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FCC Approves Medical Body Area Networks->

Submitted by Lucas123
Lucas123 writes "The FCC has approved a 40MHz radio spectrum for use by wireless medical monitoring devices that will be worn by patients. The spectrum will be used to create Medical Body Area Networks that will allow clinicians to remotely monitor patient vital signs. MBANs will also free up some much needed bandwidth on hospital Wi-Fi networks saturated with data as clinicians use laptops and tablets to view and input patient information, employees bring their own wireless devices to work, and patients and family members use their own devices for entertainment and communication. Now that there is a standard for wireless medical devices, manufacturers say they'll be able to produce inexpensive, even disposable, stick-on monitors. The cheaper technology will greatly increase the number of in-hospital and at-home chronically-ill patients that can be monitored."
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Intel

Dell Outs First Ivy Bridge All-in-One PC, Competition for the iMac->

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MojoKid
MojoKid writes "The AIO form factor isn't new by any means but it's finally starting to gain momentum. As all-in-one PCs become more popular, companies like Dell have begun paying more attention to ways they can improve on the design. Dell's new XPS One 27, reviewed here, introduces a spacious, vibrant 27-inch display with a Wide Quad HD (WQHD) 2560x1440 resolution in a Samsung PLS panel. It's absolutely gorgeous, more so than some professional monitors actually, and it's carrying an entire system in its belly. This particular configuration shipped with a 3rd Generation Intel Core i7 3700S quad-core processor clocked at 3.10GHz, NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M graphics (Kepler), 8GB DDR3-1600 RAM, and a 2TB 7200RPM SATA hard drive flanked by a 32GB mSATA SSD enabling Intel SRT caching. Performance-wise, it's one of the fastest all-in-ones tested to date, courtesy of Intel's mobile Ivy Bridge platform and its SSD cache system."
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Medicine

Has science defeated prostate cancer?->

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techfun89
techfun89 writes "Zytiga was approved last year for advanced prostate cancer patients who had already received chemo but whose cancer had still metastasized.

Zytiga is a unique compound which penetrates the cancerous cells and shuts down its testosterone production, which quickly kills off the damaged cells and prevents their spread. Zytiga takes things a step further and also remains effective after the cancer metastasizes where other drugs loose their effectiveness.

In the Zytiga test group, the cancer progressed at only half the speed of the control group with patients reporting less pain and a noticeable delay before chemo was needed. As a result the trial was cancelled to allow every patient to use the drug."
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Security

AntiVirus Firms Out of their League with Stuxnet, Flame 2

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes "Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer of software security company F-Secure, writes that when his company heard about Flame, they went digging through their archive for related samples of malware and were surprised to find that they already had samples of Flame, dating back to 2010 and 2011, that they were unaware they possessed. "What this means is that all of us had missed detecting this malware for two years, or more. That’s a spectacular failure for our company, and for the antivirus industry in general." Why weren't Flame, Stuxnet, and Duqu detected earlier? The answer isn't encouraging for the future of cyberwar. All three were most likely developed by a Western intelligence agency as part of covert operations that weren’t meant to be discovered and the fact that the malware evaded detection proves how well the attackers did their job. In the case of Stuxnet and DuQu, they used digitally signed components to make their malware appear to be trustworthy applications and instead of trying to protect their code with custom packers and obfuscation engines — which might have drawn suspicion to them — they hid in plain sight. In the case of Flame, the attackers used SQLite, SSH, SSL and LUA libraries that made the code look more like a business database system than a piece of malware. "The truth is, consumer-grade antivirus products can’t protect against targeted malware created by well-resourced nation-states with bulging budgets," writes Hypponen adding that it’s highly likely there are other similar attacks already underway that we haven’t detected yet because simply put, attacks like these work. "Flame was a failure for the antivirus industry. We really should have been able to do better. But we didn’t. We were out of our league, in our own game.""
AMD

