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Gareth Morgan, technology editor Another day, another envelope-pushing design from Apple intended to make us rethink the way we interact with our computers. Welcome to the Magic Trackpad. In terms of radical design, there’s only so much you can say about a flat board. And this is more out-of-the-laptop than out-of-the-box thinking. MacBook users...
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6 Secrets to Achieving Entrepreneurial Success
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26 July 2010 by Mark Buchanan Your online traces are helping fuel a revolution in the understanding of human behaviour – one that’s revealing the mathematical laws of our lives EVERY move you make, every twitter feed you update, somebody is watching you. You may not think twice about...
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Further information posted on Dell’s community forum reveals that the trojan in the affected motherboards is stored in onboard flash memory rather than firmware ROMs. And the malware at issue is called w32.spybot.worm, which normally spreads using file-sharing networks and an internet chat client. “The worm was discovered in flash storage on the motherboard...
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Why is wind power derided as subsidised, inefficient and uncompetitive when the opposite is true, ask Jérôme Guillet and John Evans
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By DAVID BARBOZA and NICK BUNKLEY Published: July 21, 2010 HANGHAI — A decade ago, this city had five car dealerships selling Buicks, the top-selling General Motors brand in China. Today it has 27. And the crowds of shoppers that fill many of them are young, ready to pay cash and not inclined to haggle over the...
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BY Dan NosowitzToday Streaming music to a mobile device is just starting to be both feasible and desireable. The ability to stream a huge catalog of songs right to your smartphone at any time, for a small monthly fee, is really enticing. You can forget about storage space, or remembering to sync everything you might...
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BY Austin Carr Leather-bound books and rich mahogany shelves may soon be as endangered as the 70’s playboy who used them to impress women. Today, Amazon announced that sales of books for its popular Kindle reading device are far outpacing sales of hardcover books. The online retailer said that it’s sold 143 Kindle e-books for every...
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BY Austin CarrToday American defense firm Raytheon unveiled its anti-aircraft laser, of all places, at an airshow in England. Called the Laser Close-In Weapon System, Raytheon said the 50 kilowatt beam it produces can be used against aircraft, mortars, rockets, and small surface ships, and has already been tested against unmanned aerial vehicles. And the technology...
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BY Mark Borden Not long ago I had lunch with the vlogger and lifecaster Sarah Austin. We ate on the patio at Aureole and not ten minutes in she asked if I we could shoot our interview for a reality show she is doing. She said she’d send me what she wanted to use before...
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