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Keep them coming, stupid head. I love these posts.0
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http://www.noradsanta.org/
Awwwwww^^^
http://www.theverge.com/a/the-verge-50
Global internet traffic from tablets is less than 5pc says StatCounter
Top 10 Worthwhile Uses for Tablets
^^^Still cant find a reason to actually want one.
Everything you need to know to install SteamOS on your very own computer
Linux laptops: should you avoid buying Windows?
The Golden Era Of Spam Comments Has Ended
Russia lays down world’s largest icebreakerRussia has started building the world’s largest universal nuclear-powered icebreaker capable of navigating in the Arctic and in the shallow waters of Siberian rivers. The unique vessel will further increase Russia’s dominance in the region.
The Arctic will be granted the highest ice class – 9, meaning the ship will be able to break ice in the Arctic area all year round.
Pirate Bay switches address for the sixth time this year"By their actions they finally brought on the next generation of decentralized services."
Single-Sex vs. Coed: The Evidence
Programming Your Brain: The Art of Learning in Three Steps
UK ISP BT Broadband to block porn for new customers by default
Digital rights group: Users face choice of "privacy or security on Android, but not both”Earlier this week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) – a non-profit organisation campaigning for improved digital rights for users – published an article entitled ‘Awesome Privacy Tools in Android 4.3+’, in which it praised Google for introducing greatly improved and more granular options to give users more control over what data could be accessed and used by apps installed on their devices. In that article, the EFF’s Peter Eckersley wrote:To date, there has been no way to run apps on Android with real and reliable privacy controls. Android version 4.3 and higher take [sic] a huge step in the right direction, letting users install apps while denying some of the apps’ attempts to collect the user’s data.”That praise did not last long. The next day, Eckersley published a follow-up article, noting that Google had removed those ‘App Ops’ tools completely in the latest OS release, Android 4.4.2, which is currently rolling out to its newer Nexus devices.Arnold Schwarzenegger is also back in his signature cyborg role.A newly leaked internal document reveals that the NSA and British intelligence agency GCHQ have developed mass collection capabilities enabling them to monitor the activities and communications of the 48 million Xbox Live console network gamers. U.S. intelligence agents from the FBI and CIA, along with GCHQ agents, have also been infiltrating virtual worlds created in games like Second Life and World of Warcraft.
The Life and Times of Dolly the Cloned Sheep
IBM faces shareholder lawsuit over cooperation with NSAIBM's cooperation with a National Security Agency surveillance program caused sales in China to "abruptly halt" and the company's stock price to decline, a shareholder lawsuit claims.
There's a Wonder Drug That Prevents HIV Infection. Why Haven't You Heard of It?
Amazon's German workers strike as Christmas orders peak
An NSA Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: 'A Genius Among Geniuses'A principled and ultra-competent, if somewhat eccentric employee, and one who earned the access used to pull off his leak by impressing superiors with sheer talent.
“That kid was a genius among geniuses,”
No Amnesty For Edward Snowden, White House Says
The 50 best tech products of 2013
Severed hand saved after being attached to man’s ankle
WooooooooW!!!:eek:
Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul to air on Netflix exclusively in Europe and Latin America
The top 10 hoaxes and pranks of 2013
Nosey Facebook saves what you type but don't actually post.
Security guru Bruce Schneier to leave employer BTOur source suggested Schneier was shown the door as a result of his comments about the NSA and GCHQ's global dragnet and mass surveillance activities."Alan Schwarz writes in the NYT that the rise of ADHD diagnoses and prescriptions for stimulants over the years have coincided with a remarkably successful two-decade campaign by pharmaceutical companies to publicize the syndrome and promote the pills to doctors, educators and parents.0 -
Crime pays very well: Cryptolocker grosses up to $30 million in ransom
No wonder street crime is down. If you want to make a dishonest living, cybercrime is the place to be. According to a Dell SecureWorks report by Keith Jarvis, the creators of the notorious CryptoLocker ransomware virus may have made as much as $30 million in a mere 100 days.
