US stocks ended a tumultuous day with strong gains after a false tweet briefly sent financial markets veering, underscoring technology's role in tightly linking global markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly plunged Tuesday ...
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The Toy Trust is calling on the industry to help it decide which charity should benefit from its fundraising in 2014. The Trust has given single donations of £80,000 and £135,000 over the past two years to a brace of unique ...
Three Google executives are heading back to court in Italy, where the prosecutor has appealed their acquittal on charges of allowing a video to be posted in breach of Italy's privacy laws, one of the Google execs involved said on Wednesday. ...
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Comparing the Two Commercial picnic tables are supercharged versions of backyard picnic tables: larger, heavier, sturdier, and able to stand up to wear from masses of people. Shapes and materials for both table types are similar, and both ...
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The other night, I nearly missed the nail-biting finale of "The Americans." But a trifecta of TV-watching features and services saved me: Here's how. My DVR is programmed to record every new episode of the show, which usually runs for 60 ...
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Canada’s most prominent surrogacy consultant Leia Picard, founder of Canadian Fertility Consultants, has weighed in on the high profile US surrogacy case. Ms. Picard stated, “I think this case clearly illustrates the need for ...
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Debenhams broke convention by becoming the first high street retailer in the UK to promote its latest fashion collections by using models in a diverse variety of ages, sizes and looks. The imagery turns its back on the industry norm of ...
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A flaw in the widely used BIND DNS (Domain Name System) software can be exploited by remote attackers to crash DNS servers and affect the operation of other programs running on the same machines. The flaw stems from the way regular ...
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Existing owners of Samsung's Galaxy S III will not be able to use the phone on T-Mobile's LTE network, which debuted Tuesday and will reach 200 million people by the end of this year. The Galaxy S III does not have a compatible LTE radio, ...
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Microsoft yesterday confirmed Windows "Blue," an upgrade to Windows 8, but analysts remained uneasy about how the faster release cadence that Blue represents will be digested by businesses. "Microsoft is going to be on an annual release ...
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The latest version of the Skype for Windows Phone 8 Preview has support for HD video calls on some phones and reinstated integration with the People hub. In the version 2.4 release, Microsoft focused on increasing quality and reliability ...
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Two researchers from security firm Imperva have devised new techniques that could allow attackers to extract sensitive information from users' encrypted Web traffic. The new methods build on those used in an attack called CRIME revealed ...
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Apple yesterday updated OS X Mountain Lion for the first time in six months, patching 14 security vulnerabilities and addressing a host of other issues. Alongside the operating system update, Apple also upgraded the Safari browser to ...
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The vast majority of 3G and 4G USB modems handed out by mobile operators to their customers are manufactured by a handful of companies and run insecure software, according to two security researchers from Russia. Researchers Nikita ...
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A Cisco-funded router startup has unveiled its first product, which the company says implements breakthrough silicon-to-photonics circuitry for scaling service provider networks and enabling them for software-defined networking (SDN). ...
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