Computerworld-Mozilla yesterday released a first beta of its next browser,Firefox 18,touting a revamped JavaScript engine and support for Macs with Apple's higher-resolution"Retina"displays. Firefox 18 is currently slated to ship in final ...
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Digital certificates issued by an authority in Turkey are being used for "man in the middle" attacks on Google properties, according to warnings issued by both Microsoft and Google. The security flaw was traced to a fraudulent digital ...
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Recording at high altitudes is not something most sound engineers tackle every day, so when Danish producer and engineer Hans Nielsen, of Focus Recording Studios, was asked to record a choir of 500 monks in a Chinese temple that was over ...
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Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill, named after the singer's 2003 hit, I Love This Bar specialises in classic American fare, from food and drink to country music. The chain put a strong emphasis on great sound when specifying sound ...
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2012 has been a banner year for the Meyer Sound MINA line array loudspeaker, the smallest and youngest member of the MILO family line array loudspeakers, the company reports. Dozens of new installations in small- to medium- sized theatres ...
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RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA says that RFMD fellow Kevin W. Kobayashi has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers by the IEEE board of directors. The IEEE grade of fellow was conferred ...
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POSTFACH, Germany (BRAIN) — Disc brakes on road bikes? Not so fast, says Germany’s brake specialist, Magura. Magura has launched a study logging how a number of test riders use disc brakes over miles of European roads before ...
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Pound for pound, spider silk is one of the strongest materials known: Research by MIT’s Markus Buehler has helped explain that this strength arises from silk’s unusual hierarchical arrangement of protein building blocks. Now ...
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Facebook users can use the storage service Dropbox to share content stored in the cloud with Facebook groups, the two companies announced today. "Now you can share notes with your study group, add the latest game schedule to your ...
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A former Motorola employee, charged with the theft of trade secrets from the company, was sentenced by a federal court in Illinois on Wednesday to four years in federal prison, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Hanjuan Jin, 41, a ...
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Computerworld - Google yesterday boosted payments to researchers for reporting bugs in Chrome, saying the move was prompted by a decline in vulnerabilities submitted by outsiders. "Recently, we've seen a significant drop-off in externally ...
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IDG News Service - Cisco Systems has warned customers about critical vulnerabilities in the Sophos antivirus engine included in its Cisco IronPort email and Web security appliances. "Cisco IronPort Email Security Appliances (ESA) and ...
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IDG News Service - Google on Tuesday released a Chrome upgrade that improves how the browser renders 3D applications, including mouse-controlled games. The improvement comes via the inclusion of the Pointer Lock JavaScript API, commonly ...
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IDG News Service - Researchers at the User Interface Software Technology conference this week demonstrated unique projects that took advantage of a new, pressure-sensitive "forcepad" that could debut in ultrabooks as soon as next year. ...
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Computerworld - Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's new CEO, reached out to company employees for the first time and asked them to stay focused while she devises a strategy to get Yahoo back on track. "The company has been through a lot of change in ...
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