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• Websites frozen in pension campaign - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 24 Jul 2014
  Eighteen websites have been suspended and arrests made during a campaign, being revamped on Thursday, against pensions cash "predators".
  
• Google to face Europe data watchdogs - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 24 Jul 2014
  Google will meet data regulators from across the EU to discuss the implications of the controversial "right to be forgotten" ruling.
  
• Machine Learning: LG's Smartwatch Shows Android Wear Operating System Has a Long Way to Go - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  Google's operating system for wearable devices has some promising features, but they’re not ready yet.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Catbird 6.0 Provides OpenStack Cloud Security Policy Automation - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  

   The VAR Guy: Catbird 6.0 enhances the security of OpenStack private and hybrid clouds through automated security policies, providing compliance assurance for enterprises.

  
  
• Mozilla Thunderbird 31.0 Officially Released with Lots of Fixes and Important Changes - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  

   softpedia: Developers have actually made a number of improvements to the application.

  
  
• Project fosters free, open, secure, public hotspots - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  

   LinuxGizmos: The Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) has released an experimental hacker alpha version of a proposed new open source wireless router stack that supports secure, shareable WiFi networks

  
  
• Backtick (`) symbol in Linux Shell Scripting - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  

   nextstep4it: The backtick allows you to assign the output of a shell command to a variable.

  
  
• Install Google Docs on Linux with Grive Tools - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  

  LinuxUser: Grive Tools now covers more distros, so here’s how to get Google Drive on Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSUSE

  
  
• The world's most secure OS may have a serious problem - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  

  The Verge: The Tails operating system is one of the most trusted platforms in cryptography, favored by Edward Snowden and booted up more than 11,000 times per day in May.

  
  
• Gadgetwise: A Smartphone That Takes the Fall - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  A dropped device’s chances of emerging with its screen unscathed depend on a number of factors, including previous damage and how it lands.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• KDE's Semantic Desktop: Nepomuk vs. Baloo - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  

   xmodulo: One of the most disliked features of the early KDE SC 4 releases was the developers' attempt to establish the semantic desktop.

  
  
• App Smart: Circle the Skies, From Your Smartphone or Tablet - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  Mobile apps can offer realistic graphics and sophisticated controls that simulate many aspects of flying real aircraft.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• BBC trials high-frame-rate TV - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  The BBC is experimenting with new ways to deliver TV coverage of live events, with a series of trials at the Commonwealth Games.
  
• Tor creator works to debug dark web - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  One of the co-creators of Tor says he is working with others to tackle a "bug" that undermines the anonymity offered by the dark web system.
  
• Arrests made after eBay Stubhub thefts - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  Arrests are made in the UK, US, Canada and Spain after a scam involving e-tickets for Elton John concerts and other shows sold via Stubhub.
  
• Facebook reports surge in profits - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  Social networking firm, Facebook has reported that profits more than doubled in its second quarter on a jump in advertising revenue.
  
• Porn filter shunned by UK net users - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  The vast majority of new broadband customers are declining to sign up to "child friendly" filters when prompted to do so by UK service providers.
  
• Banana Pi review - tastier than Raspberry? - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  

   LinuxUser: Does the first of the true Raspberry Pi clones have what it takes to come out from the shadow of its highly-successful inspiration?

  
  
• 10 theories about the Brooklyn Bridge flags - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  White flags over New York City landmark prompt Twitter speculation and media frenzy.
  
• Channel Islands to get 4G network - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  Channel Islands customers will have access to a next generation mobile network by early 2015 according to the regulator.
  
• Windows systems set to be 'unified' - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  Microsoft's chief executive details plans to "converge" the various Windows operating systems to aid app creators.
  
• Best Linux Browsers - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  

   Datamation: Choosing the best Linux browser for your needs requires just a bit of homework

  
  
• Elephants can outsniff rats and dogs - FOX News
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  Elephants are known for their impressively long trunks, but perhaps less well known is the large number of genes that code for their sense smell
  
• Newfound alien planet has longest year known for transiting world - FOX News
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  A newfound alien planet is one for the record books.
  
• Meerkats kill their children in order to survive, new study shows - FOX News
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  They might look cute but don’t be deceived by their furry, little faces, these are cold-blooded killers.
  
• 101-year-old weather observer gets a place in the sun: An honor from National Weather Service - FOX News
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  A retired dairy and chicken farmer on eastern Long Island has been tracking daily weather readings since Herbert Hoover was in the White House.
  
• NASA spacecraft just one year away from Pluto - FOX News
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  Less than a year from now, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will make the first-ever visit to Pluto, potentially revolutionizing scientists' understanding of the dwarf planet.
  
• Scientists discover why the Appalachian mountain chain bends - FOX News
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  If you took a bird's-eye view of the Appalachian mountain chain, you could pretty much trace a 1,500-mile straight line from Newfoundland to Alabama, notes Nature World News.
  
