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TBS Extends Conan O'Brien For Two More Years

TBS gave Conan O'Brien a vote of confidence today, extending its deal with the comedian to continue his late-night talk show Conan for more than two years

How Waiters Read Your Table

Restaurants Train Servers to Judge Diners, Make Service More Personal; Nixing 'Hello, My Name Is…'

Kick Ass 2 Coming Soon?

Could we be seeing the sequel to Kick Ass sooner than we thought? Harry over at AICN found this bit of news that comes from a Scottish interview with Mark Millar.

Vote for the greatest non-human president of the United States

With every passing election year, the statistical likelihood increases that we'll elect a U.S. president who's really a robot, or an alien. Or maybe a charismatic plant, grown in some kind of tank. How will you recognize a non-human candidate for president when one comes along? And more importantly, which non-human would be the best pres?

Musical gloves reveal what Darth Vader might sound like in a chorus

Researchers have created musical gloves that generate a computerized, Vader-like voice when hand gestures duplicate the movements of real vocal chords.

The Special Effects of Wanderlust (with Ken Marino and David Wain)

Making movies is hard. Spending money, less so.

8 Deadliest Body Parts

Whether these characters made the most of a missing limb or were blessed with an unusually predatory body part, they all make you think twice about entering their personal space.

Motorhead: Don't buy our new box set

Call it "Overkill" if you must, but the iron-fisted metal band Motörhead doesn't want its fans to buy their extravagant new 15-disc box set.

Rihanna, Chris Brown Reunite On Two Remixes (VIDEO)

We were already trying to wrap our heads around the news that Chris Brown would lend his voice to Rihanna's "Birthday Cake" remix, but the singers have managed to blow our minds a little bit more.

Celebrity Apprentice: 11 Reasons Why This Season Is a Must-Watch

If you didn't watch last night's premiere, here's why you need to get on board by next episode.

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Court Finds Social Network Add-On Violated Spam, Hacking Laws

In a potentially troublesome decision, a federal district court has found that a start-up violated anti-spam and computer crime laws by creating and marketing a browser to let users view their social networking accounts in one place. The case demonstrates the difficulties facing those who seek to empower users to interact with closed services like Facebook in new and innovative ways.

Apple's 30th birthday salute to Steve Jobs yanked off YouTube

Produced by Apple employees in 1985, tribute was first widely circulated after Jobs died... Until Sony yanked it from YouTube.

Why connecting to a Wi-Fi hotspot is about to get easier

In the near future, getting your smartphone, tablet or laptop connected to a Wi-Fi hotspot won't be an exercise in frustration. The Wi-Fi Alliance will begin to certify wireless devices for its industry-wide Passpoint initiative this July. Goodbye to splash-screens and network-specific log-ins!

6 great smartphones that won’t cost you one single penny

Smartphones are here to stay, and it's no surprise why. They connect us to Facebook, help us find directions to the office, take pictures, and can even let us connect our laptops to the internet from the side of the road. But they're just so darned expensive... or so you think.

Will You Be Twitter's 500 Millionth User?

Reports state Twitter may reach 500 million users on Wednesday.

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Bad spelling opens up security loophole | BBC News

"A missing dot in an email address might mean messages end up in the hands of cyber thieves, researchers have found. By creating web domains that contained commonly mistyped names, the investigators received emails that would otherwise not be delivered..."

Google Voice Launches in the UK

"As a viable Skype competitor, and a strategic product in Google’s growing army of mobile technologies, Google Voice first hit the U.S. market last year, allowing people to make calls right from within their Gmail account at competitive rates. This week, the service began a phased international rollout, with Google announcing earlier this month that it’s now available to 150 countries (in 38 different languages). The UK rollout is now (at least partially) live, and I was able to trial the service from within my Gmail account earlier today..."

25 Tremendous Tools To Enhance Your Google+ Experience ~ Tech. World

"These tools will make your Google+ experience more user friendly by adding some great features like better notifications, improved sharing options, feature to check Facebook in your Google+ account and much more.... Here’s, our collection of 25 tremendous tools/extensions to enhance your Google+ experience...."

