Wer sein Smartphone verkauft, möchte zuvor seine persönlichen E-Mails oder Fotos gelöscht wissen. Für Android, iPhone und Windows Phone gibt es verschiedene Methoden, das Gerät zu säubern.
Facebook rüstet sich mit dem Kauf hunderter Patente für den Kampf gegen Yahoo. Die Klagen des Konkurrenten könnten den Börsengang des weltgrössten sozialen Netzwerks gefährden.
Darauf warten Spione, Ärzte und Autofahrer. Eine in den USA entwickelte Laserkamera schiesst eine Billion Bilder pro Sekunde und kann um Hindernisse herum «sehen».
Das beliebteste Social Network der Welt verschärft die Spielregeln - wie immer, ohne die User richtig zu informieren. Wer das Netzwerk weiter nutzt, ist automatisch einverstanden. Oder selbst schuld.
Ab sofort ist die Zeitung 20 Minuten auch ein multimediales Erlebnis: Artikel können mit dem iPhone zum Leben erweckt werden.
Auf Google Maps können Internetnutzer erstmals auch Bahn fahren. Die Panoramabilder der 122 Kilometer langen Albula-Bernina-Strecke sind seit heute online.
Einen besseren Titel als «Journey» hätte man dem Indie-Game nicht geben können. Mehr als eine Reise erlebt der Spieler nicht. Die aber ist schlicht atemberaubend.
Games sind tot, lang leben Games: Während die traditionelle Spielindustrie fad, unbeweglich und vorhersehbar geworden ist, prosperiert in ihrem Schatten die Gegenkultur - überraschende Indie-Games.
Sie ist Cristiano Ronaldos Freundin und hält auch die Computer-Welt auf Trab. Kriminelle setzen auf das russische Supermodel Irina Shayk, um ahnungslose Mac-Nutzer in die Falle zu locken.
Im Hinterhof, auf den Plätzen und Strassen bekannter Städte oder gar auf Hausdächern: «Fifa Street» will das Gefühl des ursprünglichen Strassenfussballs auf die Spielkonsole bringen.
Das iPad 3 läuft im Betrieb spürbar warm, doch die Temperatur hält sich absolut im erträglichen Rahmen. Apple hat auf entsprechende Medienberichte reagiert.
Nur sieben Monate nach dem gescheiterten Radikal-Umbau von Léo Apotheker wird Hewlett-Packard erneut umgebaut. Die neue Chefin legt das PC- und Druckergeschäft zusammen.
Einer der beiden mutmasslichen Hauptverantwortlichen des Internetfilmportals kino.to muss sich seit Dienstag vor dem Landgericht Leipzig verantworten.
Das iPad 3 ist bereits in sämtliche Einzelteile zerlegt und von Hackern aufgebohrt worden. Hier sind die wichtigsten (inoffiziellen) Fakten rund um das Apple-Tablet.
ananyo writes "Exposure to germs in childhood is thought to help strengthen the immune system and protect children from developing allergies and asthma, but the pathways by which this occurs have been unclear. Now, researchers have identified a mechanism in mice that may explain the role of exposure to microbes in the development of asthma and ulcerative colitis, a common form of inflammatory bowel disease. The researchers show that in mice, exposure to microbes in early life can reduce the body's inventory of invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells, which help to fight infection but can also turn on the body, causing a range of disorders such as asthma or inflammatory bowel disease (abstract). The study supports the 'hygiene hypothesis,' which contends that such auto-immune diseases are more common in the developed world where the prevalence of antibiotics and antibacterials reduce children's exposure to microbes."
eldavojohn writes "Considering IBM's portfolio gained 6,180 last year alone, it's not a huge number. But after a dispute with Yahoo a couple weeks ago, Facebook has purchased 750 patents from IBM. That's over thirteen times the 56 they were reportedly holding. The humorous rumor is that Yahoo might have been licensing these patents from IBM. If you can't beat 'em, buy the patents they're licensing from another company. Another rumor is that Facebook might be just getting started in their bid to expand their patent portfolio (video). No word yet whether the purchased patents directly pertain to Yahoo's infringement claims on messaging, privacy controls, advertising, customization and social networking."
Wo-wo-wee-wah! It looks like the Kuwaiti officials at an international shooting event never got the memo that the film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan wasn't an actual documentary. Gold medalist Maria Dmitrienko stood stoically while the offensive national anthem from the film was played during the awards ceremony. From the article: "Coach Anvar Yunusmetov told Kazakh news agency Tengrinews that the tournament's organizers had also got the Serbian national anthem wrong." Nice!
