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HTML5 Security Isn't->

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Esther Schindler
Esther Schindler writes "Because HTML5 is largely used to build applications, security concerns are paramount. Consider banking, for example, where extremely private information must be kept as such. But the use of HTML5 features without a significant amount of thought behind them can leave customer data exposed. Molly Holzschlag discusses the types of HTML5 features which cause significant concerns in HTML5 security and provides a basic guide to identify which areas of a site or portions of an application can benefit from these features, and those that can cause risk."
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Windows

Why Windows 8's Dumbed Down Metro-Approach May Be Just What Biz Wants->

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Esther Schindler
Esther Schindler writes "Metro's colorful tiles, full-screen apps, and its “maximum two things at the same time” multitasking approach may be an immediate turnoff for many professional users, like those who read slashdot regularly. Metro is limited to small apps that do one thing very well, very simple and very clean.

But, Sandro Villinger argues, Windows 8’s simplified approach may be exactly what businesses want. In 3 Reasons Why Windows 8’s "Dumbed Down" Metro-Approach May Be Just What You Want he gives three reasons to back up his assertion."
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Hardware

9 Tech Analogies That No Longer Mean Anything To Those Young Whippersnappers-> 1

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Esther Schindler
Esther Schindler writes "Technology is outpacing the language’s ability to evolve. Case in point: Carol Pinchefsky lists, in 9 Tech Analogies That No Longer Mean Anything To Those Young Whippersnappers, these analogies that bear only the slightest resemblance to the gizmos that spawned them.

To be fair, I didn’t make this observation first. My editor did. Then she asked me to “write” this article, which is terrific example of this conundrum: I haven’t written in the years since I’ve owned a computer. And as an editor, she checks my work to make sure I’ve “dotted every i and crossed every t,” but I haven’t done that either. She also “proofreads,” but she doesn’t read proofs. And then when she’s done, she can “CC” her editors, but she’s not actually sending “carbon copies.” Get it?

How many people actually remember what "Off the Air" actually meant?"
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Networking

All-Optical Networks: The Last Piece of the Puzzle->

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Esther Schindler
Esther Schindler writes "This could also be titled, The Sorcerer’s Stone: An MIT professor explains why “simple” ideas require hard science and how a gemstone might be the key to an optical network. As the story begins:

For years, the dream of an all-optical network has lain somewhere between Star Wars and a paper cup and a string. Recent successful work on the creation of an optical diode is a virtual case study in both the physics and materials sciences challenges of trying to develop all-optical networks. It is also a significant step towards their final realization.

One answer may be... garnet. Yes, the January birthstone.

The material that Ross and others in her field use is a synthetic, lab-grown garnet film. Similar to the natural mineral, often used as a gemstone, it is transparent in the infrared part of the spectrum. This makes synthetic garnet ideal for optical communications systems, which use the near infrared. Unlike natural garnet, it’s also magnetic. ... While it works, it’s too big and too labor intensive for use as a commercial integrated chip. For that, you need to grow garnet on silicon. The challenge that Ross’s group overcame is that garnet doesn’t grow on silicon. When you start to talk about garnets as minerals, and not just the January birthstone, you find they are actually very complicated. 'You could find half the Periodic Table in garnet,' says Bethanie Stadler of the University of Minnesota, whose lab has also done pioneering work on magneto-optical garnet based isolators. She’s only partially joking.

I expect slashdot denizens will slather over this stuff."
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There is NO tech skills crisis, say tech chiefs->

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An anonymous reader writes "The tech skills crisis has been cited as a reason for all sorts of problems, from high IT salaries to a lack of productivity in organisations that can't find the right people.

But according to this TechRepublic story could it be that the skills crisis is over — or perhaps was a myth to start with?"
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Hardware

Crab-powered computer built by scientists->

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Qedward writes "A team of scientists from Japan and England have built a computer that uses crabs as information carriers, to implement basic circuits of collision-based computing.

Researchers at Japan's Kobe University and the UK's University of the West of England, Bristol, found that when two swarms of soldier crabs collide, they merge and continue in a direction that is the sum of their velocities. This behaviour means that swarms of crabs can implement logical gates when placed in a geometrically constrained environment..."
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Audi Gives Silent Electric Car Synthetic Sound->

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itwbennett
itwbennett writes "Audi's electric cars are quiet, maybe too quiet, which is why Audi spent 3 years creating replicated engine noise for its electric car models. We're so conditioned to the noise of an engine revving that a driver behind the wheel of a too-quiet car may not realize how fast he's driving, and a pedestrian relying on auditory clues may be unaware of an approaching vehicle, says Ralf Kunkel, Head of Audi Acoustics."
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