Facebook Pages Being Taken Down, Policy Comes Into Question | WebProNews

"Numerous reports have been coming out that Facebook is taking down Facebook pages that are accused of infringing upon copyrights. The keyword there is “accused”. Apparently, Facebook does little (or nothing) to verify the legitimacy of the claims before taking action...."

The Highly Evolved B.S. Meter of the 21st Century Consumer | Wheels Up - Forbes

"Watergate, Vietnam, Erin Brockovich, the house flipping phenomenon, Bernie Madoff, Goldman Sachs, 'I can get you twelve thousand Twitter followers in 24 hours' and a million other shining examples of B.S., large and small, have caused distrust of government, corporations, institutions and marketing messages to become part of our cultural DNA...."

Facebook Gives Your Home Address to Developers - PCWorld

"Your home address and phone number are now part of the information dump third-party developers can obtain through Facebook-powered Website logins and applications...."

Can HMV learn from global trends? | BBC News.

"The continuing woes of HMV underline one brutal fact of High Street life: the days of a nationwide store chain devoted entirely to selling music are gone forever...."

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10 Free Android Apps You’ll Use Every Day

From the moment you wake up in the morning to the second you close your eyes at night, your smartphone is probably the first and last thing you touch.…

Marketers: What Mobile Users Will and Won’t Put Up With [INFOGRAPHIC]

Young people between the ages of 18 and 24 are even more connected to their mobile devices than you might think. Nine in 10 young adults spend…

Adele Is First To Go Double Platinum on iTunes

Like many artists before her, global pop star Adele experienced a post- Grammys album sales boost, selling 730,000 copies of 21 in the past wee…

Use Online RSVP Tool to Help Your Party Make A Splash

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark . If you would like to have your st…

Samsung Totally Copies Us With Galaxy Note ‘Street Challenge’ [VIDEO]

The Samsung Galaxy Note , a so-called “superphone” that has a massive 5-inch screen, gives quite a first impression. Not only is it huge,…

Advanced Infrared Camera Keeps Soldiers Farther From Dangerous Targets [VIDEO]

An advanced camera could help save the lives of U.S. soldiers in combat. The new camera was developed to navigate dangerous war conditions …

NBA Fans to Decide Dunk Contest via Twitter in Most Connected All-Star Weekend Yet

Tweets, apps and status updates will join the usual barrage of dunks, three-pointers and no-look passes more than ever this weekend at the NBA&#…

Google to Launch TV Service

Google is looking to get into the paid TV business. The company filed an application last week to provide video service to residents of Kansas C…

Nostalgia Overload: New Tumblr Challenges You to Draw Classic Video Game Maps From Memory

What is it about video game worlds that etch themselves so vividly in our mind’s eye? A fun new user-generated blog aims to unearth the…

Awesome New ‘Borderlands 2′ Trailer Gives September Release Date [VIDEO]

Gearbox and 2K Games announced Wednesday that the sequel to the popular Borderlands will have a Sept. 18 release date for XBox 360, PlayStation 3 and…

Newly Launched PlayStation Vita Gets Twitter, Flickr and Netflix [PICS]

If 15 games available at launch for PlayStation Vita wasn’t entertaining enough, early adopters of the game system are in for a treat. Free Twit …

Guy in ‘College Freshman’ Meme Now Stars in a New ‘College Senior’ Meme

He’s back. DRINK! The college student — whose 2007 photo of himself as a freshman catapulted into meme territory last year — has mad…

Microsoft Accuses Motorola of Being a Patent Bully [VIDEO]

Irony, thy name is patent law. Microsoft filed a complaint with the European Commission against Motorola for aggressively asserting its patent …

Apple Investigator Has His Doubts About Nightline’s Foxconn Report [INTERVIEW]

ABC’s Nightline offered viewers a rare glimpse inside the Foxconn plants that produce Apple products Tuesday night. Apple has faced incre …

Why Most People Say They’re Addicted to the Internet [INFOGRAPHIC]

Are you addicted to the Internet? If so, you’re not alone. Some 61% of people feel addicted to the Internet and are unable to quit browsing, acc…

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Deadmau5: "Maths" (Original Mix)

After putting out several different incarnations of the track, Deadmau5 has finally released the original mix of "Maths." And this ... Read the full article ...

