Farewell to the processor socket: a storm in a teacup?
According to the Japanese website PC Watch Intel plans of the 2014 expected generation processor Broadwell no versions for desktop Desktop Boards with AC versions. Broadwell chips should therefore only in ball grid array (BGA) packages appear, which are intended for direct soldering onto PCBs.
From this information, PC Watch has concluded Intel might even want to deliver from 2014 no middle class processors for changing versions more. For such high-end PCs are expected to continue, however, are derived as the existing LGA2011 CPUs server processors.
Now Charlie Demerjian contributed by Semiaccurate.com more information. Therefore confirmed employee unnamed motherboard makers that Intel actually planning any change versions for mid-Broad Wells. This does not mean that after Haswell - appears likely as Core i5-4000 or i7-4000 - are no extra processors for LGA sockets longer on the market. Rather reported Demerjian, are expected in the 2015 CPU generation Skylake which again provided. If so, then there would be no mere Broadwell CPUs to change versions, the Haswell versions would simply stay longer in the race until the Skylake detachment occurs.
Microsoft Security Essentials fall through at AV-Test
The free Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) have in recent comparison test by AV-Test is not the only anti-virus program meets the requirements for certification. The lab is every two months out his results. In the pretest the Microsoft Scanner had cut even good enough to be certified. Last failed MSE is two years ago.
AV test examines the protection performance, the operability and performance of the disinfection protection programs, wherein the test candidates summarized at best can achieve 18 points. For the certificate at least 11 points are needed, where MSE is at 10.5 points slightly scarred over. Two months ago, Microsoft's anti-virus program has yet reached 12.5 points.
Quick update for Linux Mint 14
Linux Mint 1.14 fixes several serious errors in which only just over a week released Linux Mint 14 (Nadia). As Linux Mint-maker Clement Lefebvre wrote in his blog, there are three bugs: On EFI systems booted Linux Mint is not the 14th Especially for installations in virtual machines, there could be a problem with name resolution. Used especially with Intel video Linux Mint 14 generic driver without hardware acceleration, resulting in high CPU load and low performance from the desktop;. This bug was already known at the release of Nadia
Meanwhile, the download links point to Linux Mint 14.1, although the download page is still in Linux Mint 14 is mentioned. The mirror sites listed seem to have already updated all.
High-resolution movies for Sony's 4K TV
$ 25,000 is a steep price for a TV. Sony justifies the dissolution of the XBR-84X900 of 3840 × 2160 pixels. Unfortunately, there is little content that will be the 4K resolution requirements. For the U.S., Sony has announced to lend owners of 4K TV an additional hard disk player that is played with ten films and several shorts.
In the movies there are: The Amazing Spider-Man, Total Recall (2012), Bad Teacher, The Karate Kid (2010). Salt, Battle Los Angeles, The Other Guys, That's My Boy, Taxi Driver and The Bridge on the River Kwai. There are also some short films from the Red Bull Media House.
The player will be updated periodically with new offers. How Sony will do that is not yet known. Content is far lower resolution extrapolated from the X-Reality PRO picture engine, a proprietary upscaler, to nearly 4K resolution.
Windows 8: Good for the PC market - or rather does not it?
The consumer PC market has not been the launch of Windows 8 will receive the boost that would have been needed - with this assessment, the analysts at NPD Group, at least come for the current trend in the U.S.. Thus, the sales of Windows machines in the four weeks had declined since the introduction of the new operating system by 21 percent over the same period. While sales of notebooks in the U.S. declined by as much as 24 percent, the NPD analysts registered with desktop PCs only a decline of 9 percent.
After all, but was just over half (58 percent) was the newly shipped Windows systems already equipped with Windows 8, as NPD analyst Stephen Baker said. Also, the market research context had recently said that the sales of Windows 8 would develop in Western Europe "as expected". Meanwhile, Microsoft says more than 40 million
United Nations from Wikimedia
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The Wikimedia movement behind the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia is getting a new center: The Wikimedia Chapters Association (WCA) settles in Geneva and hopes to create a counterbalance to the headquarters of the Wikimedia Foundation, based in San Francisco. Before the new organization but must clarify their finances.
The WCA is an association of national organizations Wikimedia. 21 of a total of 39 so-called Chapter have already joined the new body. The national organizations have no direct responsibility for the Wikipedia, the main servers are operated in single director of the Wikimedia Foundation. They instead serve as a focal point for public and community in each country to organize events and advocacy. Wikimedia Germany, by far the largest and oldest organization Wikimedia, the implementation of the Wikipedia database facts Wikidata took over.
Intranet clause in the Copyright Act extended again
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With the voices of the black-yellow coalition of the SPD and the Bundestag in the early hours of Friday extended the Intranet clause in copyright law for two years. May These are the third temporary continuation of Section 52 a volume of the law restrictively designed usually teachers and researchers "small part" of works by a "certain limited range of teaching participants" for educational purposes made available in a closed network.
"Sweetness and light and clarity are not thus creating really," admitted Ansgar Heveling of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the speeches for the record. Rather become "forced" a state of uncertainty continued. Within the next two years, the federal government should finally provide "valid data to use" the paragraph.
For the FDP Stephan Thomae underlined that the provision had proven and large. For the schools sector the states with all CRMs total contracts were concluded, in which the conditions of use are controlled for these works. The same applied for the use of schools.
Sky records football game in 4K
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Munich pay-TV broadcaster Sky has announced for the first time to want to record in German TV history in a football game, "Ultra HD", so with four times the full HD resolution. On Saturday it will be in the Bundesliga match against Bayern Munich Borussia Dortmund two 4K cameras are used. According to Sky wants to "underline position as an innovation leader in the TV and entertainment area in Germany and Austria" his.
