Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/whose-higgs-boson-is-it/
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Saturday 30 June 2012
The Higgs Boson: Whose Discovery Is It?
While the history books will likely remember the final announcement of the Higgs discovery at the LHC most clearly, the road to discovering this strange particle has been a long one, paved by many. Who deserves the glory?
Banzai! Skateboarder Tops 80 mph in Record-Setting Run
One of the craziest guys on Earth has officially gone faster on his skateboard than I could ever go in my first car. World champion downhill skater Mischo Erban set a Guinness record for fastest standing skateboard speed, clocking in at an utterly insane 80.74 mph.
Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/06/mischo-erban-80-mph/
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Enterprise collaboration app earns spotlight at Google I/O
How do you get your Google+ app featured at Google's blockbuster I/O conference? According to Bjorn Haugland, the CEO of Symphonical, you just invite product manager Amit Fulay to join you in a Hangouts video chat and show him your stuff.
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6 ways to make mobile networks perform better
To achieve higher download and upload speeds, vendors and operators are planning to use a number of different technologies over the coming years in both HSPA and LTE networks. At their core, many of these technologies are related to better coordination among base stations, and the introduction of smaller base stations to help networks keep up with an increasing volume of data.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/6-ways-make-mobile-networks-perform-better-196705
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3-D for Your Ears: Building Dolby’s Atmos System for Brave
A theater in a bustling multiplex seemed like the last place to find a secret laboratory, but that's exactly where sound engineers from Dolby Laboratories set up shop to work on their paradigm-shifting new audio system, Atmos.
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/06/dolby-atmos-brave/
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It’s Official, CSS Media Queries Are a Web Standard
The W3C, the group that helps create web standards, has finished work on CSS Media Queries, turning the cornerstone of responsive web design into an official standard.
Source: http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/06/its-official-css-media-queries-are-a-web-standard/
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June 4, 1783: Balloons That Carry Passengers? It’s More Than Hot Air
The Montgolfier brothers develop a balloon that will soon be all the rage in Paris.
Adobe says no Flash Player for Android 4.1, plans to withdraw app on Aug. 15
There will be no certified implementations of Adobe Systems' Flash Player for Android 4.1, and on Aug. 15 the player will take a bow and no longer be available for download from Google's app store Play, Adobe said in blog post on Thursday. Adobe announced its plans to discontinue development of the Flash Player for mobile browsers last November, and is now revealing details of the timetable.
Friday 29 June 2012
Google Mimics Amazon Cloud With ‘Google Compute Engine’
Google has unveiled a service akin to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, offering developers and businesses run applications atop virtual machines running on its the same sweeping infrastructure that underpins Google's own applications and web services.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/google-cloud-platform/
Server smackdown: A networking newbie steps up
This humbling tale comes from a balmy summer evening in 2007 during my first real corporate IT job.
At the time, getting hands-on corporate IT experience was very important to me, so I was willing to work for peanuts. I'd found a position that allowed me to learn on the job as an assistant under the IT manager. Gradually, I would be transitioned into the network admin role as my knowledge grew.
SanDisk enters server acceleration market with PCIe card
SanDisk on Tuesday entered the growing marketplace for solid-state accelerator products with its own PCI Express (PCIe) card designed to boost the performance of workstations and servers used in data centers, server farms and cloud computing environments.
Like other products made by Fusion-io and Micron, SanDisk's Lightning PCIe SSA (Solid State Accelerator) cards can be added to workstations and servers to provide an I/O performance boost for frequently used data and applications.
Riotous League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Ramps Up the Apocalypse in 2009
The apocalypse arrives in the final, and perhaps freakiest, installment of writer Alan Moore and artist Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comics series. But who knew the nastiest weapon of the end times was in the Antichrist's pants all along?
