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When Antivirus Firms Can’t Tell They’ve Been Hacked, We’re All Doomed

Symantec has been scrabbling around trying address a security breach from 2006 that came to light recently. But the fact that the company wasn’t sure its was hacked in the first place doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. Symantec originally said that the worst case scenario was that hackers had…

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Samsung Galaxy Note teardown shows small LTE chip

We often see third-party device teardowns but Samsung bucks the trend by showing breakdown of its 5.3-inch Galaxy Note. Those who say Android screens are getting larger mainly because of LTE radio size need to take a closer look at this dissection. I think they’re wrong.

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Google+ opens up to teenagers

Google on Thursday opened up Google+ to teenagers, just days after loosening the rules about using real names on the social network.

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Apple ‘attacking problems’ at its factories in China -

Apple has defended its ethical standards after a newspaper reported factories in China rely on child labour, 24 hour days and unsafe conditions to manufacture iPhones, iPads and computers.

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How to Hide Ads in Gmail

If Gmail’s ads—especially the new, experimental image ads—are annoying you but you don’t want to go all out and install a sledgehammer ad blocker like AdBlock Plus, here are a few ways to keep Gmail ads from infiltrating your inbox.

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The Great Disk Drive in the Sky: How Web giants store big—and we mean big—data

Data needs at Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have driven the development of distributed file systems such as GFS and Dynamo. The decisions and trade-offs of each can explain a lot about why cloud services work the way they do—and why they sometimes don’t behave well at all.

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Bill Gates: ‘I wrote Steve Jobs a letter as he was dying. He kept it by his bed’

People’s plutocrat Bill Gates talks about friendly rivalry, and how to get
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Apple Patent filing hints at possible Touchscreen TV remote

A newly-published patent application, originally submitted in September, hints at some of what Apple might have planned for its rumored TV set. The filing is titled Apparatus and Method to Facilitate Universal Remote Control, and complains that most

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FBI seeking social media monitoring tool

WASHINGTON — The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for a tool to mine social media for intelligence tips. The US domestic law enforcement agency is asking information technology contractors about the feasibility of building a tool that would “enhance its techniques for collecting and sharing ‘open source’ actionable intelligence.”

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Welcome to Minority Report IRL: Police armed with pre-crime detection tools

Welcome to Minority Report in real life as police are being increasingly federalized by Homeland Security and taken deeper into the intelligence apparatus to hunt homegrown terrorists. Some police are armed with cutting edge crime detection tools. In New Jersey, cops can shine a red pre-crime spotlight to mark people up to a block away before they might commit a crime. The NYPD are testing a gun-scanning technology called Terahertz Imaging Detection. You could secretly be scanned to see if you are packing heat and not even know it.

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