100 Pieces of Advice from 100-Year-Olds
How the NES Zapper Works
Google Zeitgeist
Get a Dog
Father and Daughter Pay a Heartwarming Photo Tribute to Mom’s Memory
Snowden Gives the Big PictureThere is no evidence that mass surveillance has prevented a single terrorist attack. And see this confirming opinion by a federal judge. On the contrary, top counter-terror experts say that mass spying actually hurts U.S. counter-terror efforts (more here and here).
Long GMO Article
Does Bedtime Honey Improve Sleep? Nine Reasons to Think So
Gif of the Year
Go away Cameron
Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneerAs a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the U.S. National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 million contract with RSA, one of the most influential firms in the computer security industry, Reuters has learned.
Although that sum might seem paltry, it represented more than a third of the revenue that the relevant division at RSA had taken in during the entire previous year, securities filings show.
SEARCH MAD MEN STYLE
Untethered iOS 7 jailbreak arrives for iPhone, iPad, and iPod devices
Researchers crack the world’s toughest encryption by listening to the tiny sounds made by your computer’s CPU
CyanogenMod raises $23 million in funding, goes legit to reel in the big boys like Samsung and HTC
What does the future of data centers look like?
Browser Extension Password Managers
Microsoft Security Essentials misses 39% of malware in Dennis test
Two alleged Silk Road 2.0 administrators arrested in Ireland and U.S.
16 404 Pages That Are Worth the Error
Health Risks Associated With Antibacterial Soaps
France's Carmat implants its first artificial heart in human
:pac::pac::pac::pac:CSI Style Zoom Sees Faces Reflected In The Eye:pac::pac::pac::pac:
Insulin pill may soon be a reality for diabetes treatment
Careful chemical structuring gets insulin through the stomach and into the blood.
SD Cards Aren’t As Secure As We Think
Shopping for Spy Gear: Catalog Advertises NSA Toolbox
https://panopticlick.eff.org/
NSA Intercepted Children’s Letters To Santa
ffs
The year ahead: ten amazing science and technology innovations coming up in 2014
NSA intercepting PC shipments to install spyware
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^^^Split post as it was a bit huge
the Internet Archive has opened the Console Living Room, a collection of console video games from the 1970s and 1980s
Swiss Army Knife
Dots: A Game About Connecting
Best games for your new Android phone or tablet
Body Atlas Reveals Where We Feel Happiness and Shame
The NSA has nearly complete backdoor access to Apple's iPhone
Glow-in-the-dark pigs created using jellyfish DNA
Google to develop in-car technology for Audi
Israeli Deciphers ‘Unsolvable’ WWI Encryption CodeDuring WWI and WWII, one encryption method, called “the double transportation cipher”, was widely used by all sides to pass along messages without the enemy being able to to decipher their meaning. And it seems the encryption method really was undecipherable, as for the last 100 years, it had never been cracked. That is, until Israeli George Lasry took a crack at it.
43 of the best Android apps launched in 2013
Dell goes back to its startup roots with new advertisement
Chrome 31 jumps ahead of IE10 in latest useage share data; IE11 surges up to 10 percent
How to get the most battery life from your Android device
Listen to Sir Patrick Stewart Moo like a Cow in Several Accents, Because Some Days Life Gives You Little Gifts
Windows XP use drops fast; Windows 8.1 moves ahead of Vista in December's OS data
Eric Schmidt makes 2014 predictions, says mobile has won
Google Glass prescription lens pricing quietly announced
This Insane Chinese Concept Train Doesn't Need To Stop At Stations To Pick Up Passengers
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Amazing T. rex illusion (make your own)
Cut Out Instructions^^^^
172 Best Android Apps Of 2013
150 Best Windows Software Of Year 2013
Googles new Royalty Free Video Codec, Gives 4K Video Streaming A Fighting Chance
How to speed up your slow internet connection
How technology is changing our likes and loves
Scientists Turn Algae Into Crude Oil In Less Than An Hour
Study Finds No Time Travelers On The Internet
I didn't get a chance to watch this yet, could be sh1t...but it's Penn and Teller.