But even if Sky CEO Brian Sullivan this result by saying, "Ultra HD is incredibly exciting for us and even more exciting for our customers," comments the audience of the new image quality has been nothing. Actually serves to record the pay-TV channel only "internal testing", but nevertheless should be "just the first of many more steps" in the Ultra HD. A TV broadcast is according to the official press release at this time is not explicitly planned
Vodafone contradicts the Vodafail campaign
Rapp points out that all mobile customers could use the mentioned services instant messaging, P2P and VoIP. If they are not already included in the contract, they could be booked. Sun Instant Messaging is all RED rates allowed in three of four VoIP and P2P can be booked separately. The customers for specific services forego if they can save money by, let the digital society seem absurd, yet it give these people.
Microsoft executive Achim Berg joins Bertelsmann
The Microsoft executive Achim Berg leaves the software company after six years and is the beginning of April CEO of Bertelsmann subsidiary Arvato. "We are very pleased that an internationally experienced top manager has opted for Bertelsmann," Bertelsmann spokesman Markus Harbaum told dpa. Berg is a recognized expert in marketing and sales of high-tech solutions. This was in the wake of stronger digital transformation of Bertelsmann's Arvato as a whole have been a major reason for the appeal.
Berg was last seen at the headquarters of Microsoft responsible for relations with telecommunications companies that should he win for the Windows Phone platform. Previously, he was CEO of Microsoft Germany. Berg joins Arvato succeeds Rolf Buch, who, according to Bertelsmann, "the leadership of Arvato Bertelsmann and from the management board on the most agreeable resigns of his own accord at the end." Arvato has more than 68,000 employees of the largest service providers for print and digital publications and a wide variety of business processes.
United Airlines sues critical website Untied.com
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Nevertheless Cooperstock must now stand trial. Before a Canadian federal court , the airline accused him of violation of trademark rights and demands an injunction injunction, levy profits, damages and punitive damages. A court of the French-speaking province of Quebec it should also prohibit the publication of details. Cooperstock is hoping for donations for legal and court costs.
Disappointing year for acclaimed Internet stocks
Such is a clear vote of no confidence: As the first reports surfaced about a possible replacement of the founder and head of the bargain portal Groupon, Andrew Mason, the stock went straight into the air. Hardly a day later, the company declared that Mason still remain at the top, of course put it back into reverse.
The nerves of investors are on edge. And that's understandable: The share of the coupon specialist Groupon lost since going public a year ago, more than 80 percent of their value. She has since upped the ante again though a few dollars on the recent low of $ 2.60 - but the initial rates of about $ 25 still seems at an unreachable distance. And the former Star Market potential and according to Forbes "fastest growing companies of all time."
Weak numbers doubt the business model and a crash course as a result, Groupon is by far not an isolated case. Many other at first highly acclaimed Internet stocks investors bestowed lousy business. In online game developer Zynga, the balance of the first year on the stock market falls with a drop of three-quarters of equally devastating. In this way down there were some price falls of 20 or even 40 percent on a day when, once again, a loss has been reported.
Microsoft raises prices for corporate licenses
Microsoft increases by 1 December, the prices of certain software licenses in the corporate environment. Thus fits the Group's pricing models primarily to the changing usage patterns of mobile devices. However, prices for a number of Office server products Microsoft wants some increase sharply, the Microsoft expert on Mary Joe Foley says in a blog post. For example, the office software office in different versions will be more expensive the subscription fees in the online versions sink it. Microsoft seems to be trying to persuade its customers, instead of buying fixed software to complete rather Subscriptions appropriate for cloud services, writes Foley.
Of the increases in the volume licensing companies are even more affected, in which employees use multiple mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, says Foley. To date, the license costs for the device and user-based licensing models were at the same height. When user-based model, according to Foley from December the prices now attract 15 percent.
Austria: Parliamentary Hearing retention behind closed doors
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With the retention and terror laws has the justice committee of the Austrian Parliament deals on Tuesday. The occasion was a parliamentary action group with over 106,000 supporters. They demand an evaluation of the Austrian-terrorist legislation and that the federal government in Brussels committed to the abolition of retention. The hearing on Tuesday but was held behind closed doors. And the result reflects a dismal self-image of Deputies.
The press service of the Parliament, a report on the meeting of the Judiciary Committee. Accordingly, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee regretted that the hearing could not be held in public. He will inspire future cases a change in the rules of procedure. Why there was no public discussion of the issue, for example during a formal session is interrupted, not clear from the text.
Alleged Wikileaks Informant Manning says of the first time
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The alleged WikiLeaks informant Bradley Manning has first reported publicly since his arrest to speak. The U.S. soldier said, on Thursday in a hearing before a military court at Fort Meade (Maryland) while in custody after his arrest in May 2010, as U.S. media reported. The 24 year old had the time when he and April 2011 in a military prison at Quantico (Virginia) serving time, complained of harassment. His defense argued that the mistreatment had been there enough to mitigate a possible penalty significantly.
The young soldier looked at his statement on Thursday reportedly nervous of spectators. His statements about the conditions to support the strategy of the defense and help avoid a process. It is Manning's attorney, according to the TV station CNN that his client is guilty of minor offenses committed in a settlement and dropped the charges can be the serious allegations. Goal is that Manning come free as soon as possible.
Joyn, the WhatsApp killer of operators, already in Spain
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First WhatsApp, Line proliferation after ... Free IM Apps That has slowly been making increasingly less SMS sent to the operators did not like. Solution? Launch an app That will make competition: is Joyn, and is the result of the union Between Movistar, Orange and Vodafone.
Joyn is "enriched communication service" that Allows Users to Participate in chat, send messages and make calls with simultaneous exchange of photos or videos. Furthermore, in the future introduce other services as VoIP calls or video calls over IP.
Eco-Institute recommends NAS instead Cloud
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The Freiburg Institute for Applied Ecology - short Öko-Institut - advises computer users to swap data on a memory on the home network (NAS) instead of in the cloud. According to the Institute calculations showed that, for example, the saving of 4.7 GBytes generated in a cloud storage 55 kg CO2 equivalent, in an energy efficient home network for the same amount of data dropped to only 150 grams of CO2 equivalent. In addition, acquisition and operation of a local network storage with one terabyte per year cost around 100 euros. The cloud offers the same price, however 100 gigabytes of storage space.
