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New Keyboard Accessory Shocks Users When They Try To Go On Facebook 27 Aug 2013 | 10:33 pm
cartechboy writes "Two Ph.D. students from MIT have created a keyboard accessory, the Pavlov Poke , that shocks you every time you go onto Facebook. The project comes as a result of the students findi...
IBM to license Power chip design to Google and others 27 Aug 2013 | 10:08 pm
IBM has joined forces with Google as it launches an effort to expand the use of its Power processor platform and reverse declines in its hardware business. Its strategy involves licensing designs of ...
NSA broke into UN video conferencing system, says report 27 Aug 2013 | 10:06 pm
The US National Security Agency reportedly cracked the encryption used by the video teleconferencing system at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. In June 2012 the NSA department respon...
Q&A With Outercurve Foundation President Jim Jagielski Tomorrow 12-2pm ET 27 Aug 2013 | 10:05 pm
Jim Jagielski is likely best known as one of the developers and co-founders of the Apache Software Foundation, where he has previously served as both Chairman and President. He also is a director of t...
Ask Slashdot: How To Get Open Source Projects To Take Our Money? 27 Aug 2013 | 09:52 pm
New submitter wkaan writes "Last financial year, we had an underspend at work, and it was suggested and agreed that we should give some cash away — $20k to be exact — to open source projects. Four pro...
BBC News - Government requests to Facebook outlined in report 27 Aug 2013 | 09:34 pm
27 August 2013 Last updated at 16:34 GMT By Dave Lee Technology reporter, BBC News Facebook has been used to organise protests Governments around the world requested information on about 38,000 Face...
Afraid Someone Will Steal Your Game Design Idea? 27 Aug 2013 | 09:10 pm
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SiriusXM sued for millions in 'unpaid' music royalties • The Register 27 Aug 2013 | 09:05 pm
Digital rights organisation SoundExchange has filed a lawsuit against satellite radio giant SiriusXM for what it termed "massive underpayment of royalties" from 2007 to 2012. The nonprofit group, whi...
Aertv, RTE agreement opens way for audience data sharing 27 Aug 2013 | 08:57 pm
Online broadcast network Aertv has signed a landmark contract with RTE that will see the companies co-operate on a range of initiatives including the sharing of broadcast data. Under the agreement th...
OmniPage Maker Nuance Loses Patent Trial Over OCR Tech 27 Aug 2013 | 08:47 pm
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