Beginner’s Guide To Litecoin Mining With NVIDIA Graphics Cards
Lock Picking - A Basic Guide
Why Alaska Will Become the Drone Capital of America
Building a living photo frame with a Raspberry Pi and a motion detector
Just Look at This Cube Balance, Jump and Walk
A Mind-Controlled Exoskeleton Will Kick Off the 2014 World CupIt won't be a superstar football player who takes the first kick of 2014's Football World Cup in Brazil. Nope, instead, it will be a teenager, paralysed from the waist down, who will use the world's most advanced mind-controlled exoskeleton to get things underway.
To no one's surprise, Bill Gates is a lot richer in 2014 than he was in 2013Today, Bloomberg reports that, according to their own Billionaires Index, Gates increased his personal wealth by $15.8 billion in 2013, bringing his total fortune to a whopping $78.5 billion. Part of the reason for that rise was that the stock price of Microsoft went up by 40 percent last year, and Gates still owns 4.5 percent of the company.
Kim Dotcom: The Man Behind Mega
With Vid^^^, didn't see before.
What is Windows XP end of support?
Does Snapchat's CEO need to go?
Build sh1t "service" needs to go...
Why Using a Public Wi-Fi Network Can Be Dangerous, Even When Accessing Encrypted Websites
Codecademy surpasses 24 million unique users for its free online coding courses
^^^Five Best Programming Languages for First-Time Learners
20 of the best productivity apps of 2013
A Bitter Pill: Slow Progress Toward a Male Contraceptive
NSA dreams of quantum computer that can break encryptionThe National Security Agency is conducting what it calls "basic research" to determine whether it's possible to build a quantum computer that would be useful for breaking encryption.
A worms got more Genes than a grown ups got. :pac:
Gabe Newell on what makes Valve tick
Unemployed in Europe Stymied by Lack of Technology SkillsDUBLIN — Week after week, newspapers issue a stream of hopeful headlines: Microsoft, PayPal, Fujitsu and scores of other companies are expanding their investments in Ireland, creating thousands of jobs as unemployment hovers near record highs.
There is just one hitch: Not enough people are qualified to fill all the jobs.
Ever wonder why Dogs go round in circles before they poop?
http://ces.cnet.com/
Electronics Show^^^
Music download sales decrease for the first time ever
Bioglow Develops Glow-in-the-Dark Plants as Lights
Some routers found to be listening on undocumented portSo why do so many of these routers have this previously unknown port? It's not currently known, but the GHacks.net website offers up several ways to find out if a home or work router has this undocumented port active.On the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show, Corning unveiled its new “EPA-registered” antimicrobial Gorilla glass.
While in the past, cell phones have compared poorly to other stereotypically dirty surfaces (studies have found more harmful bacteria on smartphone screens than on toilet seats), Corning plans to address this problem by infusing their glass with ionic silver, an “antimicrobial agent.”
Gaffes made by tech company newbies
Human ingenuity has created a world that the mind cannot master. Have we finally reached our limits?0 -
How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View
Researchers warn of new, meaner ransomware with unbreakable cryptoPowerLocker could prove an even more potent threat because it would be sold in underground forums as a DIY malware kit to anyone who can afford the $100 for a license
Bitcoin Tops $1,000 Again as Zynga Accepts Virtual Money
What Do Cell Phone Signal Bars Really, Really Mean?So the simple answer to ""what exactly do those cell phone reception bars represent?" Nothing of much value.
France-UAE satellite deal shaky after US spy tech discovered onboard
Silicon Valley's New Spy Satellites
The Prices And Specs Of Every Steam Machine Announced So Far, From $500 To $6,000
The Hot New Audio Technology of 2014 Is ... Vinyl?