"For those that primarily stores data without network different devices should rely on simple external hard drives," said Ran Liu, research assistant at the Institute for Applied Ecology. With them large amounts of data could be stored easily, and they need only use energy when they are used. It should be 2.5 "models are preferred because they require about two-thirds less power than the 3.5" hard drives. If the disks were supplied exclusively through a single USB port to power, their power could not in any case exceed the recommended value of 2.5 watts.
Criticism of the proposed ancillary rights to Roll
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After Google launched campaign against the bill for a new intellectual property right on the Internet, leading copyright researchers have spoken out against the project. "Was the need for such a property right so far done nothing to prove," it said in a statement , the commercial, the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, the Technical Committee Copyright and Media Law of the German Association for Property and Copyright Law (IIC), and many other individual researchers have authored. They warn of "incalculable risk of negative consequences" for the economy and freedom of information in Germany.
The related right to regulate the relationship between the Internet content of the publishers and operators of search engines like Google. The design should be planned by the Government Act, there are the publishers "have the exclusive right of newspapers to make commercial use of the Internet for public access." This would require the publishers also about to publish short extracts its contents to search engines and news aggregators like Google News royalties.
The advance of the federal government for a betterment of publishers on the Internet was not objectively necessary, it is now in the position paper of the scientists. There is no market failure nor an anti-competitive power takeover by a third party. Search engines do not replace the range of publishers, but rather promoted the ease of finding their contents. It erbrächten platform operators an independent and identifiable benefit which was not require significant technical and financial expenses.
LTE is in Switzerland on air
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Swisscom will be the first network operator in Switzerland a mobile network of the fourth generation in operation. On Thursday, the company wants to go to 26 locations with LTE on the air. After the pilot projects launched in December 2011 in Bern, Zurich and various tourist centers Swisscom LTE mobile technology (Long Term Evolution) will now switch to a broad user community.
The beginning can first 20 percent of the population - mainly in the big cities and major tourist areas - use the quick generation of mobile communications with initially up to 100 Mbit / s downstream. By the end of 2013, the new network to cover 60 to 70 percent of the population. Swisscom also intends to expand the 3G HSPA technology continues, which will then be available for approximately 97 percent of the population.
Analyst: BlackBerry losing market leadership in business customers
The companies buy the world "in droves" iPhones, cited the U.S. Computerworld an IDC analysis. The study distinguishes itself by the Company purchased and acquired by employees, but smartphones used for business purposes (keyword: Bring your own device - BYOD). In the latter, Android is ahead, the IDC predicts this year sell more than 87 million, while the acquisitions were estimated at around 15 million. By comparison, the consumer market, the analysts see by the end of 351 million Android devices go over the counter and 78.6 million iPhones.
Apple has also in the business use to settle for second place. Although with 31.1 million devices in the company purchases the number twice as high as that of Android smartphones, but come on BYOD rail together "only" 37.1 million iPhones.
Bauer wants to be Europe's biggest magazine publisher
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The Bauer Publishing Group will outperform next year, Gruner + Jahr's largest magazine publisher. The Bauer Media Group put on expansion and took advantage of opportunities for acquisitions globally consistent, the publishing director said on Wednesday in Hamburg on your annual press conference. In the current year the Bauer Media Group, the Australian magazine group ACP Magazines and the media publishing (MVG) bought in Munich. The acquisitions, sales increased by eight percent to 2.18 billion euros, of which more than 62 percent abroad.
Farmer produces more than 570 magazine titles, sells over 300 digital products and operates 50 radio and TV stations. "We earn our money still mainly with print products," said Yvonne publisher Bauer. "If one does his homework and taking important steps to take care products, then print a very lively market. Well done journalism finds its readers." It was therefore not their concern to complain about Google, Apple and the Internet.
Nevertheless, even for the farmer digital market has become increasingly important, which makes 55 million euros so far with a rather small contribution to consolidated sales. Also in this area would grow farmer primarily through acquisitions at home and abroad. Currently, the worldwide publishing group have about 70 electronic magazines at the start, usually as an addition or deduction to a printed magazine titles. There are also first purely digital products on the market. "We are experimenting with our opportunities," said CEO Andreas Schoo. The publishers try out different models in order to finance the digital offerings. Some, do not function otherwise.
In the highly competitive German magazine market would push farmers with innovative magazines in gaps and expand its position. In just the past two years, farmers have tried reboots of 15 relevant journals. Along with several smaller trials and experiments Most have been successful. Particularly successful was the weekly title Closer, a People magazine for younger target groups. It is with a circulation of 175,000 copies in second place advanced into its market segment and. The successful launch of the last five years in the German magazine market
Patent dispute: Nokia increases the pressure on RIM
Nokia increased in a patent dispute with the Canadian BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) the pressure. The Finns are trying to applications to three international courts to enforce arbitration of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. The dispute concerns the licensing of patented techniques that belong to the WLAN standard 802.11. Nokia sues (vs Nokia. RIM, 12-cv-05992, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California), California, and in the UK and Canada.
According to Nokia, the two companies have closed with a 2003 and 2008 extended agreement provides mutual access to relevant standard mobile patents. RIM was of the view that this agreement also covers the controversial wireless patents and have therefore called the arbitration in Sweden.
Microsoft executives: Chinese market is big challenge
Microsoft China is like for the whole IT industry is one of the largest and most promising growth markets. The Chinese market is also in many ways a great challenge, Microsoft executives Ralph Haupter said in an interview with dpa. Since April, the former head of Microsoft Germany is responsible for the business in the Middle Kingdom. The sheer size of the country, with its extreme differences is impressive. China was dominated by a mixture of departure, consumption and traditional heritage.
