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Google Does a Barrel Roll and Revamps “Freshness” Search Algorithm
It’s been a fun week for Google with the discovery of a cute web FX trick that causes the search engine to “do a barrel roll” and the revamp of their algorithm that will boost the likelihood that fresher content will find its way to the top. The official Google blog is now abuzz with ...
Sony Predicts Over $1.1 Billion Full-Year Net Loss After Numerous Setbacks
The year of 2011 has been extremely harsh for Sony and it’s been peppered with cataclysm and catastrophe. Starting with Japan’s earthquake and the resulting the tsunami that shut down production at 10 factories in March. Shortly thereafter, the PlayStation Network suffered a gigantic break-in embarrassing Sony in how terrible their online security happened to ...
Google+ Package Arrives on the Doorstep of YouTube and Chrome
Ever since its debutante unveiling at the social media prom, Google+ has had a bit of a rocky start and what have felt like a few stumbles. Google is attempting to bring the service into the mainstream and it must complete with already well established families like Facebook who do their job extremely well. As ...
DevilRobber Virus Usurps Mac Processing Power to Mine Bitcoins
A new Mac OS Trojan has been caught in the wild and this time, instead of just stealing sensitive information from infected computers, it also surreptitiously steals processing power from the computer in order to mine bitcoins. Across the Bitcoin community, GPUs are commonly leveraged for their calculation power in order to mine future coins ...
Gerald Kleyn in theCube on HP’s Labs Discovery at Project Moonshot Press Event
Dave Vellante and John Furrier interviewed Gerald Kleyn, Program Director, Hyperscale Engineering, about how HP’s Lab Discovery assists customers when it comes to partner’s new solutions and chips. He’s speaking after the press gathering involving HP’s Project Moonshot. The initiative involves low-power chips that will bring server-scale and enterprise chips not only into the cloud, ...
Niall Dalton Talks Cantor Fitzgerald’s Interest in Project Moonshot and Low-Power ARM Processors
Dave Vellante and John Furrier have set up theCUBE in Palo Alto for Hewelett-Packard’s Project Moonshot Press Event. As a guest in the Cube, Niall Dalton, the Director of High Frequency Trade at Cantor Fitzgerald, came in to speak about his company’s outlook on HP’s new Project Moonshot ARM low-power processors and the Calxeda module. Dalton ...
Facebook Scam “Girl Who Killed Herself on Halloween” Video Spreads
A scam campaign has hit Facebook with a familiar click-jacking underlying theme: the death of a person. Although, the entitled posts don’t solicit a particular celebrity they do entice users of the social media site to click a link reading “Girl-Killed-Herself-on-Halloween-After-Dad-Posted-This-on-Her-Wall.” The posts are getting a lot of traction currently and should be avoided as ...
The Schmooze Strikes Back: Our Firewall Might be Up, but the Front Door is Unlocked
It’s the oldest trick in the book in the security industry: talking your way through corporate security measures. Popular media like movies and television shows portray hacking as a celebrated enterprise of geeks behind glowing computer screens who never make any sort of human contact except for in rare instances; but in the world of ...
Windows Phone 7.5 Xbox Companion Weaves Personal and Living Room Cloud Together
Video game consoles and smartphones may seem like an unlikely pair intuitively, but take a step back and they’re both part of the same personal ecosystem: they’re information and entertainment devices that rule overlapping parts of our lives. Microsoft has recognized this and is working on further integrating the two with their most recent updates ...
Can Casascius (Physical) Bitcoins Actually Spurn Legality?
The easy answer is probably still: “No.” Recently, an innovative Bitcoin enthusiast named Mike Caldwell from Utah decided that his beloved bitcoins were too virtual and decided to make a product that could represent them. Casascius Bitcoins are a physical brass slug, struck with a Bitcoin symbol and a few words, and affixed with a ...