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/06/alan-moore-lxg2009/
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Review: Dell EqualLogic SANs make the most of automated tiering
As IT contemplates the rapidly expanding universe of storage options, at least one detail has become clear: In the majority of infrastructures, most data just sits around, feeling lonely, while a small percentage is more or less constantly i
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Download the InfoWorld Authentication and Authorization Deep Dive report
The Internet works because of trust and access control. Trust that the person poking you on Facebook is really a friend. Trust that the bank that issued your credit card will let only you or authorized employees view your account. Even the anonymous parts of the Internet can't exist without security controls that enable people to determine who has access and what they can do. Without access controls, anyone can destroy the trust value of any website -- and bring it down.
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High-Definition Video Clogs Corporate Networks
Increasingly, corporate bandwidth is being chewed up by streaming media and peer to peer networks.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/corporatevideo/
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The unexpected joy of Windows admin from a tablet
The day after Microsoft made its big announcement about the Windows 8-based Surface tablet, I received a big box from Microsoft. I was superexcited and thought, "Microsoft sent me one!" The box did indeed contain a tablet -- an awesome one. But it was a Samsung Slate with Windows 8 Release Preview preinstalled.
Thursday 28 June 2012
Olympic Runner Fights to Change Sponsorship Rules
Once every four years, the sports that make up the bulk of the summer Olympic events enjoy a strong following from fans. And for the athletes who excel at those sports taking place at the Olympic track and field trials this week, the exposure they get every Olympic year can dramatically influence whether or not [...]
Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/06/olympic-athlete-sponsorship-rules/
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June 13, 1955: Innumerable Carats of Ice Amid Actual Siberian Ice
Soviet geologists in eastern Siberia discover a massive deposit of diamond in what will become the Mir mine, the second largest excavated pit in the world.
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HP extends Autonomy's big data chops to Hadoop cloud
When Hewlett-Packard doled out $10 billion for Autonomy late last year, the struggling company endured slings and arrows from competitor Oracle, along with cautious
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Startup claims hard drive prices for its all-flash arrays
Flash array startup Pure Storage, whose marketing pitch is selling flash at the price of enterprise disk, has announced the second generation of its all-flash array that now includes a highly-availability (HA) configuration.
Filmmakers Use Drones to Spy on Facebook, Google HQs
Customized drones capture images from unseen parts of Dublin, including the inside of the tech powerhouses' headquarters, for Loitering Theatre, a film about the "democratization of surveillance."
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/06/loitering-theatre/
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May 31, 1977: Trans-Alaska Pipeline a Source of Oil … and Worry
It's an engineering marvel that underscores the importance of balancing humanity's needs against nature's purity.
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After Oracle, OpenSolaris rises again
While some of the open source projects that Sun Microsystems created -- and which I used to work with -- have maintained a high profile, the one most associated with Sun in the minds of system administrators has been strangely forgotten. Whatever happened to OpenSolaris?
The OpenSolaris story illustrates a key value delivered by the liberties provided via open source. When your vendor changes direction, what do you do? Traditionally, you have five options:
Wednesday 27 June 2012
Wanna Rent One of the World’s Biggest Supercomputers?
Lawrence Livermore National Labs is home to Sequoia, a classified supercomputer that’s used to simulate nuclear bombs. It’s a number-crunching wonder, the most powerful computer in the world. But just a few feet from Sequoia, lab technicians have now assembled the first two server racks of what will one day be Sequoia’s little brother, Vulcan: [...]
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/vulcan/
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The Most Important Milestone from China’s Impressive Week of Exploration
An unusual phone call took place over the weekend. Both callers were Chinese and in cramped metal tins, but the views from their dinner plate-sized windows could not have been more different. Astrobiologist and Extremo Files blogger Jeffrey Marlow reports on the exciting progress of China's exploratory ambitions on Earth and in space.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/the-most-important-milestone-chinas-week-exploration/
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Louis CK Has Unfunny Lessons for the Music Industry
The suits could learn a thing or two from the hilarious, business-savvy comic Louis CK. When he takes his comedy directly to fans, the only people who don't win are the middlemen
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/06/louis-ck-music-industry/
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Microsoft's alleged iPad killer is a not-so-true Hollywood story
The Internet rumor mill has been in overdrive lately, throwing sparks and belching fumes. That's nothing new. What's strange is those rumors have nothing to do with Apple -- at least, not directly.