How important is the rapidly developing market, Microsoft is also documented for the launch of Windows 8, the launch before New York came into the world's first Chinese port city of Shanghai in the trade. With Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 smartphone in China, Microsoft is now well placed Haupter said. "We have also aroused great curiosity in China." Among the partners for smartphones with Windows Phone 8, Microsoft has next to Nokia, HTC and Samsung also the first time a Chinese partner with Huawei on board.
Patent lawsuit against Apple for iPhone enclosed earphones
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Among the many mobile patent lawsuits might be one of these kurioseren: A small company wants at least three million dollars from Apple because the company attaches to his iPhone and an earphone with microphone. The company Intelligent Smart Phone Concepts refers to his patent for a "mobile phone with a headset," from 2008, as from court documents on Tuesday showing that have been submitted to the authorities responsible for Northern California United States District Court.
The company was not previously on with other business activity. They could thus belong to the so-called "patent trolls" whose sole business model is to collect patents and then against potential infringer to proceed with as deep pockets. Not only the U.S. patent system is often criticized for being too simple inventions protectable do.
Apple Maps manager fired
Cue should therefore also through otherwise, to solve the problems with the service. He was in contact with experts outside the card company that should help. He had also urged the TomTom service that supplies Apple with data, to solve problems in navigation and location information. Cue also wanted to build a new leadership team for the map service. Apple declined to comment on the report of an opinion, and Williamson was not, according to Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal reached for comment.
According to some massive problems with the iOS mapping service to Apple CEO Tim Cook had apologized personally to the customer. Since then, the company is working on improvements obviously strengthened.
1 & 1: router failure has caused service failure
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On Monday, the two hosting giant United Internet and Intergenia were simultaneously struggling with accessibility issues that rumors shot wild. A large-scale attack would be there in the aisle, affected customers speculated in support forums. Intergenia joined this kind speculation immediately opposite, United Internet spoke first not know why both of belonging to a group 1 & 1 hosting and mail services GMX and Web.de the evening of 26 November were temporarily down.
1 & 1 now presented in the company's blog clearly: "There is no indication that an attack was the cause of this disorder, there are currently no connections to problems that occurred on Monday with other hosters, recognizable.." Cause of the problems, the failure of a router cluster was. The disturbance began at about 18.30 clock and therefore had been corrected to 22 clock. There is "no evidence that it might have come as a result of the failure of a data loss."
Beta of Fedora 18 brings with Mate and Cinnamon
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Almost two months later than originally planned, the Fedora Project has released the first and only beta of Fedora 18 for download. In the repositories of "Spherical Cow" said Linux distribution you will now find the Mate desktop that provides the Gnome-2-surface. The main version of Fedora uses GNOME 3.6.2 as desktop, the KDE spin uses the KDE Software Collection 4.9.3, and 1.6.7 and XFCE 4.10 Cinnamon can be installed via the repositories.
Extraneous data from the old Motorola Razr as an art project
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In the book there are mainly banalities, snapshots and one or the other slipperiness. Probably by the multiple reports on the printed order book has already climbed to # 3 on the concept art section of Amazon's bestseller list. Among all the books it was enough to last the Top 6,000. Remains to be seen how the author and the person represented in response to the unsolicited disclosure.
Williams shortly thereafter published book "Poopsidents" the way it has done only at No. 100 in the concept art books. Among all the book titles that's not enough for the top 300,000. This printing shows drawn representations of all previous U.S. presidents when defecating.
Upgrading the power grid to the Smart Grid is not child's play
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The Electrical Engineering Association VDE warns against using the proposed and some has already started upgrading the traditional electricity grid for distributed smart grid lightly. Not the much vaunted smart grid could be created in a day, said Ingo Wolff, member of the Presidium of the VDE, the Association of the Capital Forum in Berlin. It is not enough to put "a few thousand meters of lines" or to stretch. In the background would rather delicate and complex solutions to be created.
The current debate on the energy transition is the view of the VDE over to a large extent on the core. The central challenge loud: Reconstruction and flexibility of the overall system design with the elements upgrade the network infrastructure, the storage and the power plants. The heart should constitute smart grids to integrate all actors in the electricity market by the interaction of generation, storage, network management and usage. According to the current German network development plan would have to be around 8200-km-and expanded. Until now had a year but just 20 kilometers been done.
Smartphones and tablets to drive electronics sales for Christmas
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Mobile devices for the Internet, the Christmas sales in the electronics sector also drive this Christmas. Overall, the industry expects the final quarter, with sales up by seven percent to 9.7 billion euros, said the head of the industry association gfu, Hans-Joachim Kamp. The products of the industry would be on the wish lists for a continued positive consumer confidence remains high. Give particularly strong rises in the tablet PC, with an annual increase of 145 percent and the smartphones, one of which would be at 19 million units sold around 30 percent more than in 2011.
Among the less popular products in the industry and therefore are pure notebook phone phones. The number of cameras sold with fixed lenses is expected to decline by about 8 percent to 6.6 million units. "Here, however, is clearly a trend towards the more expensive devices to detect with interchangeable lenses," said Kamp. They were on average about four times as expensive as the smaller hard devices. As a result, total sales climb with cameras.
Digital Nurse Assisant: More time for patients
Nurses spend a lot of time on things that have little to do with direct patient contact: You need to log in regularly on the PC, look for medical records, enter new data and to vote on this documentation work also with colleagues to ensure that everything is all right .
Researchers at the American IT company Xerox are currently developing a system to automate the parts of these tasks and to allow the nursing staff to provide more time for patients. The so-called digital Nurse Assisant is part of a larger automation project should be improved in the existing health management systems, Technology Review reported in its online edition.
The Xerox project that emerges from the research laboratory PARC in Palo Alto is, not only IT professionals, but also ethnographers, to find out how exactly does the nursing staff. It found, among other things, why exactly does it take until the documentation is complete - and as difficult to use current systems for management of electronic health records are. Every time a nurse logs into their workstation, they had to go through in one case up to six menus, until they had the necessary information. The challenges of coordination with other employees were also readily apparent.