TuneCore Offers Canadian Artists Royalty Collection Service

Digital distribution company TuneCore seems wholly uncertain of their business model as they move forward. A change of direction might ... Read the full arti...

Blondes: "Amber" (Video)

Brooklyn's Blondes record the kind of droning electronic music made for staring at the ceiling, stars, sky, etc... Basically, their ... Read the full article...

You Can Now Buy Beatles Ringtones On iTunes

As we reported back in November 2010, the Beatles' music finally made its way onto the biggest digital ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.co...

Mount Eerie Dropping Two Albums In 2012, First One 'Clear Moon' Out In May

Phil Elverum's previous proper full-length effort as Mount Eerie came in 2009 with the release of the critically acclaimed Wind's ... Read the full article a...

Video: Big Sean Tells His Craziest Party Story Of A Basement-Turned-Night Club

The latest musical act to tell his craziest party story for the folks at Vice and Project X is Detroit ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/...

James Blake Recording "Aggressive" New Music, Wants To Collaborate With Bon Iver Again

Spinner posted a pretty revealing interview with James Blake today that touches on where the British wunderkind is ... Read the full article at http://www....

Stream The Original Version Of J Dilla's "Crushin'"

It's terribly fitting that we're now hearing the original, Waajeed-produced version of J Dilla's Ruff Draft classic "Crushin'." As you likely ... Read t...

Watch A Preview Of Odd Future's 'Loiter Squad' Show

As we previously reported , West Coast rap hooligans Odd Future are set to debut their very own TV ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/new...

KCRW's "Playing On Prefix" Features Dirty Ghosts

Last week, our Playing on Prefix series featured a look into Liam the Younger and his ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/kcrws-pl...

Video: Tyga Speaks On His New Album, 'Careless World,' And Sample-Clearance Issues

You may have heard that Young Money rapper Tyga recently ran into some issues surrounding the release of sophomore album, ... Read the full article at http:/...

Listen: Gorillaz Team Up With James Murphy & Andre 3000 For "DoYaThing"

Even though it was scheduled to hit the web tomorrow -- and it still is -- Gorillaz' huge Converse-sponsored single, ... Read the full article at http://www....

Stream DOOM's Live DJ Set At The Boiler Room

The folks at London's Boiler Room had quite the lineup yesterday for its first Red Stripe Make Session. ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.c...

Download: BADBADNOTGOOD Cover James Blake On New Live EP

Toronto's ill-as hell jazz trio, BADBADNOTGOOD, played one of their biggest shows to date last month when performed at Club ... Read the full article at http...

Metric Announce New Album, 'Synthetica'

Since releasing their fourth album, Fantasies, in April 2009, Metric has mostly been doing the live, covers, and remixing thing. ... Read the full article at...

Star Slinger Announces North American Tour With The Hood Internet

U.K. MPC maestro Star Slinger is gearing up to take his live show out on the road this spring after ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/new...

Kreayshawn Hates On Lana Del Rey, Takes A Dump During Interview

Here's your daily dose of what-in-the-fuckery courtesy of pint-sized rapper Kreayshawn, who's kind of been out of the limelight for ... Read the full article...

Mark Ronson, Miike Snow To Score New "Jungian" Ballet Piece

Mark Ronson has been keeping busy lately. He worked on Rufus Wainwright's upcoming album , Out of ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/ne...

The Clean Announce US Dates With Times New Viking

Long-standing New Zealand rockers The Clean , whose last album, Mister Pop, came out in 2009, are gearing up ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixm...

