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- Spider web's strength lies in more than its silk. A study that combines experimental observations of spider webs with complex computer simulations has shown that web durability depends not only on silk strength, but on how overall web design compensates for damage and the response of individual stra...
- Artificial intelligence: Getting better at the age guessing game. The active learning algorithm is faster and more accurate in guessing the age of an individual than conventional algorithms.
- Data storage: Magnetic memories. Magnetic random-access memory based on new spin transfer technology achieves higher storage density by packing multiple bits of data into each memory cell.
- Risk-based passenger screening could make air travel safer. Intensive screening of all airline passengers actually makes the system less secure by overtaxing security resources, while risk-based methods increase overall security, according to new research. The researchers developed three algorithms dealing wi...
- Rap music powers rhythmic action of medical sensor. The driving bass rhythm of rap music can be harnessed to power a new type of miniature medical sensor designed to be implanted in the body.
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- Speed limit on the quantum highway: Physicists measure propagation velocity of quantum signals in a many-body system. A quantum computer based on quantum particles instead of classical bits, can in principle outperform any classical computer. However, it still remains an open question, how fast and how efficient quantum computers really may be able to work. A critic...
- Facebook is a community. Researchers in Italy have used two high-speed computer algorithms to analyze the connections between a large sub-set of the more than half a billion users of the social networking site Facebook to reveal that the system has a very strong structure. T...
- Quantum physics enables perfectly secure cloud computing. Researchers have succeeded in combining the power of quantum computing with the security of quantum cryptography and have shown that perfectly secure cloud computing can be achieved using the principles of quantum mechanics. They have performed an ex...
- Computer simulations revealing how methane and hydrogen pack into gas hydrates could enlighten alternative fuel production and carbon dioxide storage. For some time, researchers have explored flammable ice for low-carbon or alternative fuel or as a place to store carbon dioxide. Now, a computer analysis of the ice and gas compound, known as a gas hydrate, reveals key details of its structure. The r...
- Faster-than-fast Fourier transform. Researchers have developed a new algorithm that, in a large range of practically important cases, improves on the fast Fourier transform. Under some circumstances, the improvement can be dramatic -- a tenfold increase in speed. The new algorithm coul...
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- The Asus Padfone, Facebook's IPO, Sony's Troubles, and More. On World Tech Update this week, Facebook announces an IPO, Sony's business is in trouble, the Asus Padfone sets for a debut and thousands flock to Macworld | iWorld.
- Dropcam HD Launch Delayed to Fix Video Quality Issues. The Wi-Fi camera had fuzzy video playback in our hands-on tests, but Dropcam promises that the final version of its Dropcam HD will not have these problems.
- Here's How to Install Carrier-Blocked Apps on Your Android Phone. Workaround allows users to install apps like Google Wallet onto their Android phones.
- Engineer's Wife 'Ferocious' in Obama Q&A on H-1Bs. The White House is following up on an offer made by President Barack Obama this week to help find a job for an unemployed semiconductor engineer in Texas.
- How NOT to Get a Job 101: Hack Marriott, Extort Execs for Work. Hacking and extortion will get you thrown in prison.
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- Social Media Fuels Planned Parenthood Backers in Komen Protest. Fueled by a firestorm of outrage on Twitter and Facebook, the Susan G. Komen For the Cure Foundation has announced it will not cut funding for Planned Parenthood.
- The Byte: Not Stringer's Fault, Google Fined, Playbook Cut, Android Market Cleaned. Sony's CEO says losses aren't his fault, Google has to pay a fine, RIM cuts the price of its Playbook again, and Android Market malware is reduced.
- Facebook Malware Scam Takes Hold. A "worrying number" of Facebook users are sharing a link to a malware-laden fake CNN news page reporting the U.S. has attacked Iran and Saudi Arabia, security firm Sophos said Friday.
- Motorola, Woot Admit to Reselling Uncleared Xoom Tablets. Motorola and Woot admit that some refurbished Xoom tablets may have been sold with ex-owners' sensitive data still on them.
