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Microsoft Corp is set to make a splash this week with the eagerly awaited unveiling of its new Xbox game console, eight years after the last version, as it seeks a larger share of the $65 billion a year global computer gaming industry.

Einer der ersten Apple-Computer aus dem Jahr 1976 hat bei einer Auktion gut 516.000 Euro eingebracht. Dem Ur-Mac wurde ohne Gehäuse, Tastatur und Monitor angeboten - dafür mit einem Brief von Steve Jobs.

The $35/$25 Raspberry Pi microcomputer is being used by hardware hackers to power all sorts of creative projects. Including this Raspberry Pi powered laptop, which ties in the Motorola Atrix laptop dock to turn the microcomputer into a portable computer. Which surely must be the coolest use of that piece of kit to date.

Microsoft Corp is set to make a splash this week with the eagerly awaited unveiling of its new Xbox game console, eight years after the last version, as it seeks a larger share of the $65 billion a year global computer gaming industry.

Companies are analyzing more data to guide how they hire, recruit, and promote their employees.Xerox is screening tens of thousands of applicants for low-wage jobs in its call centers using software from a startup company called Evolv that automatically compares job seekers against a computer profile of the ideal candidate.

A very rare Apple 1 computer sold for a record $671,400 in a German auction on Saturday, according to The New York Times. As Mashable reported ahead of the auction, the Apple 1 computer is a low-powered PC from Apple's humble beginnings, which began with original co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve WozniakThis specific computer that was up for sale at German...

The revolutionary 'wearable computer' could disrupt crucial cognitive capacity, leading professors have warned.

I believe everyone should learn to code. The skill of coding is no different from the skill of reading and writing English or any human language. I hold myself up as an example: if an art major can learn to code and find success in technology land, why can't everyone do it?

The hilariously named "Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property" has finally released its report, an 84-page tome that's pretty bonkers. But amidst all that crazy, there's a bit that stands out as particularly insane: a proposal to legalize the use of malware in order to punish people believed to be copying illegally.    

The drone, developed by Marc-Alexandre Favier at Harper Adams University in Shropshire, uses cameras and image recognition software to find and round up sheep and cows even in remote areas.

First time accepted submitter ben saad issam writes in with news about a new biological transducer built by Israeli scientist. "Using only biomolecules (such as DNA and enzymes), scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed and constructed an advanced biological transducer, a computing machine capable of manipulating genetic codes, and using...

Microsoft Corp is set to make a splash this week with the eagerly awaited unveiling of its new Xbox game console, eight years after the last version, as it seeks a larger share of the $65 billion a year global computer gaming industry.

Für viele Fans ist es das beste Computer-Rollenspiel aller Zeiten. Ungewöhnliche Spielwelt, starke Geschichte, exzentrische Ideen - es gibt viele Gründe, warum das 1999 erschienene "Planescape: Torment" so beliebt ist. Roland Austinat vom Fachmagazin "Power Play" schwärmt bis heute.

Microsoft Corp is set to make a splash this week with the eagerly awaited unveiling of its new Xbox game console, eight years after the last version, as it seeks a larger share of the $65 billion a year global computer gaming industry.

Julian Assange is a villain, Bradley Manning is a hero: That is the message of We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, a new documentary now showing in theaters nationwide. We Steal Secrets opens with the story of "WANK," a prank-worm that hit NASA in 1989. It did no damage and was unrelated to Wikileaks — though the film infers it was tied to a group...

An anonymous reader sends news of a study which found that "two out of five medical students have an unconscious bias against obese people." The study, published in the Journal of Academic Medicine (abstract) examined med students from many different cultural and geographical backgrounds. "The researchers used a computer program called the Weight Implicit Association Test...

Microsoft's Xbox One presents a big and complicated machine whose primary purpose is a menu layer for watching television. This in an age where living room television is irrelevant. Having bet the farm on this vision, the company looks so out of step as to almost be laughable and has built the digital equivalent of the Spruce Goose.

Don sez, "This guy has over a hundred excellent videos of Old School AV and other electronic equipment. The world's first Credit Card Calculator! The first (pre-BetaMax) VCRs! Wacky little tape recorders that they blew up on "Mission Impossible"! All that stuff that was once futuristic but is now only of the nostalgic future that was." God I wanted this credit-card-sized...

