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A 29-year-old former UK council accounts clerk was just sentenced to two years in prison, plus a 30-week suspended sentence. His crime? Impersonating two employees, Ashley Mitchell repeatedly hacked into Zynga’s database and transferred more than $12 million worth of in-game currency to his own accounts. He then went on the Zynga black market–that’s right, it [...]
Those rumors about the Blackberry Playbook running Android apps weren’t so wacky after all.
When someone says “computer networks,” the first thing you think about is fruit flies, right? Well, maybe it should be. According to Dr. Ziv Bar-Joseph, associate professor at Carnegie Mellon and one of the authors of a paper called “A Biological Solution to a Fundamental Distributed Computing Problem,” fruit flies and parallel processing share a [...]
Even though the future of a U.S. launch remains tantalizingly out of reach, Spotify’s won a lot of fans abroad with its robust library and easy shareability of playlists. But the streaming music service has plans to do more than just deliver the recorded music you crave.
Do you “like” things on Facebook? Spammers like things, too, and they’re using Facebook’s “Like” function to put their obnoxious schemes and shameless missives everywhere.
Yes, your iPhone 4 may not give you the greatest phone service available, but at least it’s almost indestructible. Want proof? Meet US Air Force Combat Controller Ron Walker.
Few believed it would happen, but happen it did: Duke Nukem came back from the brink of the vaporware abyss. Gearbox–developer of addictive “RPS” Borderlands–acquired the Duke IP when 3D Realms shut its doors forever last year and set to work finishing up the decade-plus dev cycle that DNF’s been through. May 3 (U.S.) and May [...]
I know you’ve all been sitting around today, wondering just when your smartphone might be able to use solar energy to remain charged. Well, wonder no more! That sun-powered technology is finally here. Sort of.
A hacker in Iran appears to be behind an Internet attack that almost left Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Skype, and Yahoo vulnerable to impersonation. The attack was thwarted before anything catastrophic happened, but had it succeeded, the attacker would have been able to pass off web apps from any of those companies as the real deal.
This is the trailer for First Orbit a unique new film that’s due for global release via YouTube on April 12th, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first manned orbit of the Earth.
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