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There’s plenty of mainstream media coverage of the probable discovery of the elusive Higgs Boson.
BBC, CNN, NYTimes, SMH, The Australian and the CERN Website itself. There are plenty of videos on Youtube covering the discovery as well.
Cisco and Linksys have backpedaled after finding themselves in hot water. Outraged customers complained about having their privacy compromised after being forced to sign up for their new cloud service. To make matters worse, the Connect Cloud service came with a supplemental privacy policy that explicitly allowed Cisco to peek at a user's "internet history," "traffic" and "other related information." If Cisco discovered you had used your router for "pornographic or offensive purposes" or to violate "intellectual property rights," it reserved the right to shut down your cloud account and effectively cut you off from your router.
Chris McMahon pointed out that The Court Of Justice of the European Union has just ruled that people should be able to resell downloaded games. In an environment where publishers are trying to destroy basic consumer rights like the ability to resell physical products you’ve paid for, this could be one heck of a turnaround for customers. And that’s no matter what it might say in the EULAs. This could have absolutely enormous implications on how services like Steam, Origin, GamersGate and the like work, and finally restore some rights back to the gamer.
Alch sent in a good example of why it's important to secure your wireless network. Here’s a reminder that you should never, ever, ever have a Wi-Fi network without a password on it. Police in Indiana called up the SWAT team to raid an 18-year-old gir’s house by smashing her front window and throwing two flashbangs inside because of her open Wi-Fi network. What the hell? It all started because some people who signed on to the innocent girl’s open Wi-Fi network were making specific threats about the police.
Would you even want to give up control of your car? Ford predicts self-driving, traffic-reducing cars by 2017 According to Ford the self-driving car will be here within five years, using technologies available today. The smart car will take over your morning commute on clogged freeways, improving your speed and reducing fuel consumption. The technology concept, known as Traffic Jam Assist, uses adaptive cruise control, lane keep assist, and the sensors from its active park assist.
A research firm has released a report predicting that tablet computers are expected to overtake notebook PCs by 2016. Overall mobile PC shipments including tablets will grow from 347 million in 2012 to over 809 million by 2017. Notebook PC shipments are expected to increase from 208 million in 2012 to 393 million by 2017, but tablet shipments are expected to grow from 121 million to 416 million in the same period.
Scientists have successfully overcome one of the obstacles in quantum computation by storing data on quantum bits (qubits) for about two seconds at room temperature. Many of the current systems utilize extremely complex and costly equipments to trap an individual electron or atom in a vacuum at absolute zero temperature. However, a team of researchers from Harvard University have solved the problem of working at normal temperature by using diamonds, which are atomically pure materials on Earth.
A post on the Windows Blog has revealed some details about upgrading to Windows 8. In a post on The Windows Blog (not to be confused with the Building Windows 8 blog), Brandon LeBlanc announces that Microsoft will be doing a Windows 8 upgrade promotion, where upgrades from Windows XP, Vista and 7 to Windows 8 Pro will cost just $39.99.
Nvidia have released a new beta driver. The 304.79 driver brings some decent performance increases and a new TXAA Anti Aliasing method. The Changelog is here.
Toshiba have been found guilty of LCD price fixing. The 10-member jury deliberated for less than two days before finding Toshiba liable to manufacturers for $17 million and to consumers for $70 million. U.S. antitrust laws allow overcharge damages to be tripled. However, the Japanese electronics giant said it doesn't anticipate paying anything toward the jury's fine because other defendants in the class-action lawsuit have already paid settlements that exceed the fine against Toshiba.
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