Zeus Trojan secretly transferred $1 million from UK bank accounts: New, dangerous combo of banking trojan and exploit toolkit lets criminals transfer money out of your account while you are logged into the bank site, without you knowing it.
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Google Helps Find Simplest Solution to Rubik's Cube: Detailed analysis using computing power donated by Google shows that every position of the Rubiks' Cube can be solved in a maximum of 20 moves or less.
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Russian Fires Approach Nuclear Plants: The area of the fires in Russia has been brought under control, but there are much bigger problems looming. The fires have approached the Red Forest, an area that suffered the worst of Chernobyl's fallout in 1986, with the soil still heavily contaminated by cesium-137 and strontium-90.
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How ‘Star Trek’ artists imagined Apple’s revolutionary iPad - 23 years ago: The touch interface was numerous portable devices known as PADDs, or Personal Access Display Devices...
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Well worth it. I use it. Can't life without it.
SRS iWOW Premium 3.1.1 - iTunes plug-in improves audio playback quality. (Demo):
The highly intuitive and aesthetically designed iWOW Premium user interface provides you with easy-to-use presets and a stylish graphical representation of your music.
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Review: Flipboard for iPad: This fantastic iPad-optimized feed reader creates a Web media experience that is far greater than the sum of its parts.
Macworld - http://www.macworld.com
Get 25 great Safari extensions: We've scoured the Web and tested innumerable Safari extensions. Here are some of the most useful.
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Hands on with Safari extensions: Now that Safari 5 has been out for a while, we take a closer look at Safari's new extensions feature: how to install and use extensions, how to update extensions, and how to troubleshoot issues with misbehaving extensions.
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Mac Gems: Witch makes it easy to switch between windows: This handy utility provides an alternative to Mac OS X’s built-in Command+Tab application switcher.
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Everything you need to know about 3D TVs: If you're a hardcore home-theater enthusiasts, you probably remember the sting of having nothing to watch on your cutting-edge HDTV—and you may have had the sinking realization that your $300 HD-DVD player was on the verge of becoming obsolete. Don't make those mistakes with 3D TV.
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Drug-crazed Rand Paul kidnapped woman in reefer frenzy - Rand Paul | Kentucky Senate Republican, Ron Paul's Son - Salon.com: Rand Paul's campaign did not actually deny any of this. Though his spokesman did say this to Ben Smith: "We'll leave National Enquirer type stories about his teenage years to the tabloids where they belong."
So, don't listen to New Republic senior editor Jason Zengerle's Enquirer-style reporting for noted tabloid GQ, about Rand Paul's "teenage years," when he was a 19- or 20-year-old college student who kidnapped a woman and forced her to smoke a bong and worship a false idol.
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Aug. 9, 1854: Thoreau Warns, 'The Railroad Rides on Us': Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden, or, Life in the Woods. His distillation of a year living in relative seclusion offers deep insights not just into the natural world and humanity's place in it, but how that relationship was being impacted — and degraded — by the Industrial Revolution. It remains to this day a trenchant criticism of the excesses of technology.
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LiteSwitch X 2.7 - Keyboard application switcher. (Shareware):
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Plant Enzyme Can Convert Carbon Monoxide Into Propane, Paving the Way for Exhaust-Powered Cars | Popular Science: An enzyme found in soybeans could turn an ingredient in vehicle exhaust into new usable fuel, according to a new study. It's a major step on the path toward making fuel out of thin air.
Scientists were working with a microbe called Azotobacter vinelandii, which is found around the roots of various food plants. It creates an enzyme called vanadium nitrogenase, which produces ammonia from nitrogen.
In a study published in the journal Science, researchers took away the nitrogen and fed it carbon monoxide instead. The enzyme started making short carbon chains, two or three atoms long -- in other words, propane, which fuels the blue flames of camping grills across America.
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Scorpions set fair record, Billy Idol up next | The News-Review - NRtoday.com: The Scorpions set an all-time attendance record during a 100-minute performance Friday evening at the Douglas County Fair.
The heavy metal band from Germany attracted more than 12,500 people to the Premier West Bank Amphitheater. Fans packed the bleachers set up on the amphitheater berm and filled the grassy areas leading away from the stage.
There were so many people that the crowd spilled over into areas on the sides of the amphitheater where they could not see the stage. Yet they stayed and listened to the music.
“It was phenomenal,” Fairgrounds Director Harold Phillips said. “What a production. What a sound. What a performance.”
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The ridiculous "$#*! My Dad Says" controversy:
CBS officially refers to it in print as "$#*! My Dad Says." In promos, it's "Bleep My Dad Says" -- not "[bleep sound] My Dad Says," but "Bleep My Dad Says." And its identifying image, of William Shatner with tape over his mouth, makes it clear this sitcom is well aware of that which cannot be said. It's shit. As in, the Twitter phenomenon Shit My Dad Says, the thing that turned into the best-selling book "Sh*t My Dad Says," now watered down even further into a series of nonsensical characters to become a prime-time sitcom on the Tiffany network.
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When my godfather, Herb, learned that he was finally dying for real this time, he threw a party. "Like in 'The Cherry Orchard,'" I said wryly. In college, I had once played Lyubov Ranevskaya, the matriarch of Chekhov's obsolescent Russian aristocrats.
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Google pulls plug on Google Wave: The search giant said the real-time collaboration tool saw less use than the company had hoped. The company will aim to use technology in other products
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Sad, but not surprising, I suppose. I got into it when they opened it up to the public in late May. Great, I thought. But then I found I had no one to collaborate with, and nothing to collaborate on. In other words, it was much like my personal life: nothing to do, and no one to do it with.
Sun eruptions spit plasma at Earth: Those living toward the northern areas of the planet are in for a visual treat over the next couple days, thanks to the sun spitting plasma directly at the planet.
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Google Lets You Sign In to Multiple Accounts at Once: Google now lets people with two or three user accounts log in to all of them at once and switch between accounts easily. And yes, it works in Gmail.
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