• Wyoming cave with thousands of fossils to be re-opened to scientists for first time since 1970s - FOX News
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  For the first time in more than 30 years, paleontologists are about to revisit one of North America's most remarkable troves of late Pleistocene fossils: The bones of tens of thousands of animals piled at least 30 feet deep at the bottom of a sinkhole-type cave.
  
• Marine biologist says 6th-grader stole his idea - FOX News
  Wed, 23 Jul 2014
  Using only six fish and six tanks, a 6th-grade science fair entrant was able to demonstrate last year what is being hailed as a remarkable discovery: Lionfish, an invasive species found up and down the Florida coast, can also survive in nearly fresh water.
  
• Apple earnings up on iPhone sales - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 22 Jul 2014
  Apple reports quarterly profits of $7.75bn up 12%, helped by strong sales of its iPhone.
  
• Browser 'fingerprints' track users - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 22 Jul 2014
  Web users are being warned about a novel tracking system that watches what they do online and frustrates tools designed to stop them being tracked.
  
• VIDEO: A TV world without personality? - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 22 Jul 2014
  Kevin Spacey's series House of Cards is a prime example of how the broadcasting world is changing. But will a world of on demand TV be devoid of passion and personality. BBC Newsnight's David Grossman reports.
  
• Iraq conflict breeds cyber-civil war - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 22 Jul 2014
  A cyber-war is being waged alongside the conflict involving Isis in Iraq, suggests research by security firms.
  
• VIDEO: Could you beat Usain Bolt in a race? - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 22 Jul 2014
  Engineers are making it possible for spectators to race against the world's fastest man.
  
• Xiaomi shows off phone and wristband - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 22 Jul 2014
  China's fast-growing Xiaomi unveils a new flagship handset and $13 wristband - both of which are cheaper than similar models from other brands.
  
• Nvidia unveils Shield gaming tablet - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 22 Jul 2014
  Nvidia confirms the release of a tablet targeted at "serious gamers" that can run Android games natively or stream them from a PC.
  
• Selfie 'sexters' in child sex warning - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 22 Jul 2014
  Young couples who send explicit pictures of each other are threatened with prosecution under child sex laws.
  
• Electronic Arts earnings surge 51% - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 22 Jul 2014
  US video game publisher Electronic Arts reports a 51% jump in profit for the April-to-June quarter, boosted by strong sales of titles like Titanfall and FIFA 2014.
  
• Apollo 11's scariest moments: perils of the 1st manned moon landing - FOX News
  Tue, 22 Jul 2014
  Apollo 11 was four minutes into its landing sequence when the terse words of its commander, Neil Armstrong, came from the speaker in Mission Control: "Program alarm."
  
• World on a hot streak: Globe sizzles to temperature record in June, after breaking May record - FOX News
  Tue, 22 Jul 2014
  The globe is on a hot streak, setting a heat record in June. That's after the world broke a record in May.
  
• The Getaway: Photo Storage by Personality (Yours) - NYT > Personal Tech
  Tue, 22 Jul 2014
  Use this guide to match the type of photographer you are with storage and organization tools for your vacation pictures.
  
  
• YouTube star sued in copyright case - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 22 Jul 2014
  The entrepreneur is being taken to court for alleged copyright infringement by a record label whose own artist Kaskade has come forward to defend her.
  
• State of the Art: Amazon’s Fire Phone: Solid Device Beneath a Layer of Whiz-Bang Frippery - NYT > Personal Tech
  Tue, 22 Jul 2014
  Despite its flashy features, such as Dynamic Perspective and Firefly, the Fire Phone can stand alone for those uninterested in such frills.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• VIDEO: BBC iPlayer 'works 99.9% of the time' - BBC News - Technology
  Mon, 21 Jul 2014
  The BBC has defended its iPlayer service service after it was hit by technical problems which started over the weekend.
  
• Chinese team wins $5m gaming prize - BBC News - Technology
  Mon, 21 Jul 2014
  Chinese team NewBee takes home $5m in prize money after winning the world's most lucrative gaming contest.
  
• VIDEO: 'I couldn't get a taxi... so I created an app' - BBC News - Technology
  Mon, 21 Jul 2014
  Brazilian Tallis Gomes explains how a failed attempt to hail a cab drove him to create smartphone app Easy Taxi.
  
• VIDEO: How safe is the 'internet of things'? - BBC News - Technology
  Mon, 21 Jul 2014
  Increasingly, technology companies are integrating the internet with other devices, such as household appliances or cars. But are there security risks?
  
