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Announcement Announcement 82 articles, 2016-04-06 00:03 1 Twitter makes it easier to share tweets privately with new button on iOS and Android While nowhere near as big as this morning's news that Twitter will live stream the NFL's Thursday Night Football, the company is announcing another change to.. 2016-04-05 20:16 (2.00/3) 2KB feedproxy.google.com 2 Roku debuts a new Streaming Stick with a quad-core processor, support for private listening Roku this morning introduced the third generation of its lower-cost streaming service, the Roku Streaming Stick, priced at $49.99, and a competitor to other.. 2016-04-05 20:16 4KB (2.00/3) feedproxy.google.com 3 Black Duck Names Open-Source Rookies of the Year The 2015 Open-Source Rookies class reflects three technologies shaping open-source software's future: Docker containers, open collaboration and AI. 2016-04-05 05:58 1KB (2.00/3) www.eweek.com 4 Jury awards $20 million in YouTube video game channel dispute A Dallas jury has awarded two businessmen a total of $20.3 million as a result of wrongdoings related to a YouTube gaming channel. 2016-04-06 00:03 2KB www.techspot.com 5 Automatic programming makes swarm robots safer and more reliable Researchers have applied a novel method of automatically programming and controlling a swarm of up to 600 robots to complete a specified set of tasks simultaneously. 2016-04-05 23:34 4KB feeds.sciencedaily.com 6 Quick drawing of complex relationships Quality criteria for a readable graphic representation of complex relationships are high. For example, the node points have to be located at sufficient distances in order to be identifiable. At the same time, the graph drawing tool has to arrange all edges in a way that... 2016-04-05 23:34 2KB feeds.sciencedaily.com 7 Speed-reading your microbiome Researchers have built a microbiome analysis platform called QIIME (pronounced “chime” and short for “Quantitative Insights Into Microbial Ecology”). This software will now be more readily accessible to hundreds of thousands of researchers around the world through BaseSpace, a cloud-based app store. 2016-04-05 23:33 5KB feeds.sciencedaily.com 8 How is a developing brain assembled? NIH 3-D software tracks worm embryo's brain development A new, open-source software that can help track the embryonic development and movement of neuronal cells throughout the body of the worm, is now available to scientists. 2016-04-05 23:33 6KB feeds.sciencedaily.com 9 New open source software for high resolution microscopy With their special microscopes, experimental physicists can already observe single molecules. However, unlike conventional light microscopes, the raw image data from some ultra-high resolution instruments first have to be processed for an image to appear. For the ultra-high resolution fluorescence microscopy that is... 2016-04-05 23:33 3KB feeds.sciencedaily.com 10 Stratford Festival launches new Shakespeare online toolkit The Stratford Festival in Canada is commemorating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death by making his plays accessible to a generation raised on the Internet. 2016-04-05 22:13 1KB phys.org 11 Nations ranked on their vulnerability to cyberattacks: United States ranked 11th safest of 44 nations studied, highlighting critical vulnerabilities Some nations are better prepared than others to deal with damaging cyberattacks from criminals, terrorists and rogue nations. Data experts have ranked the vulnerability of 44 nations to cyberattacks. The United States ranked 11th safest, while several Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway and Finland)... 2016-04-05 22:22 4KB feeds.sciencedaily.com 12 Think twice about android root: Engineers quantify amount of Android root exploits available in commercial software and show that they can be easily abused In recent years the practice of Android rooting, that is the process of allowing an Android phone or tablet to bypass restrictions set by carriers, operating systems or hardware manufacturers, has become increasingly popular. Many rooting methods essentially operate by launching an exploit (or malicious... 2016-04-05 21:04 4KB feeds.sciencedaily.com 13 Security Think Tank: Ignoring software patching spells trouble What strategies can companies adopt to help keep up with and deal with the huge volume of software updates they are facing? 2016-04-05 21:15 1KB www.computerweekly.com 14 New vulnerability discovered in common online security One of the world's most common security software packages – used as the basis of protection for many web browsers – has been found to be vulnerable to a specific form of attack, according to research. 2016-04-05 21:14 3KB feeds.sciencedaily.com 15 Dynamic cyber warning software looks promising Researchers are seeing potential in a software application that could effectively warn users when they are about to give away sensitive personal information online. 