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• Q&A: Avoiding Botnets With a Mac - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  Windows PCs are often the main targets of malicious software that loops infected computers into remote-controlled networks called botnets, but Macs are not immune.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• What is a good command-line IRC client on Linux - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  

   xmodulo: Now replaced more and more by forums, social networks, or mailing lists, IRC was once the method of communication of the web.

  
  
• How To Patch and Protect Linux Server Against the Glibc GHOST Vulnerability # CVE-2015-0235 - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  

  Nixcraft: How do I verify that my server has been fixed against the Glibc GHOST vulnerability?

  
  
• Facebook earnings beat expectations - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  The social network reports fourth-quarter profits of $701m, a 34% increase from the same period a year earlier, buoyed by strong mobile advertising sales.
  
• Vivaldi - Awesome Multi-Platform Browser Including Linux - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  

   linoxide: A new browser is on the market.

  
  
• Embedded Linux Conference hijacked by drones - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  

   LinuxGizmos: The Embedded Linux Conference + Android Builders Summit on Mar. 23-25 in San Jose is about "Drones, Things, and Automobiles," but drones get the most love.

  
  
• Just Switch to Linux if You Want to Download Lots of Freeware - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  

  HowToGeek: There’s a systemic problem in the Windows software ecosystem.

  
  
• Sony Teams Spotify With PlayStation for Music Streaming Plans - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  Sony announced that Spotify will effectively replace Music Unlimited this spring in 41 countries.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• App Smart: English Grammar Aids for Both Native Speakers and Students - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  Everyone can struggle with English grammar’s complexities; these apps can improve your knowledge whatever your level of proficiency.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Gadgetwise: The New Pleasures of Photo Printing - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  The Canon Pixma Pro-100 sells for around half the price of a top-of-the-line model and still delivers luscious color photos.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Machine Learning: Video Feature: Signs That Virtual Reality Is on the Verge of Taking Off - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  Major technology and media companies are investing heavily in virtual reality, a signal that the experience may soon be ready for mass consumption.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Installing and using Git and Github on Ubuntu: A beginner's guide - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  

   HowToForge: GitHub is a treasure trove of some of the world's best projects, built by the contributions of developers all across the globe.

  
  
• Setting up a private Docker registry - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  

  Why would you want to set up a private registry?

  
  
• Drone firm blocks White House flights - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  Chinese drone-maker DJI is to prevent its kit from flying over much of the US capital, following the crash of one of its aircraft into the White House lawn.
  
• Samsung earnings hit by mobile sales - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics reported its first annual earnings decline in three years.
  
• Coder creates smallest chess game - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  A computer programmer creates a computer chess program that takes up only 487 bytes of data, breaking a 33-year-old record.
  
• AI will not kill us, says Microsoft - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  The chief of Microsoft's research division says he does not believe artificial intelligence systems are going to wipe out humankind.
  
• 'Sanction tech firms', says Hollande - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  France's President calls for an international legal framework to force tech companies to 'face up to their responsibilities'.
  
• China tech giant in spat with state - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  China's biggest internet retailer, Alibaba, is involved in a harshly worded spat with one of the country's regulators in a highly unusual public clash.
  
• VMware OpenStack Customers Growing Faster than Overall Business - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  

  ServerWatch: 2014 was a big year for virtualization vendor VMware, but CEO Pat Gelsinger is not going to let his company rest on its laurels anytime soon.

  
  
• VIDEO: How Apple made 'biggest profit ever' - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  US technology giant Apple has reported the biggest quarterly profit ever made by a public company.
  
• VIDEO: Smart goggles for hi-tech bobbies - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  A range of new tech ideas for the UK's police forces, including facial recognition, has been demonstrated.
  
• India sex-test ad ban for tech firms - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  India's Supreme Court orders internet giants Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to block adverts for tests that determine a child's sex before birth.
  
• Apple profit 'biggest in history' - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  Record sales of iPhones help Apple to report a first quarter profit of $18bn, the biggest ever quarterly profit for a public company.
  
• Dying Light Released For Linux, Some Thoughts, You May Want To Wait - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  

   GamingOnLinux: It's quite hard to contain my excitement about this game, but as always we will give it a fair look and tell you what we think about Dying Light.

  
  
• NASA marks space disaster anniversaries with day of remembrance - FOX News
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  NASA is honoring its fallen astronauts with a special day of remembrance Wednesday.
  
