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Microsoft Research: news stories and Wikipedia used to predict disasters February 04th, 2013 - 03:11 pm ET Microsoft Research and Technion are working on a software program capable of predicting disasters. They are basing their work on the analysis of news stories from various online ...

Java: an update to be urgently applied February 04th, 2013 - 03:07 pm ET Oracle has released Java 7 Update 13 with around fifty security vulnerabilities that are actively exploited having been corrected.

Google Glass arrives as the FCC February 01st, 2013 - 06:13 pm ET Google is very enthusiastic about their Google Glass project, with the first "Explorer Edition" glasses to be available in early 2013. The project has now entered the FCC’s test ...

Firefox and third party plug-in’s: Mozilla generalises Click to Play February 01st, 2013 - 03:21 am ET In the same way as the most recent version of the Flash plug-in, Mozilla will make their Click To Play function available to all versions of third party plug-in’s in Firefox.

Universal Plug and Play recommended to be disabled January 30th, 2013 - 10:30 am ET The UPnP - Universal Plug and Play – network protocol is suffering from a vulnerability installed in thousands of devices. The US-CERT recommends disabling the protocol if ...

MeCam UAV: a remote control compact quad-copter for $50 January 29th, 2013 - 09:10 am ET The quad-copter market has been showing strong growth since the release of Parrot’s AR Drone. A lot of manufacturers are releasing basic models for novice users, but Always ...

H.265 video codec finalised January 28th, 2013 - 04:04 pm ET Named the successor to H.264, the H.265 video codec has been approved by the International Telecommunications Union.

Ubuntu moving towards a rolling release January 24th, 2013 - 09:10 am ET Ubuntu’s developers are debating a rolling release model for the Linux distribution.

Google Glass: a keyboard projected by a laser lens? January 18th, 2013 - 04:08 pm ET Google has applied for a new patent which could add features to their Google Glass project: the laser projector.

AV-Test Certification: Microsoft Security Essentials fails again January 17th, 2013 - 04:22 pm ET Following a new series of tests, Microsoft Security Essentials won’t get their lost AV-Test certification back that they recently lost. Microsoft is putting things in ...