Hip-Hop Being Used To Literally Save Lives

Plenty of rappers have recorded tracks and made statements about how hip-hop saved their lives. Hell, Lupe Fiasco even made ... Read the full article at http...

eSecurity Planet News

Defending Against The 'Apache Killer' Exploit

An HTTP attack emerged this week against Apache Web servers, but there are defenses.

McAfee Goes After Apple iOS Security

McAfee releases new iOS app, but does it do anything more than what Apple already provides?

How Adobe is Improving Security

Adobe Reader and Flash are among the most targeted applications by attackers but Adobe has a plan in motion to stop them for good.

Most SSL Sites Vulnerable

Qualys alleges that 94% of sites running SSL are putting you at risk.

Apple iOS Gets Black Hat Treatment

Researchers release new tool paving the way for security research into Apple's mobile device management policies.

Who Do You Trust with SSL?

SSL researcher takes aim at Comodo and launches new system to verify trust.

Black Hat Hacking Apple Batteries

Security researcher takes aim at batteries as a way to attack Macs.

Black Hat Reveals Windows Hooks of Death

Deep seated flaws in Windows keep getting patched by Microsoft, but researchers argue there is still real risk.

Black Hat Google Hacking Goes After China

Search engine hacking grows up as researchers release new tools to automate the use of search discovery for security enumeration.

Black Hat USA 2011 Preview

Hang on to your Android, shut off your water meter and put away your cellphone battery, Black Hat is back.

Metasploit 4 Advances Enterprise Security

Penetration testing solution gets new enterprise integration.

Myanmar is No.1 in Attack Traffic

In a surprise finding, Akamai identified Myanmar as the new top source of attack traffic surpassing Russia, China and the U.S.

Norman Launches NextGen Malware Analysis Platform

How do you analyze advanced persistent threats that directly target your organization?

Review: Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1

Symantec's new antivirus offering builds on advances made since SEP 11 four years ago to improve speed, performance and incorporate the cloud into its latest offering.

Malwarebytes Achieves Major Milestone

Word of mouth alone has driven adoption past 100 million downloads for this quiet anit-malware company.

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Court Finds Social Network Add-On Violated Spam, Hacking Laws

Apple's 30th birthday salute to Steve Jobs yanked off YouTube

Produced by Apple employees in 1985, tribute was first widely circulated after Jobs died... Until Sony yanked it from YouTube.

Why connecting to a Wi-Fi hotspot is about to get easier

6 great smartphones that won’t cost you one single penny

Will You Be Twitter's 500 Millionth User?

Reports state Twitter may reach 500 million users on Wednesday.

3D printing to build robotic dinosaur models

Drexel University is starting to create 3D scans of fossils to better study the motion of giant dinosaurs through small-scale robotic models. Read this blog post by Martin LaMonica on Cutting Edge.

Watch Steve Jobs' Life In a Facebook Timeline

Someone built a Facebook timeline with the life of Steve Jobs. It's quite nice to go through it and look at his life in this format, rather than having to suffer through Isaacson's rushed out prose.

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Genetic Maker of Men, Though Diminished, Is Holding Its Ground

The Y chromosome is just a fraction of its original size, and much smaller than its buxom partner, the X chromosome, but researchers say its gene-shedding days seem to be over.

The 20 Million MPH Cosmic Hurricane Tearing Through Our Universe

If you thought space was a peaceful vacuum, think again: scientists have discovered the fastest winds ever observed on a stellar-mass black hole, and they reach an incredible 20 million mph. The winds, detected using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, are ten times faster than any detected at...

Study: Creating energy (electricity) out of everyday motions may be possible

Randomness and chaos in nature, it turns out, can be a good thing especially if you are trying to harvest energy from the movements of everyday activities like walking.

The Scientist Who Discovered Hepatitis C Says He's Now Discovered the Vaccine

In a poetic turn of virology, the scientist who discovered hepatitis C in 1989 has now also discovered a vaccine that will hopefully treat and prevent the disease.