2016-04-05 21:13 2KB feeds.sciencedaily.com 16 Modified laser cutter prints 3-D objects from powder: Bioengineers make open-source laser sintering printer for biomaterials fabrication An open-source system has been created that uses a laser to melt powdered plastics and biomaterials into intricate 3-D designs. The OpenSLS selective laser sintering system costs about 40 times less than its commercial counterparts and allows researchers to work with their own specialized powdered materials. 2016-04-05 21:12 7KB feeds.sciencedaily.com 17 Development of an evaluation platform capable of validating wide-area distribution systems: Training scenarios for complicated, simultaneous disasters and interference to become possible A new research project developed 'DESTCloud,' an evaluation platform that validates the disaster tolerance and fault tolerance of wide-area distribution systems consisting of multiple computers on a network. This platform, utilizing a wide-area virtualized environment comprised of multiple research institutes known as ... 2016-04-05 21:11 5KB feeds.sciencedaily.com 18 TiE Global Chairman Venktesh Shukla Joins Fenox Venture Capital as General Partner Fenox Venture Capital is bringing on TiE Global Chairman and the founder of TiE Angels, Venktesh Shukla, as General Partner. For the unfamiliar, TiE is a.. 2016-04-05 20:16 1KB feedproxy.google.com 19 Thrive Market brings its organic grocery store to Android A company tapping into consumers' growing desire for healthier food and organic products, Thrive Market is today bringing its online grocery store to Android.. 2016-04-05 20:16 4KB feedproxy.google.com 20 Etsy launches Pattern, a website builder for its sellers With the launch of a new service called Pattern, Etsy is making it easier for people to sell custom goods on their own websites. Apparently, more than.. 2016-04-05 20:16 3KB feedproxy.google.com 21 Marijuana deliverer Meadow rolls up $2.1M for dispensary sales software Meadow already lets you get a prescription for medical marijuana over video chat and order from a nearby shop that delivers. Now it wants to be the backbone.. 2016-04-05 20:16 7KB feedproxy.google.com 22 Cookies teases its payment app that wants to become the Venmo of Europe Cookies wants to become the Venmo of Europe with a consumer app to pay back your friends in no time and with no fees. The company promises a speedy onboarding.. 2016-04-05 20:16 2KB feedproxy.google.com 23 WhatsApp completes end-to-end encryption rollout It's a security project that's taken around two years to complete, but messaging giant WhatsApp has now fully implemented strong end-to-end encryption on its.. 2016-04-05 20:16 3KB feedproxy.google.com 24 Sony is launching PS4 remote play on Mac and PC tomorrow A few months after teasing the feature on Twitter, Sony is adding remote play on Windows and OS X with the new PS4 3.50 update that is going to be available.. 2016-04-05 20:16 2KB feedproxy.google.com 25 Chat app Kik launches a bot store and anyone can make bots for it It seems like barely a day passes without some notable mention of chat bots in the tech industry. Now one of North America's most used chat apps has jumped on.. 2016-04-05 20:16 7KB feedproxy.google.com 26 Flywheel raises $4M for its designer-focused WordPress hosting platform WordPress sites make up a massive chunk of the Internet, so it's no surprise there are also plenty of services that specialize in hosting them. WordPress.. 2016-04-05 20:16 1KB feedproxy.google.com 27 Lydia is launching a bot to pay back your friends directly from Slack Lydia and Slack are two charming services and I like using them. So when I learned the two of them were having a baby together, you bet I was excited... 2016-04-05 20:16 2KB feedproxy.google.com 28 PayPal cancels plan to hire 400 people in North Carolina to protest anti-LGBT law PayPal is taking a strong stance in favor of the LGBT community. A couple of weeks ago, North Carolina lawmakers passed a disappointing law that prohibits.. 2016-04-05 20:16 1KB feedproxy.google.com 29 IKEA ponders the future of retail with virtual reality pilot app IKEA is coming to VR, but it's sadly leaving the Swedish meatballs behind in regular reality. The cheapo furniture company unexpectedly announced this.. 2016-04-05 20:16 2KB feedproxy.google.com 30 Starz launches a streaming service for cord cutters with support for downloads Another premium cable TV network, Starz, is taking the plunge into the streaming video market with today's launch of its own standalone streaming service,.. 2016-04-05 20:16 3KB feedproxy.google.com 31 The Awl and other indie publishers are moving to Medium Medium is releasing a new set of tools for publishers to convince them to drop their good old content management systems.
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