An Arizona judge has denied a motion to suppress evidence collected through a spoofed cell tower that the FBI used to track the location of an accused identity thief.
The first trailer for Edgar Wright's latest flick with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost is here -- and it looks like the best/worst bar crawl of all time.
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Kwikset's new Kevo door lock turns your iPhone into the simplest of digital keys. Just have your smartphone in your pocket or purse, tap the Kevo lock, and you're in.
Not a hoax! Not an imaginary story! Not a holiday special! Venture Brothers season five is premiering at select locations around the country on May 28 and 29, nearly a week before the season¿s network premiere on June 2.
A four-man Special Operations team in Tripoli ahead of last September's deadly Benghazi attack couldn't have saved U.S. diplomats, the Pentagon says.
Want to know how to "'hack" Google like the pros? The NSA has released a book it produced for its workers on how to find intelligence on the web.
Two years ago, Mark Zuckerberg and company turned the hardware world on its head when they launched the Open Compute Project, an effort to improve every aspect of the modern data center and share the results with the world at large. They began by "open sourcing" fresh designs for computer servers and power systems and cooling equipment. Then they did the same with hardware that stores massive amounts of digital data. Then they remade the racks that hold all these machines. And now it's time for the networking gear.
Five years ago, Joe Fernandez, at 30, had jaw surgery. His mouth was wired shut for three months and he couldn¿t carry on a conversation. He immersed himself in the online world, and realized that unlike every other form of broadcast media there was no way to measure the impact of its key element¿people. There ...
For baggage screeners and radiologists, being able to spot a rare item in a cluttered image can make the difference between life and death. Now, a cognitive psychologist has teamed up with the Seattle-based Kedlin Company to harvest data from the company's Airport Scanner game, a smartphone app in which users scan mock X-ray images for illicit items. The torrent of data from the app could provide clues to better training methods or changes in the workplace that could make professional searchers better at their jobs.
On last Sunday¿s episode of Game of Thrones, we saw Jon Snow and the Wildlings scale the Wall, a 700-foot vertical ice barrier that separates the continent of Westeros from the frozen lands to the north. So how realistic was this scene, from the perspective of an experienced ice climber?
Amanda Ghassaei, creator of the 3-D printed record, etched tracks on another medium -- wood -- using a 120-watt Epilog Legend EXT laser cutter.
When the MythBusters launched a rocket car, the car scraped up and partially broke the ramp. Wired Science blogger Rhett Allain calculates the forces would the car exert on the ramp.
As a lawyer who works in Silicon Valley and Cambridge, Massachusetts, Len Nannarone has helped his fair share of tech companies. But the most important startup he¿s advised is much closer to home: his 10-year-old son, Owen, a budding inventor and entrepreneur.
Starting with its faux "chicken" strips, Maryland-based Beyond Meat is going after 90 million flexitarians, a new breed of environmentally conscious eaters who are as happy munching on pork roast as on tofu stir fry.
YouTube just released its Trends Map. Here are a few (not real) regional results it might not be turning up.
Marco Tempest sees the marriage of science and magic as a way to envision where technology might take us.
The Pentagon's electromagnetic pain rays are about to make a new buddy. In the form of an anthropomorphic test dummy that's gonna get blasted by everything the Pentagon's non-lethal weapons agency can throw at it.
Dinosaurs aren't all big and scaly. The more fossils they find, and the closer they examine them, the more scientists realize how diverse these animals were. Sure, some were massive. Some took to the air on giant wings. But lots more scampered around on the ground chomping on vegetation. And many more than previously thought may have sported feathers, perhaps using them to impress a mate with a bit of tail-shaking action the way peacocks do today. This gallery shows off 10 recent discoveries that stoke our fascination with these ancient animals and leave us wanting more.
Getting photos of wolves is difficult. It usually requires traveling into the farthest reaches of North America or other remote locations. But photographer Camille Seaman in San Francisco only needed to cross the Golden Gate Bridge to find one for her latest project.
Personalization is as much a buzzword nowadays as disruption, big data, or the cloud. It might also be part of the solution to pull the publishing industry out of the downward revenue spiral it¿s been stuck in for years.
