New Community Project Brings Web Accessibility to the Masses

The Accessibility Project wants to shed some light on a topic many developers shun -- web accessibility. It's not always easy to do, but making the web accessible to everyone was part of Tim Berners-Lee's original vision for it and indeed accessibility remains a cornerstone of good web design.

Source: http://www.webmonkey.com/2013/01/new-community-project-brings-web-accessibility-to-the-masses/

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WTO Allows Antigua to Open Piracy Site

Antigua and Barbuda have been given the power by the World Trade Organization to sell or give away U.S. copyrighted media downloads without compensation to the rights holders.

Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/antigua-piracy-site/

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Cisco gets closer to NetApp, further from VCE

Appearing to further distance itself from VCE coalition partners EMC and VMware, Cisco this week expanded collaboration with storage titan NetApp to deepen integration and market reach.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/storage/cisco-gets-closer-netapp-further-vce-211457?source=rss_storage

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Yahoo looks to new products, mobile to restore company growth

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has identified new products and mobile investments as among several strategies aimed at keeping the company relevant as it tries to compete against the likes of Google and Facebook.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/yahoo-looks-new-products-mobile-restore-company-growth-211722?source=rss_applications

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Tape storage finds new life in the enterprise and beyond

On location in Africa, a movie crew wraps up the day's shooting on a nature documentary and camera operators shut down their rigs. NAND flash cards are removed from the cameras and the scenes that were just shot are transferred to another medium for delivery to a post-production facility. Magnetic tape, the oldest form of storage in digital computing, goes to work.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/storage/tape-storage-finds-new-life-in-the-enterprise-and-beyond-211384?source=rss_storage

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Game of Thrones Fans Create Spectacular Minecraft Version of King’s Landing

The fine folks of WesterosCraft have completed their latest piece of the Game of Thrones universe in Minecraft -- King's Landing.

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/01/minecraft-game-thrones/

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How to install Apache on Linux

The installation, care, and feeding of an Apache Web server is not terribly difficult, but can seem so if you haven't ventured into those particular waters before. This quick-start guide will help you get your feet wet with Apache on a Linux server.

Source: https://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/how-install-apache-linux-197432?source=rss_applications

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Mozilla Brings Native H.264 Video to Desktop Firefox [Updated]

Mozilla has enabled experimental support for the H.264 video codec in the latest nightly builds of Firefox. When it arrives in final form later this year Firefox users will no longer need the Flash plugin to watch H.264 video. What's more, H.264 will offer web developers a one-size fits all video solution that works across every major platform, desktop and mobile.

Source: http://www.webmonkey.com/2013/01/mozilla-brings-native-h-264-to-firefox-nightly/

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Ecuadoran Volcano Update: El Reventador Producing Lava Flows and Ash Fall, Tungurahua Settles Down

Two of Ecuador’s most active volcanoes, Tunagurahua and El Reventador, seem to be headed in different directions. At El Reventador, a new ~2 km/ 6,500 foot steam-and-ash plume along with lava flows were noted this week, along with lava fountains at the summit. ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/ecuadoran-volcanoes-el-reventador-tungurahua-lava-flows/

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Salesforce.com 'aggressively investigating' database error

Salesforce.com is "aggressively investigating" a database software error that led to temporary performance problems in part of its infrastructure. The performance degradation cropped up early Wednesday in Salesforce.com's NA12 zone and resolved shortly thereafter, according to a notice on the vendor's public system monitoring website.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/salesforcecom-aggressively-investigating-database-error-211867

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Lotus 1-2-3 hits the big 3-0

Credit: Berit Myrekrok

Source: http://images.infoworld.com/t/office-software/lotus-1-2-3-hits-the-big-3-0-211643?source=rss_applications

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Find the Droids You’re Looking for With GitHub’s Powerful New Search Tools

Social coding giant GitHub has released a much-improved search engine, which further cements GitHub's place as the go-to source not just for publishing, but also discovering, code on the web.