Intel renames its McAfee security brandIntel is distancing itself from the name of its top security product, McAfee, after years of having its name dragged through the mud thanks to the misadventures of its founder, John McAfee.A revolutionary 3D concrete printer can build a 2,500-square-foot home layer by layer in a single day
40 life hacks
Report: Bill Gates to be 'much more involved' in Microsoft with new CEO
The 11 Most Influential Microprocessors of All Time
What the Hell is Ultra HD?
Migraine Headaches and the Remarkable Power of Placebos
Latest Twist On DRM Of Physical Products: Machines Locked Down By GeolocationOn Practical Machinist, there's a fascinating thread about the manufacturer's lockdown on a high-priced, high-end Mori Seiki NV5000 A/40 CNC URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNC"]computer numerical control[/URL mill. The person who started the thread owns the machine outright, but has discovered that if he moves it at all, a GPS and gyro sensor package in the machine automatically shuts it down and will not allow it to restart until they receive a manufacturer's unlock code.
The best of CES 2014
Microsoft reportedly planning Windows 9 release in April 2015
DuckDuckGo Tops 1 Billion searches in 2013, Google 1 Trillion.
TV Reporter Accidentally Unveils Bitcoin's Private Key QR Code On Air, Gets It Stolen Immediately
https://medium.com/life-tips/494224e0f983
TV, movies and celebs: Wikipedia’s top searches of 2013
Bitcoin vault offering insurance is 'world's first'The company is underwritten by Lloyd's of London
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cookie1977 wrote: »I'm sure some people heard about the driver fined for using google glass. Well they plan on fighting it.
http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/speeding-driver-accused-over-google-glass-plans-to-fight-fine-29718405.html
http://www.neowin.net/news/google-glass-ok-while-driving-at-least-for-now0 -
What Google Really Gets Out of Buying Nest for $3.2 Billion
Supercomputer models one second of human brain activity
ATMs Face Deadline to Upgrade From Windows XP
A Running List of What We Know the NSA Can Do. So Far.
Today I Briefed Congress on the NSA
Dropbox Raises About $250 Million at $10 Billion Valuation
Google Diabetic Contact Lenses
Mutation in key gene allows Tibetans to thrive at high altitude
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_AVALANCHE_ wrote: »Google has approval to buy Motorola Mobility, it's largest ever acquisition.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/21/china-google-approval-motorola-mobility
Google Selling Motorola Phone Business to LenovoGoogle is selling Motorola's smartphone business to Lenovo for $2.9 billion, a price that makes Google's biggest acquisition look like its most expensive mistake.
The deal announced Wednesday will rid Google Inc. of a financial headache that has plagued the Internet company since buying Motorola Mobility for $12.4 billion in 2012. Motorola has lost nearly $2 billion since Google took over, while trimming its workforce from 20,000 to 3,800.Google is retaining most of Motorola's portfolio of mobile patents,
Facebook Time Machine
'Ineffective' Pirate Bay ban lifted by Dutch court
UK Government plans to ditch Microsoft Office, move to open-source solutionsSince 2010, the UK public sector has reportedly spent a staggering £200m on Office licensing alone.
Snowden Gets Nobel Nomination as U.S. Pursues Trial
The Science Behind an Itch
Why Do Hollywood Movies Cost so Much to Make?
When @N is worth $50,000 :rolleyes: what will you buy in the Internet Land Grab??The web is about to have its big bang. About 1,000 new generic top-level domain names, or gTLDs (the last bit of an internet address, such as the com in qz.com) will come into existence this year. On Feb. 4, anybody will be able to create and start running a website on the first of the new domains. The number of alphabets in which you can create a web address will be at least a dozen including Chinese and Arabic. Hundreds of millions of dollars will be made. And our conception of the web will change entirely.
Disruptions: The Holodeck Begins to Take Shape
True Love Bra
Apple.com does more to protect your password, study of top 100 sites finds
Untested. Unregulated. Unsafe?
