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How the mobile internet will transform the BRICI countries

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angry tapir writes "Facebook users will soon have a new way of knocking spammers out of legitimate accounts. The social-networking company is rolling out a new security feature that lets users see which computers and devices are logged into their Facebook accounts, and then removing the ones that they don't want to have access."

LiveScience.com - Mass extinctions have served as huge reset buttons that dramatically changed the diversity of species found in oceans all over the world, according to a comprehensive study of fossil records. The findings suggest humans will live in a very different future if they drive animals to extinction, because the loss of each species can alter entire ecosystems.

It's not as mysterious as it seems, this mini-controversy about find friends on Facebook for Apple's new social music network called  —  According to sources familiar …

On Monday evening I received a phone call from someone I trust who told me that one of our interns had asked for compensation in exchange for a blog post. Specifically, this intern had allegedly asked for a Macbook Air in exchange for a post about a startup. After an investigation we determined that the allegation was true. In fact, on at least one other occasion this intern was almost certainly given a computer in ...

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Is it time for firewalls and malware protection for your car? Almost, but not quite yet, say experts. Earlier this year we reported on research from the University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego, that showed how researchers were able to...

As we pointed out earlier, today is Google Chrome's second birthday. Since it launched in beta on September 2, 2008, it has come a long way (it's already 6 versions deep). Back then, it was Windows-only, with official Mac and Linux support only coming late last year. But now it's on the verge of another milestone: becoming the top browser coming to this site. I've checked out our logs over the past few years to see how well Chrome has been doing compared to its rival browsers. The numbers are shockingly strong for such a new entry -- particularly in the past year. Obviously, TechCrunch has a tech-centric audience, but I don't think it's off-base to say that you're also a leading audience of early adopters that often point to where the general public will be in the future.

Zing! Burn! Ouch! We know, it's too easy, but we just had to. Sony, HP and lots of others have dealt with burn-related recalls in the past, and now it's Toshiba's turn. Today, the company has issued a voluntary recall on their T Series notebook computers due to a

Samsung introduced its Galaxy Tab tablet computer at the IFA show in Germany. With two cameras for video conferencing and phone capabilities, the Android-powered Galaxy Tab aims to outdo Apple

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Well, well, what's this? Looks like Roku has some bigger plans for hitting back at the $99 Apple TV than just price cuts of its

Space agency hopes to send a spacecraft into the solar atmosphere by 2018.

This extremely odd video, titled “Iterating My Way Into Oblivion,” features a guy listening to a computer voice reading YouTube’s terms of service. It slowly drives him insane.

The implosion of Digg is happening. It is an unstoppable conclusion to events that have been in motion since last week and will continue until the full

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devjj writes "For the past year or so I have been trying (and failing) to figure out a reasonable solution for bringing my large media library to my living room. All of my media lives on an Ubuntu server that sits on my network. It's been very reliable and it's fast enough for streaming purposes. My content is exposed via SMB. It's the living room side where I keep running into problems. I am currently using Windows 7 and XBMC, but the case is too big and noisy, I don't particularly care for Windows, and the whole thing just seems overkill. What I want is a device that can present a decent UI that the non-Slashdot crowd would be able to use, but that is still powerful enough to stream full-fidelity 1080p. I dream of a small box that can transcode video over a network, but that's probably a pipe dream. The new Apple TV would be great if it could connect to network shares. What say you, Slashdot? Is what I'm looking for possible, or should I just give in to the iTunes/Amazon/whatever juggernauts?"

RichardSanders writes "This recent publication provides an accessible introduction to using Mahara within business and academic settings. It is great to see that the authors' work for TDM, who provide Mahara & Moodle based solutions for a broad range of clients. This professional experience has contributed to a coherent and easy to follow text that provides essential information for new users. This comes as no surprise, as many individuals within the academic sector regularly benefit from Derrin's advice within mailing lists concerned with educational technologies." Keep reading for the rest of Richard's review

An anonymous reader writes "The has been a lot of buzz in the industry lately about NoSQL databases helping Twitter, Amazon, and Digg scale their transactional workloads. But there has been some recent pushback from database luminaries such as Michael Stonebraker. Now, a couple of researchers at Yale University claim that NoSQL is no longer necessary now that they have scaled traditional ACID compliant database systems."

