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jeudi 24 mai 2012, 22:58
One of the unfortunate memes that has made repeated appearances in the climate debate is that money isn't just influencing the public debate about science, but influencing the science itself. The government, the argument goes, is paying scientists specifically to demonstrate ...
Just a couple of the many drones that suddenly become our worst enemies in Black Ops 2 Activision / Treyarch It's hard to look at the basic plot structure for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and not see some sort of overarching political message. This is a game that imagines...
Photo illustration by Aurich Lawson Microsoft wants Windows developers to write Windows 8-specific, Metro-style, touch-friendly applications, and to make sure that they crank these apps out, the company has decided that Visual Studio 11 Express, the free-to-use version of ...
Dashboard view of the new data Google Who complains loudest about Google linking to infringing content in its search results? The movie and music industries, of course, who absolutely delight in taking whacks at the search engine. But thanks to a huge new trove of data...
'Outside of South Africa, there is little to no capacity for cloud computing on the continent,' wrote Erik Hersman on his blog, White African. 'This means that few of the programmers in this region have the skill sets necessary to work and build out this infrastructure. We...
FBI The mayor of a small New Jersey hamlet has been arrested, along with his son, on federal charges that they shut down a website advocating the mayor's recall after breaking into the online accounts of political foes. According to federal officials, Felix Roque, the...
A slice of the Martian meteorite NWA 998. nasa.gov/Adam and Greg Hupe Meteorites from Mars contain specks of graphite-like carbon trapped within them. There have been a variety of explanations for this reduced form of carbon over the years, with some even viewing it as...
Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook Chris Foresman Since taking over for former Apple CEO Steve Jobs last August, newly minted CEO Tim Cook has slowly made a number of changes to how things are done at the company. Whereas Jobs was mercurial, Cook is apparently genteel. Whereas ...
A Latvian firm has been fined £50,000 ($78,400) by UK regulators in a scam that charged users £15 ($23.52) when they downloaded and ran fake versions of popular gaming apps. The apps, which were designed to appear as legitimate games including Angry Birds Space, Cut the...
“Who’s here?” “I hear a lot of noise, like someone has a fountain going in the background or something.” “Let’s all hang up and come back individually so we can figure out who’s causing that echo.”Read more | Comments
Image via HarshLight on Flickr Apple has accused the US government of siding 'with monopoly, rather than competition' by suing Apple and six publishers for allegedly colluding to fix e-book prices. Apple's response to the Department of Justice's lawsuit offers strong...
Sega / Double Fine After weeks of teasing and a slow drip of character reveals, Double Fine and Sega have finally revealed more details about the Ron Gilbert-designed The Cave, an action-adventure/puzzle game that is being described as a mix between games like Gilbert's...
Microsoft confirmed that it won an injunction today in a German court against Motorola Mobility Android devices that infringe a patent covering the sending of long text messages. Motorola, which became a Google subsidiary several days ago, was found to infringe a European...
These happy Samoyeds look ancient (genetically), but probably aren't. Flickr user jurvetson Dogs were the very first creatures that humans domesticated, and their remains have been found along with those of humans from before we even had basic things like agriculture....
Apple Apple has introduced significant improvements to the iPhone's camera capabilities in nearly every iteration of the device. And while rumors about the next-generation iPhone have largely concerned screen sizes and exotic materials, very little has been rumored about...
Amid rising concerns about mobile malware, a group of security researchers is launching an initiative to improve collaboration around mobile threat analysis. They want to encourage researchers to share their malware samples with each other and work together to identify and...
Yahoo is aiming to get its foot into the browser market with a new product called Axis that launched this evening. The purpose of Axis is to add an extra layer to the user’s Web browsing experience, with interactive search capabilities and cross-device synchronization. On...
Earlier last week, rumors hinted that HP would lay off 10,000 to 15,000 employees, but today the company revealed that 27,000 of HP's 349,600 employees will be cut by the end of 2014. According to Bloomberg, Hewlett-Packard CFO Cathie Lesjak said no unit of the company will...
An engineer for a company that scans websites for security vulnerabilities recently got a new perspective on the dangers of Web application bugs. While trying to purchase airline tickets from United.com, the site displayed the names of people he had never heard of. 'Kind of...
A protester asks for an intact Internet. Backers of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its Senate companion, the Protect IP Act (PIPA), have been railing against the bill's critics ever since the legislation plunged to a fiery death earlier this year. The unprecedented...
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