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• Google just made it easier to run Linux on your Chromebook - LinuxToday News
  Sun, 25 Jan 2015
  

  PCworld: If Chromebooks are the consumer Linux desktop we were all waiting for, it’s great to see Google making it easier to turn a cheap consumer Chromebook into a power-user’s Linux desktop.

  
  
• Tech Comics: Delete This File? - LinuxToday News
  Sat, 24 Jan 2015
  

   Datamation: Does your computer give you enough choices when it's time to delete a file?

  
  
• Linux-enabled sit/stand smart desk nudges you into action - LinuxToday News
  Sat, 24 Jan 2015
  

   LinuxGizmos: A Linux-based desk with WiFi, Bluetooth, and a 5-inch touchscreen automatically adjusts between sitting and standing, and tells you when it's time to move.

  
  
• The most obvious user for Linux isn't who you think - LinuxToday News
  Sat, 24 Jan 2015
  

  TechRepublic: The ideal candidate is the average user.

  
  
• How the New York Times uses open source - LinuxToday News
  Sat, 24 Jan 2015
  

   Enterprisers Project: Marc Frons, senior vice president and chief information officer of the New York Times, discusses how The Times actively contributes to open source communities.

  
  
• 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
  
• The Companies That Support Linux: Planisys - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  

  Linux.com: By using Linux containers and Linux-based orchestration tools, Planisys is able to stay flexible amid changing hardware and networks, which in turn has helped the company to scale and stay competitive

  
  
• The Last Batch Of Feature Proposals For Fedora 22 - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  

  Phoronix: The proposal describes Vagrant, "Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.

  
  
• Linus Torvalds to Patch the Kernel for a Witcher 2 Problem - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  

   softpedia: Linus Torvalds is not known to interfere with other projects than the Linux kernel and it must be something really special to get him involved

  
  
• Li Ka-shing set to buy O2 for £10bn - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  Asia's richest person Li Ka-shing confirms his company is offering to buy Britain's second-largest mobile provider O2 for up to £10.25bn ($15.4bn).
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Country blocked on club Facebook page - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  Notts County blocks Hungary from its Facebook page after it was deluged with comments concerning the signing of a new player.
  
• VIDEO: Meet the giant robot for sale online - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  BBC Click looks at some of the week's technology highlights
  
• VIDEO: AI technology 'will take your job' - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  Robert Shiller, regarded as one of the most influential economists in the world, has said society is "in a panic" about artificial intelligence.
  
• VIDEO: How criminals clone your card - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  The BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones spoke to James Lyne, head of research at cyber-security firm Sophos, to find out how criminals go about cloning your card.
  
• VIDEO: Tech review: This week's headlines - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  The laser-etched metal surfaces that repel water, plus other technology news
  
• A Shell Primer: Master Your Linux, OS X, Unix Shell Environment - LinuxToday News
  Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  

   Nixcraft: On a Linux or Unix-like systems each user and process runs in a specific environment.

  
  
• Peers try to revive 'snooping law' - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  UK net firms have criticised attempts to revive a "snoopers' charter" by adding it into draft legislation currently before the House of Lords.
  
• Asteroid 1,800 feet across to whip past Earth on Monday, approaching within 745,000 miles - FOX News
  Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  An asteroid up to 1,800 feet across is headed Earth's way.
  
• Deflate-gate: The science of underinflated footballs - FOX News
  Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  With the so-called “deflate-gate” controversy still swirling around the New England Patriots, experts have explained the science of underinflated footballs to FoxNews.com.
  
• Surprise! Fish lurk in Antarctica's dark underworld - FOX News
  Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  In a cold and dark underwater world, where a never-ending rain of rocks keeps the seafloor barren, researchers were startled to find fish, crustaceans and jellyfish investigating a submersible camera after drilling through nearly 2,500 feet of Antarctic ice
  
• Beautiful, eerie fluorescent glow of Hong Kong seas indicates harmful algal bloom at work - FOX News
  Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  Eerie fluorescent blue patches of water glimmering off Hong Kong's seashore are magnificent, disturbing and potentially toxic, marine biologists say.
  
• Alaska can't change name of tallest US mountain, thanks to Ohio - FOX News
  Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  Ohio is one of the flattest states in the US, but due to a quirky rule held by the federal board in charge of geographic names, the state effectively has control over the name of the country's highest mountain and is blocking efforts to change the name of the Alaskan peak that holds that honor.
  
• Pinterest to open up more user data - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  Pinterest is planning to tell advertisers more about what its users are posting in a bid to help target ads.
  
• US plans 'regulated' Bitcoin exchange - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  High-profile Bitcoin backers are seeking to establish a Bitcoin exchange in the US that would be overseen by mainstream financial regulators.
  
• Twitter battles Instagram links - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  The social network encourages celebrities and other high-profile users to share photos directly to Twitter.
  
• Apple's Tim Cook salary up over 40% - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  Tech giant Apple's chief executive Tim Cook's base salary was increased by nearly 43% in February last year, according to the company.
  
• Emergency patch fixes Flash flaw - BBC News - Technology
  Fri, 23 Jan 2015
  Adobe has released an emergency patch for a flaw in its Flash software that was being widely exploited by thieves.
  
• Flogging of Saudi blogger postponed - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 22 Jan 2015
  Saudi Arabia has postponed the flogging of blogger Raif Badawi for the second week running on health grounds, according to a human rights group.
  