Nearly one in three commercial honeybee colonies in the United States died or disappeared last winter, an unsustainable decline that threatens the nation's food supply and suggests that something is deeply foul in our environment.
The Razer Edge makes a lousy tablet, but it's a great gaming machine -- as long as you have an outlet nearby.
The latest pleasure boats allow sailors to take to the water with a crew of just one, with sails that can move at the touch of a button.
A lot goes into an accessory maker's decision on how its item will connect to a mobile device, and many accessory makers are finding the answer in Bluetooth.
BitTorrent has announced Bundles, a new format that it hopes will continue to demonstrate to the entertainment industry that file-sharing isn't the enemy.
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The first trailer for director Gavin Hood's adaptation of
Legendary visual effects artist Ray Harryhausen passed away today in London at the age of 92.
If you¿ve ever wondered what people in Alaska are watching right this minute on YouTube, we¿ve got your answer.
Intel will advance Moore's Law for the foreseeable future, but keeping up with it is becoming more challenging as chip geometries shrink, according to a company executive. Moore's Law is based on a theory that the number of transistors that can be placed on silicon doubles every two years, which brings more features on chips and provides speed boosts. Using Moore's Law as a baseline, Intel for decades has added more transistors while reducing the size and cost of a chip. The manufacturing advances help make smartphones, tablets and PCs faster and more power efficient. But as chips get smaller, maintaining pace with Moore's Law is perhaps more difficult today than it was in years past, said William Holt, executive vice president and general manager of Intel's Technology Manufacturing Group, during a speech at the Jeffries Global Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference this week. "Are we closer to an end than we were five years ago? Of course. But are we to the point where we can realistically predict that end, we don't think so. We are confident that we are going to continue to provide the basic building blocks that allow improvements in electronic devices," Holt said.
Two U.S. senators will push Congress or President Barack Obama's administration to pursue trade and immigration sanctions against China and other countries that allegedly support cyberattacks on U.S. government agencies and businesses, the lawmakers said Wednesday. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat, and Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, called on the administration, including the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation, to step up efforts to battle cyberattacks. before the Senate Judiciary Committee's crime subcommittee. "Our Chinese friends seem to be hell bent on stealing anything they can get their hands on here in America," Graham said. "We're going to do something about this. We're going to put nation states on notice that, if you continue to do this, you'll pay a price."
Automation is the name of the game these days for web apps, and Wappwolf aims to combine automation with the power of cloud computing. Available for Dropbox, Google Drive and Box, Wappwolf offers on-the-fly file conversion, as well as automatically moving the files to other folders, email notifications, tweets, FTP uploading and more. And once you've set the rule, everything gets done behind the scenes.
Now it seems we have our answer. . “Within a decade, we think everyone will choose to subscribe because the benefits are undeniable.” For now, however, Microsoft says it will continue to offer packaged Office suites in addition to Office 365 subscriptions. “We think people’s shift from packaged software to subscription services will take time,” Microsoft said. “In the meantime, we are committed to offering choice—premier software sold as a package and powerful services sold as a subscription.”
, and I use almost every online consumer service that the company offers. So when it comes time to create a document using Web apps, there is of course only one choice: Google Docs. Despite Microsoft’s wide array of great software, Office Web Apps simply aren’t good enough to trust with critical documents. That may change in the next year. is made up of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote, as part of Microsoft’s SkyDrive cloud storage service for consumers. It’s also included with Office 365, the broader email and collaboration suite that has free and fee-based editions.)
NetSuite is beefing up its cloud-based ERP software's order-processing features by acquiring OrderMotion, a move that could strengthen its appeal to customers in retailing. Terms of the deal, announced Wednesday, were not disclosed. OrderMotion's technology is aimed at companies that ship products directly to consumers. This is a business that has become more complex of late, thanks to ship-to-store programs, where a customer orders a product online and heads to a retail location to pick it up. In addition, companies are increasingly looking to use their retail locations as regional distribution centers in order to save time and money compared to using a massive, centralized warehouse operation, said Andy Lloyd, general manager of commerce products at NetSuite. . NetSuite won't necessarily attempt to push OrderMotion customers toward its own offering, however, according to Lloyd. "Generally when we do acquisitions, the directive we get from [CEO Zach Nelson] is 'don't break it,'" he said. Still, "when a company is operating on a single system and has one view of the data, systems work best and companies run best," he added.
