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  • newSouthwest Airlines iPhone App Unencrypted, Vulnerable To Eavesdroppers
    New submitter davidstites writes "I am a masters computer science student at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and in November I performed a security audit of 230+ popular iOS applications because I wanted to know how secure apps on smartp…
    - 30 mins ago, 12 Feb 12, 4:32pm -
  • newA Defense of Process Patents
    An anonymous reader writes "In light of the ruling against the University of California patent trolls seeking to claim ownership of the 'Interactive Web,' founding attorney of Beacon Hill Law Joe Stanganelli, has written an article defending process…
    - 2 hours ago, 12 Feb 12, 3:29pm -
  • newIt's Not All Waste: The Complicated Life of Surplus Electronics In Africa
    retroworks writes "Today's Science Daily reports on 5 new UN studies of used computer and electronics management in Africa. The studies find that about 85% of surplus electronics imports are reused, not discarded. Most of the goods pictured in 'prim…
    - 3 hours ago, 12 Feb 12, 2:31pm -
  • newAll-IP Network Produces $100B Real Estate Windfall
    Hugh Pickens writes "Daniel Berniger writes that one of the unexpected consequences of AT&T's transition to HD voice and all-IP networks is that the footprint of required network equipment will shrink by as much as 90 percent, translating into a $10…
    - 4 hours ago, 12 Feb 12, 1:30pm -
  • newTexas Supercomputer Upgrading the Hurricane Forecast
    aarondubrow writes "Researchers used the Ranger supercomputer to test a new, high-resolution hurricane forecasting system that incorporates Doppler radar data from planes flying into the storm. The forecasts were shown to improve intensity predictio…
    - 5 hours ago, 12 Feb 12, 11:42am -
  • newBoiling Down the Meaning of Life
    Shipud writes "A recent article in Journal of Biomolecular structure and Dynamics proposes to define life by semantic voting [Note: open-access article]: 'The definitions of life are more than often in conflict with one another. Undeniably, however,…
    - 8 hours ago, 12 Feb 12, 8:48am -
  • newTools, Techniques, Procedures of the RSA Hackers Revealed
    An anonymous reader writes "Details of the tools, techniques and procedures used by the hackers behind the RSA security breach have been revealed in a research paper (PDF) published by Australian IT security company Command Five. The paper also, for…
    - 11 hours ago, 12 Feb 12, 5:51am -
  • newLooking For Love; Finding Privacy Violations
    itwbennett writes "When you sign up for online dating, there's a certain amount of information you expect to give up, like whether or not your weight is proportional to your height. But you probably don't expect that your profile will remain online…
    - 14 hours ago, 12 Feb 12, 2:54am -
  • newFacebook Details Executive Salaries, Bonuses
    An anonymous reader writes "Facebook has detailed the pay of 27-year-old Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg as well as four other executives. These are people who are set to be billionaires at least on paper when the company goes public as…
    - 17 hours ago, 12 Feb 12, 12:05am -
  • newCanada ISPs Not Subject To Content Rules, Court Says
    silentbrad writes "Upholding a 2010 decision from the Federal Court of Appeal, the country's highest court said ISPs cannot be subject to the Broadcasting Act of 1991 because they have no control over the content they distribute. The ruling ends a y…
    - 18 hours ago, 11 Feb 12, 11:09pm -
  • newSergey: In Soviet Russia, Rocket Detonates You!
