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• Monk's 200-year-old corpse found in lotus position - FOX News
  Fri, 30 Jan 2015
  The amazingly intact remains of a meditating monk have been discovered in the Songinokhairkhan province of Mongolia, according to a report in Mongolia’s Morning News
  
• VIDEO: Talking kids' doll 'Cayla' is hacked - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 30 Jan 2015
  Rory Cellan-Jones sees how Cayla, a talking child's doll, can be hacked to say any number of offensive things.
  
• GParted Live Now Supports Microsoft's New Filesystem, ReFS - LinuxToday News
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  

   softpedia: GParted Live is a small bootable GNU/Linux distribution that has a lot of features and that can be used in operations like creating, reorganizing, and deleting disk partitions on a variety of filesystems.

  
  
• VIDEO: Sharp displays become round - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  Richard Taylor looks at the new screen innovations being worked on by display-maker Sharp.
  
• How To Stress Test CPU and Memory (VM) On a Linux and Unix With Stress-ng - LinuxToday News
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  

   Nixcraft: These tools are also useful for sysadmin, system builders, and overclockers who want to test their hardware or server under high load and monitor stability and thermal environment.

  
  
• VIDEO: How toys are going hi-tech in 2015 - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  Toys are getting ever more hi-tech - from robots that can research the internet to toy drones and plastic pets.
  
• 11 Useful Linux Terminal Commands, Tip and Tricks For Beginners - LinuxToday News
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  

   EveryDayLinux: This guide has a list of 11 Linux Terminal Commands that as a beginner I wish someone had shown me, including keyboard shortcuts, sudo !! and htop.

  
  
• My open source career as a systems librarian - LinuxToday News
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  

   opensource.com: Though it's not always obvious, libraries use a remarkably large amount of free and open source software and systems.

  
  
• Five UX must-haves for mobile enterprise apps - LinuxToday News
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  

   Enterprisersproject: Developing enterprise mobile apps also opens a new set of challenges.

  
  
• Bits Blog: With a Few Bits of Data, Researchers Identify ‘Anonymous’ People - NYT > Personal Tech
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  Knowing just four random pieces of information was enough to reidentify 90 percent of the shoppers as unique individuals and to uncover their records, researchers calculated.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Optimising Raspberry Pi code - LinuxToday News
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  

  Linux User & Developer: In any low-resource system, you need to make maximum use of what is available. Profiling helps you to figure out where to focus your efforts

  
  
• Ubuntu 15.04 Is The Easy Path To Better Performance For Ubuntu Users On Intel Broadwell - LinuxToday News
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  

  Phoronix: Unless you manually upgrade your kernel and other system packages from your Ubuntu 14.10 installation, Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet is an important release for users of new Intel Broadwell systems for ensuring your hardware reaches its maximum performance potential.

  
  
• Uber sued over India rape allegation - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  An Indian woman who says she was raped by a Delhi driver of web-based taxi firm Uber files a lawsuit against the service in a US court.
  
• Debian Forked: All for Devuan and Devuan for All? - LinuxToday News
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  

  LinuxInsider: It is hard to see the direction Devuan will take, given that the project is still in its early days.

  
  
• VIDEO: Tech to make your car self-driving - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  The tech which could allow any car with an automatic gearbox to become self-driving
  
• Bits Blog: Microsoft Brings Outlook to iPhone, Other Mobile Devices - NYT > Personal Tech
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  Outlook, Microsoft’s workhorse email application, has finally arrived on mobile devices, including iPhones and iPads.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• US firms object to source code rules - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  Business groups have written to the Chinese government, asking it to rethink rules that would force them to hand over source code and create backdoors for officials in Beijing.
  
• Google profits up nearly 30% - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  Internet giant Google reports fourth-quarter profits of $4.76bn, up nearly 30% from the same period a year before, but revenue misses Wall Street expectations.
  
• Amazon posts modest holiday profits - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  The online retail giant Amazon reports weaker profits for the busy Christmas period, but a 15% rise in sales cheers investors.
  