BlueShark: where the US Navy dreams up the battleship interfaces of tomorrow
Samsung takes over 60 Carphone Warehouse stores in Europe
^^Bit weird.
Irish Company Locates Office in Ireland“Dublin is great. There’s something really familiar about it that I can’t quite put my finger on.”
White House Must Address Petition to Deport Justin Bieber
HaHa
What Hard Drive Should I Buy?
Facebook working on data storage system using Blu-ray discs instead of hard drives
1 billion smartphones shipped worldwide in 2013
Get Rid of 'Viral' Headlines With This One Weird Browser Extension
Google acquires artificial intelligence firm DeepMind
If You Used This Secure Webmail Site, the FBI Has Your Inbox
The Weirdest Interview Questions Hiring Managers Ask
What Happens When You Freeze Water in a Container So Strong the Water Can’t Expand Into Ice?So, to answer the initial question, if you froze water inside a container so strong it couldn’t turn into ice, it would still turn into ice, just a slightly different type of ice in terms of scientific classification and its internal structure. Science!
Why Is This Bee Wearing a Sensor?
The brain can process images seen for just 13 milliseconds
Nintendo's Toughest Year Ever Starts Pretty Much Now
Would You Feel Differently About Snowden, Greenwald, and Assange If You Knew What They Really Thought?
^^^Didn't read it yet.
Korean carriers to launch broadband-shaming 300Mbps LTE-Advanced network this year
Hackers transform Angry Birds website into 'Spying Birds' following NSA claims0 -
http://thegifys.com/
Mystery signal from a helicopter
^^^Class
Google infringed patents, must pay 1.36 percent of AdWords revenue
^^haha
http://academictorrents.com/
http://www.stolencamerafinder.com/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dotgears.flappybird&hl=en
Indie smash hit 'Flappy Bird' racks up $50K per day in ad revenue
Samsung Galaxy S5: Hardware specs, software, and release date rounded up
Media Blacks Out New Snowden Interview The Government Doesn’t Want You to See
Bitcoin’s Emerging Price Stability
Nissan's new 400 bhp engine fits in carry-on luggage
Bill Gates is sh1t at chess
2014 Sony World Photography Awards
The 9 Master Hackers Of The World (That We Know Of)
'A Global Bathtub': Rethinking The U.S. Oil Export Ban
Researchers make self-healing plastic from common, safe materials
This New Printer Uses Water Instead Of Ink And We Would Like One Immediately PleaseThe chemists approached this dichotomy by creating an all-new printing system, using water in lieu of ink on a special paper that changes color when wet.
Calling this new paper “water-jet rewriteable,” Zhang’s team created it with dyes that are invisible until exposed to moisture; the water opens closed, colorless molecules in the paper, triggering the coloration. And, even better, the paper could be printed on over and over again, since the words are fully eraseable.
Motorola Moto G Review
http://folding.stanford.edu/
Groundhog Day: Punxsutawney Phil forecasts six more weeks of winter
street-fighter-2-oral-history
How A Simple New Invention Seals A Gunshot Wound In 15 Seconds
Inside Google's Mysterious Ethics Board
http://warmingworld.newscientistapps.com/
Soon, the Coldest Place in the Known Universe Will Be on ... the International Space Station
What ya think that is^^^
The First Photo Of The Earth Taken From The Mars Curiosity Rover (Don't click link if you have something to do, lots of crap on that site you can't help but look at):o
Sony bows out of PC business, sells VAIO to an investment fund
FDA approves pill camera to screen colon
Man Gets First Prosthetic Hand That Can Feel
Shares in Twitter plummet after user growth slowsShares in microblogging site Twitter fell by 24% after it reported slower growth in user numbers.
Twitter averaged 241 million monthly users in the last quarter of the year, up just 3.8% on the previous quarter.
