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Web advertisers know what you did last summer
One would imagine that only the most neophyte Internet users understand that their movements are being watched and recorded. A study by TNS Global on behalf of TRUSTe only confirms that; web users are aware of the monitoring – and they hate it. From the survey of 1,015 randomly selected adults in the US: 57% [...]
Internal emails put NVIDIA platform on Vista in bad light
You may have heard of the recently launched “Vista Capable” lawsuit in which there is mounting evidence that Microsoft tweaked the minimum specifications of what constitutes a PC as Vista Capable, much to Intel’s delight. Judge Martha Pechman, who is overseeing the class-action, has ordered the release of over 150 pages of internal Microsoft emails [...]
All Rubik’s cube variations solvable in 25 moves
The childhood toy, the Rubik’s cube, has been proven to be solvable from any initial configuration set in 25 moves, one less than the 26 proven last year by a group at Northeastern University. Tomas Rokicki, a mathematician by school, uses a rather nifty piece of computer science. Rokicki’s proof is a neat piece of [...]
Threat of US spooks haunt Google
It wasn’t too long ago that Google put it’s full attention towards cloud-computing, targeting businesses and universities to utilize Gmail and other Google Apps as their core infrastructure. Eighteen months ago, Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada did just that – saving millions and months up front and hundreds of thousands in annual operating [...]
Spoiled milk sounds the alarm
It’s another Monday morning at the office, the day had already started out poorly when you had forgotten to set your alarm the night before. Frazzled, you frantically dash out the door and arrive only 15 minutes late – maybe no one noticed? You begin your normal morning routine with a fresh cup of coffee, [...]
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