There's no denying 2012 has been a fruitful year for Linux distributions in general, but something about it has also seemed to favor the rebirth of distros we hadn't heard from in years. Two cases in point: Back in August we saw the ...
Tags: Slax Linux, Computer Products, Version 7.0
A long list of Web sites went dark for one minute at 9:30 a.m.ET today to mark a moment of silence for the 26 women and children who were murdered a week ago at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,Conn. Earlier this week,Connecticut ...
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Image courtesy of thepowerpot.com Electricity It's what's for dinner.Inventors David Toledo and Paul Slusser of Salt Lake City have made generating electricity as simple as making a meal with the Power Pot,a portable cooking pot that ...
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Bitdefender has launched the free 60-Second Virus Scanner desktop app, adding a layer of elite cloud-based protection to PCs worldwide in an all-out assault on malware. Being a cloud-based solution it's always up to date and has no impact ...
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has begun mailing 93,086 refund checks totaling nearly $2.3 million to consumers who were allegedly charged hidden fees by a fake work-at-home service that used Google's name to advertise. The online ...
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A new tool allows Mac OS X attackers with root OS access to easily steal the keychain password data of logged in users and reinforces the dangers of granting administrative privileges to applications without serious consideration. The ...
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After a two-day outage, Internet access in war-torn Syria appears to be for the most part restored on Saturday, according to reports from several sources. “Renesys confirms a largely complete restoration of the Syrian Internet this ...
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The inevitable came to the fore with the iron ore price losing 1%. Over a week long silence was broken on expected lines. Mills withdrew from buying remaining contended with need based buying from stocks. Tenders continued at lower levels ...
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For bagmaster Leonello Borghi, leather become a passion, an addiction and an innovative material that can open doors to recognition. . Then came the apprenticeship at the Italian manufacturing magnate Gino Ferruzzi, later projects for ...
France - With audiences of over 5m every Saturday night, the French version of Strictly Come Dancing (Danse avec les Stars), has proved almost as popular as its British counterpart. The live show is broadcast from the same TV studio in ...
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The circumstance and manner of death are numbing:farmers hacked and mutilated by machetes,dragged to death behind vehicles,stabbed with farm tools,shot execution style,and more—much more. The death toll of white farmers murdered in ...
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After a two-day outage, Internet access in war-torn Syria appears to be for the most part restored on Saturday, according to reports from several sources. "Renesys confirms a largely complete restoration of the Syrian Internet this ...
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Microsoft has revealed to many of its partners a price increase that will see user client access licences (CALs) rising by 15 per cent. From December 1 2012, Microsoft will increase the price of user CALs, which allow an individual user ...
Tags: Microsoft, CALs, Windows RT, Softcat
The US Patent and Trademark Office(USPTO)has granted a Notice of Allowance(NOA)to Silence Therapeutics for claims related to interfering RNA molecules and lipid complexes used in drug delivery. The NOA,which is issued based on the ...
Tags: Silence Therapeutics, RNAi therapeutics, Silence Company, RNA molecules
Computerworld - The best move Microsoft could make after Steven Sinofsky's departure is to ditch the culture of secrecy he brought to Windows, analysts said today. "One thing that may be a benefit to Microsoft is to drop the belief that ...