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Windows 8.1 officially finished, nobody to get it until launch day 27 Aug 2013 | 06:01 pm
Microsoft confirmed this morning that Windows 8.1 has been released to manufacturing ahead of its October 18th retail launch. Microsoft also confirmed rumors that the new operating system would not b...
Chip veterans form new startup, will sell high-end Bitcoin miner for $16,000 27 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
On Tuesday, a new Bitcoin startup called CoinTerra announced that it raised $1.5 million in venture capital. This likely puts the company in a position to dominate the Bitcoin hardware market—assuming...
Apple Stores reportedly pilot iPhone trade-in program, may expand in September 27 Aug 2013 | 05:59 pm
iPhones have little nutritional value, so it would be best to trade them in. Jacqui Cheng Whatever you think of Apple and its products, it cannot be denied that the products hold their value well. W...
Nothing but the Soylent: we’re trying 1 full week of the meal substitute 27 Aug 2013 | 06:45 am
Five days worth of Soylent. God help me. Lee Hutchinson An unassuming USPS box arrived in my mailbox this afternoon, but the label had a word in it that I'd been hoping to see: "SOYLENT." Unpacking,...
PBS documentary on concussions leaves ESPN black and blue 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am
The potential for repeated brain injuries was perhaps best exemplified by the Parkinson's symptoms suffered very publicly by the boxer Muhammad Ali. But, within the academic world, a growing body of l...
Memories of positive associations get written onto DNA 27 Aug 2013 | 02:00 am
Oak Ridge National Lab Nerve cells communicate through short, fleeting pulses of electrical activity. Yet some memories stored in the brain can persist for decades. Research into how the nervous syst...
“thereisnofatebutwhatwemake”—Turbo-charged cracking comes to long passwords 27 Aug 2013 | 01:44 am
Dan Goodin For the first time, the freely available password cracker ocl-Hashcat-plus is able to tackle passcodes with as many as 55 characters. It's an improvement that comes as more and more people...
Amazon and Microsoft, beware—VMware cloud is more ambitious than we thought 27 Aug 2013 | 01:30 am
vCloud Hybrid Service integrates with on-premises VMware deployments. VMware VMware today announced that vCloud Hybrid Service, its first public infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud, will become...
Intellectual Ventures opens DC office to push $1M lobbying effort 27 Aug 2013 | 01:06 am
The world's largest patent-holding company, Intellectual Ventures (IV), has opened up a Washington DC office, according to The Washington Post's Capital Business blog. The move appears to be a ramping...
Insane Omate TrueSmart smart watch has its own cell modem, camera, and GPS 26 Aug 2013 | 11:40 pm
Omate TrueSmart Kickstarter The tech industry has collectively decided that "smart watches" are going to be The Next Big Thing. While the major players are taking their time, many smaller companies a...