- Micron CEO Dies in Plane Crash. Steve Appleton, chairman and CEO of memory and semiconductor maker Micron, was killed in a small plane accident in Boise, Idaho, on Friday.
Whats new in Computer Science News CNET News
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- StubHub partners with SF Giants on mobile ticketing. Instead of showing paper tickets, fans can now enter a San Francisco Giants game using their mobile phones. CNET gets a demo from Mats Nilsson, StubHub's director of product, to see how the new scanning technology works.
- Global TV shipments slide in second quarter. Research firm DisplaySearch says Samsung has 22.6 percent market share, easily eclipsing second place TV maker LG.
- Samsung denies interest in HP's PC division. Samsung addresses the rumors surrounding its interest in HP's PC business
- StubHub adds mobile ticketing for Giants fans. The online ticket reseller adds a feature to its mobile app that lets Giants fans get tickets beamed to their phone, no printouts needed.
- Handroid is a low-cost, flexible robot hand. Japanese start-up ITK wants to market its basic robot hand for about $6,500, including a glove controller.
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- Google adds voice search on PCs to mapping. The Web search giant, chasing the holy grail of natural user interfaces, adds the ability to speak destination requests into computer microphones.
- Apple CEO Steve Jobs steps down. In an abrupt but not entirely unexpected move, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs resigns as CEO but will remain with the company as chairman. Tim Cook is promoted from chief operating officer to chief executive officer.
- Google beefing up its +1 button. The search giant is adding more options to its +1 button, now letting Google+ users share content with specific circles and even kick-start a conversation about the shared content.
- Steve Wozniak: Jobs 'greatest technical leader we've ever seen'. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says fellow co-founder Steve Jobs deserves credit for rebuilding Apple and creating iconic devices.
- Steve Jobs resigns from Apple (roundup). Marking the end of an era, Jobs steps down as CEO of the iconic company he co-founded. COO Tim Cook, Jobs' fill-in during three medical leaves, will take over the reins.
Whats new in Computer Science News Maximum PC News
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- Google Reveals "Bouncer" Malware Filter for Android Apps. Google’s Android OS often takes a beating from security companies for it’s occasional malware scares. Google has not been silent on the matter in the past, but the OS maker revealed today that it is taking action to combat Android malware. In fac...
- Peek Offering Leftover Devices to Hackers. The Peek was a bizarre device from the start. In an age when devices are converging and the smartphone rules the pocket, the Peek was a single use email device. Now that the Peek service has been killed, CEO Amol Sarva has let it be known that the co...
- More Domain Seizures By Feds Just in Time for Super Bowl. The Department of Justice and Homeland Security ICE division are at it again, and have this time seized more than 300 domains in advance of the Super Bowl. The overwhelming majority of the domains shut down today were selling counterfeit NFL merchand...
- If You Have Comcast Email, You Could Be A Terrorist. Hey, are you "overly concerned about privacy" online or use anonymizers and Web portals? Do you like to check your ISP-provided email account on the road? How about talking to your cohorts in PC games? Yeah? Well, here's some bad news: according to t...
- Arctic Cooling Announces New AMD Trinity APU-Powered HTPCs. Arctic Cooling may have earned its reputation on the back of its cooling products -- hence its name -- but late last year, it introduced a line of home theater PCs based on Intel's Atom chip. It must have been pretty well-received, because Arctic re...
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- Vizio's CinemaWide 58-inch 21:9 HDTV Shipping in March for $3,500. Vizio will take a step towards ditching its reputation as strictly a value driven brand when it launches its upcoming CinemaWide 58-inch HDTV with Theater 3D technology next month. It's due in stores just in time for the NCAA's March Madness college ...
- Cooler Master Celebrates 20th Anniversary By Slashing Price of CM Storm Trooper Case. If Cooler Master was a person rather than a company that provides PC supplies, it'd almost be old enough to drink: this year marks its 20th anniversary of existence. And rather than just patting itself on its imaginary back and sending out press rele...