• People really do use restaurant calorie labels - FOX News
  Thu, 22 Jan 2015
  Chain restaurants in the United States are now required to put calorie information on their menus, but is this information really influencing what people order? A new study from Seattle suggests people are paying attention to calorie postings — the percentage of people in the area who said they used the calorie information on restaurant menus tripled in the years after the labels became mandatory in the region
  
• Drug drone crashes on Mexican border - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 22 Jan 2015
  A quadcopter drone carrying 3kg of illegal drugs crashes near the border between Mexico and the US.
  
• Reporter jailed for stolen data links - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 22 Jan 2015
  A journalist with connections to the hacking collective Anonymous is sentenced to five years in jail after posting online links to stolen data.
  
• India Uber resumes services in Delhi - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 22 Jan 2015
  The web-based taxi firm Uber restarts operations in Delhi, six weeks after it was banned over charges that one of its drivers raped a passenger.
  
• Blackberry seeks aid on app making - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 22 Jan 2015
  App makers should be required to make software for Blackberry handsets, says the boss of the phone company.
  
• Kim Dotcom releases Skype competitor - BBC News - Technology
  Thu, 22 Jan 2015
  Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom releases an encrypted chat service, called MegaChat, to compete with the Microsoft-owned Skype.
  
• 'Innovative' intervention helps babies at high risk of autism - FOX News
  Thu, 22 Jan 2015
  Babies who have a high risk of developing autism may benefit when their parents receive some video-based lessons on how to work with their infants, a new study finds
  
• Ancient moat in Japan may have guarded royal tomb - FOX News
  Thu, 22 Jan 2015
  Archaeologists in Japan have found the remains of an ancient moat that may have once guarded an emperor's tomb.
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Gender assignment surgery to be given to hermaphrodite cat - FOX News
  Thu, 22 Jan 2015
  Here's a sentence you probably never thought you'd read: Mittens, a hermaphroditic cat from Newfoundland, is getting gender assignment surgery.
  
• Amazing slow-motion video reveals secrets of undersea world - FOX News
  Thu, 22 Jan 2015
  An amazing video by nature photographer Daniel Stoupin reveals the stunning slow-motion world of corals and sponges. The 3 and-a-half-minute “Slow Life” Vimeo video is composed of 150,000 shots, offering an astonishing insight into vibrant undersea life.
  
• Fake Facebook page costs US $134,000 - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 21 Jan 2015
  The US government agrees to pay a woman $134,000 after creating a fake Facebook page using photos of her as well as her son and niece.
  
• Laser-etched metal 'bounces' water - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 21 Jan 2015
  By etching grooves into metal with a high-powered laser, physicists create a surface that repels water to the extent that droplets bounce away.
  
• Man arrested over Madonna hack - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 21 Jan 2015
  An Israeli man is arrested on suspicion of hacking into the computers of pop stars including Madonna and selling unreleased songs online.
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• WhatsApp bans unofficial app users - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 21 Jan 2015
  WhatsApp acts to stop downloads of a third-party service, WhatsApp Plus, and locks out people who used it from its chat platform.
  
• Windows 10 to be free and get headset - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 21 Jan 2015
  Microsoft says its Windows 10 operating system will be a free upgrade for many users and unveils a "holographic" headset that can run it.
  
• eBay to cut 2,400 jobs this quarter - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 21 Jan 2015
  US e-commerce giant eBay is planning to cut 2,400 jobs in the first quarter, the company said on Wednesday.
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• VIDEO: 'Equip kids to combat inequality' - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 21 Jan 2015
  Will.i.am speaks to the BBC from the 2015 World Economic Forum about how education can close the equality gap and provide more opportunities to young people.
  
• VIDEO: The unbeatable poker playing machine - BBC News - Technology
  Wed, 21 Jan 2015
  Researchers have created a program that is unbeatable in the game of Texas hold 'em poker.
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 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.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• VIDEO: Discovering 2015's must-have toys - BBC News - Technology
  Tue, 20 Jan 2015
  A look around the floor at the London Toy Fair, a showcase for new toys that will be hitting shops in the coming year.
  
• 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?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Q&A: Freeing a PC From Malware - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 14 Jan 2015
  Free, reputable programs are available to search a computer for bots that can tax a system’s resources.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Machine Learning: Getting the Most Out of Apple iOS 8 - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 14 Jan 2015
  The new operating system can help you monitor battery use better, help take better photos and make Siri easier to use.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• App Smart: Tracking Data Use to Avoid Hefty Phone Fees - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 14 Jan 2015
  A number of apps can help monitor and manage data consumption on phones, to keep you within your plan’s limits and avert unpleasant surprises on your bill.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Gadgetwise: Tools to Improve That Christmas Present - NYT > Personal Tech
  Wed, 14 Jan 2015
  From flash drives to charging stations, these products and services will help you get the most out of your electronics.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Alibaba Will Help Curb Export of Recalled Items - NYT > Personal Tech
  Tue, 13 Jan 2015
  The Chinese e-commerce group has agreed to prevent the export of dangerous items recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Bits Blog: Parents Challenge President to Dig Deeper on Ed Tech - NYT > Personal Tech
  Tue, 13 Jan 2015
  While President Obama endorsed a voluntary student privacy effort by ed tech companies, some parents seek more comprehensive legislation.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Bits Blog: Facebook Will Push Amber Alerts to Users’ News Feeds - NYT > Personal Tech
  Tue, 13 Jan 2015
  Facebook will use its geographic targeting technology to spread the word about abducted children through the news feeds of its American users.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 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.