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An emotional Bill Gates details his last visit with Steve Jobs
The charitable work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was the focus of the Microsoft founder’s recent 60 Minutes interview with Charlie Rose, but the longtime richest man in the world got emotional when the conversation turned to friend and rival Steve Jobs.
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Why Windows 8 Is Such an Important Step for Microsoft's future
Windows 8 is not Microsoft's first rodeo, but it's the most important version of the operating system since Windows 3.0 when it comes to the future of Microsoft. If Microsoft succeeds, it will cement its position atop the tech pyramid for another generation.
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How I 'stole' $14 million from a bank: A security tester's tale
Hacking into a bank is surprisingly easy. This expert has the receipt to prove it.
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Russia's Internet Use Is Exploding
Levada just released a fascinating poll on Russians’ use of computers. While I knew that Russians were increasingly likely to use the internet, a phenomenon which largely explains the emergence of a tech-savvy person like Alexey Navalny, even I was shocked by the sheer scale of change and the rapidity with which internet use has become the norm.
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Father of GIFs: 'It's Pronounced JIF'
Steve Wilhite, the father of Graphics Interchange Format (GIFs), has ended the heated debate on how to pronounce "GIF" at this year's Webby Awards.
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How Vintage Apple Computers Used to Sell
Original Apple-1 computers can now sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars at professional auctions. But the vintage machines have been selling informally for years. The story of the 1997 sale of an Apple-1, now residing at the Computer History Museum, shows how things worked in simpler times. That Apple-1 was a treasured prize for the young entrepreneur who bought it, and the sale was a financial lifeline for a struggling single mother.
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EA: PS4, XBox One Are a 'Generation Ahead' of Gaming PCs
Rajat Taneja, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Electronic Arts, conjured up an article on LinkedIn of all places talking about the technology behind Microsoft's new Xbox One console. He claims that both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are somehow five years ahead of the most extravagant PCs today due to their system-on-chip (SoC) architecture.
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US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to attack pirates!
The hilariously named "Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property" has finally released its report, an 84-page tome that's pretty bonkers. But amidst all that crazy, there's a bit that stands out as particularly insane: a proposal to legalize the use of malware in order to punish people believed to be copying illegally.
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Intel launches Haswell processors: here's what you need to know
Last year, Intel's Ivy Bridge processors provided a modest but very welcome speed bump, just in time for all of the crazy transforming computers which heralded the launch of Windows 8.
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Wanted for the Internet of Things: Ant-Sized Computers
A computer two millimeters square is the start of an effort to make chips that can put computer power just about anywhere for the vaunted “Internet of Things.”
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China surpassing U.S. with 54.9 petaflop supercomputer
China has produced a supercomputer capable of 54.9 petaflops, more than twice the speed of any system in the U.S., according to a U.S. researcher who was in China last week and learned the details.
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The Unlikely Evolution Of The @ Symbol
What makes this such an incredible feat is that before until about 20 years ago, few people had ever used an @ symbol at all, and if they did, they used it in a very different way than they do now.
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Why Acer!!???
I just don't see how this touch pad placement could EVER be comfortable!
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Why PRISM kills the cloud
The migration from desktop computing to the cloud is on every tech firm's playlist this season, with Apple expected to deliver improvements to iCloud later today -- but recent revelations regarding the US government's PRISM could be the kiss of death to the future of the cloud.
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Anonymous to release secret North Korea military documents June 25
The global hacktivist collective claims that it has hacked the Kwangmyong, North Korea’s internal intranet system.
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The History of Early Computing Machines, from Ancient Times to 1981
From the abacus to the IBM personal computer, calculating devices have come a long way. Let's take a look through the history of these machines and the remarkable progress that came with the 20th century.
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How Our Visions of Virtual Reality Have Changed in the Past 40 Years
The other day, Second Life celebrated its 10-year anniversary. But long before that venerable virtual world came into existence, we were dreaming up images of virtual reality and cyberspace.
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US government declares hacking an act of war, then hacks allies
Revelations from European leaders on Monday that the National Security Agency bugged European Union offices in Washington and hacked into its computer network bring to light hypocrisy on the part of the U.S. government.
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Meet the Most Important Tech Company You’ve Never Heard Of
Why are laptops batteries getting so much better? The nominal reason is the new Intel processor Haswell—the dramatic result of Intel’s yearslong effort to alter its core assumptions about the future of technology. For much of its life, Intel optimized its processors for speed—every year, the chip giant released new ones that were the fastest ever, because it guessed that computers could never get too powerful.
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Computer mouse inventor Douglas Engelbart dies
Douglas Engelbart, whose invention of the mouse transformed the way people interact with computers, has died. Engelbart died Tuesday night at his home in Atherton, California, SRI International -- the research institute where he once worked -- said in a statement. He was 88.
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