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Apple has agreed to pay a$450 million settlement over an ebook lawsuit
Apple has provisionally agreed to a $450 million settlement over an ebook price-fixing lawsuit, saying it will make the payment if its appeal doesn't go through. The company was sued...
The invisible.im project wants to provide spy-proof chat for whistleblowers
A group of security experts have joined forces to create a secure, spy-proof instant messaging platform that the team hopes “will become the de facto standard for instant message conversations...
This new Bitcoin mining system would reward people for storing data
Other than generating lucre, Bitcoin mining does nothing but waste time and energy. That's why researchers from Microsoft and the University of Maryland have developed "Permacoins" which reward you for actually doing something...
Using Linux and lasers, researchers can now control the minds of fruit flies
Imagine you're a fruit fly, sniffing your way to your next feast of overripe produce. Suddenly, out of the blue you become engulfed in indigo light. Immediately you forget about the...
American gamers blow up 1:1 replica of Denmark in Minecraft
The Danish Geodata Agency recently recreated the entire country of Denmark in Minecraft at a 1:1 scale. It’s one of the biggest Minecraft creations ever, made up of about 4000...
Voicemails on two U.K. mobile providers are wide open to being hacked
With the phone-hacking scandal still playing out in the courts, it should be safe to assume that UK mobile operators have put measures in place protect customers' own voicemail inboxes....
Google addresses 10 myths about Google Glass
In a recent post on Google+, the Glass team addressed the top 10 myths related to the futuristic augmented reality visor in an effort to simply "clear the air." Privacy concerning Glass...
Apple patent suggests Siri may soon remind you to take your meds
For those of us who have gotten on in age, you know that some parts of our bodies are not what they used to be when we were much younger....
U.K. National Health Service tries to convince Microsoft to extend support for XP
Microsoft has recently urged XP users to make the upgrade to Windows 8. Well, it seems that such advice has fallen on deaf ears, at least where the UK’s National Health Service...
People are questioning Google’s sketchy, secret EU antitrust deal
Google appears to have managed to avoid a costly fine in Europe where the Competition Commissioner Joaquín Almunia was investigating the company for antitrust practices related to its local Search business, after a...
Dell to cut over 15,000 jobs this week amid shrinking PC market
PC powerhouse Dell is to axe over 15,000 jobs this week as part of a restructuring effort aimed at addressing its place in the ailing PC market. The decision will see...
XP’s expiration will expose thousands of government PCs to malware
An investigation into the numbers of PCs, conducted by The Register, in the public sector still running Windows XP has revealed that many thousands will still be using the operating system, even...
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