Google has added a new notification to its Cloud Storage service, allowing applications to automatically take action when new content is uploaded by users. But the object change notification will change that and seemingly make life a little easier for developers. shows how to add one. The object change notification is only a preview feature. That means it is still being developed and Google can make backwards-incompatible changes, it warned.
Microsoft has extended a search revenue guarantee agreement with Yahoo for one more year, amid reports that the Internet company is trying to break its 10-year agreement with Microsoft. on Tuesday. Microsoft had in 2011 agreed to extend the guarantee in the U.S. and Canada through March 2013. for which implementation began in February 2010, Microsoft guaranteed Yahoo's revenue per search on its properties for 18 months after the transition of its paid search services to Microsoft's platform in each market, to protect Yahoo from the impact of the transition. It was part of a broader deal by which Yahoo moved its search backend to Microsoft's Bing and its paid search services to Microsoft's platform. The so-called RPS Guarantee was calculated based on the difference in revenue per search between the pre-transition and post-transition periods and certain other factors, as Yahoo transitioned its paid search to Microsoft platforms. "To date, there has been a gap in revenue per search between pre-transition and post-transition periods in most markets and Microsoft has been making payments under the RPS Guarantee to compensate for the difference," Yahoo said in the filing.
The development team behind the popular Nginx open-source Web server software released security updates on Tuesday to address a highly critical vulnerability that could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on susceptible servers. Identified as CVE-2013-2028, the vulnerability is a stack-based buffer overflow and was first introduced in the Nginx 1.3.9 development version back in November 2012. The flaw is also present in the 1.4.0 stable version released last month. in the new Nginx 1.4.1 stable version and Nginx 1.5.0 development version. The vulnerability can be exploited by malicious attackers by sending specially crafted HTTP chunks to an exposed Nginx server. .
When you’re multitasking like mad, one monitor doesn’t provide enough real estate to display every open window without many of them overlapping and obscuring each other. For this reason alone, most PCWorld editors and designers use more than one display. Constantly rearranging multiple browser, text editor, chat, and photo-editing windows as you search for the one you need saps productivity and invites frustration. But using multiple displays isn’t a panacea, either. First, you need a graphics card that can support two displays. That isn’t an unusual feature for a desktop PC, but it’s hard to find on older notebooks. Second, multiple video and power cables add clutter to your work environment. Third—and most important—a gap between the displays is inevitable, no matter how carefully you arrange them. Even the narrowest bezel will create a blind spot as your mouse pointer crosses from screen to screen. So the new 29-inch, ultrawide displays featured here—each delivering a resolution of 2560 by 1080 pixels on a single screen—are a welcome addition to the market. They’re just the ticket for productivity apps, and they’re not bad for gaming, either. When we ran BioShock Infinite’s built-in benchmark at these displays’ native resolution (using settings of Very High) on a PC outfitted with a midrange AMD Radeon HD 7790 video card, we experienced a very playable frame rate of 41.1 frames per second. Three such models recently passed through the PCWorld Lab: the Dell UltraSharp U2913WM, the AOC Q2963PM, and the LG 29EA93P UltraWide IPS Monitor. Each of these monitors measures 29 inches diagonally, with an aspect ratio of 21:9. That’s much, much wider than the 16:9 and 16:10 aspect ratios you’ll find on more-conventional monitors (or the 4:3 aspect ratio that old-school displays deliver).
Whether you use Google Chat, Skype or a web-conferencing app with more sophisticated collaboration features, chances are you’ve added video to your online meeting toolbox. Integrated webcams are on laptops, but their quality can be sub-par for business communications. The the Brother NW-1000 Webcam and the Logitech BCC950 ConferenceCam both cost more than a garden-variety webcam, but they’re not outrageously expensive. And both deliver features that can help business conferees really see what’s going on at the other end of the line. Brother says its high-def (1080p) webcam, the NW-1000, is optimized to work with Brother’s own conferencing and collaboration service. What that really means is that OmniJoin supports all the camera’s features and that the camera is easy to use with the service. You don’t need one to use the other, so the NW-1000 is equally as useful for people who have no intention of using OmniJoin. The $99 NW-1000 has a stand for sitting on a table or desk top, but the stand can also fold to clip to the top of a desktop or notebook display. It’s physically wider (but at 3.9- by 1.8- by 2.6 inches, no taller or thicker) than most desktop webcams, and it weighs less than four ounces. The camera draws power over a USB 2.0 cable, and is well suited for travelers. It works with Windows XP or later, or Mac OSX 10.5 to 10.8.