The myth of the eight-hour sleep

Sleeping in one eight-hour chunk is a very recent phenomenon, and lying awake at night could be good for you, according to scientists and historians.

Japan Will Have a Space Elevator by 2050

It might the stuff of science fiction dreams, but a Japanese construction company has announced that it will have built a working space elevator by 2050.

NASA Image - Chandra Finds Fastest Wind From Stellar-Mass Black Hole

This artist's impression shows a binary system containing a stellar-mass black hole called IGR J17091-3624, or IGR J17091 for short. The strong gravity of the black hole, on the left, is pulling gas away from a companion star on the right. This gas forms a disk of hot gas around the black hole, and the wind is driven off this disk. New observations with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory clocked the fastest wind ever seen blowing off a disk around this stellar-mass black hole. Stellar-mass black holes are born when extremely massive stars collapse and typically weigh between five and 10 times...

A Sailing Stone in Death Valley

8 Moon-Landing Hoax Myths--Busted

Forty years after U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon, many conspiracy theorists still insist the Apollo 11 moon landing was an elaborate hoax. Examine the photographic evidence, and find out why experts say some of the most common claims simply don't hold water.

You've never seen a solar eclipse quite like this

This morning, at 9:47 am ET, the Moon passed in front of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, temporarily blocking the satellite's view of the Sun. Fortunately for all of us, the Observatory's cameras were rolling —

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Secret UK Network Hunts GPS Jammers

garymortimer writes "A secret network of 20 roadside listening stations across the UK has confirmed that criminals are attempting to jam GPS signals on a regular basis. From the article: 'Government-funded trials involving the police have...

Gates Foundation Makes Progress On Reinvented Toilets

Julie188 writes "Last summer the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pledged to spend millions to reinvent the toilet. That investment has born fruit with teams from around the world coming up with many different ways to turn human waste in...

Almost a Million UK Homes Will Suffer 4G TV interference

First time accepted submitter Nick Fel writes "As the UK nears the end of a lengthy digital TV switch-over, the sale of the analogue TV spectrum for 4G mobile phones will disrupt digital TV in almost a million homes. Affected homes will b...

FCC Chair Calls On ISPs To Adopt New Security Measures

alphadogg writes "U.S. Internet service providers should take new steps to protect subscribers against cyber attacks, including notifying customers when their computers are compromised, the chairman of the FCC said Wednesday. Julius Genac...

Biologists Debunk the "Rotting Y Chromosome" Theory

An anonymous reader writes "Biologists have previously predicted that that the male sex-determining Y chromosome, which once carried around 800 genes, like the X, has lost hundreds of them over the past 300 million years, will mutate itse...

NRC Releases Audio of Fukushima Disaster

mdsolar writes "The Nuclear Regulatory Commission today released transcripts and audio recordings made at the NRC Operations Center during last year's meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. The release of these au...

LinkedIn Buys Rapportive

redletterdave writes "Business networking site LinkedIn acquired Rapportive on Wednesday, which is a Gmail add-on that provides information about your social contacts as you e-mail them. The deal was reportedly already in place by Dec. 8,...

Microsoft's Anti-Google Video Campaign

eldavojohn writes "As the presidential race heats up, the smear ads on TV are also increasing. But Microsoft isn't going to site idly by and let the politicians engage in all that song and dance — and Microsoft really does employ bo...

Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Maintaining IT Policy In K-12 Public ...

First time accepted submitter El Fantasmo writes "I work in public education, K-12, for a small, economically shaky, low performing school district. What are some good or effective tactics for getting budget controllers to stop bypassing ...

Faulty Cable To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results

smolloy writes "It would appear that the hotly debated faster-than-light neutrino observation at CERN is the result of a fault in the connection between a GPS unit and a computer. This connection was used to correct for time delays in the...

Book Review: Liars and Outliers

First time accepted submitter benrothke writes "It is said that the song Wipe Out launched a generation of drummers. In the world of information security, the classic Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C by Br...

