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Submission + - The iOS 7 jailbreak fiasco (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by Bismillah
Bismillah writes: Evad3rs' new iOS 7 jailbreak featured a Chinese app store that sold pirated software, and which was pulled from Evasi0n7 soon after launch.

Latest rumours say that the exploit used for Evasi0n7 was stolen by a certain person, offered up for sale, so the Evad3rs did a deal with TaiG instead. Jay "Saurik" Freeman of Cydia meanwhile isn't happy about the whole thing, saying he was given no time to test Evasi0n7.

Submission + - New modulation scheme said to be 'breakthrough' in network performance (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg
alphadogg writes: A startup plans to demonstrate next month at CES a new digital modulation scheme that promises to dramatically boost bandwidth, capacity, and range, with less power and less distortion, on both wireless and wired networks. MagnaCom, a privately held company based in Israel, now has more than 70 global patent applications, and 15 issued patents in the U.S., for what it calls and has trademarked Wave Modulation (or WAM), which is designed to replace the long-dominant quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) used in almost every wired or wireless product today on cellular, microwave radio, Wi-Fi, satellite and cable TV, and optical fiber networks. The vendor, which has released few specifics about WAM, promises extravagant benefits: up to 10 decibels of additional gain compared to the most advanced QAM schemes today; up to 50% less power; up to 400% more distance; up to 50% spectrum savings.

Submission + - Image of Europe Getting Nuked Used in Promotion for China's Moon Rover (theepochtimes.com) 4

Submitted by jjp9999
jjp9999 writes: In a promotional exhibit for China's Jade Rabbit lunar rover, an image in the background showed a nuclear explosion over Europe. The image they used was public stock photo titled "Nuclear Explosion on Earth from Space." How it got picked up for the exhibit remains a mystery. The exhibit was shown in November at the China International Industry Fair 2013 in Shanghai ahead of China's recent lunar landing.

Submission + - Man fined for filesharing, has to pay extra for low quality 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A 28 year old man in Sweden has been fined 4.3 million SEK (650 kUSD) for uploading one movie http://translate.google.se/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.idg.se%2F2.1085%2F1.539673%2F43-miljoner-i-skadestand-for-fildelare%3F&act=url (Google translate link). 300 000 SEK of that was added because of its low technical quality. The court ruled that the viewer watching the pirated version of the movie had a worse experience than people watching it legally, thereby causing damage to the movies reputation. Full judgement here https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/902374-12-506-vastmanland-swebits-dom-tingsratten.html (Swedish)

Submission + - Godzilla 2014 Film / Godzilla 2014 Trailer Leaked

Submitted by Godzilla2014
Godzilla2014 writes: Godzilla is an upcoming American science fiction monster film featuring the Japanese film monster of the same name and a reboot of the Godzilla film franchise. It is the second Godzilla film to be fully filmed[4] by an American studio, the first having been the 1998 film of the same name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8qAs3bSwsc
The film retells the origin of Godzilla in contemporary times as a "terrifying force of nature". The film is directed by Gareth Edwards and stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn, Sally Hawkins and Ken Watanabe.
The film is a co-production[5] of Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures and will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures worldwide, except for Japan where it will be distributed by Toho. The film is scheduled to be released on May 16, 2014 in 2D and 3D.[6]

Submission + - Microsoft Donates Windows 8.1 to Nonprofit Organizations

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft today announced the availability of Windows 8.1 for nonprofits. The move is an extension of the company’s nod to the nonprofit community with the launch Windows 8. The announcement means eligible nonprofit organizations and public libraries can request Windows 8.1 through Microsoft’s software donation program.

Submission + - Cat pee stinks out Dell laptops (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by AlbanX
AlbanX writes: Dell has offered to replace parts of its Latitude laptops because users complained it stunk of cat pee.

Apparently it's an issue with the manufacturing process of the palm rest.

And to think, poor pet cats were being blamed.

Submission + - Scientific American censors blog post for not being scientific enough 2

Submitted by rogue-girl
rogue-girl writes: The popular science magazine 'Scientific American' is getting hard time after it removed a blog post by contributor DNLee, blogging at Urban Scientist. DNLee's post discussed integrity in science and misconduct from science communicators. DNLee has been approached by BiologyOnline staff Ofek who invited her to contribute. When DNLee asked for compensation details and learned she'd be writing for free, she kindly turned down the offer. In response, Ofek called her a "whore". DNLee wrote a post on her Scientific American blog, but the post was removed. It also appears that Biology Online is SciAm's partner, but SciAm's editor in chief Mariette di Christina claimed the partnership has nothing to do with the removal, but pulling it down is due to insufficient scientific content. DNLee's original post has been reposted here, and a Storify with (outraged) reactions is also available.

Submission + - Fight Bicylce Theft with the Open Source Bike Registry 2

Submitted by Hugh Pickens DOT Com
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes: No one wants to buy a stolen bike but if you see a bike you're interested in on Craigslist or at a flea market, there isn't a good way to know if it's stolen. Now Kickstarter has an interesting project that is looking for funding to expand a searchable database that will help users protect their bikes by permanently saving the bike's serial number. "We regularly saw people trying to sell stolen bikes, and would search for the bikes online—but it was too difficult to find definitive information about them because too few people save their serial numbers," says Seth Herr, founder of the Bike Index and lead developer of the project. Herr envisions Bike Index as a way to solve the “awareness problem” — awareness of existing registries and of a bike’s identifying information. “A common problem when people get their bikes stolen is that it’s like the first time the owner thinks about ‘What was my serial number?’ and other details that are important in recovering a stolen bike," says Marcus Moore. If every bike shop integrated Bike Index registration at the point of sale, that would make it easy for victims of bike theft to accurately report a stolen bike, and for bike purchasers to verify that they aren’t buying stolen goods. The Project plans to collaborate with Bryan Hance, the founder of stolenbikeregistry.com, one of the Internet's first-ever registries to track stolen bikes which already has almost 20,000 bicycles in their registry. "The biking community can smell authenticity," says Hance. "They know when someone's trying to sell them something, and they know when someone is honestly, genuinely interested in trying to tackle the problem. That's the sense I get from Seth and Bike Index. It's obvious he knows what he's doing."

Submission + - Qualcomm to design and manufacture neural processing units next year

Submitted by Bismillah
Bismillah writes: At the MIT Technology Revivew EmTech conference, Qualcomm announced that the company and partners will design and make neural processing units or NPUs starting next year.

NPUs mimic the neural structures and how the brain processes information in a massively parallel way, while being extremely power efficient, and may end up in self-learning devices.

Submission + - The business case for Hadoop

Submitted by Bismillah
Bismillah writes: For all of its potential benefits, Hadoop can be an uncomfortable fit within many IT environments. It challenges traditional approaches to data warehousing architecture, to the way in which IT projects are funded, and in some cases — can even threaten jobs.

On that basis, selling a Hadoop-based analytics project into a business is not as straightforward as a back-of-the-envelope cost calculation might suggest. Here are a few hints and tips on how to do it.

Submission + - Researchers create mid-air haptic feedback system for touch displays (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by Bismillah
Bismillah writes: University of Bristol researchers have come up with a way to make touch screens more touchy-feely so to speak, using ultrasound waves to produce haptic feedback. You don't need to touch the screen even, as the UltraHaptics waves can be felt mid-air. Very Minority Report, but cooler.

No points for stating the obvious application of the technology.

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