Submission + - Nexus 4 got a new updated design (techfeatured.com)
Avinash Pudota writes: "Nexus 4 got a design update recently. It is not a major design revamp, but two small tweaks. check this post on techfeatured.com for more info"
Submission + - Bitcoin crosses 1 billion USD market value threshold (examiner.com)
jeremy85mai writes: From the article:
"Today, Bitcoin crossed an important milestone for the decentralized currency, in that the net worth of all bitcoins currently minted now exceeds 1 billion US dollars. At the moment, bitcoin is trading around $94, which makes the current net market value 1.03 billion USD. This is a significant milestone, since many consider this to be the point at which bitcoin should be taken as a serious currency."
"Today, Bitcoin crossed an important milestone for the decentralized currency, in that the net worth of all bitcoins currently minted now exceeds 1 billion US dollars. At the moment, bitcoin is trading around $94, which makes the current net market value 1.03 billion USD. This is a significant milestone, since many consider this to be the point at which bitcoin should be taken as a serious currency."
Submission + - Open DNS Resolvers Center Stage in Massive DDoS Attacks (threatpost.com)
msm1267 writes: While the big traffic numbers and the spat between Spamhaus and illicit webhost Cyberbunker are grabbing big headlines, the underlying and percolating issue at play here has to do with the open DNS resolvers being used to DDoS the spam-fighters from Switzerland. Open resolvers do not authenticate a packet-sender’s IP address before a DNS reply is sent back. Therefore, an attacker that is able to spoof a victim’s IP address can have a DNS request bombard the victim with a 100-to-1 ratio of traffic coming back to them versus what was requested. DNS amplification attacks such as these have been used lately by hacktivists, extortionists and blacklisted webhosts to great success.
Submission + - Solar Impulse Airplane to Launch First Sun-Powered Flight Across America (inhabitat.com)
markboyer writes: "The Solar Impulse just landed at Moffett Field in Mountain View, California to announce a journey that will take it from San Francisco to New York without using a single drop of fuel. The "Across America" tour will kick off this May when founders Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg take off from San Francisco. From there the plane will visit four cities across the states before landing in New York."
Submission + - Google pledges not to sue open source software, unless first attacked (muktware.com)
sfcrazy writes: Google has announced the Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge. In it's pledge Google says that they will not sue any user, distributor or developer of open-source software on specified patents, unless first attacked. Under this pledge, Google is starting off with 10 patents relating to MapReduce, a computing model for processing large data sets first developed at Google. Google says that over time they intend to expand the set of Google’s patents covered by the pledge to other technologies.
Submission + - Is Bing biased against Ubuntu? (distrorank.com)
An anonymous reader writes: As many of you know, part of my popularity analysis of GNU/Linux distributions includes search engine results. One thing I immediately noticed when I started analyzing the data was how fewer results Bing has compared to Google specifically for the term "Ubuntu Linux". At first, I thought that perhaps Bing simply hasn't indexed as much as Google and it will catch up. But over several ranking periods now, Bing is still, in my opinion, unusually low in "Ubuntu Linux" results. So I did a quick and dirty experiment:
Submission + - Texas judge tosses out patent claim against Linux (networkworld.com)
netbuzz writes: "A federal judge in Texas, presiding over a district notorious for favoring patent trolls, has summarily dismissed all claims relating to a case brought by Uniloc USA against Rackspace for allegedly infringing upon Linux patents. Red Hat defended Rackspace in the matter and issued a press release saying: “In dismissing the case, Chief Judge Leonard Davis found that Uniloc’s claim was unpatentable under Supreme Court case law that prohibits the patenting of mathematical algorithms. This is the first reported instance in which the Eastern District of Texas has granted an early motion to dismiss finding a patent invalid because it claimed unpatentable subject matter.”"
Submission + - Gender gap in tech salaries is all gone, Dice reports (infoworld.com)
bobwrit writes: "The field of IT is notorious for being persistently male-dominated, but that doesn't mean women still suffer from a gender gap when it comes to pay.
In fact, the compensation gender gap has disappeared for tech workers, according to the latest salary survey from IT careers site Dice. Specifically, ever since 2009, average salaries have been equivalent for male and female tech professionals, the company reported on Tuesday — as long as you're comparing equal levels of experience and education and parallel job titles."
In fact, the compensation gender gap has disappeared for tech workers, according to the latest salary survey from IT careers site Dice. Specifically, ever since 2009, average salaries have been equivalent for male and female tech professionals, the company reported on Tuesday — as long as you're comparing equal levels of experience and education and parallel job titles."