Source: http://www.webmonkey.com/2013/01/find-the-droids-youre-looking-for-with-githubs-powerful-new-search-tools/

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Cisco's stake in Parallels ramps up rivalry with VMware

Cisco recently announced it has purchased a 1 percent stake in Parallels, a http://www.infoworld.com/d/virtualization/ciscos-stake-in-parallels-ramps-rivalry-vmware-211626?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Physics of a Fake Broken Swing Image

Surely by now, someone online has clearly shown this image to be fake. Instead, let’s use this as an example looking at the way people think about forces and motion. I’m not exactly sure of the reasons someone would create ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/physics-of-a-fake-broken-swing-image/

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10gen CEO: Why we're the NoSQL leader

It's impossible to separate the NoSQL trend from 10gen's MongoDB.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/nosql/10gen-ceo-why-were-the-nosql-leader-211201?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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CIOs say cloud computing is really, truly a priority this time

In a recent survey of 2,000 CIOs, a Gartner report revealed that the execs' top tech priorities for 2013 include cloud computing in general, as well as its specific types: software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and platform as a service (PaaS). No surprise there.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/cios-say-cloud-computing-really-truly-priority-time-211086?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Survey: Users love writing (yes, writing) emails on iPads

It's a truism that people use tablets like the iPad to "consume" content, not create it. But a new survey released today from Perion Network, which provides Web-based email and social apps, shows that iPad users do both when it comes to email. They also prefer the iPad to PCs and smartphones for reading and writing emails.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/email-software/survey-users-love-writing-yes-writing-emails-ipads-211143?source=rss_applications

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Jan. 22, 1950: Jury Acquits Tucker of Fraud

Along with seven business associates, Preston Tucker — founder and namesake of the Tucker Car Corporation and the creator of the ultramodern Tucker ’48 sedan — is found not guilty of 25 counts of mail fraud, five counts of violating SEC rules and a single count of conspiracy to defraud.

Source: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2013/01/jan-22-1950-jury-acquits-tucker-of-fraud/

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Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Gas and Dust in LMC

Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy. Vast clouds of gas within it slowly collapse to form new stars. ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/wired-science-space-photo-of-the-day-gas-and-dust-in-lmc/

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What Beatboxing Looks Like Through an MRI Scanner

Researchers at the University of Southern California are using MRI to try to figure out how beatboxers do their thing.

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/01/beatboxing-mri-study/

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Consumers now trust Microsoft more than Apple with their privacy

Big-name tech companies including Hewlett-Packard, Amazon, IBM, eBay, Intuit, Microsoft, and Mozilla are among the 20 most-trusted organizations among American consumers, according to Ponemon Institute's http://www.infoworld.com/t/internet-privacy/consumers-now-trust-microsoft-more-apple-their-privacy-211769?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Lenovo, EMC both to sell EMC's small-business NAS devices

EMC and Lenovo Thursday extended a strategic partnership to include sales of co-branded network-attached storage (NAS) devices to small and mid-sized businesses and corporate branch offices.

The companies had created a joint venture called LenovoEMC in August to build and sell servers storage systems, starting in China.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/storage/lenovo-emc-both-sell-emcs-small-business-nas-devices-210089?source=rss_storage

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Acer Aspire S7 review: An Ultrabook worthy of the name

I'm just as tired of the "Ultrabook" label as anyone, but every now and then along comes a machine that does justice to the category. The Acer Aspire S7 is one of those machines, thanks to some clever design decisions.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/acer-aspire-s7-review-ultrabook-worthy-of-the-name-209724?source=rss_infoworld_test_center_articles

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After silence on Java flaws, Oracle now says it cares

Oracle wants to you to know it is on the job when it comes to Java security. Two weeks after the U.S.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/java-programming/after-silence-java-flaws-oracle-now-says-it-cares-211610

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Lotus 1-2-3 hits the big 3-0

Credit: Berit Myrekrok

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/office-software/lotus-1-2-3-hits-the-big-3-0-211643?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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SSD prices continue to plunge

Since 2010, SSD (solid state drive) prices have plummeted 300 percent since 2010, this year reaching what researchers call the magic price point of $1-per-gigabyte of capacity.

After dropping 20 percent in the second quarter of 2012 alone, SSD prices fell another 10 percent in the second half of the year, according to data from IHS iSupply.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/storage/ssd-prices-continue-plunge-209314?source=rss_storage

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Cowboys Trade Spurs for Skis in Colorado’s Wild Downhill Rodeo

Ski rodeo is a perfect weird sport for Colorado, a place with a long history of ranching, a deep love of skiing and people only too happy to combine the two.

Source: http://www.wired.com/playbook/2013/01/cowboy-downhill/

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Hitachi, EMC, and Fujitsu winners as storage market weakens

Growth in the storage market slowed down during the third quarter, but vendors such as Hitachi, EMC and Fujitsu still had a good three months thanks in part to sales of high-end systems.