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Splunk search extended to Microsoft Active Directory
Through a new plug-in, Splunk has extended the capabilities of its namesake machine data search engine so it can mine operational information about Microsoft Active Directory deployments.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/splunk-search-extended-microsoft-active-directory-196457
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MyDP could transform mobile devices into replacement PCs
Today's higher-end mobile devices rival some desktop machines in their ability to stream high-definition video and audio, display 3D content, and support enterprise-worthy applications.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/smartphones/mydp-could-transform-mobile-devices-replacement-pcs-196471
Exclusive: How Giro Made a Cooler, Faster Helmet
We go behind the scenes for a look at the development of the Air Attack helmet, which Giro promises offers "free speed."
Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/06/giro-air-attack/
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New Videogame Lets Amateur Researchers Mess with RNA
Jessica Fournier has a job that makes poor use of her talents. She spends her days stocking sneakers at a warehouse outside Grand Rapids, Michigan. A decade ago she was an astrophysics student at Michigan State University, where she coauthored a paper on RR Lyrae, a low-mass star that pulsates light. But having failed to [...]
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/ff_rnagame/
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Tuesday 26 June 2012
Cisco and Fujitsu garner gains as top server vendors struggle
2012 has not been a stellar year thus far for the top server vendors -- IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Oracle -- all of whom saw their server shipments and revenue drop year over year, according to Gartner.
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Bold Pitches for Government Sci-Fi
What if other government agencies followed NASA's contrail and hired sci-fi scribes to scope out the future? Wired asks some of the world's greatest speculative fiction novelists to pitch a book to the bureaucracy of their choice.
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/06/beltway-sci-fi/
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Businesses store 2.2 zettabytes of data at cost of $1.1 trillion worldwide
Worldwide, organizations hold about 2.2 zettabytes of data and spend about $1.1 trillion to secure and provide access to it, according to Symantec.
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Where the money is: VCs pour cash into software startups
Think there's nothing new under the sun when it comes to file management and database software? What about that old warhorse, ERP? You may consider those segments passé, but the venture capital community disagrees. In the first quarter of 2012, just under $147 million and $118.6 million in venture capital money flowed respectively to startups in those areas.
New Oracle OpenWorld details give early look at company's plans
Oracle tends to keep a tight lid on the specific announcements it will make each year at the OpenWorld conference prior to show time, but a newly released session catalog provides plenty of clues and fodder for speculation as to what's in store at the event, which runs from Sept. 30 to Oct. 4 in San Francisco.
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June 6, 1944: Artificial Harbor Paves the Way for Normandy Invasion
Lacking a deep-water port, the Allies need some way to get men and supplies ashore. They find it in Mulberry Harbour.
Banzai! Skateboarder Tops 80 mph in Record-Setting Run
One of the craziest guys on Earth has officially gone faster on his skateboard than I could ever go in my first car. World champion downhill skater Mischo Erban set a Guinness record for fastest standing skateboard speed, clocking in at an utterly insane 80.74 mph.
Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/06/mischo-erban-80-mph/
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Signs of Revived Activity at El Hierro in the Canary Islands
It has been a few months now since the eruption at El Hierro in the Canary Islands was declared “over”. There may be some passive degassing on the seafloor from the new vent that formed at depth to the south of the island, but things had settled down. Even the people of Restinga were putting [...]
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Monday 25 June 2012
Review: Bloody Serious Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Isn’t as Fun as It Sounds
Bearing the most outrageous movie title in recent memory, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter sounds like a world-class exploitation flick that would make Roger Corman proud. You can't take a concept like that seriously, right?
