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Submission + - Candle Flame Contains Millions of Diamonds (st-andrews.ac.uk)

Submitted by eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: As odd as it sounds, candle flames contain all four known forms of carbon. Zixue Su, Yang Zhang and University of St Andrews chemistry Professor Wuzong Zhou have recently published a paper utilizing a new technique that leveraged anodic aluminium oxide films as collectors to actually observe diamond, graphitic, fullerenic and amorphous particles from a live candle flame. The result of a challenge from a colleague that claimed no one knows what a flame is actually made of, Dr. Zhou and his team deduced that around 1.5 million diamond nanoparticles are created every second in a candle flame. Some more light has been shed on how the flame transforms hydro-carbon molecules into carbon dioxide that could pave the way to a new nucleation mechanism for diamond growth and fullerene formation in a combustion synthesizing process.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Extends Wishes To Linux on 20th Birthday (itproportal.com) 2

Submitted by hypnosec
hypnosec writes: Software giant Microsoft has released an animated video marking the 20th anniversary of the open source Linux platform. The video, which was shown during the keynote speech made by Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin at the LinuxCon conference, shows how Linux and Microsoft were opposed to each other since the beginning but now they are trying to accommodate each other.
Security

Submission + - Ask slashdot: security education for PMs

Submitted by Suferick
Suferick writes: I am putting together a security education program aimed at project managers. Some of them are technical and some not; they work in an environment that is very security conscious but sometimes have very little clue about security. What are the most important topics I should cover?

Submission + - Court Says Sending Too Many Emails Is Hacking (techdirt.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: An appeals court has ruled that having people send a company a lot of emails (in this case, a union protesting a company's business practices) qualifies as hacking under the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act. We're not even talking about a true DDoS action here, but just a bunch of protest emails. Part of the problem is that the company apparently set up their email to only hold a small number of emails in their inbox, and the court seems to think the union should take the blame for stuffing those inboxes.
Android

Submission + - Archos Arnova 7 – cheap tablet with Android (tabletnewsreport.com)

Submitted by tabletnr
tabletnr writes: Some time ago, Archos announced a series of cheap tablet PCs for every pocket – Arnova. It consists of three models: Arnova 8, 10 and Arnova 7. The technical parameters of the first two are known already for a long time, and the price is close to 200 dollars. We didn’t have any info about the last model – Arnova 7 – except that it has a 7-inch screen. Now the manufacturer has decided to satisfy our curiosity. The most important thing in this case is undoubtedly the price – is only 99$.
Science

Submission + - New multiferroic alloy creates electricity from wa (wattsupwiththat.com)

Submitted by sanzibar
sanzibar writes: University of Minnesota engineering researchers in the College of Science and Engineering have recently discovered a new alloy material that converts heat directly into electricity. This revolutionary energy conversion method is in the early stages of development, but it could have wide-sweeping impact on creating environmentally friendly electricity from waste heat sources.
Microsoft

Submission + - Cybercrime Surveys are Useless (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Gunkerty Jeb
Gunkerty Jeb writes: Barely a week goes by that woeful statistics on the proliferation of cyber crime don't make headlines in the trade and mainstream press. But a new study by Microsoft Research finds that many of those surveys are so rife with catastrophic statistical errors as to make their conclusions almost useless.
Hardware

Submission + - The Inscrutable Logos On Your Electronics, Decoded (itworld.com)

Submitted by
jfruhlinger
jfruhlinger writes: "If you've bought a piece of electronic equipment — a computer, a printer, even a lowly power supply — you've no doubt noticed a host of inscrutable logos festooned all over it — UL, CE, FCC, TUV, RoHS, ENERGY STAR, and the like. What do they mean? Each of these compliance marks tell a story about your gadget's operation or lifecycle, and knowing what they mean can let you in on the hidden life of the gizmos you buy."

Submission + - Unwanted Tech Support (youtube.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Today I received a call from 1-510-943-3040. The man on the other end was urgently telling me that he had seen reports of trojans and malware on my computer and would need to gain access in order to resolve the issue. It was at that point that I asked him what company he was with; to which he responded: " I am with computer support, we are contracted by your company to do your support". He then went on to reiterate his original statement. When I explained that I was part of the technical support team for my company he simply responded "ah" and hung up.

The story URL is a YouTube video I found when putting the number through Google.
Technology

Submission + - Lyto Camera Lets You Shift Focus After Shooting (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula
Zothecula writes: For those of us who grew up with film cameras, even the most basic digital cameras can still seem a little bit magical. The ability to instantly see how your shots turned out, then delete the ones you don't want and manipulate the ones you like, is something we would have killed for. Well, light field cameras could be to today's digital cameras, what digital was to film. Among other things, they allow users to selectively shift focus between various objects in a picture, after it's been taken. While the technology has so far been inaccessible to most of us, that is set to change, with the upcoming release of Lytro's consumer light field camera.

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