Revenue totaled $5.3 billion in the third quarter, a 3.6 percent increase from revenue of $5.1 billion during the same period last year, making it the 12th consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth, market research company Gartner said on Thursday.

Source: http://akamai.infoworld.com/d/storage/hitachi-emc-and-fujitsu-winners-storage-market-weakens-209140?source=rss_storage

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Crazy Alien Weather: Lightning-Filled Rocket Dust Storms of Mars

Scientists have modeled the internal workings of lightning-filled “rocket dust storms” on Mars that rise at speeds 100 times faster than ordinary storms and inject dust high into the Martian atmosphere.

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/rocket-dust-storms/

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Nexus 10 review: The so-so Android tablet

Maybe Google should stop trying to get into the hardware business.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/nexus-10-review-the-so-so-android-tablet-209258?source=rss_infoworld_test_center_articles

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The Atlantic, Scientology, and the Theft of Credibility

At a publication like The Atlantic, a writer earns the right to occupy editorial space through merit, not a sheaf of twenties slipped to the editor. Wired Science blogger David Dobbs explains why The Atlantic's sale of editorial space to ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/the-atlantic-scientology-and-stolen-credibility/

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Detailed Photos of Cold War Missile Sites: Opposing Superpowers, Same Terror

The idea that we are not so different from our enemies is one of the undercurrents of Justin Barton's photographs of former Cold War Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launch sites. Graphically composed, Barton's shots of the silos' interiors downplay national identity. ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/01/justin-barton-icbm-missiles/

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Why the Surface Pro will bury the Surface RT

The commercials for Microsoft's Surface RT tablet are catchy. And at the Microsoft Store I've visited, I've seen happy people walking out with their new Surface RTs.

Source: http://podcasts.infoworld.com/d/microsoft-windows/why-the-surface-pro-will-bury-the-surface-rt-211338?source=rss_infoworld_top_stories_

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Massacres Alter Social Structure of Africa’s Elephants

A 14-year study of elephants in northern Kenya concludes that the adult behemoths are more likely to die at the hands of humans than from natural causes. At the same time, the elephants have responded to the heavy poaching with ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/african-elephant-massacres/

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Yahoo, Like Google, Demands Warrants for User E-Mail

Yahoo demands probable-cause, court-issued warrants to divulge the content of messages inside its popular consumer e-mail brands -- Yahoo and Ymail, the web giant said Friday. The Sunnyvale, California-based internet concern's exclusive comments came two days after Google revealed to ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/yahoo-demands-warrants/

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Evernote buys into big data analytics for a song

When a flood of data threatened to swamp Evernote's analytics system, the company modernized its analytic environment to handle big data -- without breaking the budget. The provider of popular personal organization and productivity applications has moved from a conventional data warehouse to a modern hybrid of Hadoop and ParAccel, a massively parallel processing (MPP) analytic database.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/big-data/evernote-buys-big-data-analytics-song-211427?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Yahoo, Like Google, Demands Warrants for User E-Mail

Yahoo demands probable-cause, court-issued warrants to divulge the content of messages inside its popular consumer e-mail brands -- Yahoo and Ymail, the web giant said Friday. The Sunnyvale, California-based internet concern's exclusive comments came two days after Google revealed to ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/yahoo-demands-warrants/

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Twitter announces Vine for video

Twitter has announced a new mobile video sharing service, called Vine, designed to allow users to connect through short video clips in a fashion akin to tweeting.

In keeping with the micro-blogging site's 140-character limit, Vine is built around a similar style of abbreviation: Videos that users post can only be six seconds long, and are played back on a continuous loop.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/twitter-announces-vine-video-211517?source=rss_applications

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Ecuadoran Volcano Update: El Reventador Producing Lava Flows and Ash Fall, Tungurahua Settles Down

Two of Ecuador’s most active volcanoes, Tunagurahua and El Reventador, seem to be headed in different directions. At El Reventador, a new ~2 km/ 6,500 foot steam-and-ash plume along with lava flows were noted this week, along with lava fountains at the summit. ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/ecuadoran-volcanoes-el-reventador-tungurahua-lava-flows/

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Unlocking Your Mobile Phone Is No Longer Legal

Mobile phones purchased beginning Saturday can no longer be legally unlocked by consumers to enable them to be used on competing networks.

Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/mobile-phone-unlocking/

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VMware CTO Herrod leaves to join VC firm

VMware CTO Steve Herrod announced he is leaving his post at VMware as CTO and senior vice president of research and development to join venture capital firm General Catalyst Partners in its Palo Alto office, where he will become a partner and managing director investing in and supporting early-stage enterprise companies.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/virtualization/vmware-cto-herrod-leaves-join-vc-firm-211042?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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The Monitor Tries to Warm Up Your Winter

One of these days, it'll stop being quite so wintry. Right? Until then, we might as well pretend we're somewhere warm wearing fewer clothes and drinking something delicious. And that's where Toro Y Moi comes in. New album = new ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/01/the-monitor-tries-to-warm-up-your-winter/

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Survey: Users love writing (yes, writing) emails on iPads

It's a truism that people use tablets like the iPad to "consume" content, not create it. But a new survey released today from Perion Network, which provides Web-based email and social apps, shows that iPad users do both when it comes to email. They also prefer the iPad to PCs and smartphones for reading and writing emails.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/email-software/survey-users-love-writing-yes-writing-emails-ipads-211143?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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EMPIRE Building: Ford Aeronutronic’s Mars/Venus Piloted Flyby Study (1962)

In May 1962, the Future Projects Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center awarded study contracts worth $250,000 each to General Dynamics, Lockheed, and the Aeronutronic Division of Ford Motor Company. General Dynamics studied Mars orbital missions, Lockheed looked at ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/ford-aeronutronic-empire-1962/

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DonorsChoose 2013: Mineral Kits

As you know, I’m a big proponent of DonorsChoose and the current campaign ends soon. So soon that it ends today – January 23. There is a classroom here in Ohio looking to get mineral kits to learn the properties ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/donorschoose-2013-mineral-kits/

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AT&T to buy Verizon spectrum for $1.9 billion

AT&T will buy mobile spectrum in the 700MHz band from Verizon Communications for US$1.9 billion, AT&T said Friday. AT&T will pay cash and trade AWS (advanced wireless services) spectrum for the B block of the 700MHz spectrum, the company said. Verizon will gain AWS spectrum licenses in several markets, including Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Portland, Oregon, AT&T said in a press release.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/att-buy-verizon-spectrum-19-billion-211575

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Oracle's Java security head says the company will 'fix Java,' communicate better

Oracle's head of Java security is promising the vendor will "fix" issues with the widely used programming language, as well as improve its outreach efforts to community members, following a spate of high-profile vulnerabilities.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/oracles-java-security-head-says-the-company-will-fix-java-communicate-better-211595

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The Arting Life: Falling Photos Force Us to Face Our Fundamental Fears

Photographer Kerry Skarbakka wants to capture the feeling you get when you're about to eat it -- wrecking your bike, tripping down the stairs -- and you know it. The ground comes flying up and for a split second you're ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/01/kerry-skarbakka-falling-photos/

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New Asteroid Mining Company Aims to Manufacture Products in Space

A new private company called Deep Space Industries announced today that it intends to send a fleet of small spacecraft to near-Earth asteroids with the aim of mining resources and turning them into products using space-based 3-D printers.

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/deep-space-asteroid-mining/

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New Asteroid Mining Company Aims to Manufacture Products in Space

A new private company called Deep Space Industries announced today that it intends to send a fleet of small spacecraft to near-Earth asteroids with the aim of mining resources and turning them into products using space-based 3-D printers.

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/deep-space-asteroid-mining/

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Microsoft revenue up, aided by Windows unit sales, though profit declines

Microsoft reported a drop in profit for the second quarter of its fiscal year, though revenue increased, thanks partly to a 24 percent jump in sales from its Windows division. Microsoft's revenue increased 2.7 percent to $21.46 billion in the quarter, which ended Dec. 31.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/microsoft-revenue-aided-windows-unit-sales-though-profit-declines-211531

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Facebook Graph Search may be a social engineering nightmare

Facebook's newly unveiled Graph Search search engine is an intriguing marriage of social networking and big data, creating opportunities for people to easily connect with prospective business partners, customers, friends, dates, and so on. At the same time, it's tough to ignore that Graph Search could be used as an on-tap source of social engineering data, which cyber scammers and malicious hackers could use and abuse in any number of ways.