Disconnection of Millions of DNSChanger-Infected PCs Delayed

tsu doh nimh writes "Millions of computers infected with the stealthy and tenacious DNSChanger Trojan may be spared a planned disconnection from the Internet early next month if a New York court approves a new request by the U.S. governme...

Last Day To Tell Google To Forget You

itwbennett writes "Google's new privacy policy will consolidate all your data at google.com — unless you erase it first. And today is your last day to do it. The change goes into effect tomorrow. Which is why the helpful folks at EF...

FDA To Review Inhalable Caffeine

First time accepted submitter RenderSeven writes "Manufacturing .NET reports that U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials plan to investigate whether inhalable caffeine sold in lipstick-sized canisters is safe for consumers and if its...

PSVita Released In the USA and Europe

YokimaSun writes "Sony have today released the PSVita in the USA and Europe, the console comes with features such as dual touch pads at the front and rear, dual cameras at the front and rear, dual analog sticks, a 5-inch OLED screen, GPS,...

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Dirty surgical instruments a problem in the OR

When John Harrison checked into a Texas hospital in 2009 for rotator cuff surgery, he thought that after a six-week recovery period, he’d be as good as new. But two weeks after the operation, the 63 year-old was experiencing …

Now & Then: The History of the Trench Coat

After we put away our heavy winter coats, the lightweight cotton coat that's a 97-year fashion icon might well be the perfect pick for the new season.

Meanwhile on Jessica Ahlquist's twitter...

This is what happens when an atheist speaks up.

Bangkok Breakdown – One Wild Night [w/PICS]

Bangkok can be something a sensory overload. With its glittering array of exotic sights, sounds, smells and tastes set to a hectic pace that rivals London, LA or new York, there’s nowhere quite like it. Read on here.

35 percent of British adults sleep with bear

Thirty-five percent of adults in Britain admitted they sleep with a teddy bear to help de-stress and sleep at night, a survey said.

Eye of the robot: Google working on Android-powered glasses?

Forget those old X-ray specs in the back of comic books (which never worked anyway). Google is reportedly working on a pair of Android-powered glasses that could record data and display information for around $400 to $500 and make you look ever dorkier.

Did Hitler Have a Secret Son?

Before his death in 1985, Jean-Marie Loret, believed that he was the only son of Adolf Hitler. There is now new evidence out of France and Germany that appear to corroborate his claim. Loret collected evidence from two studies; one conducted by the University of...

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Graham Norton: losing a parent to dementia | Telegraph

"A letter in Graham’s last column elicited a huge response from you. Here he explains why it moved him on a personal level too..."

Tags: health dementia losing-parent graham-norton telegraph

On Depression & Getting Help

"... But after having been through depression and having had the wonderful good fortune to help a couple of people who’ve been through it, I will say that as hard as it is, IT CAN BE SURVIVED. And after the stabilization process, which can be and often is fucking terrifying, a HAPPY PRODUCTIVE LIFE is possible and statistically likely. Get help. Don’t think. Get help."

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The end of ageing: Why life begins at 90 | New Scientist - Health

"Live long enough and your body stops ageing – so can we learn to stop the clock before our twilight years?... The article also contained a profoundly unexpected discovery. Greenwood and Irwin were studying mortality figures for women aged 93 and over. They expected to see the death rate rising with age, as it does throughout adult life. But they did not. Instead, between 93 and 100 years of age the acceleration in death rates came to a screeching stop. Little old ladies aged 99 were no more likely to die than those aged 93..."

Tags: health ageing life science biology research new-scientist

Universal flu vaccine breakthrough | Telegraph

"A universal flu vaccine that could protect people from all strains of flu has been successfully tested on humans for the first time by Britain scientists...."

Tags: science research health disease flu vaccine universal telegraph

Salt-loving microbe forges its own path | Nature News

"The discovery in a hardy microbe of a novel way of processing carbon shows that there are more ways for organisms to sustain life in the harshest of environments than previously thought...."

