and Hadoop World and the Strata Conference merge.
VNU Net
- Microsoft addresses four flaws in March Patch Tuesday
- v3 One critical fix included in latest security update
- SMBs complacent on smartphone security
- v3 Growing threat to business coming from Android, warns analyst
- Views from the Valley: new dirt on Nokia and Microsoft
- v3 Lenovo plans a second go at the iPad
- Google releases version 10 of Chrome browser
- v3 Search giant plans rolling upgrades from now on
- Microsoft addresses four flaws in March fix
- v3 One critical fix included in Patch Tuesday release
- Google adds Instant Search to Apple and Android platforms
- v3 No news on whether Phone 7 gets support
- Report finds complacency among SMBs on smartphone security
- v3 Growing threat to business coming from Android
Kuro5hin
- kuro5hin's Membership Fees Are a Good Thing
- Welcome, new readers, to kuro5hin, the online blog with a classic Web 1.0 style. Whether you visited the site because of its stimulating articles on SOPA and the Fat Acceptance Movement or the thought-provoking diary entires, we welcome you to
- Jetset Psychopath Pleads Guilty
- From the New York Times: Joran van der Sloot, the Dutchman who became notorious as the prime suspect in the disappearance of an 18-year-old Alabama woman in Aruba in 2005, pleaded guilty in a Lima courtroom on Wednesday to the
- Fuck the Fat Acceptance Movement
- Ms. Drive recently wrote a diary entry on the Fat Acceptance Movement, which is the movement that promotes obesity as not only normal, but healthy. To quote Ms. Drive, There is no reliable evidence at all that carrying the equivalent
- Is crawl-66-249-71-82.googlebot.com Trying to Root Your PHP Board? (Abridged)
- Hey guys, I thought that elite hackers were using Googles servers to run a botnet. Get This: they figured out how to hack into Googles servers but they couldnt figure out how to spoof googlebots user agent string! Corey Haim
- K5 Images of the Year (2011)
- Over the past year I have meticulously scoured the entire internet in search of the finest images available anywhere on earth. The results of my laborious and time consuming research can be found in the following list: 10. IMG
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- I support SOPA
- I support SOPA. To admit this online is the most unpopular action one could take on the Internet as GoDaddy.com recently learned; it is equivalent to admitting youre a Jew in Nazi Germany. The average netizen sees the legislation as
Techdirt
- Hawaiian Politician Wants To Track Everyone Online Because Someone Doesn't Like Her... Backs Do(...)
- Always beware of politicans pushing legislation because of a personal experience. Declan McCullagh has the story of an astoundingly, ridiculously broad data retention bill in Hawaii that would require anyone who provides internet access to keep a detailed dossier on
- Universal Music Claims Copyright Over Song That It Didn't License, Just Because One Of Its Arti(...)
- Last year, when Universal Music issued a very questionable takedown of a Megaupload commercial -- which involved some Universal Music artists -- UMG suggested that it had extra special rights with YouTube in which it could take down videos that
- Bar Fight! Sony Sues Karaoke Distributor For Infringement; Gets Sued Right Back For 'Copyright (...)
- A great many drinkers have watched helplessly as their BAC became inversely proportionate to their common sense, throwing around cash as thought it were Monopoly money before grabbing the mic to belt out Adeles latest track. Karaoke has been the
- MPAA Exec Admits: 'We're Not Comfortable With The Internet'
- There have been a ton of post mortems about the whole SOPA/PIPA fight, with many trying to figure out where and how the MPAA went wrong. After all, this is a group that is very used to getting its way
- An Infographic Showing Just How Frequently Hollywood Has Cried Wolf About 'Piracy'
- A few folks have sent over this excellent infographic about the frequency with which Hollywood insists every new technology will destroy the movie business. Its based on the list that Steve Blank put together of Hollywood being totally wrong on
- Another Interesting White House Petition: Reduce The Term Of Copyright
- The White Houses use of its We The People... petition system has been interesting to watch over the last few months since it was introduced. While they quickly raised the threshold necessary to get a response, lately its been used
- UK Court Says You Can Copyright The Basic Idea Of A Photograph
- Weve talked a lot in the past about the idea/expression dichotomy. This is an important concept in copyright law that says you can only copyright the specific expression, and not the idea. This is supposed to protect people from getting
X-bit labs
- Hewlett-Packard to Make WebOS Open Source by September
- HP Launches Cross-Platform Tool to Make Apps for Android, iOS, WebOS
- Nokia Sells-In One Millionth Windows Phone Smartphone
- Nokia Ships More Smartphones than Expected, Reports $1.2 Billion Loss
- Nvidia: We Expected More from AMD Radeon HD 7970
- Nvidia Bashes AMDs Latest Graphics Architecture
- Nintendo Aims to Release Wii U This Year Across the World
- The Successor of Wii Set to Be Available Everywhere in 2012
- SanDisk Sees 2012 as Inflection Point for Solid-State Drives
- SanDisk Considers Its Consumer, Enterprise SSD Businesses Successful
- AMD Quietly Adopting "Tick-Tock" Model for Micro-Architectures
- AMD to Use Slightly Different Micro-Architectures for APUs and CPUs
- Apple Expects Tablets to Outsell Desktops and Notebooks Eventually
- Tablets to Outsell Personal Computers Eventually - Apple