Source: https://www.infoworld.com/t/internet-privacy/facebook-graph-search-may-be-social-engineering-nightmare-211002?source=rss_applications

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Strange Nebulas and Their Earthly Doppelgangers

In honor of the Florida Manatee Festival, the NOAO is renaming nebula W50 as the Manatee nebula. Here, we take a look at other animal-shaped nebulas and how closely they resemble their animal namesakes.

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/animal-shaped-nebulas/

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Future Firefox to Bring PDF, WebCam Streams to the Browser

Mozilla recently released Firefox 18, which means the company has also updated all its pre-release channels, giving web developers a sneak peek at what's in store for future Firefox releases.

Source: http://www.webmonkey.com/2013/01/future-firefox-to-bring-pdf-webcam-streams-to-the-browser/

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Strange Nebulas and Their Earthly Doppelgangers

In honor of the Florida Manatee Festival, the NOAO is renaming nebula W50 as the Manatee nebula. Here, we take a look at other animal-shaped nebulas and how closely they resemble their animal namesakes.

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/animal-shaped-nebulas/

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The Arting Life: Space Paraphernalia Photos Bring the Cosmos Down to Earth

Vincent Fournier's Space Project is a lot of fun to look at because he's traveled to many of the world's most important space centers, from Florida to French Guiana, photographing whatever piques his imagination. His photos are about letting his ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/01/vincent-fournier-space-project/

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Software: GitHub Banishes Brain Clutter With Zen Writing Mode

GitHub has given you the power to use its social coding website without the distractions that so often clutter our internet life. At least, that's the idea.

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/01/zen-mode/

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Jan. 22, 1950: Jury Acquits Tucker of Fraud

Along with seven business associates, Preston Tucker — founder and namesake of the Tucker Car Corporation and the creator of the ultramodern Tucker ’48 sedan — is found not guilty of 25 counts of mail fraud, five counts of violating SEC rules and a single count of conspiracy to defraud.

Source: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2013/01/jan-22-1950-jury-acquits-tucker-of-fraud/

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CIOs say cloud computing is really, truly a priority this time

In a recent survey of 2,000 CIOs, a Gartner report revealed that the execs' top tech priorities for 2013 include cloud computing in general, as well as its specific types: software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and platform as a service (PaaS). No surprise there.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/cios-say-cloud-computing-really-truly-priority-time-211086?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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White House announces 'National Day of Civic Hacking'

It's not unusual for free and open source software projects to enlist the help of their fans and supporters in debugging and other efforts to make the software better. What's less common is for major national governments to do the same thing.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/white-house-announces-national-day-of-civic-hacking-211451

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Jan. 22, 1950: Jury Acquits Tucker of Fraud

Along with seven business associates, Preston Tucker — founder and namesake of the Tucker Car Corporation and the creator of the ultramodern Tucker ’48 sedan — is found not guilty of 25 counts of mail fraud, five counts of violating SEC rules and a single count of conspiracy to defraud.

Source: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2013/01/jan-22-1950-jury-acquits-tucker-of-fraud/

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Aaron Swartz: A life remembered, a legacy debated

Last Monday's post about the tragic suicide of Aaron Swartz inspired a huge response from the residents of Cringeville, both in the comments and on email. I wanted to share some of the latter here.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/cringely/aaron-swartz-life-remembered-legacy-debated-211181?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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The best hardware, software, and cloud services of the year

Around the office, the Technology of the Year package is known by the acronym TOY, and many of the winners this year are perfect examples of why someone's subconscious chose this title.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/data-center/the-best-hardware-software-and-cloud-services-of-the-year-210362?source=rss_infoworld_test_center_articles

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Pandemics P*rn – Great Reads About Nasty Bugs

Note: This post first appeared at Slate this past December 28, where it came at the end of a fine series on Pandemics; it seeks to direct you to the best reading and tweeting about the bugs out to kill us. Other ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/pandemics-prn-great-reads-about-nasty-bugs/

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Did Glee Rip Off a Jonathan Coulton Cover of ‘Baby Got Back’?

A cover of the Sir Mix-A-Lot song reportedly appearing on an upcoming Glee episode appears almost identical to Coulton's very distinctive cover arrangement of the same song on his 2005 album Thing a Week One.

