Hasta La Gadget!

Japanese firm Toshiba has dived headlong into the luxury and high-end notebook market with their latest release, known as the KIRAbook, which we talked about yesterday, but have managed to snag a bagful of photos today, which you can check out its photo gallery right after the jump. KIRA is part of Toshiba’s exercise in introducing a new premium brand for consumers, where the KIRAbook would be an all-new Ultrabook that will offer the first and vaunted ultra-high resolution PixelPure display, helping achieve a lightweight yet compact design that was precision engineered with AZ91 pressed magnesium alloy.

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They say that life imitates art, but sometimes, do you think that the saying also applies the other way around? Well, David Bowen has come up with his fair share of interesting installations in the past, where the @flycolony is one of them. The thing is, after being in operation for quite some time already (we first covered the story on @flycolony back in October last year), just how has it fared to date?

This particular project that is part science as well as part art is strictly based on insect flight patterns and other indicators, and the entire colony of flies will be your ordinary pests at the dining table, ready to pounce on any available goodies that are left open to them. The thing is, you are never going to get a dictionary out of them, and the chances of these flies typing out one of the Bard’s sonnets is as high as a room of monkeys with a bunch of typewriters. You basically get gibberish like “MMFCVVVCCCDW5GBGGVVCLK” and “5QQQ2Q22323232323434”, which ain’t too smart to begin with.

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The Sony Xperia Tablet S initially showed much promise. It was supposedly going to launch Sony as a major player in the global tablet market. Unfortunately the tablet slowly but surely faded into obscurity. However if you have one of these lying around you’d be excited to know that the company has officially announced Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean update for Xperia Tablet S.

The update will be online its production servers by tomorrow morning between 9 and 10am PST. Xperia Tab S user’s will receive a notification in the bottom left hand corner of the screen, telling them that they can download the Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean update over-the-air. The release is for Latin America, Canada and the United States region. In locations other than these the latest update will be rolled out in phases. The company hasn’t released a changelog as yet, it has only said that the entire list of changes will be available tomorrow on their eSupport page. This Android update file will definitely be over 50MB, so it is advised that you download it over Wi-Fi so as to not unnecessarily burden your mobile data plan.

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The online world has become a little less safe considering how many companies have their services hacked, which results in the user having to change a perfectly good password in fear their account will be accessed by an unauthorized user. Microsoft is taking steps to keep your security when using their services the highest priority, which is why they’re rolling out a new two-step verification process for all of its accounts.

The new verification process will start rolling out an upgrade to Microsoft accounts over the next few days that will allow its users to enable an optional two-step authentication service to help improve the security of their account. The result will help better protect a person’s Microsoft account through the use of a verification process. Microsoft account owners will also be able to use app passwords for some of its services, such as the Xbox 360, for those services, which at the moment, don’t support two-step authentication. (more…)

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Many of you are probably sporting some kind of anti-malware software on your computer, whether it’d Norton, McAfee, Kaspersky, etc. However, it turns out that almost a quarter of all PCs in the world are unprotected, leaving them wide open for all kinds of havoc that no one really wants lurking around.

According to Microsoft’s latest Security Intelligence Report, 24% of all PCs are absent of any kind of anti-malware software. Microsoft says that unprotected computers are 5.5 times more likely to catch a virus than computers that have anti-malware software installed. However, it seems some users are willing to take the risk.

According to the report, the country who has the most unprotected computers roaming around is Egypt, with a whopping 40% of unprotected PCs laying around, with India coming in second at 30%, and Russia with 29%. The US comes in at 26%, with the UK at 21%, which ties for the lowest percentage along with Brazil and Australia.

However, Microsoft notes that the reason for unprotected PCs may not just be about laziness on the users’ part, but they simply may not be well-informed on the importance of having anti-virus software on their computer. There’s also other contributing factors, like free trials expiring without notice, or a virus itself disabling your anti-virus software.

Microsoft reports that 24% of all PCs are unprotected is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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