    theodp writes " We were all foolish enough to go on this adventure,' Google co-founder Sergey Brin told the assembled Brainiacs at Google's Solve for X event last week, recalling the time he and Google co-founder Larry Page took their Gulfstream on…
    - 19 hours ago, 11 Feb 12, 9:50pm -
  • newTMS9918A Retro Video Chip Reimplemented In FPGA, With VGA Out
    acadiel writes "Matthew H from the AtariAge.com TI-99/4A forum has finalized a design of a TMS 9918A replacement (with VGA out) for classic computer systems such as the ColecoVision, TI-99/4A, SpectraVision, MSX1, SpectraVision 128, and Tomy Tutor H…
    - 20 hours ago, 11 Feb 12, 8:40pm -

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    • newHow to Set Up an Email Account that Uses Your Domain Name
      This guest post is written by Kashish Jain of digiupdates. Most of the people who are new to web design and blogging don’t understand the capabilities that come free with their domain, so they don’t take advantage of them. How many times have you…
      - 3 hours ago, 12 Feb 12, 2:09pm -
    • newHow I Expanded the Demographic of My Niche Blog to Include Every Person Online
      This guest post is by Sonal Pandey of Tap Easy. Some things don’t get better with time. This was going to be one such case. Here I was, sharing an awesome technique capable of changing lives, but not many were paying attention. My niche had the per…
      - 1 day ago, 11 Feb 12, 2:00pm -
    • A Tale of Two Ebooks
      This guest post is by Alexis Grant of The Traveling Writer. During the last six months, I’ve published two ebooks: one that’s selling wonderfully, and another that flopped. Why did one succeed, while the other—at least in sales terms—didn’t…
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    • Is Perfectionism Stalling Your Productivity?
      We’ve all been there … You sit down to write a post. You get the opening line down, but half-way through the second sentence, you go back to tweak the first. A bit further on, you decide to chop up the paragraphs you’ve done so far and rearrang…
      - 3 days ago, 9 Feb 12, 8:04pm -
    • 6 Powerful Guest Post Tactics that No One’s Talking About

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    • How to Succinctly Report a Blog Issue to Tech Support
      This guest post is by Matthew Setter of Malt Blue. How often do you find it happening to you? You discover an issue with your site, or one of your community members emails you to tell you about it, and soon you start to see tweets about it too. Mayb…
      - 4 days ago, 8 Feb 12, 2:07pm -
    • Make Your Blog Load Faster than ProBlogger: Part 2
      This guest post is by Devesh of WP Kube. A few months ago, I wrote a guest post here called How to Make Your Blog Load Faster than ProBlogger. Today, I’ll go into some more detailed advice to help you speed up your site even more. If you’re a blo…
      - 5 days ago, 7 Feb 12, 8:05pm -
    • How I Beat my Best Month Ever by Doing Something Good, Better [Case Study]
      Mid-December 2010: on my photography site, we launched a new campaign—our first ever 12 Days of Christmas promotion. The result was my biggest month of earnings ever up to that point. The idea was simple: offer discounts on 12 products over the 12…
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      • newA Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 12
        Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
        - 12 hours ago, 12 Feb 12, 5:01am -
      • newFacebook Reveals Most Popular Songs for New Loves and Breakups
        The Facebook data team has tracked which songs people in new relationships are most likely to play, as well as the songs they cue up following a breakup.
        - 1 day ago, 11 Feb 12, 1:45pm -
      • newA Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 11
        Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
        - 2 days ago, 11 Feb 12, 5:01am -
      • newAmazing Videos of Earth at Night from Space
        While you're curled up comfy in your bed each night, the crew of the International Space Station is getting unrivaled views of our planet. For anyone wishing they could see what the astronauts see, here are recent videos of the Earth at night taken f…
        - 2 days ago, 11 Feb 12, 12:58am -
      • newAre Google's Wallet Dreams in Danger?
        Two recent Google Wallet hacks have brought the long-term viability of the platform into question.
        - 2 days ago, 11 Feb 12, 12:54am -
      • newYahoo to Build Secret Servers in Nebraska
        Yahoo is hoping to build a facility in the suburbs of Omaha, Nebraska, where it will assemble its own servers and ship them to data centers it operates across the country, according to lawmakers and officials in the Midwestern state. These lawmakers…
        - 2 days ago, 11 Feb 12, 12:00am -
      • newIntel Agrees to Pay Pocket Change Over Antitrust Allegations
        Intel and the New York Attorney General's office have agreed to settle a 2009 lawsuit that accused the chip giant of violating federal and state antitrust laws. As part of the settlement, Intel has agreed to pay $6.5 million dollars to account for so…
        - 2 days ago, 10 Feb 12, 11:54pm -
      • newThe Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde: It's Evolution, Stupid
        Peter Sunde, one of the co-founders of the infamous The Pirate Bay file-sharing search engine, argues that Big Content should start innovating and stop trying to use the courts and the law to put the genie back in the bottle.
