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Trekkers Rejoice! Star Trek MMO First Look
I can’t tell you just how long I’ve been waiting for this bad boy to be released! I’d heard rumors of it as far back as two years ago, when NCSoft was shutting down some of its earlier developed...
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Computer Program to Take On ‘Jeopardy!’
If the program designed by IBM can beat human "Jeopardy!" contestants, the field of artificial intelligence will have made a leap forward.
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New Zealand and Australia Get First Dibs on Win7
The first retail sales of Windows 7 will take place in New Zealand and Australia on 22 October, Microsoft confirmed this week. In other Win7 news, Microsoft releases the Windows 7 box art.
View ArticleFirefox Has a New Icon
Mozilla showcases a new icon for Firefox. I have to admit, this thing rocks and is so different! </sarcasm>
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Sergey Brin Blows Smoke Up Your A**
“Big Money” analyzes Sergey Brin’s NYTimes op-ed piece proclaiming Google has your best interest at heart in the Google Book Search project: At least it’s an exotic experience. How many times have you...
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NSA role in Windows 7 development raises privacy concerns
The National Security Agency (NSA) worked with Microsoft on the development of Windows 7, an agency official acknowledged this week during testimony before Congress. Privacy experts say the NSA could...
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Study: Developers would rather do taxes than test software
CNET discusses research performed by Electric Cloud that indicates software developers hate testing. They despise it so much they’d rather work on their tax documentation than test. Come on, I’m a...
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The Most Common Smartphone Passcodes
Daniel Amitay collected passcodes from thousands of iPhones and provides some analysis of the passcodes people are using on the smartphone. This is really interesting stuff. The Top 10 iPhone...
View ArticleNew Kickstarter Project: SanJiten – Language Learning Made Fun
I’m now a backer for this neat Kickstarter project, and I think this will help me in my study of Chinese (Mandarin). This project is about funding a 3D language learning game for multiple languages:...
View ArticleApps that help you pass the time
Apps that help you pass the time There is always the possibility to be caught passing the time just because the bus or the train has not yet arrived or lining up to get a ticket or an entry to a...
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Skype as “Universal Translator”
Microsoft has released its first preview of Skype Translator, which allows real-time conversations between spoken English and Spanish and will be extended to more languages. The program will learn by...
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New Machine Learning Course on Coursera
Coursera has just opened a new version of the course “Machine Learning” in the on demand format. Machine learning is the science of getting computers to act without being explicitly programmed. In...
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United Airlines Rolls Out Bug Bounty Program
Earlier in the year, 10k frequent flier accounts were hacked, United is trying to make up for this by leveraging the expertise of the broader community of software engineers. To be clear, this program...
View Article3 Great Services to Help You Test Your SMTP Server
When you are crafting an application which is supposed to send emails to customers, it is a good idea to test its email delivery functionality. Making sure that you are not sending messages to real...
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On Demand Everything – Get Xperts
First Uber made transportation an on demand service, then companies like AirBnb and Hotel Tonight made travel and housing an on demand service. Now you can get everything on demand from a dog sitter...
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You can now stream movies from The Pirate Bay & Popcorn Time
Popcorn Time has made a comeback with the launch of its new Web version – Popcorn Time Online – that allows users to stream all of the movies and TV shows it offers (illegally) directly in their...
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How Google’s Brain is Making Marketing More Personal
https://pixabay.com/en/content-is-king-online-marketing-1132257/ If there’s one marketing trend that’s likely to become more relevant to webmasters and ad agencies in 2016, it’s Google’s desire to...
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Zolt – My Favorite New Mobile App
Here’s a cool news app I recently discovered and testing on my iPhone (also for Android) called Zolt. Zolt’s slogan is: Helping You Stay Updated, Quickly Sometimes you’ve got five minutes to kill, so...
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Artificial Intelligence as a Blogging Topic
A friend asked me recently if he should get into blogging, I told him “yes!”, because I think it’ll help him hone a writing style and to get comfortable being exposed in social media and the pluses...
View ArticleThe Top Tips and Tricks for Picking a Strong Password
Hacking and compromised online data is on the rise — a record-breaking 47% of U.S. adults were the victims of hacking in 2014 alone. A recent study reported that nearly 75% of consumers use duplicate...
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