• Office puts chips under staff's skin - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  Rory Cellan-Jones visits a building where microchipped workers gain entry and use photocopiers by holding up their hands - and trials the tech himself.
  
• Bill Gates insists AI is a threat - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  Microsoft's founder says we should worry that AI escape our control, despite claims to the contrary by a Microsoft Research chief.
  
• First-class fliers get virtual reality - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  Qantas becomes first airline to offer passengers in-flight entertainment via a virtual reality headset.
  
• Sound tech for blind film-lovers - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  Researchers use sound technology as an alternative to audio descriptions to try to improve film-watching for blind people.
  
• VIDEO: Firing six times faster than sound - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  BBC Click looks at some of the week's technology highlights
  
• PlayStation teams up with Spotify - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  The new service will replace Music Unlimited and link up current PlayStation Network and music streaming accounts.
  
• Samsung profits hit by mobile sales - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics reports its first drop in full-year profits for three years, in part due to a sharp drop in mobile phone sales.
  
• Sky to launch mobile phone service - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  Pay-TV firm Sky is launching a mobile phone service next year as the battle for a slice of the UK's telecoms market intensifies.
  
• Snapchat launches US superhero series - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  A big US phone company is commissioning YouTubers to create 12 episodes of a show called SnapperHero on Snapchat.
  
• Sharing Admin Privileges for Many Hosts Securely - LinuxToday News
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  

  LinuxJournal: The problem: you have a large team of admins, with a substantial turnover rate.

  
  
• Ancient partial skull from Israeli cave linked to migration of humans from Africa to Europe - FOX News
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  Long ago, humans left their evolutionary cradle in Africa and passed through the Middle East on their way to Europe. Now scientists have found the first fossil remains that appear to document that journey, a partial skull from an Israeli cave.
  
• Fresh ink: Mummified iceman has new tattoo - FOX News
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  Four thin, black lines, stacked on top of each other, bring the total number of tattoos on Ötzi, a 5,300-year-old mummified iceman, to 61, according to an exhaustive new study
  
• Blackbeard's Booty: Pirate ship yields medical supplies - FOX News
  Thu, 29 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
  
• Rare white dolphin glimpsed in Monterey Bay - FOX News
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  A rare white dolphin has been spotted in the waters of Monterey Bay, Calif. Experts from Monterey Bay Whale Watch saw the young Risso’s dolphin on Jan. 25 and confirmed that it is the same white dolphin that was first seen off Monterey on Aug. 28 201
  
• Dinosaurs thriving in Europe before asteroid hit, new study shows - FOX News
  Thu, 29 Jan 2015
  Dinosaurs were flourishing in Europe right before their rapid demise, according to a new study. This would help confirm that dinosaurs the world over were wiped out by an asteroid’s impact 66 million years ago - a theory sometimes questioned due to lack of non-North American fossil evidence.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• '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'.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Bits Blog: F.T.C. Says Internet-Connected Devices Pose Big Risks - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  The agency said the devices, which make up the so-called Internet of Things, also raise serious security and privacy risks that could undermine consumers’ confidence.
  
  
• 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
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Noted: ‘This.’ Has People Clamoring for an Invite - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  An invitation-only social network whose exclusivity has media insiders jockeying to be invited to participate has generated hunger for its streamlined platform.
  
  
• Bits Blog: Amazon’s Got Mail - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 28 Jan 2015
  Amazon’s latest foray: back-end email systems.
  
  
• Technology is changing healthcare - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 27 Jan 2015
  With technology offering new opportunities in healthcare, Hugh Pym considers how news can play a part in explaining it.
  
• VIDEO: How will technology change news? - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 27 Jan 2015
  Broadcasters and academics discuss how changes in technology will alter the way news is created in the future
  
• 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
  
• Bits Blog: A Data-Science Lender Takes on Student Debt - NYT > Personal Tech
  Tue, 27 Jan 2015
  Earnest, a start-up lender, is moving into the student debt market. Using data-science tools, Earnest says it can offer lower, tailored rates and flexible repayment schedules.
  
  
• 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: 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: 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
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 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.