"Imagine a sister before that enters a hospital room," says Markus Fromherz, chief innovation of the health division at Xerox. "You must not go to a computer. Instead, the system recognizes the card, which it carries, and logs them on automatically." The Digital Assistant Nurse also knew which patient is in the room and what tasks need to be completed immediately.
Google CEO meets with U.S. antitrust guards
Google CEO Larry Page has taken action in person, according to a media report in negotiations with the U.S. competition watchdogs. Page had on Tuesday met with the Federal Trade Commission Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which is completing its investigation into the search engine Primus, reported the news agency Bloomberg. Google wants to convince the FTC that the company had not infringed the competition rules, it said, citing people briefed.
According to previous reports, FTC chief Jon Leibowitz Google had indeed threatened with a lawsuit and competitive concessions demanded. However, there are significant concerns in the authority with regard to the prospects of success of such an action. Google negotiating a week ago about a deal, Bloomberg wrote now.
In the run for more than one year investigation, it is all about the accusation of competitors, Google them at a disadvantage in its Internet search engine in favor of their own services. The Group counters that he operate the search engine for users and not for other online services. Google is also made in Europe by the European Commission in a competitive examination under the microscope.
OS X 10.8.3: first beta available
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Initially, the download link was not working, although the beta yet appeared in the Dev Center. Apple has been officially made available a few minutes. This build 12D32 awaited a few days now, it has finally arrived. Before installing it, developers are invited to download the foremost thing OS X Software Update utility Seed Configuration. It is also called focus on AirPlay, graphics, AirPort and Game Center. Several bugs are identified the fact that this is a first beta, including poor display settings including in languages other than English. In addition, the wallpaper may appear black or transparent after waking the device. Finally the shortcut Command-Tab may meet concerns operating from time to time.
Rumor: A new actor for Batman in Justice League?
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Warning SPOILER! If you have not seen The Dark Knight Rises, leave this section immediately under pain of severe spoil! Go on, shoo! You left? Perfect. At the end of The Dark Knight Rises, Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays the role of Blake, takes possession of the Batcave. Thus, Nolan implies that the era of black knight is not complete, and that any man in the costume, Batman will live.
But after this scene, the trilogy is finished. Is that why the universe created by Nolan is finished? Not so sure, according to the website HitFix. Indeed, Joseph Gordon-Levitt could return to the Batman costume in the movie Justice League!
Facebook: hide me this bend I can not see
Here the unusual news of the day, Facebook has removed a photo thinking it was not appropriate to social networking. In fact, the photo shows a woman in her bath, which at first seems to reveal a large chest, but in reality, it is only elbows.
Sophos Alert Malware disguised attack on Apple post
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Security firm Sophos is warning of a new malware attack that aims to steal money from the bank accounts of users. To that end they use a fake email that appears to come from Apple iTunes in the reporting of a charge on the credit card.
Discover the new Office (V): Excel 2013
Consumers will find new features that allow them to get away from the typical cell or numbers, and use new graphics can improve the collection of information.
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Consumers can easily extract the necessary information imported with fast fill tool, quickly running a complex analysis of the PivotTable.
Windows Phone 7.8, how to install it now?
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There have been many rumors about his arrival to the global market and features that will have this new version.
But if you're one of those consumers who do not want to put up with the wait, and get Windows Phone 7.8 now on your device, the prestigious community of XDA developers has managed to release one of the final versions of the software on multiple devices that may run.
HTC Titan
HTC Mozart
HTC HD 2
HTC Radar
HTC HD 7
Samsung Omnia 7
HTC Trophy
HTC 7 Pro
Nokia Lumia 710
Nokia Lumia 800
As always in these cases, it is our duty to warn about these practices, as you know, if made, will be at your own risk, jeopardizing your device to install a custom ROM, that while the interior is taken from an official ROM has been manipulated.
That said, we also have to comment that based on feedback provided by consumers who have completed the process, you have a fault at the moment.
Upstart available for Debian Sid
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By providing Upstart as a regular Debian package repository in the unstable distribution Sid the Debian developers have created users the opportunity to try all three currently used system-initialization services Upstart and systemd SysV init. To install Upstart you have currently still use the sledgehammer method and beat into the package from the command line really in the system:
echo 'Yes, do as I say!' | Apt-get \
o DPkg :: options = - force-remove-essential-y \
- force-yes install upstart
A fair comparison of the three init services is not yet possible, because for some system services still no Upstart jobs, so they are in a sort of compatibility mode as SysVInit started customary succession. The developers anticipate that it will take some time before the missing Upstart jobs were included in the packages of the respective services.
Coupon glitch in gasoline results in internet ordering boom
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50,000 customers have the mail order company Otto ordered on Sunday to their hearts content while goods coupons redeemed, which did not exist. A technical glitch in gasoline had spread like wildfire through various coupon portals on the Internet, had been handed over Facebook and Twitter and had triggered the order boom. The value of the so-ordered goods arrived, according to a company spokeswoman on Tuesday a high single-digit millions, two thirds of which was attributable to the value of the supposed vouchers. Otto has canceled the orders within reason.
At Otto ordering pages are available in the appropriate input box for the customer the option to redeem a voucher code. Otto sets this code for example, competitions. Some users had apparently determined by trying a five-digit number that worked in gasoline as a code - the ordering system accepted the coupon. Within a short time from the Internet came to another slightly different codes, which were also adopted. At the end, some 40 combinations of numbers in circulation, leading to discounts from 88 to 400 euros. Then, Otto the error and stopped the orders.
When Otto had occurred as early as 2009 to a technical error, were offered as expensive notebooks at a price of 49.90 euros. At that time, nearly 2,600 customers received a voucher instead of the product. So in this case was due to the high number of orders can not be expected. There is no agreement on the purchase of the goods had been concluded by redeeming the voucher, which is the same if the receipt of the order has been confirmed. "We regret the error and are sorry to customers for the resulting confusion," said a spokeswoman for Otto.