That represents a slowdown compared with a growth rate of 10% seen at the beginning of 2013.This shouldn't be taken as a recommendation to go out of the way to avoid taking in antioxidants from food. But going out of your way to add lots of extra Vitamin C, Vitamin E, N-acetylcysteine, etc., to your diet? More and more, that really looks like a bad idea.
Nintendo Considering Merger Or Acquisition
New surveillance technology can track everyone in an area for several hours
The Stupidity of Computers
Cervical cancer vaccine inventor to target herpes
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Google to own $750 million Lenovo stake after Motorola deal closes: HK exchangeInternet search company Google Inc will own a 5.94 percent stake in China's Lenovo Group Ltd worth $750 million once Lenovo's deal to buy Google's Motorola handset division closes, according to a disclosure on the Hong Kong stock exchange.
Google would take 618.3 million Lenovo shares at $1.213 per share, the stock exchange said late on Thursday.
Lenovo agreed to buy Google's Motorola handset division last week for $2.91 billion in a cash and stock deal.
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Google Briefly Tops Exxon as 2nd-Most Valuable U.S. Firm
Apple, Google, Microsoft: Where does the money come from?
A look back at Sony's iconic VAIO computers
Judge: Drivers Allowed to Warn Fellow Motorists of Speed Traps
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Krita
This Full-Color 3-D Printer Sounds Too Good To Be True. Is It?
This iPhone-Sized Device Can Hack A Car, Researchers Plan To Demonstrate
Lenovo Projects End to Motorola Losses With China PhoneLenovo Group Ltd. (992), which posted a 29 percent surge in profit today, expects to end losses at Motorola Mobility within quarters of completing a deal as it reintroduces the smartphone brand to China.
This $10 Billion Company You've Never Heard Of Is The Reason Your Internet Is Fast
Download Wrappers and Unwanted Software are pure evilCall it Adware, Malware, Spyware, Crapware, it's simply unwanted. Every non-technical relative I've ever talked to has toolbars they apparently can't see, apps running in the background, browser home pages set to Russian Google clones, and they have no idea how it got that way.
Here's how they get that way.
iPhone owners admit having 'blind loyalty' to Apple
Windows 8 passes 200 million license sales
Silk Road 2 Hacked, All Bitcoins Stolen – $2.7 MiliionUpdate 2: As the time passes there are more and more suspicions that this was in fact a SCAM by the Silk Road staff – and not a hack, we will post more details about it once, and if we get the full picture.
Update: The amount of BTC that was stolen was calculated by Nicholas Weaver @NCWeaver – Computer Security Researcher, to be around: 4474.266369160003BTC that are with the value of about $2.7 Million.0 -
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Newegg launches in the UK next month. HELLS YEAAAHHH!
Oooooh very interesting. Parcel motel should do some nice business from this.0 -
cookie1977 wrote: »Oooooh very interesting. Parcel motel should do some nice business from this.0
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Would their business model not include shipping to Ireland & Europe? Don't see anything in the article that sheds light on whether they will or not
Not sure. Great if it does but even still I find these companies will ship free to NI as it's part of the UK and charge a whopper to ship to RoI. That's why I find it cheaper still with parcel motel.0 -
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Yeah, agreed. It's not for techie books. It would be super for novels though. Makes your phone a useful reading device, too. I already got a speed reading app for my android on the back of it. It's not as good as that Spritz thing, but it's not bad.0
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Tried that speed reading app on the train on the way home. It's exhausting. I found it disrupted the flow of speech within the book (i.e. you don't get a chance to fully assimilate speech as speech).
The spritz version is significantly better, tbh. It pauses briefly after commas and full stops.0 -
Tried that speed reading app on the train on the way home. It's exhausting. I found it disrupted the flow of speech within the book (i.e. you don't get a chance to fully assimilate speech as speech).
The spritz version is significantly better, tbh. It pauses briefly after commas and full stops.
I see that Denis O'Brien has acquired a stake in them too. Yes that Denis.0
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