• Q&A: Where to Start When Starting a Blog - NYT > Personal Tech
  Mon, 21 Jul 2014
  Plus, saving the data on your laptop after a spill.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Weinstein Company Plans to Release ‘One Chance’ on Yahoo’s Free Streaming Site - NYT > Personal Tech
  Mon, 21 Jul 2014
  The film, which had its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, will arrive in theaters in the fall, after it appears on Yahoo Screen.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• VIDEO: Can a robot write sacred scriptures? - BBC News - Technology
  Sat, 19 Jul 2014
  An exhibition at the Jewish museum in Berlin is showcasing a robot which has been programmed to write the sacred Jewish scriptures, known as the Torah.
  
• VIDEO: The appeal of 'real life' simulators - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 18 Jul 2014
  From driving a truck across Europe to ploughing a field, why are people playing "real life" simulators?
  
• VIDEO: Tech review: This week's headlines - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 18 Jul 2014
  A smart contact lens that could help diabetics monitor their glucose levels is being developed
  
• VIDEO: The evolution of Bjork's instruments - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 18 Jul 2014
  Bjork's musical director Matt Robertson explains how they developed the instruments for her Biophilia tour.
  
• Q&A: Maxing Out Gmail Storage - NYT > Personal Tech
  Fri, 18 Jul 2014
  Plus, how to remote control and share between Macs.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Scientists develop robotic fingers - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 17 Jul 2014
  A group of MIT scientists announces the development of supplementary fingers controlled by sensors attached to the human hand.
  
• State of the Art: With DC59 Motorhead, Dyson Looks to Create the iPad of Vacuums - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 16 Jul 2014
  In a software-obsessed world, the company has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in high-tech motors as it tries to build better machines.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• App Smart: Your Time in the Sun, Measured to the Minute - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 16 Jul 2014
  Apps can time a user’s exposure to the summer sun, and recommend protective clothing and sunscreen factors.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Gadgetwise: Review: Blackphone Trades Some Convenience for Security - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 16 Jul 2014
  Blackphone is impressive for the level of privacy that it offers, but do consumers need that amount of security from their smartphone?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Machine Learning: Easier Ways to Protect Email From Unwanted Prying Eyes - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 16 Jul 2014
  Security experts say email is a lot more like a postcard than a letter inside an envelope, and almost anyone can read it while the note is in transit.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Apple Joins With IBM on Business Software - NYT > Personal Tech
  Tue, 15 Jul 2014
  The two companies have been working on more than 100 software programs developed for Apple’s iOS operating system, tailoring them for use in industries.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Q&A: Restoring Internet Explorer 11 to Windows 8.1 App Tiles - NYT > Personal Tech
  Mon, 14 Jul 2014
  Plus, planning ahead for iOS 8, the next version of Apple’s mobile operating system.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• VIDEO: The tech listening for gunfire - BBC News - Technology
  Sun, 13 Jul 2014
  How gunshot detection technology is helping police to hear gunfire in the most concealed of places.
  
• Machine Learning: Cutting the High Cost of Digital Living - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 09 Jul 2014
  An audit of subscriptions can help a consumer find services that are duplicated or unneeded, or that have even been forgotten.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Q&A: Shielding Modems When Lightning Strikes - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 09 Jul 2014
  Also, how to collect scanned pages into a single PDF file.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Gadgetwise: External Drives Bring Data Storage Back Home - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 09 Jul 2014
  Whether desktop or portable, a user’s own device offers an alternative to cloud storage with its monthly fees.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• App Smart: Apps for a Day at the Beach - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 09 Jul 2014
  Beachgoers can get weather reports, surf forecasts and some summer reading.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• State of the Art: ‘Slender Man’ Story and the New Urban Legends - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 09 Jul 2014
  An attempted murder in Wisconsin is tied to Slender Man, a crowdsourced fictional character said to be a modern twist on the folklore once passed down orally.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Q&A: Prepaid Mobile Data Plans for International Travel - NYT > Personal Tech
  Thu, 03 Jul 2014
  Also, how to get everything from an iPod, even if you didn’t buy it through the same computer.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Q&A: Fast and Easy Photo Albums for Printing - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 02 Jul 2014
  Also, how to replace the discontinued iGoogle page.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• State of the Art: A Bright Side to Facebook’s Experiments on Its Users - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 02 Jul 2014
  Studying how social media sites are used can provide valuable insight into human behavior and may also help curb their power and potential for abuse.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Machine Learning: Swear Off Social Media, for Good or Just for Now - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 02 Jul 2014
  Those concerned about their online profiles have a range of options, from deactivating their accounts completely to limiting who sees past posts.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• App Smart: Apps to Plan Summer Road Trips, Down to the Pit Stops - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 02 Jul 2014
  Apps offer help finding lodging, attractions and the best deals on gas.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• How to Digitally Avoid Taking It to the Grave - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 02 Jul 2014
  Tips to plan ahead for handling your digital content after your death.