Submission + - What an anti-Google antitrust case by the FTC may look like (cnet.com)
hessian writes: "It's not certain that Google will face a federal antitrust lawsuit by year's end. But if that happens, it seems likely to follow an outline sketched by Thomas Barnett, a Washington, D.C., lawyer on the payroll of Google's competitors.
Barnett laid out his arguments during a presentation here last night: Google is unfairly prioritizing its own services such as flight search over those offered by rivals such as Expedia, and it's unfairly incorporating reviews from Yelp without asking for permission.
"They systematically reinforce their dominance in search and search advertising," Barnett said during a debate on search engines and antitrust organized by the Federalist Society. "Google's case ought to have been brought a year or two ago.""
Barnett laid out his arguments during a presentation here last night: Google is unfairly prioritizing its own services such as flight search over those offered by rivals such as Expedia, and it's unfairly incorporating reviews from Yelp without asking for permission.
"They systematically reinforce their dominance in search and search advertising," Barnett said during a debate on search engines and antitrust organized by the Federalist Society. "Google's case ought to have been brought a year or two ago.""
Submission + - Worlds first 9.6 imch 4K screen produced (examiner.com)
jeremy85mai writes: Ortustech unveiled today that it had build a 9.6 inch display with a resolution of 3840x2160. This gives the display a resolution of 458.94 ppi. This is the smallest any manufacturer has been able to produce any 4K screens. While this is not the highest density display out there(Toshiba has displays that are around 500 PPI), it is still incredibly dense. The main advantage of screens this dense is either for a much smoother visual experience(reducing the need for Anti-Aliasing), as well as making the image displayed much more crisp and sharp.
Submission + - Ortustech constructs a 9.6 inch 4K display (examiner.com)
An anonymous reader writes: From the article:
"Ortustech unveiled today that it had build a 9.6 inch display with a resolution of 3840x2160. This gives the display a resolution of 458.94 ppi. This is the smallest any manufacturer has been able to produce any 4K screens. While this is not the highest density display out there(Toshiba has displays that are around 500 PPI), it is still incredibly dense. The main advantage of screens this dense is either for a much smoother visual experience(reducing the need for Anti-Aliasing), as well as making the image displayed much more crisp and sharp."
"Ortustech unveiled today that it had build a 9.6 inch display with a resolution of 3840x2160. This gives the display a resolution of 458.94 ppi. This is the smallest any manufacturer has been able to produce any 4K screens. While this is not the highest density display out there(Toshiba has displays that are around 500 PPI), it is still incredibly dense. The main advantage of screens this dense is either for a much smoother visual experience(reducing the need for Anti-Aliasing), as well as making the image displayed much more crisp and sharp."
Submission + - Developer Gets openSUSE Running On $249 Google Chromebook (muktware.com) 1
sfcrazy writes: Andrew Wafaa an ARM developer who is responsible for porting openSUSE to ARM just got his hands on the Chromebook and he managed to run openSUSE on it.
Submission + - Tennessee Doctor Credited With Cracking Meningitis Outbreak Mystery
An anonymous reader writes: Dr. April Pettit who ordered "extra tests" on the spinal fluid of a patient is credited with unlocking the mystery of the fungal meningitis outbreak and prompting a national alert that may have saved lives.
Submission + - Android will surpass Windows by 2016 (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Google's Android operating system will be used on more computing devices than Microsoft's Windows within four years, data from research firm Gartner showed on Wednesday, underlining the massive shift in the technology sector.
At the end of 2016, there will be 2.3 billion computers, tablets and smartphones using Android software, compared with 2.28 billion Windows devices, Gartner data showed.
At the end of 2016, there will be 2.3 billion computers, tablets and smartphones using Android software, compared with 2.28 billion Windows devices, Gartner data showed.
Submission + - Apple "screwing" new iPhones out of simple DIY repair (arstechnica.com) 3
concealment writes: "Apple is making it more difficult for iPhone 4 owners to perform simple DIY repairs by replacing common Phillps head screws with a rare "pentalobe" screws. While newer iPhone 4s have included the screws from the factory, it is also Apple policy to replace any Phillips head screws with the new pentalobe screws whenever an iPhone 4 is taken in for service.
Wiens said that Apple had used a similar screw on early unibody MacBook Pros to secure the integrated battery, but later adopted a tri-wing screw for that purpose. The latest MacBook Airs, however, also use pentalobe screws on the outside case, making it difficult to perform what would otherwise be a simple swap of the SSD, for instance."
Wiens said that Apple had used a similar screw on early unibody MacBook Pros to secure the integrated battery, but later adopted a tri-wing screw for that purpose. The latest MacBook Airs, however, also use pentalobe screws on the outside case, making it difficult to perform what would otherwise be a simple swap of the SSD, for instance."