Online entrepreneur is teaching everyday people how to make money online and is announcing the release of a new product, Partner With Tom .  Tom Rockwell created a new course called Partner With Tom.  - ...

Microsoft Corp is set to make a splash this week with the eagerly awaited unveiling of its new Xbox game console, eight years after the last version, as it seeks a larger share of the $65 billion a year global computer gaming industry.

One of the last surviving original 1976 Apple 1 computers still in working order has fetched a world record price at auction in Germany.    

First you're defiant. Next you compensate. And then you find yourself desperate for a computer fix.It happened, as crises do, without warning. I was doing something essential, like trolling online for better and deeply discounted kitchen knives, when suddenly the image on my laptop went from hi-res to out-of-register. Most of the color fell away and a grim message appeared:...

“Candy Crush Saga” has 14.7 million daily active users, AppData reports. (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times) I slide three shiny red jelly beans together. Trumpet blast. I put three lemon drops in a line. A xylophone sounds a jingle of approval. Then I get five purple jujubes in a row, and they snap into a single, multicolored, disco-ball-looking nonpareil equipped...

An Apple-1 computer, made in 1976 and originally priced at $666, sold for a record $671,400 at an auction in Germany.    

The Apple 1 is a little piece of history, the first in a lineage that's taken the world by storm since its birth in 1976. And that piece of history is worth a lot. An anonymous collector just picked up a still functioning(!) one of the suckers at auction for a cool $671,400. And you thought gaming PCs were expensive.Read more...    

Das windschnittige Zipcycle soll weniger als ein Viertel des Luftwiderstands normaler Fahrräder aufweisen - und sich deshalb doppelt so schnell fahren lassen. Außerdem in der Gadget-Schau von neuerdings.com: Ein Kopfhörer, der viel durchlässt und ein 3-D-Drucker, der wenig kosten soll.

BERLIN (AP) -- An auctioneer says one of Apple's first computers - a functioning 1976 model - has been sold for a record 516,000 euros ($668,000)....

SAN FRANCISCO — American officials and corporate security experts examining a new wave of potentially destructive computer attacks striking American corporations, especially energy firms, say they have tracked the attacks back to Iran.The targets have included several American oil, gas and electricity companies, which government officials have refused to identify. The...

Microsoft Corp is set to make a splash this week with the eagerly awaited unveiling of its new Xbox game console, eight years after the last version, as it seeks a larger share of the $65 billion a year global computer gaming industry.

Editor's note: Jon Gottfried is a Developer Evangelist at Twilio, co-founder of the Hacker Union, and a StartupBus Conductor. Being one of the first cyborgs in the world has meant that I have been privy to a unique set of bizarre experiences. Experiences that lead to some early observations and theories about the future of Google Glass and wearable technology. ...

An Apple 1 computer, the low-powered PC that started it all for the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, co-founder Steve Wozniak and the then very new Apple Computers, is up for grabs on May 25. All you need is somewhere north of a half a million dollars. The still-working computer goes to the highest bidder at the German auction house Auction Team Breker. According to a release,...

The recent attacks seem to be aimed at sabotage rather than stealing information, United States officials say.    

Microsoft Corp is set to make a splash this week with the eagerly awaited unveiling of its new Xbox game console, eight years after the last version, as it seeks a larger share of the $65 billion a year global computer gaming industry.

We have all seen things in the clouds - indeed for children finding faces in the ever-changing shapes as they pass overhead is a staple activity during those long summer picnics and car journeys.

From my report on CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson: Sharyl Attkisson has problems. The Obama administration won't answer the CBS News correspondent's questions because her investigations -- into Benghazi, Fast and Furious, Solyndra -- often reflect negatively on it. Some colleagues at CBS News, where she has worked for two decades and earned multiple...

On any given day inside Mercy San Juan Medical Center's neuro-intensive care unit, a 5-foot-6-inch-tall robot with a computer screen can be seen roaming the halls.

The Chromebook Pixel is the Chromebook I'd pick as my personal Chromebook – if money was no option, and if I felt I really needed a Chromebook. It's an impressive beast, like a Bird of Paradise, but in the end a trained falcon would be a way better winged thing to own, since it could catch you some wild game, instead of jut prancing around with its mesmerizing but fairly...