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/01/glee-coulton-baby-got-back/

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Microsoft to Windows 8 downgraders: The bits stop here

Earlier this week I posted detailed instructions on how to "downgrade" (I use the term advisedly) a Windows 8 Pro machine to Windows 7 Professional.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/microsoft-windows-8-downgraders-the-bits-stop-here-211035?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Found: The Future of Brain Surgery

Found Found Contest: Imagine the Future of Spring Cleaning More Artifacts From the Future This is your brain… on lasers. In the future, we forecast that the science of optogenetics will meet the marketing prowess of neo-psychosurgeons. What do you ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/01/found-the-future-of-brain-surgery/

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The next OS X: Tell Apple what to name it

As soon as this spring, Apple may announce the beta for its next major OS X version.

Source: http://images.infoworld.com/t/mac-os-x/the-next-os-x-tell-apple-what-name-it-210841?source=rss_applications

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Is Oracle neglecting the consumer users it inherited from Sun?

The administrator of an exclusive cyber crime forum has sold a purportedly new Java zero-day exploit for $5,000, just days after http://www.infoworld.com/t/security/oracle-neglecting-the-consumer-users-it-inherited-sun-210976?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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From WikiLeaks to Pussy Riot: 10 Cool Films Coming to Sundance

Each year the Sundance Film Festival sets the pace for indie films for the months to come. Here are the geeky flicks we're most excited for at the fest.

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/01/sundance-2013-preview/

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What's the big deal about Facebook's new search tool? Search me

Facebook's announcement of a new smartphone search service yesterday is garnering a lot of oohs and aahs across the Webbernets, as well as its share of WTFs.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/cringely/whats-the-big-deal-about-facebooks-new-search-tool-search-me-210982?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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Jan. 7, 1851: Foucault Gets the Swing of Things

Léon Foucault uses a pendulum to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth. It is the first direct visual evidence not based on watching the stars circle in the sky.

Source: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2013/01/jan-7-1851-foucault-gets-the-swing-of-things/

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Here They Are — The Best Comic Books of 2013!

Wait. 2013 just started. Can we really decide that already? Sure we can!

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/01/best-comic-books-of-2013/

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Wired Video Series: Bloodline: Leatherface Gets a Facelift in Texas Chainsaw 3D

How does the new Texas Chainsaw 3D compare to the rest of the movies in the mega-franchise? Find out here.

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/01/bloodline-texas-chainsaw-3d/

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Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Soap Bubble Nebula

Informally known as the "Soap Bubble Nebula", this planetary nebula (officially known as PN G75.5+1.7) was discovered by amateur astronomer Dave Jurasevich on July 6th, 2008. It was noted and reported by Keith Quattrocchi and Mel Helm on July 17th, ...

Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/wired-science-space-photo-of-the-day-soap-bubble-nebula/

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The best hardware, software, and cloud services of the year

Around the office, the Technology of the Year package is known by the acronym TOY, and many of the winners this year are perfect examples of why someone's subconscious chose this title.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/data-center/the-best-hardware-software-and-cloud-services-of-the-year-210362?source=rss_applications

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Aaron Swartz: A life remembered, a legacy debated

Last Monday's post about the tragic suicide of Aaron Swartz inspired a huge response from the residents of Cringeville, both in the comments and on email. I wanted to share some of the latter here.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/cringely/aaron-swartz-life-remembered-legacy-debated-211181?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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EMC combines 'bring your own storage' with cloud-based file sharing

EMC today revealed the latest fruits of its acquisition of file-sharing service Syncplicity,

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/network-attached-storage/emc-combines-bring-your-own-storage-cloud-based-file-sharing-210864?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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The PC is dying; long live personal computing!

As someone who's been prognosticating the post-PC future for some time, I was pleased to see market researcher Canalys's projections that Windows PC sales will account for just 65 percent of the global PC sales in 2013 -- and will continue to decline. Most of the rest will be iPads and some Android models, with a few percent of Macs in the mix.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/the-pc-dying-long-live-personal-computing-210645?source=rss_infoworld_blogs

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The next OS X: Tell Apple what to name it

As soon as this spring, Apple may announce the beta for its next major OS X version.

Source: http://akamai.infoworld.com/t/mac-os-x/the-next-os-x-tell-apple-what-name-it-210841?source=rss_applications

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Deception Is Futile When Big Brother’s Lie Detector Turns Its Eyes on You

A new high-tech lie detector system aims to put the simple polygraph out to pasture. It uses a microphone, video camera and infrared technology to detect when you're being deceptive.

Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/ff-lie-detector/

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