TrueCrypt Fork – Permission Denied An email purportedly emanating from one of the TrueCrypt developers has said it’s unlikely anyone will receive permission to start an independent “fork” that borrows from the current source code, a refusal which further clouds the future of the highly […]
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Earlier this month Bing launched a new Home Page Gallery showcasing images featured on the U.S Bing homepage during the past 5 years. The gallery includes loads of terrific 1920 x 1200 images all available for download and selectable by category, colour schemes, and geographical
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In the Beginning… At the beginning of this century 64-bit computing was starting to become available to the consumer as opposed to only mainframes and scientists. Windows XP 64-bit became available in 2001. Intel provided us with the first 64-bit CPU’s, and I got very
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Pirate Bay Founder Arrested Peter Sunde, one of the founders of file-sharing website Pirate Bay, has been arrested in southern Sweden to serve an outstanding sentence for copyright violations after being on the run for nearly two years. Mr. Sunde had been wanted by Interpol
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Microsoft NOT Selling off Xbox or Bing Rumors of the proposed sell off have been doing the rounds but Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said recently that he doesn’t want to sell off either Xbox or Bing. Mr. Nadella was speaking at the Code Conference a
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If you tend to keep up with current news you will no doubt have come across the multitude of stories regarding the European Court of Justice’s recent decision to award individuals the ‘right to be forgotten’. The Right to be Forgotten – Background First off,
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AT&T Set to Acquire DirecTV for Almost $50 Billion Seems most transactions these days are counted in the billions. Rumors of the DirecTV acquisition have been circulating for the past few weeks and AT&T has finally confirmed the details. The deal came together at roughly
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Run iOS Apps in Android? Meet Cider, an operating system compatibility architecture that allows users to run iOS apps on Android devices. The Cider architecture has been developed by computer science students at Columbia University. The project essentially makes iOS apps compatible with Android, regardless
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Apple Offers Cheaper, Faster MacBook Airs Apple introduced two new MacBook Airs on April 29th: an 11-inch laptop and 13-inch laptop, each available with either 128 GB or 256 GB of storage. These models are similar to previous generations but each costs $100 less than
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Can you keep your stuff secure in the cloud? When Google, Microsoft and other cloud providers, not to mention the NSA and GCHQ, can scan through your uploaded files, what price your privacy? The power of Google was demonstrated when I uploaded to YouTube a
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