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• During Girl Day, Raytheon hopes to inspire future female engineers - FOX News
  Thu, 26 Feb 2015
  On Thursday, young girls nationwide like Perez-Fiato will explore the possibility of a career in engineering. Through Girl Day, which is part of National Engineers Week, aerospace and defense company Raytheon is sponsoring 16 events at various Boys and Girls Clubs across the country. As part of this programming, these students will conduct experiments — like using heat from sun’s thermal and radiant heat to heat water — and meet with participating Raytheon volunteers, many of whom are female engineers.

   
  

• Social media driving: Know the rules - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 26 Feb 2015
  Know the law on using a phone while driving
  
• 3D laser scanner makes haunting works of art - FOX News
  Thu, 26 Feb 2015
  Two historians on a mission to preserve historic structures in Ethiopia inadvertently turned a cutting-edge 3D scanning device into a tool for creating works of art.
  
• Linux: IP Subnet (CIDR) Calculator That Will Help You With Network Settings - LinuxToday News
  Thu, 26 Feb 2015
  

   Nixcraft: How do I use subnet calculator under a Linux or UNIX-like systems without visiting 3rd party websites?

  
  
• Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty Released On GOG & Steam, We Take A Look At The Linux Port - LinuxToday News
  Thu, 26 Feb 2015
  

   GamingOnLinux: Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty is a revamp of one of the platformers I used to love, so how is it on Linux? Hint: It's good.

  
  
• 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.
  
• GCompris Is a Great Linux Teaching Tool for Small Kids - LinuxToday News
  Thu, 26 Feb 2015
  

   softpedia: GCompris, an educational software suite providing fun activities for kids aged 2 to 10, has been upgraded to version 15.02 and is now available for download.

  
  
• Organizational learning: a new perspective on DevOps - LinuxToday News
  Thu, 26 Feb 2015
  

   opensource.com: In the DevOps community, we talk a lot about automated deployments, doing multiple deployments per day, and the need for culture.

  
  
• 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
  
• 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.
  
• Facebook tackles suicide prevention - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 26 Feb 2015
  US users who are worried about a Facebook friend can now get them help from mental health experts, using a new suicide prevention tool.
  
• 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.
  
• Why we run an open source program - Walmart Labs - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  

  ToDo: Why would a company spend resources on an open source program, and why is it really needed?

  
  
• How to monitor server log files with Logwatch on Debian and Ubuntu - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  

  HowToForge: Logwatch is a system log analyzer and reporter

  
  
• 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.
  
• Understanding Linux CPU stats - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  

  Scout: Your Linux server is running slow, so you follow standard procedure and run top.

  
  
• DNSMasq, the Pint-Sized Super Dæmon! - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  

  LinuxJournal: I've always been a fan of putting aftermarket firmware on consumer-grade routers.

  
  
• Machine learns to play video games - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  A machine inspired by the human brain has learned how to play 49 classic Atari video games - a step towards self-thinking robots, scientists say.
  
• 5G researchers achieve record speed - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  Scientists researching 5G at the University of Surrey achieve data connection many thousands of times faster than the average 4G.
  
• Major zombie botnet forced offline - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  Officers say they shut down a network being used to take control of unsuspecting users' computers and steal sensitive information.
  
• Clampdown on cold call companies - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  Companies behind cold calls and nuisance text messages are to face tougher rules after thousands of complaints about their conduct.
  
• Europe's 'Landsat' ready for launch - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  The "workhorse" satellite in Europe's new multi-billion-euro Earth observation programme is built and ready to go into orbit.
  
• Apple hit by huge iTunes patent bill - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  Apple is ordered to pay $533m to a company that does not make products of its own but sues others for payments, in a dispute over iTunes.
  
• Why Orange Wednesdays are ending - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  As mobile phone company EE ends its weekly Orange Wednesdays cinema deal, we find out why it's being ditched.
  
• Paris night drone mystery deepens - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  Drones appear over central Paris overnight, for the second time, and police are no nearer knowing who is operating them.
  
