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Monday, 30-September-2013 12:03:50 (GMT +10) - by Grec
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There’s an interesting video on YouTube by EverythingApplePro – It’s every iPhone ever made, being speed tested against one another – definitely worth a watch.
The latest iOS7 software update has come with a new GPS system, dubbed “iBeacon”. Better location information will improve a range of features, including recommendations based on what's popular nearby. It will also enable ads and coupons from nearby retailers and potentially allow mobile ordering and other transactions.
Incidentally, if you or your friends are feeling sick after updating your iPhone's software, it's not just a coincidence.
Google’s released a pretty cool virtual tour of the Hadron Collider, and the ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and ALICE experiments on Google Street View for all of us to enjoy. In 2011, members of Google’s Zurich team joined forces with CERN and spent two full weeks photographing the subterranean experiments and portions of the LHC, as well as the interiors of surface buildings at the laboratory. Compiling the imagery and coordinating the GPS locations took an additional two years, according to CERN photographer Max Brice.
Ctrl – Alt – Del, according to Bill Gates during a recent interview at Harvard, was a mistake. "You want to have something you do with the keyboard that is signaling to a very low level of the software - actually hard-coded in the hardware - that it really is bringing in the operating system you expect, instead of just a funny piece of software that puts up a screen that looks like a log-in screen, and then it listens to your password and then it’s able to do that," Mr Gates said. "It was a mistake." Check out the full interview on YouTube here.
Microsoft, in an effort to get consumers to switch from iPhones to one of their new Surface 2 or Surface 2 Pro models. On its Microsoft Store website, Microsoft outlined the new deal: It will accept "gently used" iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 smartphones -- the 2011 and 2012 editions, respectively -- and pay a minimum of $200 for each. The Redmond, Wash. technology company will issue the funds as a gift card good for purchases at the Microsoft Store.
Iran has been accused of hacking US Navy computers, not long after the US restarted talks with Iran officials over Iran's nuclear weapon program. The U.S. doesn't believe important data was stolen, but the attacks showed a new level of Iranian hacking power, including the ability to access military data, U.S. officials told The Wall Street Journal. Either agents working directly for the Iranian government or an outside group with Iran's approval allegedly carried out the attacks.
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