WheezyJoe writes "NBC News has some disturbing security video of people getting assaulted for their smartphones. Such offenses are on the rise. Police chiefs like D.C.'s Cathy Lanier are asking U.S. mobile carriers to brick phones that are reported stolen, in order to dry up what must be a big underground market for your favorite Android device or iPhone — but right now the carriers won't do it. Such an approach has had success in Australia and the U.K."
New submitter schrodingersGato writes "Researchers at the Los Alamos campus of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory achieved a record-setting 100.75 Tesla magnetic field. To do this, scientists placed a resistive magnet (a sophisticated electromagnet) coupled to massive bank of capacitors within another magnet fixed at a 'lower' magnetic field. A short-lived pulse two million times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field was generated. The magnet itself made an eerie sound as it was energized (video). Prepare for the birth of Magneto!"
itwbennett writes "High demand, high prices, and nearly identical cheaper alternatives is a recipe for fraud. Eel fraud, that is. This has led Japanese researchers to develop a method to cheaply and quickly batch-test DNA by taking small tissue samples from thousands of eels. 'If a non-local eel is found in a batch, more tests will be performed to find the guilty foreigner.'"
An anonymous reader writes "According to new study published in Nature (abstract), MIT researchers have figured out how to trigger specific memories in rats by hitting certain neurons with a pulse of light. From the article: 'The researchers first identified a specific set of brain cells in the hippocampus that were active only when a mouse was learning about a new environment. They determined which genes were activated in those cells, and coupled them with the gene for channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2), a light-activated protein used in optogenetics. ... The light-activated protein would only be expressed in the neurons involved in experiential learning — an ingenious way to allow for labeling of the physical network of neurons associated with a specific memory engram for a specific experience. Finally, the mice entered an environment and, after a few minutes of exploration, received a mild foot shock, learning to fear the particular environment in which the shock occurred. The brain cells activated during this fear conditioning became tagged with ChR2. Later, when exposed to triggering pulses of light in a completely different environment, the neurons involved in the fear memory switched on — and the mice quickly entered a defensive, immobile crouch.'"
McGruber writes "Bloomberg News is reporting that AT&T got more than $16 million from the U.S. government to run Telecommunications Relay Services, intended to help the hearing- and speech-impaired. However, as many as '95 percent of the calls in AT&T's hearing- impaired program were made by people outside the U.S. attempting to defraud merchants through the use of stolen credit cards, counterfeit checks and money orders.' According to the DoJ, 'AT&T in 2004, after getting complaints from merchants, determined the Internet Protocol addresses of 10 of the top 12 users of the service were abroad, primarily in Lagos, Nigeria.' The DOJ intervened in the whistle-blower lawsuit Lyttle v. AT&T Communications of Pennsylvania, 10-01376, U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh). The DOJ is seeking triple damages from AT&T."
Hugh Pickens writes "David Mielach reports on a new study which finds that women in management positions lead in a more democratic way, allowing employees to participate in decision-making and establishing interpersonal channels of communication. 'In line with known gender differences in individual leadership, we find that in workplaces with more women managers, more individualized employee feedback is carried out,' says study author Eduardo Melero. 'Likewise, we can see evidence, although weaker, that in these workplaces decisions are made more democratically and more interpersonal channels of communications are established.' The research was based on data from the Workplace Employment Relationships Survey, a survey of workplaces in the United Kingdom. Melero analyzed this data by looking at the number of women in management positions in companies and the leadership tactics employed at those companies. He found increased communication between management and employees in companies with women in management positions led to more well-informed decisions, since employee feedback will be utilized in the decision-making process. Still, correlation does not equal causation. 'One might question the direction of the relation: is it women managers who are the behind these policies, or is it that more progressive organizations are more accessible for women leaders than other workplaces (PDF)?'"
ananyo writes "Researchers have made a cloak that can hide objects from static magnetic fields, realizing a theoretical prediction they made last year. This 'antimagnet' could have medical applications, but could also be used to subvert airport security. The cloak's interior is lined with turns of tape made from a high-temperature superconductor. Superconductors repel magnetic fields, so any magnetic field enclosed within a superconductor would be undetectable from outside. But the superconductor itself would still perturb an external magnetic field, so the researchers coated its external side with an ordinary ferromagnet. The superconductor tries to repel external field lines, whereas the ferromagnet tries to draw them in — together, the two layers cancel each other out (abstract)."