Five-year-old passes Microsoft exam
Most people wait until they’re done with college before taking the difficult exam, but Ayan Qureshi has been playing with computers since he was three so he figured he could handle it.
November 14, 2014 at 04:18PM
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Sure, You Can Buy a Cheap Mechanical Keyboard. But You’re Missing Out
Amongst the connoisseurs of high-end keyboards (gamers, journalists, programmers, and other obsessives), the mechanical keyboard is the most favored.
November 14, 2014 at 02:12PM
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The Digital Hunt for Duqu, a Dangerous and Cunning U.S.-Israeli Spy Virus
Certificate authorities are at the core of the trust relationship that makes the internet function. Attacking such an authority would allow the attackers to issue themselves legitimate certificates in the name of any company and use it to sign malware.
November 14, 2014 at 11:26AM
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Taylor Swift wages a campaign against ad-supported music streaming
Swift is leaving services that won’t let her tier her music, like Spotify.
November 14, 2014 at 11:14AM
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Skype Will Now Work Straight From Your Browser Without Any Software
Skype for Web makes chatting face-to-face with your aunt easier by eliminating the need to download a pesky app.
November 14, 2014 at 09:47AM
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Is This ‘Free Data Forever’ Device Too Good To Be True?
Lantern claims to be an anonymous portable library that constantly receives free data from space. That sounds crazy, but weirder things have come true.
November 14, 2014 at 09:12AM
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Government planes mimic cellphone towers to collect user data – report
The U.S. justice department is reportedly using electronic equipment on aircraft to simulate cellphone towers so it can collect phone location and identifying information on a mass scale from users on the ground below.
November 14, 2014 at 07:39AM
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ISIS Keeps Getting Better at Dodging U.S. Spies
There’s a reason ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi has proven so hard to take out. He and his followers have become really good at keeping their communications covert.
November 14, 2014 at 06:30AM
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Twitter’s debt assigned ‘junk’ status
S&P said Twitter’s $1.8bn September debt issue — IOUs sold to investors in return for interest — were worthy of a “speculative” rating of BB-, three notches below investment grade.
November 13, 2014 at 10:23PM
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When The Best Online Dating Starts Offline
Once a way to widen our romantic circles, online dating is turning to more familiar faces.
November 13, 2014 at 08:53PM
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