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Microsoft puts something hard and sensitive in your pocket
Microsoft relents: 'Go ahead, install Windows 8.1 on clean PCs'
Apple beckons fanbois back into its golden era... of, er, 2010
DARPA: You didn't think we could make a Mach 6 spaceplane, so let us have this MACH TEN job
Microsoft no longer a top Linux kernel contributor
It's Grand Theft Auto 5 day: Any of you kids remember GTA the First?
Bill Gates again world's richest, tops in US for 20th straight year
Apple to uncloak new iPads, iMacs at October 15 event?
Google cooks web dev teaching tool for Raspberry Pi
Paypal not sure if its bargepole is long enough for crowdfunding
From launch to orbit: The new commercial space pioneers
Mars One
"Mars One is essentially an interplanetary mashup of X-Factor and Big Brother, with candidates being selected by web vid audiences and the whole mission being broadcast live 24/7."
No it isn't (my housemate is an applicant so I have a good source). While it does plan to be relaity TV, that's actually in this case simply showing 'real reality' on TV, not people acting like idiots for the camera. It's designed as a very serious colonisation mission - nobody would get to go purely on the public vote, the public would only influence which of the pre-screened people get to go on the arduous and very thorough training program, teaching them everything from medical skills to toilet management.
I personally don't think it's going to get anywhere, but please don't believe the sound-bites about this being "big brother in space" with all the negative connotations this implies. The people applying are physicists, nerds, etc, not loudly gay morons.
The future of PCIe: Get small, speed up, think outside the box
Microsoft announces iPad amnesty for fanbois
Nokia's 41Mp Lumia 1020 'launches' in UK - but hoi polloi must wait
Windows 8.1: Microsoft's reluctant upgrade has a split-screen personality
For some reason it's supposed to be easier to open a search window
"it's supposed to be easier to open a search window, type "Firewall", and click "firewall" in the list, than to click the icon directly."
I think it is. Even on W7 I am doing this more and more for control panel stuff, and apps, since perusing to see exactly which sub-folder I put the icon in is rather boring.
It's not a "search window (on 8.0 anyway). Even on W7 Hit Windows-Key and type "fire", this is much quicker than start->control panel->wheverever-it-is
ZTE Open: This dirt-cheap smartphone is a swing and a miss
RTFA, it's an 80quid phone being compared to an 800quid phone, FFS.
No it isn't. The article makes it quite clear it sucks in general. The article compares it to an iPhone 1!
It sounds from the article like an $80 Android phone would be a better choice, which is of course the worst thing. And remember the Nokia Lumia 510 received favourable reviews but is in a a similar price bracket albeit not quite as cheap).
TWO can play this 64-bit mobile game, says Samsung, crossly
Zuck off, Zuck: Brit duo's JustDelete.Me nukes clingy web accounts
Why would anyone use their real credentials on these sites?
Ever heard the phrase "garbage in, garbage out"? The entire point of networking sites is that people who know you can find you. I can't be bothered keeping track of who "minni mouse" is in real life, and matching online accounts to real life people is the whole point, unlike forums like these.
Moving from permie to mercenary? Avoid a fine - listen to Ben Franklin
I pay my taxes happily because it's a moral obligation
You are flat out, 100%, absolutely wrong. It's a legal obligation. If they reduced the tax rate 5% you wouldn't feel morally obligated to still pay the same amount you do now, would you?
Being outside IR35 is not about not paying tax. You pay 20% off the top as company tax, then you pay tax on dividends as well. Being inside IR35, you pay employee NI AND employer NI AND income tax... way more tax than an employee earning the same amount would do.
Massively leaked iFail 5S POUNDS pundits, EXCITES chavs
No need for revolution
If you have a good product, gradual refinements are just fine. iP5 already nailed the design side of things and has all the features most people - or at least Apple customers - want. So up the spec and what else is needed? It's a sleek little box with a powerful CPU/GPU inside, arguably the most powerful on the market (this month).
Look at the Porsche 911. It's not to everybody's taste but it keeps on selling.
iPhone 5S: Apple, you're BORING us to DEATH (And you too, Samsung)
Maybe smartphones now do everything we need from them. In which case companies can seek to differentiate based on price, build quality, style, etc rather than some sort of feature arms race. A bit like most other things you buy in fact. Look at a small car - you have loads of choices but they are broadly similar. Some models target low price, some are way more expensive and focus on being a premium model, the rest sit somewhere in the middle.
Nothing wrong with Apple focusing on the premium end - the Fiat 500 - while other focus on attracting more techy users wanting to tweak their phone, or capturing the poorer end of the market.
Facebook stock-spaffers officially LOSERS: Stock hits all-time high of $45
Re: How the hell
Some adverts and "a few servers"?
FB has the same 'population' as China.
Also your comparison makes no sense... "worth more than the GDP of hundreds of countries". That makes it sound like FB is worth more than those countries, but a country is worth WAAAY more than it's GDP, just as FB's value is far more than it's turnover.
You thought NFC tags were Not For Consumers? Well, they're in Maplin's
iPhone 5S: Fanbois, your prints are safe from the NSA, claim infosec bods
Boring
As it says, this has been on laptops for ages.
More relevant is the point about airport security - surely anyone travelling on an internation flight in the last few years has been fingerprinted in some way. It's been a while but don't they routinely check fingerprints and retina scans?
I remember I got taken into a small room because my prints didn't match - due to playing guitar I think.
Modular smartphones floated by Dutch designer chap
Apple’s iOS 64-bit iUpgrade: Don't expect a 2x performance leap
Intel reveals new Haswell-based Chrome OS kit from old, new partners
Torvalds suggests poison and sabotage for ARM SoC designers
Re: @ Destroy All Monsters
The movies portray nerds that way because it's often accurate. How many IT administrators become jumped up little twerps because of the power they have? Linus is hardly unique, except that most nerds don't get into the public view until they've had some of the rough edges knocked off through having to work with other people in order to become important.
For PITY'S SAKE, DON'T BUY an iPHONE 5S, begs FSF
Intel reveals 14nm PC, declares Moore's Law 'alive and well'
Apple ships new iPods in 'SPAAAAACE ... Gray'
New iPhones: C certainly DOESN'T stand for 'Cheap'
Question to developers
I've been tinkering with iOS development using iOS 6 SDK, XCode 4.x, OSX 10.8 on a fairly old unibody MacBook.
How will developing/releasing apps be affected by iOS7 - will I have to upgrade XCode (which requires the new OS) to be allowed to release apps now or can I still build against the iOS 6 SDK as before? I'm not sure my Mac will even support Mavericks...
James Bond's Lotus Esprit submarine car sells for £550,000
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