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• Leonard Nimoy, who died at 83, gets Vulcan hand salute from Space Station - FOX News
  Sat, 28 Feb 2015
  A NASA astronaut on board the International Space Station tweeted a picture Saturday from orbit of a 'Vulcan' hand salute as a tribute to actor Leonard Nimoy, known best for his 'Star Trek' role as 'Mr. Spock.'
  
• Writebox Review - The Best Distraction-Free Text Editor - LinuxToday News
  Sat, 28 Feb 2015
  

   softpedia: Writebox is a simple text editor that provides almost no features.

  
  
• Starting with Vagrant on Ubuntu 14.10 - A Beginner's Guide - LinuxToday News
  Sat, 28 Feb 2015
  

   HowToForge: Vagrant is an highly efficient tool for managing virtual machines via CLI.

  
  
• BBC launches Richard III on WhatsApp - BBC News - Technology
  Sat, 28 Feb 2015
  BBC launches a WhatsApp service so you can get Richard III updates direct to your phone.
  
• Apps in pockets, bums on seats - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  Keeping cinema affordable after Orange Wednesday's demise
  
• VIDEO: Is 2015 the year of 'eye-tracking'? - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  The BBC's Richard Taylor looks at "eye-tracking" technology which could be used in gaming, entertainment and healthcare, and asks if it could go mainstream.
  
• Midokura Pushes Open Source SDN Forward - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  

  EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: Both enterprise and open-source community releases of the MidoNet SDN framework are moving ahead.

  
  
• Tiny rugged COM runs Linux on quad-core 2GHz Tegra K1 - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  

   LinuxGizmos: GE unveiled a rugged COM Express Type 10 Mini module that runs Linux on a 2GHz Tegra K1 and offers soldered 2GB RAM and support for CUDA and VisionWorks.

  
  
• Ubuntu 14.04.2 arrives with updated hardware support and a new Linux kernel - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  

  PC World: Because each LTS release ends up being the recommended one for two years, the Ubuntu project releases regular updates to the LTS installation media.

  
  
• Record Screen as Animated GIF in Ubuntu with Byzanz - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  

  MakeTechEasier: If you are a Linux user and are looking for ways to record your screen as an animated GIF, byzanz is the app for you.

  
  
• GNOME 3.16 to Feature Redesigned and Superb System Notifications - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  

   softpedia: GNOME 3.16 promises to be one of the best releases made so far and numerous changes have been already announced.

  
  
• Account data stolen in TalkTalk hack - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  TalkTalk customers are being warned about scammers who managed to steal account numbers and names from the company's computers.
  
• VIDEO: The chair that assembles itself - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are examining the possibilities of self-assembly.
  
• Pearl OS Could Be a Gem in the Making - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  

  LinuxInsider: All in all, Pearl OS is a promising Linux distro.

  
  
• Google buys .app web domain for $25m - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  Google has purchased the website address .app in an auction held by the organisation which assigns web domains.
  
• Harrison Ford back for Blade Runner - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  Harrison Ford will reprise his role as police officer Rick Deckard in the forthcoming Blade Runner sequel, it is confirmed.
  
• US-Bangladesh writer hacked to death - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  A US-Bangladeshi blogger whose campaigning for a secular society in Bangladesh angered Islamists is hacked to death on a street in the capital Dhaka.
  
• Google backs down over Blogger porn - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  Google has changed its mind about forcing sexually explicit blogs on its Blogger platform to become private.
  
• Cut music to 'an hour a day' - WHO - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  People should listen to music for no more than one hour a day to protect their hearing, the World Health Organization suggests.
  
• Passport website sues its customers - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  An unofficial passport website has sued more than 150 of its own customers after they tried to cancel or refused to pay believing they had been misled.
  
• VIDEO: Wheel gives cyclists an extra push - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  A power assistance device turns push bikes into electric hybrid bicycles
  
• Fungus plays 'biomusic' duet - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  Scientists at Plymouth University play improvised pieces of music with the help of slime mould.
  
• Uni hosts cyber-security conference - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  Abertay University in Dundee is hosting Scotland's largest cyber-security conference, with support from government agency GCHQ.
  
• Apple faces iPhone patent lawsuit - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  Apple is being sued by a company two days after it was told to pay the same firm $533m (£344m) for infringing patents.
  
• Red Hat invites all to work on its OpenShift PaaS cloud - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  

   ZDnet: Red Hat's OpenShift Commons invites open-source programmers and users to work on its OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service cloud.