- PlayStation Network Yanked Offline Again for More "Routine" Maintenance. Say what you want about the Titanic, at least it only went down once. Sony's PlayStation Network? At times it feels like that ship sinks more than it swims. That isn't actually the case, of course, but frequent maintenance following the high-profile ...
- Sub-$100 Android Tablet Coming To Sprint This Weekend. Our very own Gordon Ung summed success in the tech world pretty succinctly in this month's issue: if you want to make your product a hit, it helps to make it cheap. Looks like Chinese manufacturer ZTE was paying attention. This Super Bowl Sunday, the...
- Study Concludes Kids are Sad and Lonely without Internet Access. You don't need a study to tell you that toddlers would rather eat ice cream than asparagus, but apparently one was needed to determine the level of Internet addiction among British children and teens in this day and age of ubiquitous online connectio...
Whats new in Computer Science News Infoworld News
Infoworld News
- Google finally scans malware-ridden Android Market. In an effort to improve security in its Android Market, Google has been using a service providing automated scanning of applications submitted to the mobile application store, Google revealed on Thursday afternoon. Code-named Bouncer, the service sca...
- AMD puts the brakes on adding more cores to server chips. AMD has put the brakes on adding more cores to its server chips, stopping at 16, the company said Thursday during a financial analyst day. AMD's new server chips code-named Abu Dhabi and due out in 2013 will have 16 cores, the same number as the exis...
- Security slackers risk Internet blackout on March 8. Companies and home users whose computers or routers are infected by the DNSChanger Trojan risk being unable to access the Web come March 8, 2012, when the FBI unplugs the legitimate DNS servers it set up to replace the rogue DNS servers that were for...
- AMD fundamentally shifts chip design methodology. AMD will take a fundamentally different approach to designing chips as it tries to move away from playing second fiddle to Intel. The company will blur the lines between CPUs and graphics processors in future chip design cycles, with both units shari...
- VeriSign hacked several times, won't reveal the details. In October 2011, Internet infrastructure firm VeriSign released its usual quarterly report. Buried in the 50-page filing to the SEC was the revelation that the company had been breached multiple times the previous year.
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- Microsoft team discovers malicious cookie-forwarding scheme. Microsoft researchers checking how easy it is to identify users by analyzing commonly collected Web-log data incidentally discovered a cookie-forwarding scheme that can be used to aid session hijacking.
- Dell forms software group, names former CA CEO as head. Dell on Thursday said it is forming a Software Group, which will bring together disparate products under one roof as the company tries to sharpen its end-to-end enterprise offerings. The software unit will be led by John Swainson, who will assume the...
- Internet Explorer takes unexpected jump in market share. Just when you thought Internet Explorer was on a years-long losing streak, about to drop below 50 percent of all browsing activity worldwide, the January figures from Net Applications showed a substantial, remarkable 1.19 percent jump in IE use in Ja...
- Could Facebook IPO help it dominate Google?. With the Facebook initial public offering (IPO) now official, industry and financial analysts say that a huge influx of cash could enable the social networking company to topple Google from its dominant position in the online world.
- SAP-SuccessFactors deal delayed again while U.S. regulators investigate. SAP's $3.4 billion purchase of cloud software vendor SuccessFactors has been delayed indefinitely while a U.S. regulatory body investigates the deal, an SAP spokesman confirmed Wednesday. On Wednesday SAP announced for the third time it was extending...
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- Google reveals Android malware 'Bouncer,' scans all apps. Google yesterday unveiled an automated system that scans Android apps for potential malware or unauthorized behavior, a move critics have long called the company to make.
- Lawsuit raises questions about email privacy at work. A recent lawsuit filed against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is drawing attention to the question of whether employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy when using personal email accounts on workplace computers.
- Symantec warns of Android Trojans that mutate with every download. Researchers from security vendor Symantec have identified a new premium-rate SMS Android Trojan horse that modifies its code every time it gets downloaded in order to bypass antivirus detection.