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/06/review-abraham-lincoln-vampire-hunter/
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Giant Hot Wheels Track With Double Vertical Loop and Real Race Car Drivers? Check.
A team of engineers and two crazy drivers are preparing for a history-making challenge drawn from the daydreams of every child who’s ever crisscrossed his parents’ living room with plastic race tracks: building, and racing on, a human-scale Hot Wheels double loop track, just like the one you had when you were a kid. The [...]
Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/06/playbook_0620_jump/
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Man Builds Twitter Bot That Humans Actually Like
When Greg Marra built @Trackgirl, he designed her as an experiment to see if an automated program could worm its way into online networks of real people. What he didn't expect is that people would actually care.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/twitter_arm/
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Geeks Who Drink Leads the Pub Trivia Nerd Pack
It was 10:45 pm, and the sixth annual Geek Bowl went to overtime. A hundred and fifty teams from around the US had trekked to Texas and paid to battle it out in the Austin Music Hall early this year. By the end, two master trivia squads—the locals of Team Dong, and Independence Hall and Oates from Philadelphia—were tied, vying for the $5,000 grand prize. The grueling contest featured questions that merged the brainy and the profane in a way that you'd never see on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. (For instance, you need a deep familiarity with both Italian architecture and gross Web memes to arrive at the answer to one question: "two girls, one cupola.") And as the teams headed into the final bonus round, the 1,000-plus people in attendance were almost sober enough to care.
Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/06/st_geekbowl/
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Cheat With Science and Putt Like a Pro
The pros at the US Open have unbridled talent on their side. But you have science on yours. Here's how to up your game.
Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/06/st_cheatsci_golf/
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Cheat With Science and Putt Like a Pro
The pros at the US Open have unbridled talent on their side. But you have science on yours. Here's how to up your game.
Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2012/06/st_cheatsci_golf/
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How Anonymous Picks Targets, Launches Attacks, and Takes Powerful Organizations Down
No one but Hector Xavier Monsegur can know why or when he became Sabu, joining the strange and chaotic Internet collective known as Anonymous. But we know the moment he gave Sabu up. On June 7, 2011, federal agents came to his apartment on New York’s Lower East Side and threatened the 28-year-old with an [...]
Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/06/ff_anonymous/
Startup Plugs Gmail Into GitHub Into HipChat Into…
All those web applications finding their way into the world's businesses? Zapier wants to help them talk to each other.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/startup-plugs-gmail-into-gihub-into-hipchat-into/
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Sunday 24 June 2012
Your inconvenience powers high-tech profits
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how the U.S. government gets the highest of high technology when it suits it, but somehow still can't figure out how to procure accurate and reliable voting machines to further the cause of democracy. Clearly, there are no technological hurdles here, just skewed priorities.
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Facebook's Open Compute and the future of IT
The phrase "open source hardware" sounds silly. Open source software tends to come in a free version, but hardware, not so much. Yet the folks at the Open Compute Project, led by Facebook, insist on the phrase.
What they really mean is that the hardware designs, including full specs and CAD files, are open source. So why would the Open Compute Project create intellectual property of significant value and give it away?
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After Oracle, OpenSolaris rises again
While some of the open source projects that Sun Microsystems created -- and which I used to work with -- have maintained a high profile, the one most associated with Sun in the minds of system administrators has been strangely forgotten. Whatever happened to OpenSolaris?
The OpenSolaris story illustrates a key value delivered by the liberties provided via open source. When your vendor changes direction, what do you do? Traditionally, you have five options:
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Catz denies committing Oracle to continued Itanium support
Oracle refused to commit to continued porting of its software to Hewlett-Packard's Itanium platform as part of the companies' settlement over Oracle's hiring of Mark Hurd, Oracle co-President Safra Catz told a judge on Tuesday.