  
  
• Albuquerque uses 'elephant snot' to clean defaced petroglyphs - FOX News
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  Petroglyphs are valuable relics of a past age – rock carvings that are produced by chiseling directly into a rock’s surface. That being said, archaeologists and conservationists alike are dismayed when these carvings are defaced by graffiti. What is the best way to clean up the mess? The answer surprisingly is a product named “elephant snot.”
  
• 'Big brain' gene found in humans, not chimps - FOX News
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  A single gene may have paved the way for the rise of human intelligence by dramatically increasing the number of brain cells found in a key brain region
  
• Study: Your dog already forgot the hug you just gave him - FOX News
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  When it comes to short-term memory, animals have very short ones indeed.
  
• Wild giant panda population increases in China - FOX News
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  The latest survey by China’s State Forestry Administration shows that wild giant pandas are making a comeback in the country.
  
• US needs a Mars colony, Buzz Aldrin tells senators - FOX News
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  The United States must do more than just plant a flag on Mars if it wants to continue as a leader in the field of space exploration, Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin told senators this week.
  
• What your brain really sees when it looks at ‘the dress’: A neuroscientist explains - FOX News
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  It’s the question on everyone’s lips – just what color is that dress? White and gold or blue and black? Well, we know what Kim Kardashian thinks. Now it’s science’s turn to enter the Internet battle raging over the actual color of a 21-year old Scottish woman’s dress.
  
• The science behind the question about the color of a dress that has the Internet buzzing - FOX News
  Fri, 27 Feb 2015
  It's a question that appears to reflect the height of Internet absurdity: what color is this dress? Is it white and gold? Blue and gold? Blue and black? It's a question that has millions chiming in with their opinions and explanations, but WIRED magazine may have the answer to the question that has the cyber world obsessed.
  
• VIDEO: The robots who build furniture - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 26 Feb 2015
  An experiment at MIT's Distributed Robotics Lab is teaching robots to work collaboratively.
  
• Pharaoh's brutal last moments revealed - FOX News
  Thu, 26 Feb 2015
  He may not be as famous as Tutankhamun, but ancient Egypt's Pharaoh Senebkay may have experienced a death more fitting of a king.
  
• Llama chase captivates Twitter - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 26 Feb 2015
  Two llamas went on the lam in Arizona. Thanks to a local news live feed, the US watched - and Tweeted - in rapt attention.
  
• SunEdison touts renewable energy generator, aims to bring power to 20 million people by 2020 - FOX News
  Thu, 26 Feb 2015
  SunEdison unveiled its ambitious plan to bring power to 20 million people by 2020 at an event in New York this week, touting new renewable energy technology for remote areas.
  
• Net neutrality rules passed by FCC - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 26 Feb 2015
  The US Federal Communications Commission votes in favour of tougher internet regulation, upholding the principle of net neutrality.
  
• Cyber attacks top US threat list - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 26 Feb 2015
  A US intelligence assessment of security threats faced by the country highlights cyber attacks from foreign governments and criminals.
  
• Samsung hit by latest smart TV issue - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 26 Feb 2015
  Many of the firm's smart TVs were unable to connect to servers for two days after a problem emerged as the firm carried out a security update.
  
• Online motoring plea service launched - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 26 Feb 2015
  A service allowing motorists in England and Wales charged with summary motoring offences to enter a plea online is being launched by the government.
  
• China 'drops US technology firms' - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 26 Feb 2015
  Cisco, Apple, McAfee and Citrix have all been dropped from China's official list of approved products, according to the Reuters news agency.
  
• Lenovo victim of cyber-attack - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 26 Feb 2015
  Chinese computer maker Lenovo becomes the victim of a cyber-attack following a warning by the US government about software called Superfish.
  
• VIDEO: Cuba 'keen to update poor internet' - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 26 Feb 2015
  As the US tweaks its web regulations, Cuba is looking to radically update its internet infrastructure.
  
• VIDEO: An eco-system inside your home - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 26 Feb 2015
  The smart garden that fits inside your house and provides fresh healthy food
  
• Machine Learning: The Best Cheaper Smartphones: Fewer Features, but Not by Much - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  As companies put efforts into building better phones with lower price tags, a cheaper phone doesn’t require as many compromises as you might expect.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• App Smart: Video Feature: Apps for Meditation and Calming on iPhone and Android - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  A number of smartphone apps guide users through exercises intended to provide calm, mindfulness and positive thinking.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• State of the Art: Vivek Wadhwa, Voice for Women in Silicon Valley, Is Foiled by His Tone - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  Mr. Wadhwa was one of the loudest male voices pushing for gender diversity in Silicon Valley. His story is a lesson in how not to handle criticism.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Talk: Dick Costolo Thinks It’s O.K. to Never Tweet - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  The C.E.O. of Twitter talks about how the platform plans to handle harassment and why improv comedy is good management training.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Sim card firm confirms hack attacks - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  A Sim card maker at the centre of NSA-GCHQ hacking claims says it believes that the US and UK cyberspy agencies did attack it.
  