If you told me this image was a frame capture from the next Call of Duty game for Xbox One, I could almost believe you. Ish. Thanks to the digital camera and postprocessing work, its unrealistic perfection, dramatic illumination and striking mix of colors make this photo look like a 3D computer render. However, real-time graphic engines need some more firepower to get...

The Association for Computing Machinery's annual SIGGRAPH conference is where you will find many of the most incredible, edgiest developments in computer graphics research. Above is the video trailer for this year's "Technical Papers" program. SIGGRAPH 2013 takes place July 21-25 in Anaheim, California.    

How do magicians keep their tricks a secret in the age of the Internet? Sleight of hand, naturally.

Microsoft Corp is set to make a splash this week with the eagerly awaited unveiling of its new Xbox game console, eight years after the last version, as it seeks a larger share of the $65 billion a year global computer gaming industry.

Rare personal computer could fetch as much as $400,000.

Young technology entrepreneurs have been the winners in several massive deals in recent months including this week's Tumblr sale to Yahoo. A U.K. firm has seen the potential. Freeformers runs a scheme to get teenagers creating computer programs instead of just playing games.

phrackthat writes "A UC Berkeley group, in a bid to drive down the costs of 3-D printing, has been focusing on more natural materials such as salt, wood, ceramics and concrete (the last two, while not naturally occurring, are made of naturally occurring components). The use of these materials create new avenues for architecture, such as printing buildings. Professor Ronald...

I finished my scientific seven-minute workout as the clock hit 7 a.m. While I sipped on my home-made fruit, spinach and protein powder smoothie, I...

(Phys.org) —Using only biomolecules (such as DNA and enzymes), scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed and constructed an advanced biological transducer, a computing machine capable of manipulating genetic codes, and using the output as new input for subsequent computations. The breakthrough might someday create new possibilities in biotechnology,...

Russian startup Unface.me has created a new social network inspired by the Gossip Girl TV series which lets users create an alter ego to -- let's face it -- troll their friends, or even post even worst types of gossip entirely anonymously. The site connects with Facebook and Russian social network VKontakte so it can pull in users' genuine friend networks, then let them...

Iranian-backed hackers have escalated a campaign of cyber assaults against U.S. corporations by launching infiltration and surveillance missions against the computer networks running energy companies, according to current and former U.S. officials.

Man accused of abducting and murdering five-year-old girl apologises for not being able to explain disappearance of bodyThe man accused of abducting and murdering April Jones has told a jury he has no explanation for why her body has never been found and apologised for not being able to say where he left it.Giving evidence for a third day, the former slaughterman and lifeguard...

Microsoft Corp is set to make a splash this week with the eagerly awaited unveiling of its new Xbox game console, eight years after the last version, as it seeks a larger share of the $65 billion a year global computer gaming industry.

Der neue Generalstabschef Othmar Commenda möchte in seiner fünfjährigen Amtszeit das Bundesheer umkrempeln. Das System sei zu langsam, der Verwaltungsaufwand zu hoch, sagte Commenda am Donnerstag. "Wir müssen den Computer neu aufsetzen." Der Generalleutnant ließ zudem Sympathien für das Wehrpflicht-System durchklingen und hält dieses auch für reformierbar. Er gab...

When Justin Bieber tweets, 39,361,876 people (and counting) immediately jump to attention. But when one of those nearly 40 million people tweet, does the Beebs see it? Does he react at all? Communication among terrorist cells works much in the same way as Justin Bieber's Twitter account, according to mathematicians from Ryerson University in Toronto who have built a mathematical...

Microsoft Corp is set to make a splash this week with the eagerly awaited unveiling of its new Xbox game console, eight years after the last version, as it seeks a larger share of the $65 billion a year global computer gaming industry.

It's almost impossible for the average computer to mine Bitcoins in any efficient way, hence the rise of Bitcoin mining machines so tuned to their specific purpose that they barely resemble PCs. To wit: the Cryonic Bitcoin FrostBit machine is a PC in name only and contains a liquid nitrogen generator, special ASIC chips, and a price tag that would make the Winklevii twins...

Microsoft Corp is set to make a splash this week with the eagerly awaited unveiling of its new Xbox game console, eight years after the last version, as it seeks a larger share of the $65 billion a year global computer gaming industry.