• State of the Art: Uber’s Business Model Could Change Your Work - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  New technologies have the potential to divide a variety of traditional jobs into tasks that can be assigned to people just when they’re needed.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Space probe launched to study northern lights - FOX News
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  NASA and Utah State University successfully launched a probe into the northern lights early on Wednesday.
  
• Part of Easter Island mystery solved - FOX News
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  The ongoing debate over what prompted the decline of Easter Island's native Polynesian inhabitants, known as Rapa Nui, is being clarified by scientists digging for answers in the soil.
  
• Found! 5 ancient alien planets nearly as old as the universe - FOX News
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  Five rocky alien worlds that are 80 percent as old as the universe itself have been discovered, suggesting that Earth-size planets have been a feature of the Milky Way galaxy almost since its beginning.
  
• Medieval skulls reveal long-term risk of brain injuries - FOX News
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  Skull fractures can lead to an early death, even if the victims initially survived the injuries, according to a new study that looked at skulls from three Danish cemeteries with funeral plots dating from the 12th to the 17th centuries
  
• Giant planet boasts rings 200 times bigger than Saturn's - FOX News
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  In 2012, scientists discovered a giant exoplanet (one that orbits a star other than our sun) with a ring system so impressive it eclipses its own host star.
  
• Blackbeard's Booty: Pirate ship yields medical supplies - FOX News
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  Archaeologists are excavating the vessel that served as the flagship of the pirate Blackbeard, and the medical equipment they have recovered from the shipwreck suggests the notorious buccaneer had to toil to keep his crew healthy
  
• Timeline of the connected generation - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 27 Jan 2015
  A timeline of the major developments in news technology and what is expected to come next.
  
• VIDEO: Future of News - BBC Editors look at Technology, People and Stories - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 27 Jan 2015
  Future of News - BBC Editors look at Technology, People and Stories
  
• Twitter adds group messages and video - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 27 Jan 2015
  The social network activates promised new features in an attempt to boost engagement on Twitter.
  
• Unexpected find: Seating plan for Rome's Colosseum - FOX News
  Tue, 27 Jan 2015
  Spectators who once flocked to Rome's Colosseum could find their seats with the help of red numbers painted over entrance archways.
  
• Yahoo to spin-off Alibaba stake - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 27 Jan 2015
  Yahoo announces a plan to spin-off its 15% stake in China's Alibaba Group and hand the business to its shareholders.
  
• Scanner locates potential potholes - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 27 Jan 2015
  Smart scanners that can identify the sites of potholes before they form are being developed by academics at Nottingham Trent University.
  
• Web attacks 'growing' in volume - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 27 Jan 2015
  Hacktivists and angry gamers are becoming the main users of net attacks that knock sites offline by bombarding them with data, suggests a report
  
• New York dodges blizzard bullet, but weather models under scrutiny - FOX News
  Tue, 27 Jan 2015
  The record snow storm that was expected to pummel the Northeast on Tuesday failed to live up to its epic billing in the New York/New Jersey region — though it did hammer much of New England — putting the weather models used to predict the blizzard into question.
  
• Police raid Amazon's Tokyo offices - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 27 Jan 2015
  Japanese police have raided Amazon's Tokyo offices as part of an investigation into alleged sales of images of child sexual abuse.
  
• Electronic Arts shares up on results - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 27 Jan 2015
  Shares in Electronic Arts jump almost 5% after the video games publisher reports stronger than expected results.
  
• Revived snoopers' charter shelved - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 27 Jan 2015
  An attempt to bring back the controversial measures is dropped, but peers demand to see the government's private draft of new legislation instead.
  
• Wired dazed after offer goes viral - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 27 Jan 2015
  Wired magazine apologises to subscribers after becoming "overwhelmed" by demand for a fitness tracker gift offer that went viral on the internet.
  
• Battery-powered device still running, 175 years later - FOX News
  Tue, 27 Jan 2015
  Like scientific mysteries?
  
• Bits Blog: Twitter Adds Group Messaging and Video Recording - NYT > Personal Tech
  Tue, 27 Jan 2015
  In an effort to catch up to rival services like Facebook, Twitter will now allow people to shoot, edit and post video directly from its mobile apps. Also, private messages on the service can now be sent to as many as 20 people.
  
  
• VIDEO: 'Holodeck’ recreates crimes in 3D - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 27 Jan 2015
  Researchers have developed a virtual reality system that recreates crime scenes as virtual worlds.
  