HP enterprise business head Ann Livermore at one point proposed several business commitments to be included in the settlement agreement when she and Catz spoke in the wake of Hurd's hiring in September 2010, Catz said. Among those was Oracle agreeing to continue porting its software to Itanium, a chip platform that is predominantly used by HP.
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Supreme Court Refuses to Say S*** About Legality of Cursing on TV
The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside indecency rulings against Fox and ABC for airing fleeting expletives and nudity on the public airwaves, but declined to rule on the constitutionality of decency standards for broadcast television and radio.
Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/06/scotus-tv-decency-ruling/
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After Oracle, OpenSolaris rises again
While some of the open source projects that Sun Microsystems created -- and which I used to work with -- have maintained a high profile, the one most associated with Sun in the minds of system administrators has been strangely forgotten. Whatever happened to OpenSolaris?
The OpenSolaris story illustrates a key value delivered by the liberties provided via open source. When your vendor changes direction, what do you do? Traditionally, you have five options:
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WWDC's real news: Apple moves beyond iOS and OS X
At 10 a.m. Pacific time today, Apple will commence its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) dog-and-pony show announcing ... well, only Apple knows for sure, as usual.
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Facebook acquires Face.com
Facebook has acquired Face.com, the facial recognition software company whose products power Facebook's photo tagging suggestions, according to a blog post.
Rumors of the acquisition began to circulate in late May.
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Saturday 23 June 2012
Flame stashes secrets in USB drives
Since the primordial days of data tapes and floppy disks, viruses have used removable storage to spread between computers or, more correctly, have used computers to spread between storage media.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/malware/flame-stashes-secrets-in-usb-drives-195455?source=rss_storage
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Face.com App Allowed Facebook, Twitter Account Hijacking
Israel-based facial recognition maker Face.com was the internet’s flavor for a day Monday when it announced it was acquired by Facebook. But what was not widely known was that Face.com’s mobile app, KLIK, which allows real-time face-tagging of Facebook pictures, recently suffered a giant vulnerability.
Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/06/klik-app-vulnerability/
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Dell announces 'storage blades,' converged data center strategy
At its annual storage conference, Dell today announced a storage array in a server blade form factor that can be combined with networking and server blades in a single chassis.
Each Dell EqualLogic PS-M4110 Blade Array comes in four models and can hold up to 14 drives for up to 14TB of data per array, up to 28TB per group (two blades) inside a blade chassis, and up to 56TB with two groups inside one blade chassis. The drives come with a native encryption option.
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Sencha Architect: Visual HTML5, sort of
Sencha describes Sencha Architect 2, the latest incarnation of its visual Web development tool, as "a massive upgrade to Ext Designer," the previous version. The name change from Designer to Architect reflects the product's new focus. Instead of a tool for building Web UIs, Sencha says the new version is suitable for creating complete Web applications, both for UI designers and back-end developers. That's true up to a point.
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Report: US and Israel Behind Flame Espionage Tool
The United States and Israel are responsible for developing the sophisticated espionage rootkit known as Flame, according to a news report, which says it was part of the same 'Olympic Games' project that produced Stuxnet.
Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/06/us-and-israel-behind-flame/
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The best office apps for Android tablets
With the right set of apps, your Android tablet can become an indispensable part of your mobile work arsenal. Here are the tools you need
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SanDisk enters server acceleration market with PCIe card
SanDisk on Tuesday entered the growing marketplace for solid-state accelerator products with its own PCI Express (PCIe) card designed to boost the performance of workstations and servers used in data centers, server farms and cloud computing environments.
Like other products made by Fusion-io and Micron, SanDisk's Lightning PCIe SSA (Solid State Accelerator) cards can be added to workstations and servers to provide an I/O performance boost for frequently used data and applications.
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Friday 22 June 2012
Bold Pitches for Government Sci-Fi
What if other government agencies followed NASA's contrail and hired sci-fi scribes to scope out the future? Wired asks some of the world's greatest speculative fiction novelists to pitch a book to the bureaucracy of their choice.