Ask Matt: Cybersecurity isn't just necessary, but profitable for companies providing it.

ENRC, the troubled FTSE 100 company being investigated by the Serious Fraud Office, warned data relating to the Kazakh miner could have been lost after a laptop was stolen and its systems were hacked.    

Google sent hikers “trekkers,” 42-pound computer backpacks, that captured panoramic views of some of the most inaccessible places on the Galapagos. It hopes to post it to Street View later this year

Toshiba isn’t exactly known for churning out attractive, high-end notebooks, which is why the company’s new Kirabook is such an oddity. It's a handsome little thing if you're into very (and I mean very) understated designs, though I imagine at least a few people will think the Kirabook looks downright dull. The Kirabook is wedge-shaped like many of its other ultrabook...

Google almost completely revamped the Google+ photo experience last week, but somehow the company didn't get around to announcing one of the coolest photo-related features in its repertoire: Google now uses computer vision and machine learning to let you search your photos for things like sunsets, food and flowers. I also tried terms like "cars," "beach" and "bikes" and...

Journalists discovered that two companies had posted the personal data of 170,000 customers online. The leak, which exposed the victims to identity theft and fraud, was reportedly so bad that social security numbers, passport scans, financial data and home addresses were indexed by search engines. Rather than merely address the problem, however, TerraCom and YourTel [...]    ...

Chinese personal-computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd. said profit in its latest quarter rose 90 percent from a year earlier because of cost controls, stronger pricing and robust shipments.

By launching this new manual browser testing service, TestingBot aims to provide QA teams with a wide selection of browsers and operating systems. A fresh browser is started in seconds and can be controlled straight f...

Ein Apple-Uhr mit dem mutmaßlichen Namen iWatch wird laut KGI-Securities-Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo erst Ende 2014 erscheinen. Als Grund nennt er mangelnde Ressoucen seitens Apple. So arbeite man derzeit intensiv an iOS 7 und habe schlicht nicht die Menpower für ein überarbeitetes iOS für die iWatch. Auch die Komponenten für die Handgelenk-Computer seien noch in einem zu...

The Fedora Project has been supporting Raspberry Pi, the diminutive $35 computer, for some time. Today they're making the Pidora "remix" of the core Fedora distribution available. Like the Raspbian distribution of Debian, Pidora is compiled specifically to take advantage of the hardware already built into the Raspberry Pi.

Being behind in a market sucks, and it's understandable to want to lash out at the top dog, as Microsoft has shown it's willing to do with Google in search and email, and now with Apple in tablet computers. A brand new Windows 8 ad pits the iPad against Microsoft's Windows 8 tablet, in an attempt to show how much more versatile the Asus VivoTab is vs. the iOS device.

What happens when you bring the "Wedding Crashers" dudes to the fictional -- but also non-fictional -- Googleplex.

Microsoft Corp is set to make a splash this week with the eagerly awaited unveiling of its new Xbox game console, eight years after the last version, as it seeks a larger share of the $65 billion a year global computer gaming industry.

The plain-vanilla personal computer industry may be hurting, but Lenovo is still raking in the cash. So what is the Chinese giant's secret formula? Watch and find out.

BEIJING (AP) -- Computer maker Lenovo Group said Thursday its latest quarterly profit rose 90 percent as sales of smartphones and mobile computing technology expanded....

95 Prozent aller Smartphones weltweit sind mit Prozessoren ausgestattet, die auf Entwicklungen von Sophie Wilson zurückgehen. Auch Apple-Guru Steve Jobs interessierte sich für die Erfindungen der Computer-Pionierin.

Inside a former shoe factory in China's southern city of Shenzhen, the noise of hammering and stitching has long gone. In its place is something much quieter - the hum of laboratory machinery and the click of computer keyboards. But listen extra carefully and you might just pick up another sound: the deep, seismic creaking of the world's second-largest economy moving...

Hewlett-Packard's slump is deepening as the world's largest personal computer maker scrambles to meet the growing demand for more versatile and less expensive mobile devices.    

The Justice Department is denying that it tracked the phone calls of Fox News reporter James Rosen's parents as part of an investigation into how Rosen got classified information about North Korean nuclear test plans. "We did not wiretap the phones of any reporter or news organization. Nor did we monitor or track the phone calls of any reporter's parents. No records...