Two months ago, everything about i-mate’s Intelegent Windows 8 phone screamed vaporware. Today, the handset is back, with specs that suggest it's very much real. Shoot, has even seen videos of it in action. It's no wonder the Intelegent made waves when it was announced earlier this year. In addition to the phone itself—which, to be clear, runs the full-blown Windows 8 operating system, the Windows Phone OS—i-mate promised a docking station that would turn the Intelegent into a desktop workstation. It was all the Windows 8 you could need, all in one place. However, i-mate wasn’t actually demonstrating the device in public. An .
For years now I've harangued relatives about their shoddy password practices. Either they use easily-hacked passwords or forget the passwords they've created—sometimes both. ) statement from McAfee's Robert Siciliano: "74% of Internet users use the same password across multiple websites, so if a hacker gets your password, they now have access to all your accounts. Reusing passwords for email, banking, and social media accounts can lead to identity theft and financial loss." to see just how easily cracked your current password is. (The site promises not to retain any information, though still recommends that you not use your actual password—so maybe just use somethings similar.) on Sicilian's blog—and it doesn't require you to use the Password Grader if you'd prefer not to.)
A stealthy malicious software program is taking hold in some of the most popular Web servers, and researchers still don't know why. with Linux/Cdorked. If that malware is running on a Web server, victims are redirected to another website that tries to compromise their computer. Eset said on Tuesday it has now found versions of Linux/Cdorked engineered for the Lighttpd and Nginx Web servers, both widely used across the Internet. Marc-Etienne M. Leveille of Eset wrote that the company has found 400 Web servers infected so far, of which 50 are ranked in Web analytics company Alexa's top 100,000 websites.
Microsoft plans to accelerate improvements in Office Web Apps, the browser-based version of the Office suite, adding features like real-time co-authoring of documents and the ability to run in Android tablets via mobile Chrome browser support. The planned enhancements, scheduled for release at some point in the next 12 months, are part of a shift in the way Microsoft views Office Web Apps, the company Tuesday. Originally conceived in 2010 as a lightweight companion to the main desktop Office suite, Office Web Apps is now seen as a potentially more powerful product, thanks to improvements in browser technology and connection speeds. “Our goal for Office Web Apps is that people can rely on it to create polished Office documents from start to finish,” Michael Atalla, director of Office 365 product management, said in an interview.
A bill proposed in the U.S. Senate aims to block imports of products containing U.S. technology stolen online, a move that appears primarily directed at China. Introduced by four senators, the Deter Cyber Theft Act would require the U.S. president to block the import of products containing stolen U.S. technology identified by the Director of National Intelligence, including products made by state-owned enterprises of nations on a priority watch list of the DNI that are similar to items identified as stolen or targeted U.S. technology. The bipartisan bill is backed by Senators Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, John McCain, a Republican from Arizona, Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat from West Virginia and Tom Coburn, a Oklahoma Republican. Recent reports indicate that China is by far the largest source of theft attempts against U.S. companies, according to on Levin’s website.
EMC will continue extending its Isilon OneFS network-attached storage operating system to new use cases later this year, adding deduplication, compliance auditing and object storage features. Last year’s of the scale-out NAS operating system added the ability to store enterprise data types in addition to audio, video and images. The next version, which hasn’t yet been named, will let enterprises and service providers use an Isilon NAS for both of those data types as well as for object storage, used in many new Web-oriented applications. In its next OneFS, EMC will beef up the enterprise capabilities of the operating system. New features will include data deduplication for more efficient storage, said Sam Grocott, vice president of product management for the EMC Isilon business unit. He spoke from the EMC World conference taking place this week in Las Vegas, where the company announced a variety of new offerings and product enhancements. The deduplication feature will be able to reduce the storage needed for a given set of files by as much as 30 percent, Grocott said. EMC also plans features that will let enterprises better ensure compliance with regulations on who can see what information. The next version of OneFS will include support for EMC’s CEE (Common Event Enabler), which will let the system take advantage of auditing applications that monitor access to regulated file types. This capability will be especially useful to customers in financial services and health care, Grocott said.