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/06/beltway-sci-fi/
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The iPhone in Pure CSS
What can't you do with CSS? We're not sure anymore. The little web standard that could seems to be capable of doing just about anything these days, including rendering a life-like image of an iPhone.
Source: http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/06/the-iphone-in-pure-css/
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Photographer Lilly McElroy Throws Herself at Men
In her attempts to freeze moments of "perpetual social awkwardness" in her photos by launching herself into consenting men she met at bars, Lilly McElroy has amused and annoyed fellow revelers, suffered whiplash and has been invited to join a Thanksgiving night three-way.
Source: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/06/lilly-mcelroy-throws-herself-at-men/
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Microsoft to PC and tablet makers: You're not our future
Be careful what you ask for, you may just get it.
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Bye-bye, tapes: How to get the right disk backup appliance
Although disk-to-disk backup methodologies have become incredibly popular over the past few years, the vast majority of enterprises -- large and small -- still use the same tape backups they implemented years ago. As time goes on, however, more and more old-school backup implementations will reach a breaking point where either capacity or performance can't get the job done.
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Observation Deck: Here’s Why Prometheus Left Me Fuming
We deserve better. That's what Prometheus made me think. I imagine you're tired of talking about Ridley Scott's new sci-fi film at this point -- and I know that all of us geeks have pretty much aired out our criticisms, questions, defenses, counterattacks, etc. Here's my rant.
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/06/observation-deck-prometheus/
Flame stashes secrets in USB drives
Since the primordial days of data tapes and floppy disks, viruses have used removable storage to spread between computers or, more correctly, have used computers to spread between storage media.
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June 13, 1955: Innumerable Carats of Ice Amid Actual Siberian Ice
Soviet geologists in eastern Siberia discover a massive deposit of diamond in what will become the Mir mine, the second largest excavated pit in the world.
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Thursday 21 June 2012
How Accurate Were Minority Report’s Technology Precogs?
Steven Spielberg's sci-fi film Minority Report served up a captivating and thoroughly convincing look at what the future might hold. But a decade on, how well has the film's bold vision aged? A look at key technologies from the film, and where we stand today.
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/06/minority-report-tech/
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Mozilla ‘Junior’ Brings Firefox to Your iPad
Mozilla is hard at work on Firefox for the iPad, but don't expect this to be your father's Firefox. Instead the company is hoping to "reinvent the browser for a new form factor."
Source: http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/06/mozilla-junior-brings-firefox-to-your-ipad/
What's in a domain name? Google, Amazon pay up to find out
You gotta love ICANN. Every time the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers does anything, it's usually a cause for amusement.
Last week, what passes for the sole official governing body of the InterWebs released nearly 2,000 proposed new generic Top Level Domains, along with the names of the 1,100 organizations that bid for the new gTLDs. It also released the names, email addresses, and phone numbers for all of these deep-pocketed groups onto the Web. Oops.
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Where the money is: VCs pour cash into software startups
Think there's nothing new under the sun when it comes to file management and database software? What about that old warhorse, ERP? You may consider those segments passé, but the venture capital community disagrees. In the first quarter of 2012, just under $147 million and $118.6 million in venture capital money flowed respectively to startups in those areas.
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HP unveils Windows-powered NAS box for small businesses
Hewlett-Packard Wednesday unveiled a lightweight version of its Windows-based NAS (network-attached storage) array that's aimed at small and medium businesses. Based on the same architecture as the HP X5000-series NAS box, the new X5000 devices for small businesses use 2.5-inch drives and can scale to 32.4TB. The older X-5000 devices use 3.5-inch hard drives and now scales to 48TB in a single unit.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/storage/hp-unveils-windows-powered-nas-box-small-businesses-196019
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Review: Quickoffice Connect is a poor iCloud clone
Quickoffice rivals Apple's iWork suite as the best office productivity app for the iPad and iPhone, and it is unquestionably the best office app for Android devices. It makes sense to choose Quickoffice as the standard mobile office app in workplaces that have a mix of iOS and Android devices.