An anonymous reader writes "Responses to a survey from attendees of the DEFCON 18 conference revealed that 73% came across a misconfigured network more than three quarters of the time – which, according to 76% of the sample, was the easiest IT resource to exploit. Results revealed that 18% of professionals believe misconfigured networks are the result of insufficient time or money for audits. 14% felt that compliance audits that don't always capture security best practices are a factor and 11% felt that threat vectors that change faster than they can be addressed play a key role."

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Galen Gruman reports on the future of mobile security — one that will see a significant rise in exploits as valuable information increasingly migrates to mobile devices. To date, sandboxing and code-signing have helped make mobile OSes relatively secure, when compared with their desktop brethren. But as devices store more valuable information than email, they will become more enticing to hackers currently breaking into Windows PCs. And the biggest bulls-eye appears to be on Android, in large part because its architecture is most like that of the desktop PC but also because there are so many variants in use — too many for Google or the carriers to patch securely. And as the PDF-jailbreak vulnerability showed, sandboxing has its limits when it comes to securing the browser — the most likely point of entry for exploits not due to the rise of extensions, helper objects, and plug-ins on the mobile Web."

theodp writes "Universities really should tell engineering students what to expect in the long term and how to manage their technical careers. Citing ex-Microsoft CTO David Vaskevitch's belief that younger workers have more energy and are sometimes more creative, Wadwha warns that reports of ageism's death have been greatly exaggerated. While encouraging managers to consider the value of the experience older techies bring, Wadwha also offers some get-real advice to those whose hair is beginning to grey: 1) Move up the ladder into management, architecture, or design; switch to sales or product management; jump ship and become an entrepreneur. 2) If you're going to stay in programming, realize that the deck is stacked against you, so be prepared to earn less as you gain experience. 3) Keep your skills current — to be coding for a living when you're 50, you'll need to be able to out-code the new kids on the block. Wadwha's piece strikes a chord with 50-something Dave Winer, who calls the rampant ageism 'really f***ed up,' adding that, 'It's probably the reason why we keep going around in the same loops over and over, because we chuck our experience, wholesale, every ten years or so.'"

An anonymous reader writes "After two years of gestation, 4 betas, 2 release candidates and thousands of commits by 1600+ contributors, the result of the succesful merge of the Merb and Rails frameworks (and teams) is now out and ready to transport your web applications on all new shiny tracks."

Martin Hellman writes "According to an article in Nature magazine, quantum hackers have performed the first 'invisible' attack on two commercial quantum cryptographic systems. By using lasers on the systems — which use quantum states of light to encrypt information for transmission —' they have fully cracked their encryption keys, yet left no trace of the hack.'"

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the University of Virginia have recently open sourced an algorithm capable of sorting at a rate of one billion (integer) keys per second using a GPU. Although GPUs are often assumed to be poorly suited for algorithms like sorting, their results are several times faster than the best known CPU-based sorting implementations."

Yesterday, at the Apple music event in San Francisco, I had a short chat with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, as he strolled through the demo room for the media, just after he had announced various updates for the iPod …

Steve Jobs just pulled out the world famous “one more thing” for nothing other than... a new Apple TV.  It's now a streaming-focused device with an in a small matte black enclosure we're calling “the hockey puck.”  It has HDMI, Ethernet, optical audio and USB plugs around back …

Apple unveiled the new iPod touch today at their special event, along with several other music- and media-related devices.  Of course, we've been hearing murmurs and leaks about it for some time now, and the new device pretty much tallies with our expectations.

Manual updating, hit F5!  —  9:54AM - All the players are here: Cook, Forstall, Mansfield, Schiller.  No Ive, though, at least not from where we're seated.  Maybe he's back up in the balcony.  With a monocle.  —  9:49AM - Alright!

Apple is live streaming Wednesday's iPod event as a test of its massive new data center, we've been informed by a source.  —  Apple's first live video broadcast in years is a test of the server farm's ability …

What:  —  Live video stream of Apple's September 1 event  —  When:  —  Where:  —  www.apple.com  —  Live Video Streaming  —  Apple® will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apple's industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming …

Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc., preparing to announce a new set-top box that delivers TV to consumers, will include movies from Netflix Inc., according to three people with knowledge of the plans.