CETA: fight against copyright violations no longer an issue
The Montreal daily La Presse has published secret documents about the negotiations on a trade agreement between Europe and Canada. According to a release of the EU Commission to the Council of Ministers in October both sides are thus largely in agreement in terms of copyright and copyright enforcement - be taken cross searchings of customs officials to "piracy".
From the paper shows that the criminal provisions to prosecute copyright infringement is no longer part of the planned "Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement" (CETA) are. After the European Parliament rejected the anti-piracy agreement ACTA, the text was changed. Overall, the requirements in the field of Intellectual Property Rights were mainly from Brussels. Canada's little desire in this area, such as, intensify the campaign against the filming of works on the big screen, are presented as pure "negotiation coins".
What arrangements should be for copyright protection is part of the agreement, from the file to indicate. In a public information leaflet of the European Commission in August is read that an effective and modern copyright regime was essential for the protection of creative materials such as music or literary works. Such trade agreements with South Korea about demand, among other things, control systems for digital rights management (DRM) and associated therewith, such as digital watermarking technology to protect legally. At the same time the concept of "commercial scale" of violations is rather broad.
There is still no agreement on the protection of patents and geographical indications. The latter are not unknown in Canada, at least not for wine and spirits. Ottawa has now also accepted to consider protected geographical indications for all food and an open list to be considered. Brussels has already forged ahead with a proposal , which includes, among other Black Forest ham, Nuremberg sausages or Gorgonzola.
In the patent system, it is, according to a progress report of the Commission's November mainly to the pharmaceutical industry. Other open issues are general rules for access to finance, procurement, transportation, or the auto market. The protection of traditional cultural property and employment rights are still being discussed. EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht emphasized last week that there had been "significant progress" but some important sites are to plow. In the near future he would take it again with Canadian Trade Minister Ed Fast
Adblock Plus for Android from in-app advertising
The open-source project started as a web browser add-on for Firefox, meanwhile, are also versions for Google Chrome and Opera appeared. Acceptable-The ads feature that, according to the developer passes acceptable advertising and also serves to finance the development is not listed in the Android version.
In the Firefox version now a new function that you want to correct typos in the address bar. Still, the program is proceeding somewhat overzealous - for example, an access to Wikimedia Commons redirected to Wikipedia address. This new feature, which is disabled by default, should give the developers also new revenue. If a user mistyped, for example, in the domain of the mail-order company Amazon, is Adblock Plus, enter the code, if the Adblock Plus developer so that they get for buying an advertising commission - and, like Firefox and Opera generate from the integrated Web services revenue.
Computer science professor at the TU Darmstadt has the highest EU research funding
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Mira Mezini, computer science professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt, has been awarded the most lucrative EU research funding. The ERC (European Research Council) grant Mezini an 'Advanced Grant "in the amount of EUR 2.3 million, which it intends to spend on exploration of radically new programming concepts in cloud computing.
The money goes into the development of its PACE (Programming Abstractions for Applications in Cloud Environments) project mentioned.
Firefox 18 Beta with faster JavaScript
Faster, and particularly to the beta of version 18 of the browser Firefox. Mozilla to ensure just-in-time compiler IonMonkey has built to replace the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine. David Anderson had noticed in September large improvements in benchmarks. Particularly complex JavaScript applications of longer duration should thus be faster.
In addition, according to the release notes to switch between Tabs have become faster. Not only faster, but also more beautiful is the presentation: For high-resolution displays such as the retina displays from Apple, Firefox is now customized. In addition, there should be a new HTML scaling algorithm that displays pictures better. The MozTouch implementation for touch events will be replaced by the W3C standard.
Other news for Web Developers: The CSS3 FlexBox module is now being implemented, and the @ supports the CSS Conditional Rules Rules are also implemented. A preliminary implementation of WebRTC has found its way into Firefox 18th
An additional security measure, you can in the beta via about: config set: namely, Firefox can now be secured with HTTPS pages block about inline scripts that are transmitted unsecured.
Ericsson sues Samsung for Patent Infringement
Apple vs. Samsung, Google / Motorola vs. Microsoft, Ericsson now against Samsung - the patent wars in the mobile industry seems to have no end, despite some apparent peace signal. Ericsson now sued Samsung in the U.S., after the South Korean smartphone market leaders have also signed after two years of negotiations, no licensing agreements for relevant mobile technologies.
Similar to the dispute between Motorola and Microsoft we are talking about patents that are relevant to officially recognized cellular standards. These will be licensed on terms that are fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory ("fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory", short FRAND) are. Samsung have now refused to license for standards such as GSM, GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, LTE and WLAN 802.11 held by Ericsson patents under FRAND terms, says Ericsson.
Improved TCP is designed to optimize bandwidth usage
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More and more users go to the Internet wirelessly, creating pressure on the infrastructure of mobile operators. A research project, which is coordinated by Muriel Medard, a professor at the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT, could provide a remedy, Technology Review reported in its online edition: It is designed to optimize the inefficient in some situations Internet TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and then send up to ten times more data on existing frequencies. New equipment would not be purchased, it is a pure software solution.
Typo3 6.0 appears outmoded core
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Typo3 is released in a new version, the version skips a step. Version 6.0 is the well-known and much used content management system further, while the parallel-developed Typo3 Neos was written from scratch based on the experience with Typo3. Neos has long since called Typo3 5.0, the new version of the traditional branch is now 6.0 Typo3.
Feature of the new version is the new "File Abstraction Layer", to which it should be possible to store files such as images once - and still be referenced in several posts. Already have connections to cloud storage services such as Amazon S3, WebDAV, and created so that the dropping of files in parallel to TYPO3 on the webserver is no longer necessary. Other drivers, such as Dropbox, are developed according to TYPO3 Association spokesman Søren Schaffstein currently.
