Comet ISON is on its way towards the sun. The comet will make its closest approach to the sun on Thanksgiving, November 28th, when it gets to within 730,000 miles above its surface. Its closest approach is known as perihelion. If it manages to come around […]
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Free BlackBerry, Anyone? In an effort to unload their BlackBerry Z10 stock, Verizon is offering the phone for free and it is just 49 cents at AT&T. A two-year contract is required, of course. The Z10 was originally priced at $199 by both carriers. But
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YouTube + Google+ = Trouble for Google In an exceedingly unpopular move, Google is requiring YouTube commenters to sign in with their Google+ account in order to comment on a video. Officially, this is Google’s attempt to try to control the oftentimes ‘not nice’ or
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According to a multitude of press reports, an iPad Air exploded this week in a Vodafone store in Canberra Australia, sending a stream of sparks flying from the device’s charging port and filling the store with smoke. Emergency services were called, the store evacuated, and
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The BlackBerry Saga Continues Last week, I reported that former Apple CEO John Sculley was considering purchasing BlackBerry. At this point, forget John Sculley or anybody else, for that matter. BlackBerry announced on November 4th that it was abandoning the idea of selling the company and fired its
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A 12-year-old Canadian boy has pleaded guilty to hacking government and police websites during the student uprising in spring 2012, creating computer havoc and causing $60,000 damage. According to a story published by the Toronto Sun, the boy traded pirated information to Anonymous in exchange
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Astronomers Discover Most Distant Galaxy The galaxy is the most distant galaxy that has been discovered and has been designated at z8_GND_5296. It took light from the galaxy about 13 billion years to reach the Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the Hubble Space Telescope. Both
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This bombshell was dropped by Republican Congressman and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers at a recent NSA hearing while interrogating American University College of Law professor Stephen Vladeck over his concerns about NSA surveillance programs. The already infamous quote was uttered by Congressman Rogers
Forums can be a great source of information. If you want to know how well a product is doing, if there are any issues and how frequent or severe, just search around associated help forms. A current topic right now is how Windows 8.1 is
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Windows 8.1 is Here Microsoft has rolled out Windows 8.1, an incremental update to its Windows operating system. Two key features that were missing from Windows 8 have been added. A new, modified Start button has been added. There was much complaining regarding the missing
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Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday was October 8th. Microsoft released a total of eight bulletins, four of which were deemed ‘Critical.’ One of the critical patches was to patch a security exploit that was present in all versions of Internet Explorer. In addition
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Siri is the intelligent personal assistant that allows some Apple iPad and iPhone users to speak natural language voice commands in order to operate their device and its apps. It was originally introduced in 2011 as part of the iOS 5 and iPhone 4s launches.
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Amazon Unveils the Kindle Fire HDX Amazon unveiled the newest version of the Kindle Fire, the Kindle Fire HDX. It sports a 7″ HDX display (1920×1200) with high pixel density (323 PPI), a 2.2GHz quad-core processor and 2GB of RAM. Perhaps its most unusual feature is the
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Actually, the headline should probably read… “Microsoft Admits MSE is Bottom of the Heap, Recommends 3rd Party Antivirus – or does it?“. This story, complete with supposedly substantiating quotations direct from an interview with a Microsoft representative, is currently all the buzz. Here are just
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