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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Smarting from speculation that the U.S. intelligence community hoarded knowledge about the Heartbleed bug that's placed millions of servers and devices that access the Internet at risk, the White House Tuesday gave the public some insight into how it decides to release information about vulnerabilities in computer software and hardware. "This administration takes seriously its commitment to an open and interoperable, secure and reliable Internet ... ."

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White House Opens Heart About Vulnerabilties

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Smarting from speculation that the U.S. intelligence community hoarded knowledge about the Heartbleed bug that's placed millions of se...

Lexicographer Erin McKean gave a TED talk in 2007 called "The Joy of Lexicography," in which she pointed out the limitations of print dictionaries. After that talk, she decided to make her vision of a new kind of dictionary a reality. Thus was born Wordnik. "Our mission with Wordnik is to put all the words in the dictionary, and show as much data as we can for any word someone is interested in," said McKean. Wordnik isn't just about definitions -- it provides an entire ecosystem around each word.

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Digital Tech Gives Wordsmiths a Whole New World

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Lexicographer Erin McKean gave a TED talk in 2007 called "The Joy of Lexicography," in which she pointed out the limitations of ...

Red Hat, the open source software provider, has just announced that it is buying Inktank, a developer of open-source storage systems, for $175 million in cash. Red Hat says it will combine Inktank’s primary product, Ceph, with its own GlusterFS-based storage offering. Red Hat says the deal will make it into the largest provider of open software-defined storage across object, block and file… Read More

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Red Hat Buys Ceph Provider Inktank For $175M In Cash To Beef Up Its Cloud Storage Offerings

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Red Hat, the open source software provider, has just announced that it is buying Inktank, a developer of open-source storage systems, for $1...

What might be the world's smallest 3D glasses have been developed for praying mantises. People, horses, falcons, cats, monkeys and even toads have 3D vision -- but until 1983, everyone thought that invertebrates didn't, because their brains were so small and simple. That year, Samuel Rossel of the University of Zurich in essence said that mantises had 3D vision. Now researchers have launched a five-year program to study mantis 3D vision. They aim to establish whether mantis 3D vision is capable of more than range-finding.

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Praying Mantises Sport the World's Smallest 3D Glasses

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What might be the world's smallest 3D glasses have been developed for praying mantises. People, horses, falcons, cats, monkeys and eve...

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Nod Labs on Tuesday jumped into the wearable tech market with a ring device that's designed to serve as a universal controller. Featuring Broadcom Bluetooth Smart and Nexus-Trellis software, Nod's namesake wearable input device is designed to offer touchless interaction with set-top boxes and other connected home devices without the need for remotes or cameras. The device detects spatial motion with more than 0.1mm accuracy and can personalize content based on a user's proximity and identity.

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Nod's Ring May Be Smart but Not Precious

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Nod Labs on Tuesday jumped into the wearable tech market with a ring device that's designed to serve as a universal controller. Featur...

AOL on Monday disclosed that a "significant number" of user accounts had been hacked, confirming rumors swirling around the issue for a week and denying its week-ago statement that users' email accounts were being spoofed. The hackers stole users' email and postal addresses, address book contacts, encrypted passwords and encrypted answers to security questions, and "certain employee information." However, there is no indication so far that users' financial information has been disclosed.

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