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IE10 on Windows 8: Even Microsoft can't make it work
If your company has an outward-facing website, you're probably braced for the enormous changes that will come when Internet Explorer 10 and Windows 8 hit in a few months.
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Cloning Amazon Is a Dead End, Says Cloud Rival Rackspace
Does the rest of the cloud computing world really need to clone Amazon Web Services in order to succeed? Probably not, says Lew Moorman, the president of Rackspace, the San Antonio, Texas, company that plays second fiddle to Amazon in the cloud game.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/rackspace/
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Wednesday 20 June 2012
June 4, 1783: Balloons That Carry Passengers? It’s More Than Hot Air
The Montgolfier brothers develop a balloon that will soon be all the rage in Paris.
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Cisco upgrades enterprise social network, renames it WebEx Social
Cisco Systems is extending the functionality of its Quad enterprise social networking (ESN) software through integration with Microsoft Office applications and with email clients, including Microsoft Outlook, the company is announcing on Tuesday.
Cisco is also re-branding the ESN software, dropping its Quad name and calling it WebEx Social, as the company seeks to give its social collaboration products a uniform brand using the WebEx name.
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The next consumerization revolution: Your personal data
When Facebook's much-vaunted IPO fell flat a couple weeks ago, conventional wisdom said the dot-commers' belief that almost any online business can make billions through advertising was not a realistic business model after all. Advertising fees online trail those of other media, and multiple studies show that when people are engaged in social networks, they tune out ads precisely because they are so focused on their interactions.
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Analysis of a Fake Water Trick
My niece asked me to write about this popular (and fake) trick with a glass of water. In case you don’t want to watch the video, it basically shows a glass of water. The glass full of water is placed upside down on a counter top (ok, this part is actually kind of cool – [...]
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/analysis-of-a-fake-water-trick/
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15 awesome IT tools for Mac OS X
Handy troubleshooting and productivity tools for Mac-loving server and network admins
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Data breach? Virtual bounty hunters will hunt it down
Security expert Dan Clements is building a virtual "lost and found" box for data, a concept he hopes companies suffering from data breaches will embrace to find out just how bad the damage is. Clements launched his startup, called CloudeyeZ, last September. He has since been nurturing an idea he says could save companies money by getting a better handle on how much data they've lost.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/data-breach-virtual-bounty-hunters-will-hunt-it-down-195882
Growing Up on Zoloft – Talking Drugs, Depression, and Identity With Katherine Sharpe
The new book "Coming of Age on Zoloft" explores the running debate about overmedication for depression and what it means to come of age -- and of identity -- while on these meds. Neuron Culture blogger David Dobbs interviews the author, Katherine Sharpe.
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Bare-metal clouds trade virtualization for performance
Sometimes, for either performance or security reasons, customers don't want to use a public or a private cloud with virtualized infrastructure. Service providers are increasingly responding to this, and one analyst says there is increasing demand for bare-metal clouds.
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Tuesday 19 June 2012
Before Google and GoDaddy, There Was Elizabeth Feinler
Before Danica Patrick and GoDaddy, there was Elizabeth Feinler and the NIC. From 1972 to 1989, Elizabeth "Jake" Feinler ran the Network Information Center at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California -- the place that oversaw the use of internet addresses before the arrival of commercial outfits like GoDaddy and Network Solutions. If you wanted a domain name, you came to Jake.
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/elizabeth-jake-feinler/
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Rock of Ages‘ Music Geek on the Power of ’80s Pop
Call Chris D'Arienzo, once a music geek with glasses and headgear, a keytar hero. Here's what the guy behind Rock of Ages likes about the big-screen adaptation.
Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/06/pl_rockofages/
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