- H-1B workers are better paid, more educated, study finds. H-1B workers are better educated than U.S. born workers and earn more, according to a new study by an independent research group.
- RIM offers free PlayBook to attract Android developers. Research in Motion is trying to woo developers by giving a free BlackBerry Playbook tablet to coders who port their Android application for its BlackBerry Tablet OS.
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- Presidential candidates' mobile websites still works in progress. Despite pronouncements that they are pro-technology, all of the U.S. presidential candidates have made fairly feeble attempts at building mobile campaign websites.
- Wall Street Beat: Facebook rides wave of tech, Internet IPOs. Facebook may end up being the biggest name on the IPO calendar this year, but it's also part of a trend in which technology, and particularly Internet companies, are outpacing public offerings from businesses in other sectors.
- Facebook IPO details strategy and its vision of itself. Facebook's IPO filing spells out where CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to take the company: He sees it as having significant historical value to the economy, governments and -- he hopes -- to every person on the Web.
- Half of Fortune 500 firms infected with DNS Changer. Half of all Fortune 500 companies and major U.S. government agencies own computers infected with the "DNS Changer" malware that redirects users to fake websites and puts organizations at risk of data theft, a security company said today.
- AMD puts the brakes on adding more cores to server chips. Advanced Micro Devices has put the brakes on adding more cores to its server chips, stopping at 16, the company said Thursday during a financial analyst day.
Whats new in Computer Science News Apple Hot News
Apple Hot News
- Apple Invades Corporate Market with iPad. Bloomberg’s Peter Burrows reports that Apple is making rapid headway selling into corporations — especially financial services and pharmaceutical firms. Burrows writes that Apple’s corporate sales are being driven chiefly by iPad, which “has ...
- Apple Updates Final Cut Pro X. Apple today released Final Cut Pro X version 10.0.3, a significant update to its revolutionary professional video editing application. Version 10.0.3 introduces Multicam Editing, which automatically syncs up to 64 angles of video and photos; advanced...
- Final Cut Pro X Update Reinvents Multicam Editing. StudioDaily’s Beth Marchant reports on “key features” delivered in Final Cut Pro version 10.0.3. Marchant interviews Radical Media CTO Evan Schechtman — an early adopter of Final Cut Pro X — who calls version 10.0.3 “an even bigger deal ...
- Apple Reports Highest Quarterly Revenue and Earnings Ever. Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 first quarter, which spanned 14 weeks and ended December 31, 2011. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion, or $13.87 ...
- Apple Reinvents Textbooks with iBooks 2 for iPad. Apple today announced iBooks 2 for iPad, featuring iBooks textbooks, an entirely new kind of textbook that’s dynamic, engaging, and truly interactive. iBooks textbooks offer iPad users gorgeous, full-screen textbooks with interactive animations, d...
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- New iTunes U App for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. Apple today announced an all-new iTunes U app, giving educators and students everything they need on their iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch to teach and take entire courses. The all-new iTunes U app lets teachers create and manage courses — including ...
- iPhone 4S Arrives in China on January 13. Apple today announced that iPhone 4S will be available in China and 21 additional countries on Friday, January 13. iPhone 4S features Apple’s dual-core A5 chip for fast performance and stunning graphics; an all-new 8-megapixel camera with advanced ...
- Apple Store Grand Central Opens Friday, December 9. Just in time for the holidays, Apple’s fifth Manhattan store opens for business at New York’s world-famous Grand Central Terminal at 10 a.m. on Friday, December 9. The store overlooks the historic Main Concourse and features two Genius Bars, enti...
- iPhone 4S Adventure Video. In an interview at National Geographic’s Adventure blog, director Tim Kemple of Camp 4 Collective — an outdoor video and film production company — describes using iPhone 4S to shoot a hi-def music video at the Great Salt Lake as an experiment ...
- New Ways to Learn with Mac at Punahou School. Students at Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii, are using Mac notebooks to research class assignments and show results in ways they never could before. These include songs and podcasts recorded and edited in GarageBand, digital presentations and por...