AMD Kills Monthly Driver Updates, Enthusiasts Out in The Cold?->

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MojoKid
MojoKid writes "Recently AMD announced that it would cease offering monthly graphics driver updates, and instead issue Catalyst versions only "when it makes sense." That statement would be a good deal more comforting if it didn't "make sense" to upgrade AMD's drivers nearly every single month. From 2010 through 2011, AMD released a new Catalyst driver every month like clock work. Starting last summer, however, AMD began having trouble with high-profile game releases that performed badly or had visual artifacts. Rage was one high-profile example, but there have been launch-day issues with a number of other titles, including Skyrim, Assassin's Creed, Bat Man: Arkham City, and Battlefield 3. The company responded to these problems by quickly releasing out-of-band driver updates. In addition, AMD's recent Catalyst 12.6 beta driver also fixes random BSODs on the desktop, poor Crossfire scaling in Skyrim and random hangs in Crysis 2 in DX9. In other words, AMD is still working to resolve important problems in games that launched more than six months ago. It's hard to put a positive spin on slower driver releases given just how often those releases are necessary."
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Games

Electronic Arts Readies "Massive" Patch for Battlefield 3->

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MojoKid
MojoKid writes "EA noted they have an update coming for BF3 players, rolling out on June 4-5, and it's "a big one," which an understatement of epic proportion, considering the
multitude of tweaks, changes, enhancements, and fixes included within. One of the ways EA hopes to make BF3 game play better is by reducing the suppression effect, a hot topic since the last big update, in which EA cranked up the effect to the point where some players complained it was too much. There will be changes to how servers are identified, vehicle related updates, soldier and gadget updates, weapons related changes, and over a dozen added and fixed features that fall under the "miscellaneous" umbrella. All told, there are around 70 changes included in the patch."
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Networking

Cable Operator Achieves A World Record 4.7 Gbit/s Downstream Speed->

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MojoKid
MojoKid writes "The cable operator Kabel Deutschl has just announced an amazing achievement. It has accomplished a new world record in data transmission at 4.7Gbps. There has been a successful field test in cable network of the city of Schwerin, and the company is giving a tip of the hat to AARIS CMTS in helping it hit the rate over traditional coax cable. Customers of Kabel Deutschland living in houses with a modernised, upgraded 862 MHz in-house network are already able to surf the internet with up to 100 Mbit/s bandwidth. The Schwerin field test shows that an 862 MHz upgraded cable network is able to broadcast download speeds of up to 4.7 Gbit/s over standard HFC network lines."
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Intel

Intel Ivy Bridge Processor Hits 7GHz Overclock Record->

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MojoKid
MojoKid writes "Renowned Overclocker HiCookie, used a Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H motherboard to achieve a fully validated 7.03GHz clock speed on an Intel Core i7 3770K Ivy Bridge processor. As it stands, that's the highest clockspeed for an Ivy Bridge CPU, and it required a steady dose of liquid nitrogen to get there. HiCookie also broke a record for the highest memory speed on an Ivy Bridge platform, pushing his G.Skill Trident X DDR3-2800 memory kit populated in four DIMM slots to 3,280MHz. Not for the faint of heart, the record breaking CPU overclock required that HiCookie pump 1.956V to the processor, according to his CPU-Z screenshot. The CPU multiplier was set at x63."
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SPAM: Plane completes 17-hour flight without fuel

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champ1991
champ1991 writes "The Solar Impulse HB-SIA prototype aircraft, which has 12,000 solar cells in its 64.3-meter (193 feet) built wing attempts to register its first intercontinental flight from Payerne to Rabat in Morocco.After a flight about 17 hours, takes the prototype HB- SIA has finally landed in Madrid-Barajas airport. The pilot, André Borschberg, made his way out of the cockpit, smiley and certainly happy to stretch his legs."
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Windows

Windows 8 Release Preview Ships Early->

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CWmike
CWmike writes "After a Chinese version of the Windows 8 Release Preview was leaked to the web on Tuesday, Microsoft said it will ship Windows 8 Release Preview on Thursday, several days earlier than expected, according to a blog post up only briefly. The post, written by Chuck Chan, an executive with the Windows development team, went live for a few minutes late Wednesday, long enough for several users to take notice. Unlike traditional release candidates — which are feature complete, in that all final features are included — Windows 8 Release Preview is unfinished. Two weeks ago, Microsoft acknowledged that it was ditching the 'Aero' user interface — familiar to users of Vista and Windows 7 — in Windows 8, but would not unveil most of the new look and feel in the Release Preview. Pricing is expected to mirror Windows 7. The Release Preview will be available here."
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