Tags: science life metabolic-pathway microbe salt-loving nature-com

Alzheimer’s Test, First of Its Kind, Clears Hurdle - NYTimes.com

"An advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration recommended unanimously Thursday that the agency approve the first test — a brain scan — that can show the characteristic plaques of Alzheimer’s disease in the brain of a living person. The approval was contingent on radiologists agreeing on what the scans say and doctors being trained in how to read the scans...."

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An Aspirin A Day Reduces Cancer Death Risk By 21% | Medical News Today

"Daily aspirin reduces the risk of dying of cancer by 21% after five years, and the benefits appear to increase with time, persisting for twenty years in many cases, British researchers revealed in an Article published in The Lancet after gathering data from eight clinical studies...."

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Adobe to Linux users: Get Chrome or forget Flash

Adobe today said that it would stop offering direct downloads of Flash Player for Linux, telling users to move to Google's Chrome browser, which bundles Flash with its updates.

Adobe to Linux users: Get Chrome or forget Flash

Adobe today said that it would stop offering direct downloads of Flash Player for Linux, telling users to move to Google's Chrome browser, which bundles Flash with its updates.

Oracle lawsuit alleges 'gray market conspiracy' over support services

Oracle is alleging that two companies violated its intellectual property as part of a "gray market" conspiracy to provide support for Oracle's Sun Solaris OS and hardware, according to a lawsui...

Oracle lawsuit alleges 'gray market conspiracy' over support services

Oracle is alleging that two companies violated its intellectual property as part of a "gray market" conspiracy to provide support for Oracle's Sun Solaris OS and hardware, according to a lawsu...

Researcher releases exploit code that can allegedly crash pcAnywhere

Exploit code targeting a newly identified vulnerability in Symantec's pcAnywhere computer remote control product has been published on the Internet, exposing its users to possible attacks that ...

BSA: The world is not yet cloud-friendly

The United States is the fourth friendliest country in the world for global cloud interoperability, according to a new study from the Business Software Alliance. But, the organization said a "p...

Microsoft complains to the E.U. about Motorola Mobility

Microsoft has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission against Motorola Mobility for alleged abuse of essential patents. Microsoft Deputy General Counsel, Dave Heiner, said on his ...

IBM makes QRadar security event management product more intelligent

IBM is widely expanding the intelligence gathering functions available to its security-event management (SEM) product, QRadar Security Intelligence Platform, as well as designing a virtual-appl...

Group files FTC complaint against Google for privacy changes

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission should force Google to halt its plan to consolidate user identities across its services and fine the company for violating an October privacy settlement with t...

Cloud security, big data, and mobile to dominate RSA conference

There are fewer topics stirring bigger buzz among information security professionals than big data, cloud security, and mobile. So it's no surprise that those topics will dominate the discussio...

Of course Microsoft will port Office to the iPad

Office on the iPad is a foregone conclusion. It's been that way since Microsoft dipped its toe in the water with OneNote on iPhone a year ago, then crossed the Rubicon with OneNote, SkyDrive, a...

Of course Microsoft will port Office to the iPad

Office on the iPad is a foregone conclusion. It's been that way since Microsoft dipped its toe in the water with OneNote on iPhone a year ago, then crossed the Rubicon with OneNote, SkyDriv...

Amazon automates business processes with new cloud service

Amazon Web Services has launched Simple Workflow Service (SWF), which will allow enterprises to automate business processes across both cloud-based and on-premise applications, the company said...

SAP lays out product direction after SuccessFactors deal

SAP on Wednesday released details for its roadmap for HCM (human capital management) software following the $3.4 billion acquisition of SuccessFactors, which focuses on cloud-based applications...

Teradata partners with Hortonworks on Hadoop

The growing enterprise interest in big data analytics is beginning to drive partnerships between vendors of traditional relational database management technologies and purveyors of the open sou...