• VIDEO: Commutes made easier with maths - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  Using advanced maths to make your ride to work easier
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Best Linux Distros for First Time Switchers from Windows and Mac - LinuxToday News
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  

  MakeUseOf: Linux has an intimidating image, making it seem like it would be difficult to start using it. But the switch from Windows and Mac is actually pretty easy, if you can ease yourself into it.

  
  
• Earth's deepest point thrives with bizarre bacteria - FOX News
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  To the naked eye, life gets scarce the deeper into the ocean one goes.
  
• Astronauts take 2nd spacewalk in 5 days for cable, lube work outside the space station - FOX News
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  NASA astronauts ventured back outside the International Space Station on Wednesday for more cable work and a lube job.
  
• Mummy hair reveals ancient South American diet - FOX News
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  The hair of 2,000-year-old mummies, long locks adorned with embroidered textiles, is helping researchers determine what these ancient people ate in the weeks and months before their deaths, a new study finds
  
• Ancient croc with 'shovel mouth' likely enjoyed clam dinners - FOX News
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  A peg-toothed crocodile relative with a mouth like a shovel lived in the prehistoric swamps of Peru about 13 million years ago, a new study finds
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• NASA's Dawn spacecraft releases images showing another bright spot on Ceres - FOX News
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  The latest images captured by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft of the dwarf planet Ceres continues to baffle scientists as the photos reveal another significant bright spot on its surface.
  
• Video captures octopus grabbing crab in surprise land attack - FOX News
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  An incredible video has captured the moment when an octopus leaps from a rock pool to launch a surprise attack on a crab before dragging the unfortunate crustacean to its death.
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The dead were boiled at an ancient mortuary: researchers - FOX News
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  Those who lived in what is now Bolivia more than 1,000 years ago likely wound up at the end of their days in what USA Today calls an "ancient mortuary."
  
• Cornell researchers find safest place to hide from zombies - FOX News
  Wed, 25 Feb 2015
  If a zombie outbreak were to strike US shores, East Coasters should head west ASAP.
  
• VIDEO: Brain-controlled drone shown off - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 24 Feb 2015
  A drone specialist in Portugal demonstrates a flight controlled by human brainwaves, and suggests a future of large-scale unmanned flying.
  
• 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.
  
• Google warns Blogger users over porn - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 24 Feb 2015
  Google warns users of its Blogger platform that blogs containing sexually explicit material will be made private on 23 March
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• US offers $3m for hacker's arrest - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 24 Feb 2015
  The US offers an unprecedented reward for information leading to the arrest of a Russian hacker, charged with major cybercrime theft.
  
• Pebble crowdfunds new smart watch - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 24 Feb 2015
  Pebble is returning to crowdfunding to release its second smartwatch - which it claims will have colour e-paper display and seven day battery life
  
• Net of things starter kit unveiled - BBC News - Technology
  Mon, 23 Feb 2015
  New "starter kit" that promises to let start-ups make their inventions internet capable within minutes is unveiled by ARM and IBM.
  
• VIDEO: Making chess a spectator sport - BBC News - Technology
  Sun, 22 Feb 2015
  MIT's Media Labs aims to make chess more accessible to spectators by including live match data.
  
• VIDEO: Drone boss: 'I get a lot of support' - BBC News - Technology
  Sun, 22 Feb 2015
  Mexican Jordi Munoz started his company while waiting for a green card - now it's one of the biggest commercial drone makers in the world
  
• VIDEO: Tech review: This week's headlines - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 20 Feb 2015
  The world's first drone circus is being planned in Amsterdam, plus other technology news
  
• VIDEO: Modern computing 'rather dull' - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 20 Feb 2015
  What has been achieved with computing is 'rather dull' says Sir Clive Sinclair
  
• VIDEO: Rediscovering a lost typeface - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 19 Feb 2015
  The story of Robert Green's obsession with creating a digital version of the Doves Type and his discovery of the metal type in the Thames.
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 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.