WIPO comes with copyright exceptions for the blind closer to the goal
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The committee responsible for the copyright of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), the WIPO General Assembly proposed a new draft (PDF file) for an international exemption for the blind file. An extraordinary General Assembly shall by 18 Give green light December for the necessary treaty conference. Now it is hardly realistic to assume that instead of a binding international agreement to all members of a simple recommendation is pronounced.
The exemption provides that in future specially authorized organizations such as libraries should be allowed to make accessible for the blind versions of legally acquired works, without permission of the copyright owner.
First update for Visual Studio 2012
Microsoft comes out with the publication of a first update of Visual Studio 2012 on the promise to release for the current development environment currently in shorter sequence updates. The final version of Visual Studio 2012 was released in August of this year. Soon after, it was said that Microsoft would release more frequent updates to the IDE. The predecessor Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack first appeared only about a year after the publication of this version.
Developers are not allowed by the head of the Developer Division, "Soma" Somasegar, with updates expected not only the removal of some errors, but also a number of new features to end up in the development environment. Among the new features delivered with the first update, there are features that will help you develop a so-called Windows Store apps, for example, to debug apps that were written with both managed and native code, as well as apps for ARM systems. Furthermore, Microsoft points to better diagnosis and testing capabilities for Windows 8 apps.
Hydrogen march
Engineers are working on new methods with which to produce hydrogen economically and environmentally friendly.
Who's going to René Müller on the premises of Linde AG, gets a feel for how the balance of power could shift in the future. The first view is of a giant oven, large as an office building, entwined by innumerable tubes and valves. "Our steam reformer," says Müller. "The plant makes 35,000 cubic meters of hydrogen - an hour." The disadvantage: The raw material for the system is natural gas, which is a fossil fuel. Then the manager reveals three nondescript container next to the colossus. "Our pilot plant creates only about 50 cubic meters of hydrogen. But this hydrogen is green." For feedstock is vegetable glycerin, which falls in the production of biodiesel. The new technique, developed by Linde in Leuna, could one day provide hundreds of thousands of fuel cell vehicles with environmentally-friendly fuel.
Search for meaning in the Internet
After five years, ending the big IT research program "Theseus". It will make information easier to find by using the so-called semantic technologies - thus taking on even Google.
How many people live in Hamburg? You type this question into Google, you get a straight answer instead of a list of three million web pages in which "Hamburg" happen and "inhabitants". The required information, the user may then - usually of a text - pick out yourself. The new search engine "Alexandria" responds the other hand simply "1770629". The software has thus understood that a certain property of the Hanseatic city is looking for and it is exactly this information.
Alexandria is a partial result of the IT research program "Theseus" in which have in addition to the Federal Ministry of Economics some 60 partners from research and industry. Their goal: to simplify access to information linking data to new knowledge and enable new services on the Internet. Therefore from 2007 to 2012 flowed around 100 million euros in funding, an additional 100 million contributed by the industry, including heavyweights such as SAP and Siemens. To this day, Theseus refer to some 50 patents, 800 publications and about 130 running systems. Thus Theseus was one of the largest IT research projects ever.
Smart power saving technology for mobile phones and base stations
The start-up Eta Devices will resolve long-standing problems of efficiency in RFID.
To operate all mobile base stations of the planet covered in this year, experts estimated that electricity costs in the amount of 28 billion euros. This represents less than one percent of the now global electricity production. One reason: The built-in hardware devices works surprisingly inefficient. Especially the power amplifiers require more power than is necessary.
Its counterpart in the mobile phones, which sits in the radio unit, suffers from similar problems. Who sends large files or videos viewed knows that already: The smartphone is warm and the battery drains very quickly. The power amplifiers in base stations and mobile phones waste experts say more than 65 percent of the absorbed energy - one reason why some long-time users need to charge your device twice a day.
Now it sparks at the box office
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Google, eBay and other Internet sizes drive the advance payment by mobile phone. They compete with wireless and financial companies to a billion dollar business with customer data and transaction fees - they all want to make the race for the payment system of the future.
When a taxi stops in the second row, the rummaging for cash or swiping a credit card for all those affected be an ordeal. In the Rhine-Main area, then that is their spares both. The cooperative "Taxi Frankfurt" upgraded their cars until July 1400 with readers for paying by radio. Customers need to do a special Visa card to the terminal to hold, and in less than a second is paid the bill. For amounts to 25 euros either PIN or signature is required. "For taxi drivers, this time savings worth gold," says Dieter Schlenker, CEO of Taxi Frankfurt.
Behind the contactless payment is far more than just a comfort for urgent customer - it is a central focal point of a struggle over the distribution of payment systems of the future. So far, the claims were staked firmly: In the offline world, customers paid with cash, debit or credit cards, the Internet via credit card, bank transfer or through special services such as PayPal. Now, the boundaries between online and offline: Internet companies poaching in the area of established financial services - and vice versa. "Like banks, credit card companies, telecommunications operators and Internet companies make their respective systems to the standard," Achim Himmelreich, President of the Section E-Commerce says the Federal Association of the Digital Economy. "But in the market there are too many players. At the end, only two or three procedures remain."
Extremely thin display on the dashboard
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Japan Display has unveiled a one-millimeter-thick screen for use in the car.
Six months ago, the Japanese electronics giant Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi have founded a joint subsidiary for manufacturing small and medium sized screens. Now, Japan Display, as the new company is, as shown prototype versions of a new mobile display, which is designed to be installed in the dashboard of vehicles.
The rewiring of the network
Scientists at IT research center PARC are working on an improved Internet infrastructure that is more focused on multimedia.
An increasing number of computer scientists believe that it is time to rethink the basic elements of the network, we work with every day. The Hope: A fundamentally new approach is better to own, with the currently dominant Internet content, which are primarily in the area of multimedia deal. Bandwidth issues should be resolved.
Foray into the Fiber Hood
Google wants to develop with gigabit network connections a new business. Experts cast doubt on whether "Google Fiber" can expect.
