Supposedly prompted by the growing use of encryption software by cyber criminals, Microsoft has developed a new tool to help law enforcement bypass any type of security built into the Windows operating system. Dubbed Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE), the tool is a USB mass-storage device intended for use in police raids to […]
If you thought Google’s capacity for high design didn’t go far beyond its primary-colored logo, think again. The iGoogle personalized homepage has gotten some new flair thanks to the introduction of iGoogle Artist Themes, a way for Google members to do some digital interior decoration.
It might not help Mountain View on its quest to organize […]
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A village in England will host a robot hide-and-seek exercise next month, where 11 teams drawn from private companies and universities compete to sniff out snipers, roadside bombs, and other hidden dangers while relaying real-time images to a command post.
The MoD Grand Challenge, as it’s called, is billed as the U.K. Ministry […]
I’ve got a question for you: How are you doing? Sure, of course you’re fine. Here’s a follow up: How do you know you’re doing fine? Tougher question, huh?
What’s that, you have a question for me? Why am I asking these inane questions?
Because, when people ask us how we’re doing, we […]
UPDATE (6:04 a.m. PT): SourceForge’s sites are back up.
On Wednesday morning, there appeared to be some sort of outage at SourceForge Inc., parent company of iconic geek news forum Slashdot and retailer ThinkGeek (among others). Neither SourceForge nor the sites it operates were accessible at 5:30 a.m. PT.
As they might have said at Slashdot […]
Yahoo yesterday announced that its no longer going to power its IM clients Internet telephony service with in-house technology. Instead the company has reached an agreement with Jajah by which Yahoo Messengers Phone In and Phone Out features will run on the Jajah service.
Under the agreement, Jajah will connect calls to and from Yahoo […]
Time Warner is splitting off its cable services division, the company said Wednesday.
Time Warner currently owns around 84 percent of Time Warner Cable. The media giant, which has been struggling of late, has been rumored to be discussing merging the AOL division with Yahoo.
“A complete structural separation of Time Warner Cable, under the […]
Last week, I got a sales pitch e-mail from Buy.com touting a recertified 4GB iPod Nano for $99. I lost my iPod Touch last December and one of my older iPods had just given up the ghost, so I decided to go for it.
The iPod came in just a couple of days–but as soon […]
We’ve got Google Earth and Google Sky. Next up will be a map of the world below sea level–Google Ocean.
The company has assembled an advisory group of oceanography experts, and in December invited researchers from institutions around the world to the Mountain View, Calif., Googleplex. There, they discussed plans for creating a 3D oceanographic […]
Sometimes you just cant have the good without the bad, it seems. For all the merriment and celebration that is no doubt going on at Take-Two Interactive over the recent launch of Grand Theft Auto IV, theres a bit of bad news marring the much-anticipated games debut.
According to GameSpot, gamers have been reporting in […]