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Wednesday, 17 April 2013

Joshua Prager: In search for the man who broke my neck - (watch video)

When Joshua Prager was 19, a devastating bus accident left him a quadriplegic for several years. He returned to Israel twenty years later to find the driver who turned his world upside down. In this mesmerizing tale of their meeting, Prager probes deep questions of nature, nurture, self-deception and destiny.

Today, Microsoft released new research as part of its Security Intelligence Report, volume 14, which takes a close look at the importance of running up-to-date antivirus software on your computer. The research showed that, on average, computers without antivirus software are 5.5 times more likely to be infected.

Port-A-Thon Rewards Update

Lou Gazzola held the first Port-A-Thon in November of last year. It was a 36 hour event where we asked, ?Got Game?? and you answered ? with apps. Since that successful event, we?ve held four more P

Windows Azure: General Availability of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

This morning we announced the general availability release of our Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) support for Windows Azure - including our new Virtual Machine and Virtual Network capabilities. This release is now live in production, backed by an enterprise SLA, supported by Microsoft Support, and is ready to use for production apps.

AT&T Inc. has started taking pre-orders, and says phones will be shipped starting April 30. It's charging $200 for the base model, with 16 gigabytes of memory, under a two-year contract. Staples says it will start selling the AT&T model on April 26. Sprint Nextel Corp.

Your votes have been counted: there was a clear winner. Congratulations to Fergal Butler, who was the first person to respond to the original post with the name Babbage. Well done Fergus! Emma will be in touch with you next week to get your address.

(Phys.org) ?Officials at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have announced the selection of the Spider II data storage and retrieval system from DataDirect Networks (DDN) to replace the existing sys

Mechanical engineers at the University of California, San Diego invented a robot designed to scoot along utility lines, searching for damage and other problems that require repairs. Made of off-the-sh

Popular texting, messaging and microblog apps developed for the Android smartphone have security flaws that could expose private information or allow forged fraudulent messages to be posted, according to researchers at the University of California, Davis. Zhendong Su, professor of computer science, said that his team has notified the app developers of the problems, although it has not yet had a response.

We have finally selected all the great speakers that will share their experience with the Framework with you at <a href="http://portland2

Liz: We've had some really interesting conversations this year with visually impaired users of the Raspberry Pi. Accessibility on the Pi is something the community's been working on since we launched; Michael Ray started a Raspberry-vi (vi stands for visually impaired) mailing list which has been running for a while now, and the group behind it has made some serious advancements in accessibility on the Pi.

Software | What if Your Boss Tracked Your Sleep, Diet, and Exercise?

Inside most companies, the

~~We?ve been choosing bear names for the competition today~~.

A name has been chosen! <a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/archiv

It?s not uncommon to promote a server from slave to master. One of the key things to protect your data integrity is to make sure that the promoted slave is permanently disconnected from its old mas

Most of us are well acquainted with the fun and entertaining parts of the internet. But did you know about MOOCs

Demo from Znowman: Tabs in the content item editor. Works with full drag&drop admin, and with placement extensions: "Content:5#tabName". Should be changed to "Content@tabName:5". Tabs will be moved to inside the white rectangle of the content item editor. Make the selected tab persist after save.

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.30-23.7.4 for MySQL on April 17, 2013. Binaries are available from the <a href="http://www.percona.com/downloads/Perco

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Connector/J 5.1 (5.1.23 GA, published on Monday, 04 Feb 2013)

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