Apr 11

Nokia To Provide Chennai Factory Workers With Redundancy Packages

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Nokia To Provide Chennai Factory Workers With Redundancy PackagesFor the most part, governments around the world have approved the Microsoft-Nokia deal, save for India in which they are having a dispute with Nokia at the moment regarding taxes. To help the deal move forward, Nokia has decided to forgo the inclusion of their factory in Chennai which would have been transferred over to Microsoft if everything had gone to plan.

Now the good news is that Nokia will not be forsaking their workers in India and have recently announced that they will be providing redundancy packages to their workers. At the moment Nokia’s Chennai factory employs about 6,600 full-time employees and according to Nokia, all of them will qualify for these redundancy packages. (more…)

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    Apr 11

    NSA Apparently Knew About Heartbleed Vulnerability For Years [Report]

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    NSA Apparently Knew About Heartbleed Vulnerability For Years [Report]The Heartbleed bug has making a lot of waves recently and for those unfamiliar, it’s a vulnerability with the OpenSSL technology that could have potentially affected at least two-thirds of the internet, since many web services and online companies take advantage of the technology and implement it on their websites.

    Now this vulnerability has been around for years but it was only recently that it was discovered, or was it? According to Bloomberg, they cite “two people familiar with the matter” who claims that this is actually an issue that the NSA has discovered and has exploited the flaw for years. They claim that the NSA has since been using this flaw to gather critical intelligence and have been doing so on a regular basis. (more…)

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    Apr 11

    Microsoft Research Shows Off Interactive Live Tiles

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    The tiles feature found on Windows Phone and the Windows operating system are pretty useful as they help provide the user with information at a glance, but wouldn’t it be a great idea if users could somehow find a way to interact with it even further? This would undoubtedly help increase the feature’s functionality, and apparently that is what Microsoft is experimenting on at the moment.

    A series of video clips were originally uploaded by Microsoft Research but were soon taken down. There was even a link to the “Interactive Tile” project on Microsoft’s website that has since been removed, although thankfully there were some out there, who were quick enough to nab the videos and have since re-uploaded them for our viewing pleasure. (more…)

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    Apr 11

    Want To Hold Up An ATM? No… You Don’t!

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    Bombardier beetleAre you wondering what this beetle has to do with holding up an ATM? Well, this innocent looking bombardier beetle
    is not so innocent; in fact, this beetle is the inspiration for a foam
    bomb developed to explode in a burglar’s face if he tries to mess with
    an ATM.

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    Apr 11

    Super clever stop motion animation uses wood like you’ve never seen

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    Super clever stop motion animation uses wood like you've never seen

    Andre Maat had the brilliant idea to play with the shape and consistency of wood in his stop-motion video Woodoo and it warps the naturally stiff material into a living, breathing (and smoking object). The execution is pretty fantastic, each shape fluidly transforms into another. I love it when things do things they’re not supposed to.

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    Apr 11

    Microsoft tests Live Tiles you can use without leaving the Start screen

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    Even Microsoft knows that Windows Live Tiles have so much potential to be a lot better, especially on touchscreen devices. In fact, a group of the company’s researchers in Asia have apparently been working on making Live Tiles interactive. As you can…

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    Apr 11

    Raspberry Pi gets Commodore 64 makeover

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    If you’re feeling nostalgic for your long-retired Commodore 64 and you’ve a spare Raspberry Pi laying around, the Commodore Pi is right up your alley: an emulated Commodore 64 operating … Continue reading

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    Apr 11

    We may soon use lasers to redirect lightning strikes

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    If there’s one thing you should know about Engadget, it’s that we absolutely love lasers. And thanks to the University of Arizona and University of Central Florida, our favorite pulsating form of light might soon find a much less destructive purpose,…

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    Apr 11

    Blizzard Unveils New Heroes Of The Storm Characters

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    Heroes of the Storm is Blizzard’s upcoming MOBA and is the developer’s answer to popular MOBAs like Riot Games’ League of Legends and Valve’s DotA 2. The game is currently in development and is in a limited technical alpha, according to Blizzard, but it did not stop the developer from showing off what they have in store for gamers during PAX East.

    For starters Blizzard has unveiled four new heroes: LiLi, Brightwing, Murky, and Zagara. The first three heroes are from the Warcraft universe while Zagara is from the StarCraft universe. Blizzard has also revealed that additional heroes are in the works, such as Chen, Kael’thas, and Sylvanas. According to Blizzard, both LiLi and Brightwing are considered to be support heroes, with LiLi being able to protect her allies while Brightwing brings healing to the table as well as crowd control. (more…)

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    Apr 11

    Mathematicians Develop App That Will Supposedly Eliminate Jetlag

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    If you have ever traveled to countries where the time difference of that country and your home is huge, you’ve probably experienced a rather nasty side-effect known as jetlag. For those who haven’t experienced jetlag, it basically makes you tired at odd hours of the day and extremely awake and alert in the dead of the night.

    This is because your body isn’t used to the time difference and the times you’re feeling sleepy would actually be the times that you should be asleep in your country. Now thanks to a group of mathematicians from the University of Michigan, they claim to have developed an app called Entrain that will supposedly do away with the feeling of jetlag. (more…)

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