Internet traffic to and from Syria, which is in the midst of a civil war, appears to have dried up. At around 18:45 GMT Tuesday, “OpenDNS resolvers saw a significant drop in traffic from Syria. On closer inspection it seems Syria has largely disappeared from the Internet,” Umbrella Security Labs said in a Tuesday. Data from Google seemed to confirm some sort of disruption to the country’s Internet services. As of 2 p.m. Pacific Time Tuesday, all Google’s services in the country had been unavailable for about two-and-a-half hours, Google said on its website. Routing on the Internet relies on the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which distributes routing information and makes sure Internet routers know how to get to certain IP addresses, Umbrella explained. “Currently there are just three routes in the BGP routing tables for Syria, while normally it’s close to eighty,” the company said.
Attractive, touchscreen-equipped laptops running a full version of Windows 8 are getting cheaper than you might think. Some newly announced start around $600 for 14-inch and 15-inch models. But for just a little more money, Asus’ 15.6-inch VivoBook S550CA has an MSRP of $750—and you can find our review model online for . That’s right—the VivoBook S550CA costs just as much as a , but it’s also got a full-size keyboard, an optical drive, and the touchscreen. If you’re looking for a deal, this is a pretty good one. The VivoBook S550CA is the largest of Asus’ low-cost VivoBook line. It’s 0.86 inches thick, and it weighs 5.7 pounds. Asus calls it an Ultrabook, but, as we’ve already determined, Asus seems to be bandying that term about recklessly. The VivoBook S550CA isn’t even an Ultrabook—while it does have a 24GB SSD boot drive (alongside a 500GB hard drive), and it does start up in just under 15 seconds, the S550CA is 0.04 inches too thick to be an Ultrabook. Intel’s guidelines do state, after all, that Ultrabooks with screens larger than 14 inches have to be under 0.82 inches thick. That said, the S550CA cuts a slim profile for a 15.6-inch machine. Our review model is housed in a black and silver chassis, with brushed-aluminum detailing on the cover and wrist-rest and cheaper matte plastic on the bottom. The black cover is unfortunately prone to fingerprints, which sort of messes with the sleekness of the look.
Supercomputer manufacturer Cray has expanded its portfolio of systems for the technical enterprise market. The company’s newest machine, the Cray XC30-AC, starting at $500,000, was built for midsized organizations that need some supercomputing muscle for research and development, though don’t require a system that takes up half a data center. “We’re going for a technical enterprise customer with a constant demand for scientific computing,” said Barry Bolding, Cray vice president of storage and data management. Cray says it has already sold a number of XC30-ACs, including one to a large consumer electronics company and another to a global financial services company. Possessing a modest-sized supercomputer can be more cost effective than using a cloud service, such as Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure, Bolding said. All the major cloud services are optimized for handling bursts of computational activity. A Cray system, in contrast, is designed to handle the high-sustained throughputs required for large scientific modeling and simulation jobs, Bolding said.
Only a year after Syncplicity, EMC is getting ready to make the company’s enterprise file management system work with hybrid clouds. Syncplicity began as software for enterprises and consumers to synchronize and share files in public clouds. EMC bought the company about a year ago and soon added features that let customers use it for data stored within their own arrays. Starting in the second half of this year, Syncplicity will be able to work across both private and public data stores, providing what EMC calls a policy-driven hybrid cloud. The coming update was announced on Tuesday at EMC World along with a few other enhancements. The new version of Syncplicity will let enterprises store each kind of data in the right place, said Jeetu Patel, vice president and general manager of EMC’s Syncplicity Business Unit. For example, marketing materials containing public information could be stored in a public cloud, while sensitive documents that a legal team was using in a merger transaction could stay within the company’s own storage. Both types of data could be replicated and accessible through Syncplicity.