        - 2 days ago, 10 Feb 12, 11:25pm -
      • newKeep Your Data Secure Abroad
        Traveling into the danger zone? Worried that a hacker or a less... democratically inclined government may attempt to seize your data? Follow these tips to keep your data secure abroad.
        - 2 days ago, 10 Feb 12, 11:13pm -
      • newOccupy DC Evicted From a Winter of Communal Discontent
        After months of tolerating and even defending Occupy DC, park police swept in with a SWAT team and bulldozer. Wired's Quinn Norton was on the ground - literally - as the police evicted a camp that was full of life.
        - 2 days ago, 10 Feb 12, 10:06pm -
      • newTesla Crosses Over With Model X
        Tesla Motors continues its relentless push into the mainstream with an uber-practical crossover utility that builds in the Model S sedan.
        - 2 days ago, 10 Feb 12, 9:22pm -
      • newNavy's Rail Gun Blasts Through Budget Restrictions
        Congress had its budgetary knives out for the Electronic Railgun, the Navy's futuristic cannon that fires bullets at hypersonic speeds with a burst of electricity. But the railgun survived -- that is, unless continuing technical hurdles doom it. And…
        - 2 days ago, 10 Feb 12, 9:11pm -

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      • Federal Government and Alzheimer’s Disease
        I read with great interest that the United States federal government is considering a plan that provides effective treatments for Alzheimer’s disease by 2025. Such a national strategy is desperately needed and long overdue. It is well known that Al…
        - 9 days ago, 3 Feb 12, 6:46pm -
      • On That Annual Resolution
        By now most of us have declared our 2012 resolution (s) with great passion and hope. Honesty tells us that we may have been in this same spot last year with a wonderful declaration to give this up or to start that. Well, what happened? How many actua…
        - 34 days ago, 9 Jan 12, 8:48pm -
      • Christmas, the Holiday Season, and World Peace
        It is too easy to turn the television or internet on and witness humans across the globe behaving with violence and harm towards others. This stands in direct contradiction to what Christmas and the Holiday season represents. It is hard to imagine wh…
        - 55 days ago, 19 Dec 11, 6:39pm -
      • Giving Thanks at Thanksgiving
        The annual holiday known as Thanksgiving is upon us here in the United States. This is a day of great food, family, friends, cheer, football, and being together with those we love. It is also a day of thanks and it is important to reflect on all that…
        - 83 days ago, 21 Nov 11, 8:51pm -
      • Meditation Improves Immune System
        Meditation is best known as part of the Buddhist and Indian Yoga traditions. It has now migrated and become more integrated into western civilization including the United States. Research has supported a relationship between meditation practice and p…
        - 96 days ago, 8 Nov 11, 7:33pm -
      • Health and The Daily Meal
        Socialization and mental stimulation are two of the five major components of my brain health lifestyle ® (see www.paulnussbaum.com). One practical tip I have advocated is having one meal a day with the family, friends, or even with new people. I bel…
        - 96 days ago, 8 Nov 11, 7:31pm -
      • Sleep Deprivation and Alzheimer’s
        A new study to be published in the Archives of Neurology reports levels of amyloid beta, a byproduct of brain activity considered a marker in Alzheimer’s disease, normally rises during the day and decreases at night. Authors of the study suggest a…
        - 29 Sep 11, 5:47pm -
      • Emotional Well-Being
        We all want to feel good, emotionally healthy, and balanced. For many of us this is a great goal, but a rare reality. The question is why do we not fell balanced emotionally? Why do we tend to feel tense, rushed, stressed, or ill inside? One pathway…
        - 7 Sep 11, 6:44pm -
      • Stress and the Nervous System
        We all have heard about “stress” and the negative impact it can have on our body and brain. Nearly all of us deal with stress on a daily basis and while some acute stress can be advantageous, the chronic effects of stress can lead to physical pro…
        - 22 Aug 11, 11:43pm -
      • More Research on Lifestyle and Risk Reduction in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)
        For the past decade or more I have advanced the idea that a proactive lifestyle can be beneficial to the human brain. I have not been the only one to discuss or study this point, but it remains a central focus of my work. There has been a rather robu…
        - 4 Aug 11, 4:10pm -

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