Hey, do you hate reading?  Well, finally Apple is feeling your pain.  Tomorrow at 10AM PT, Apple will stream its fall event directly to your Mac, iPhone, iPad, or iPod as it unfolds.  Of course, if you're a Windows user or you're wielding some kind …

People tell us all that time that they're getting more and more mail and often feel overwhelmed by it all.  We know what you mean—here at Google we run on email.  Our inboxes are slammed with hundreds, sometimes thousands of messages a day …

中国互联网是开放自由的，但Youtube上有太多伤害未成年人的视频了，于是我国依法将其屏蔽。 在写这篇文章时我很矛盾，到底要不要将方法从小圈子里公开到较大的圈子里，因为这样做可能会加速解决方案被相关部门取缔。但后来我想，即使只是在小圈子传播，相关部门也必须为了年终奖金做点什么，不然真的对不起5毛钱的工资。 所以，与其在小圈子里传播，倒不如让所有人都用上，起码能用上好一段时间。这篇文章分别介绍3个不翻墙上Youtube的方法，从简单到复杂。 一、山寨Youtube 山寨Youtube的网址是 www.youtubecn.com ，它利用Youtube的API，获取视频的地址后将其替换成一个还未被墙的地址，并使用第三方播放器播放。 事实上原理我们不需要知道，仅仅知道在这里能观看Youtube视频即可。 二、TubeWall脚本 TubeWall脚本是本文的重点推荐。 仅仅解决了主动观看Youtube视频是不足够的，很多网站、博客都嵌入了Youtube的视频，在不用代理的情况下，网页上就出现了一个又一个的“洞”。 于是很容易想到，能否用和山寨Youtube同样的原理，将网页上嵌入式Youtube视频的地址替换成还没被依法取缔的呢？ 答案是可以的。推友 @darasion 编写了TubeWall脚本，安装这个脚本后，网页上嵌入式Youtube播放器会被替换成第三方播放器，无需翻墙即可播放。同时，你还可以直接下载视频。 TubeWall脚本可以安装在Firefox（需要先安装Greasemonkey）、Chrome、Opera。点击这里直接安装。 安装TubeWall脚本后，如果网页上出现了Youtube的视频地址，点击后会弹出一个视频播放器直接播放。你可以在安装脚本后点击下面链接： http://www.youtub... 三、搭建一个TubeWall客户端 如果山寨Youtube也被依法取缔了，在不使用代理的情况下，我们如何主动观看Youtube的视频呢？ 这时我们或许会想，要是山寨Youtube开放源代码多好啊，我们自己就可以搭建一个。 实际上它没有开放源代码。但TubeWall的作者 @darasion 除了写了脚本外，还做了一个TubeWall网页版，并且将其开源。 只要你有一个PHP空间，就能在这里下载TubeWall网页版的源代码，上传到空间里你就能拥有另一个山寨版Youtube了。 相关文章： 【视频】胡紫薇大闹CCTV5改名发布会-家丑怎能如此外扬？ 小学生的成人行为 中文Twitter用户群抽样调查 因为在中国，所以有话题 一位Google员工及韩寒对Google退出中国的看法 宁为玉碎，不为瓦全-为Google喝彩 © 可能吧 | 查看原文 | 进行评论

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Because many of you use twitter.com to read and write tweets, we've been spending some time focusing on ways to improve your experience on the site. Today, we're introducing a feature called Hovercards that will be a handy way to interact with the folks behind each tweet.On any timeline, as its namesake suggests, Hovercards are cards which appear when you hover over a username or avatar. The cards display additional information about the person and ...

Something tells me Kwedit, which launches today, is going to be a hit. It’s a new payment service that absolutely doesn’t guarantee payments. In fact, its unreliability is what makes it so attractive to social game publishers and other people selling virtual goods. It’s also a great way to let the unbanked masses out there pay for stuff without getting sucked in to scamville-type scams. The product is called Kwedit Promise. Here’s how Kwedit works: ...

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