Monday - September 30, 2013
Almost all cyberattacks these days
require an element of social engineering. Spammers are always looking
for that hot button to induce a click on a link or an attachment.
Drive-by artists continually experiment with poisoned banner ads
designed to steer the curious into an online dark alley. Spearphishers
put together persuasive pitches pretending to be friends or a trusted
institution. What makes social engineering maddening to system defenders
is there are no technology quick fixes to combat it.
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Monday - September 30, 2013
Valve Software has announced the
Steam Controller, the third part of its trio of initiatives designed to
bring Linux-based gaming to the living room. Valve dubbed the controller
"a different kind of gamepad." It features dual circulator trackpads
driven by the player's thumbs. Each has a high-resolution haptic pad at
its base, which is clickable, allowing the entire surface to act as a
button.
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Monday - September 30, 2013
In France, data protection officials
announced that they will impose sanctions against Google for the
company's failure to stick to a three-month deadline to tweak its
privacy policies. The fine stems from Google's melding of different
privacy policies in Europe into a single policy that applies to all its
platforms -- Gmail, YouTube, Google+ and so on.
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Monday - September 30, 2013
Scientists from Harvard, MIT and CIT
have demonstrated that light can behave in a way previously observed
only in science fiction -- that is, photons can bond and create a
molecule. The fundamental properties of light derive from the fact that
photons, which are the quanta of light, do not interact with one
another. Two crossed beams of light pass through each other, for
example.
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Monday - September 30, 2013
Both BlackBerry and Microsoft have
been in far stronger positions with regard to personal technology. At
one time, Microsoft was contending for leadership in smartphones against
Palm and BlackBerry, and BlackBerry took leadership only to lose it to
Apple and then Samsung. Microsoft put tablets on the map in the early
part of last decade, but it missed a memo and Apple refined them to
success.
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Monday - September 30, 2013
Valve cofounder Gabe Newell has made
no secret of his disdain for Windows 8 and his newfound love for Linux
as a gaming platform over the past year or so. It seems fair to say,
however, that few here in the Linux community expected the colossal bear
hug of support Valve gave our favorite operating system last week.
First, it announced SteamOS; then it was the hardware side.
Monday - September 30, 2013
MUBI is an app for classic and
independent movie lovers: Each day, the MUBI team hand picks an
international, independent or classic film. MUBI subscribers can then
view that film for up to 30 days, and effectively, this means that you
can watch 30 or so movies each month for $4.99, or less per month if you
sign up for six months or a year. The MUBI app is fantastic. .
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Saturday - September 28, 2013
It's not every day that a video game
becomes a mainstream tech story. Then again, it's not every day that a
video game promptly records $1 billion in sales. Grand Theft Auto V
did just that, however, eclipsing the 10-figure mark three days after
its Sept. 17 release. The game's success is an emphatic declaration that
the GTA brand -- first introduced in 1997 -- is still going strong..
Friday - September 27, 2013
Evernote and 3M on Thursday announced
a partnership to digitize the Post-it Note with a new feature on the
Evernote app optimized to capture and save messages. The iOS 7 feature
allows users to take a picture of a Post-it within Evernote, and that
image is then digitally enhanced as an Evernote image. Users can save
the image according to Post-it color or add a reminder regarding a
specific note..
Friday - September 27, 2013
Battery managers, task killers,
analyzers and monitoring apps make up the basis of a solid Android
mobile tool kit. This week's All Things Appy takes a look at the
must-have, free apps in this genre that will keep your device operating
swimmingly. First up? ReChild's Advanced Task Killer app, which lets
you kill runaway applications that are hogging resources and slowing
down your device.
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Friday - September 27, 2013
Members of the European Parliament's
internal market and consumer protection committee voted unanimously
Thursday in favor of a new law mandating universal chargers for mobile
devices. In addition to convenience -- German parliamentarian Barbara
Weiler called the current situation "cable chaos" -- the measure is
motivated by a desire to curb electronic waste.
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Friday - September 27, 2013
Apple's new iOS 7 is making people
sick -- literally -- based on complaints that have begun appearing on
Apple forums. "The zoom animations everywhere on the new iOS 7 are
literally making me nauseous and giving me a headache," wrote Ensorceled
on one forum. "It's exactly how I used to get car sick if I tried to
read in the car." Once a user makes the decision to update iOS, there's
no going back to the previous version.
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Friday - September 27, 2013
You know those fancy, animated
weather visualizations that you get on the local television news
broadcasts -- the ones with the 3D drill-down dynamic graphics that make
it appear as if the meteorologist is directing the clouds? Well, you
can now get something similar on your Android device. MeteoGroup is a
European producer of weather-in-motion graphics that it supplies to
broadcasters.
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