• VIDEO: 3D printed heart saves girl's life - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 27 Jan 2015
  A two-year-old girl who was born with a serious heart defect has had a life-saving operation thanks to a 3D printer.
  
• VIDEO: Peers try to revive 'snooping' powers - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 27 Jan 2015
  Four Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem peers try re-introduce Communications Data Bill powers to aid security services.
  
• VIDEO: Tech helps lifts scale new heights - BBC News - Technology
  Mon, 26 Jan 2015
  How technology will allow lifts to go higher than ever before and even move sideways
  
• VIDEO: How was Malaysia Airlines 'hacked'? - BBC News - Technology
  Mon, 26 Jan 2015
  The website for Malaysia Airlines was rendered inaccessible thanks to a cyber-attack. But how did it happen? BBC technology reporter Dave Lee explains.
  
• VIDEO: Tackling the rise of cyber-stalking - BBC News - Technology
  Sun, 25 Jan 2015
  Advances in technology have led to an increase in cyber-stalking, but what is the best way of tackling the problem and deterring the stalkers?
  
• Q&A: Sharing iTunes With the Whole Family - NYT > Personal Tech
  Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  How to keep a passing interest from following you around on Google Now.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• VIDEO: Park your car with a smartwatch - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  From the cars that steer themselves to smartphone apps that monitor your driving
  
• Wheels: If a Car Is Going to Self-Drive, It Might as Well Self-Park, Too - NYT > Personal Tech
  Thu, 22 Jan 2015
  BMW has created a system that actually obeys when a driver says to the car, “Go park yourself.” Other companies are also working on the technology.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Machine Learning: Video Feature: Conjuring the Most From Google Android - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 21 Jan 2015
  All of these tips work on the latest version of Android, known as Lollipop, but many of them work on the previous version, too.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• App Smart: Video Feature: For Musicians, Apps for Tuning, Keeping Time and Organizing Charts - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 21 Jan 2015
  Getting to the music faster is easy with apps for the mundane tasks, like getting in tune and planning your set list.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Gadgetwise: Take-Along Chargers That Pack Power - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 21 Jan 2015
  The right external accessory can double the battery life of your mobile device and offer an option when an electrical outlet isn’t available.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• State of the Art: Marissa Mayer’s Plan for Yahoo Takes Hold. The Question Now Is Time. - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 21 Jan 2015
  Marissa Mayer has made sharp acquisitions and rebuilt crucial products, but her future may depend on reaction to her plans for the Alibaba investment.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Disruptions: The Sorry State of In-Flight Wi-Fi - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 21 Jan 2015
  Wi-Fi on commercial flights is slow, unreliable and expensive.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Q&A: Abandoning the Lollipop Ship - NYT > Personal Tech
  Tue, 20 Jan 2015
  Also, how to set up a “hybrid” network of wired and wireless connections.
  
  
• Broadband Nation: Obama Calls for More Internet Options for Consumers - NYT > Personal Tech
  Tue, 20 Jan 2015
  The goal is to increase competition among Internet providers and spur better prices and service.
  
  
• App City: An App, Memo, for Anonymous Discussion of a Company - NYT > Personal Tech
  Sat, 17 Jan 2015
  Memo is an app that wants to elevate water-cooler talk so that the good ideas and criticism of company practices are accessible to everyone in the company. It is an anonymous message board within specific workplaces.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Q&A: Cleaning Up the Mac’s Printers List - NYT > Personal Tech
  Fri, 16 Jan 2015
  Tidying lists after a printer upgrade, and how to excise recently watched movies from Netflix’s list.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• U.S. Discloses New Trove of Phone Call Records - NYT > Personal Tech
  Fri, 16 Jan 2015
  The database contains calls between the United States and abroad as part of an effort to catch drug traffickers — but data was collected on people not involved in criminal activity.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Digital Dilemmas: Technology Has Made Life Different, but Not Necessarily More Stressful - NYT > Personal Tech
  Thu, 15 Jan 2015
  It is conventional wisdom that things like frequent email checking and heavy use of social media make people twitchy. But is it true?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• VIDEO: CES 2015: Testing the latest drones - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 09 Jan 2015
  The BBC Click team put three of the latest drones through their paces
  
• VIDEO: The robot that paints your nails - BBC News - Technology
  Mon, 22 Dec 2014
  A Japanese robot has been programmed to take on a range of tasks - from painting nails to cooking.