• VIDEO: Computer teaches itself to play games - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  Researchers say they have developed an artificial intelligence system that has taught itself how to win 1980s computer games.
  
• VIDEO: Teenager hails new bionic hand - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 24 Feb 2015
  A teenage girl has spoken of the change in her life after being given a bionic hand - the technology for which is being developed by scientists on Tyneside.
  
• Gadgetwise: Mysteries of Sleep Lie Unsolved - NYT > Personal Tech
  Tue, 24 Feb 2015
  The Sense sleep tracker works well enough, but it is a reminder of how fundamentally useless these devices can be.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Q&A: Filing Away Gmail Messages - NYT > Personal Tech
  Tue, 24 Feb 2015
  Tips on how to archive Gmail messages to tidy up your inbox, and solutions for when your laptop battery begins to fade.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Bits Blog: Pebble Watch Goes Color on Kickstarter - NYT > Personal Tech
  Tue, 24 Feb 2015
  Pebble, the maker of a popular smartwatch, went back to its roots when it unveiled a new color watch, called Pebble Time.
  
  
• Bits Blog: In Privacy Update, Reddit Tightens Restrictions on Nude Photos - NYT > Personal Tech
  Tue, 24 Feb 2015
  Reddit changed its privacy policy to prohibit posting nude photos or videos of people engaged in sex acts without their prior consent to have it posted.
  
  
• Machine Learning: Microsoft Has Suddenly Gotten Serious With Mobile - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 18 Feb 2015
  There’s a new strategy afoot at the company, which has brought apps and services to the Apple and Android devices people actually use, rather than ones that run Windows.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• App Smart: Tools to Make Meetings More Productive (and Maybe More Pleasant) - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 18 Feb 2015
  Apps can ease the planning and conducting of meetings and make sure you get the most out of them.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• State of the Art: Photoshop at 25: A Thriving Chameleon Adapts to an Instagram World - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 18 Feb 2015
  Adobe, which introduced the image-editing program in 1990, has moved to a less expensive subscription-based model in an effort to democratize access.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Gadgetwise: Dropcam Keeps an Eye on the Neighborhood - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 18 Feb 2015
  Setting up video surveillance on a driveway highlights the power of putting such tools in the hands of ordinary people.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Q&A: Securing a Hotmail Account - NYT > Personal Tech
  Tue, 17 Feb 2015
  How to use two-step verification to guard against unauthorized access to your email.
  
  
• App Smart: ‘Karate’ Means Empty Hand, but a Handheld Device Is Needed - NYT > Personal Tech
  Thu, 12 Feb 2015
  These apps offer video, photos and written instructions to train aspiring martial artists.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Q&A: Importing Images to iPhoto - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 11 Feb 2015
  Tips on how to transfer photographs into iPhoto on your Mac, and advice for connecting to a virtual private network from a mobile device.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Machine Learning: Test of Strength: Fitness Apps vs. Personal Trainers - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 11 Feb 2015
  As technology starts pushing us to be healthier and fitter, apps like FitStar, Kiqplan and Hot5 are trying to replace personal trainers or even gyms.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Gadgetwise: Backpacks That Pack Power for Mobile Devices - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 11 Feb 2015
  Tylt, Ampl Labs, Phorce and Voltaic Systems offer bags that can protect and recharge smartphones, tablets, laptops headphones and game players.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• State of the Art: Google, Mighty Now, but Not Forever - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 11 Feb 2015
  The tech giant is trying to evolve beyond a search behemoth, but it faces the same problems as the once-mighty tech companies that came before it.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• VIDEO: Sci-fi game Evolve reviewed - BBC News - Technology
  Sun, 08 Feb 2015
  BBC Click's Marc Cieslak reviews the new video game Evolve
  
• VIDEO: DIY solution to share diabetes data - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 06 Feb 2015
  Why one mother found a DIY solution to track her daughter's diabetes data.
  
• Machine Learning: Led by Tinder, a Surge in Mobile Dating Apps - NYT > Personal Tech
  Thu, 05 Feb 2015
  Many app makers are trying to capitalize on the Tinder method of simple, smartphone-based dating. Of course, they add a twist to the swipe.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Regulators Cite a New Danger in the Skies: Selfies - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 04 Feb 2015
  The National Transportation Safety Board concluded that when a light plane fatally crashed eight months ago, it was probably because the pilot had been taking pictures of himself and his passenger, with a flash.