So far, Google is known for online services of all kinds. But now, the group ventured on a new business: Network services. In Kansas City for the first time Google has installed fiber optic lines with the stunning data transfer rate of one gigabit per second - 100 times larger than the average bandwidth in the U.S. of 11.6 megabits per second.
Sims Cows
A French company has developed a mobile-based hardware with which farmers can always stay in control of their cattle.
Ruminants will communicate via cellular network. At least that's the idea of the French group Medria. It uses machine-to-machine communication (M2M) for a special application: the monitoring of cattle.
M2M allows different technical systems via mobile network to interact directly with each other. This is used for example in industrial plants help to realize the remote monitoring remote locations: Whenever change important parameters via M2M signaling is carried. Technically, such a system is based on the sensor elements, which detect the data, a control unit for controlling and a compact mobile radio module. The latter costs thanks to mass production now only two-digit euro amount. Addition, there is a SIM card of the network operator - done.
M2M specialist Medria wants the technology now also prevail on the farm. For this purpose, the company offers several products that can monitor the health of the animals, their mating and calving periods. In this case, the farmer is informed only if it is really urgent, constantly evaluating the resulting data does the computer.
Sanphone is a health sensor for ruminants. The sensor element is given once the animals along with the food in a sealed container and is a lifetime in the rumen. It measures the temperature every five minutes, the result is then broadcast to an up to 200 meters from the base station - from there it goes again via mobile network to a central computer.
Covered by Sanphone is also the feeding and water absorption behavior of the animals, which results in a complex picture of the condition of the herd. From the data it can be predicted, for example, if the cattle suffering from frequent diseases. Early detection is also more possible because current values are available much faster than in controls by a physician.
Medrias second product called Heat Phone and turn serves to monitor the cycle of female cows. The system analyzes the behavior of the animals in the field via a sensor band with accelerometers and to the fertility phases can be predicted with an accuracy of up to 90 percent.
An SMS message is by the farmers when an insemination seems sensible. In addition, the collected data is transmitted every half hour via mobile phone to a server at Medria and also archived. An Internet platform called "Daily Web Services" also allows to view stats and graphs.
The cow is finally pregnant, Velphone is used. This product is used to predict the imminent birth of the animals. Vaginalthermometer means it can be seen when a cow exactly expecting a calf. Is it so far, the farmer will also be informed via SMS - regardless of where the affected animal is currently located. Here, too, are working with a combination of radio transmitters, base station and M2M module. The system also detects the normal temperature pattern of the cows in order to detect deviations correctly.
Both Velphone and Heat Phone to be launched in Europe by Deutsche Telekom to the farmer. In a first step up to 5000 farms are the technique obtained. For the giant pink Medria be decided by its own account, because the network quality tidy and in the country is. Without good reception all the technology is of little benefit.
If everything goes according Medria and telecom, farmers have with the system in the future much less stress, "Thanks to M2M communications technology, the farmer does not have to endure long nights in the barn," says a sign.
Tracked vehicle in the living room
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The Rover 2.0 of Brookstone can distract themselves by cell phone through the apartment, and records video images.
Now you can explore his home remotely from the ground perspective, the U.S. department store curiosities Brookstone has a remote-controlled tracked vehicle in the range, which is controlled via iPhone or Android phone.
The special feature of the vehicle: The built-in camera has a night vision mode and can record video and still images on your smartphone.
His living room explorations can then upload them to YouTube, Facebook or Twitter. The camera can be controlled via mobile phone. The range is between 30 and 60 meters, the connection is made via the built-in Wi-Fi antenna. If you have installed the free app, choose the wireless network of the Rover 2.0 and can drive off already.
Magic fingers instead of touchscreen
Canadian scientists want to turn almost any surface a user interface for tablets and smartphones.
Meanwhile, hardly comes from a portable electronic device without a touchscreen: Whether smartphone, tablet or the new Windows 8 laptops, hardware will be affected. Here, the popular finger gestures of wiping over the tap to allow for spreading but always perform only in a restricted area - those surfaces, which gives access to the capacitive sensor. This stuck mostly in the screen, which means that the user in the operation always obscures part of the screen.
Mini base station makes smart phones
A British company has unveiled the hitherto smallest transceiver device for GSM devices.
Cambridge Consultants Limited has developed a compact base station for mobile networks that fits in your palm. The Sidewinder-called system allows the connection of up to eight GSM mobile phones and can be used for different applications of the telephone are also used to pay services.
Phishing email asks photographed TAN list
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The gangsters put on a short period in order to increase the pressure on the customer. At 25.11. was a reader of the H phishing, have until 26.11.2012 for conversion of TAN procedure time. So it is necessary to upload the scanned or photographed TAN block via a link so that an employee can handle the case. For access to upload to the login details and the mobile phone number can be entered. He did not come after the call, he threatened the closure of its online banking account and the paid applications for mTAN.
The site was modeled professionally groomed, linguistic deficiencies fall into the phishing email to spot. The changeover of iTAN on mTAN is nothing new to bank customers. Bank customers should at emails of this nature before they meet the requirements, get in touch with their bank. This should be done through e-mail addresses or hotline numbers that are not removed from the requesting email.
Skobbler competes with Google Maps on Android
The Android Landkartenapp ForeverMap 2 of the manufacturer Skobbler brings maps from the OpenStreetMap project from the Web on your smartphone.
In comparison to the browser for free online data available from the community project which sold for 79 cents Skobbler App also offers the opportunity to purchase tickets for individual cities or metropolitan areas
Kurzweil want to build brain circuits
The futurist Ray Kurzweil believes the human brain derived from the template for more powerful computers can. In an interview with Technology Review (recently at the kiosk or directly in H Shop) said Kurzweil, he founded a new company, to the theories he explains in his new book "How to Create a Mind" to use, technically.
"One of the essential elements of human intelligence is the ability of the neocortex, that the evolutionarily recent part of the cerebral cortex to organize information hierarchically," argues Kurzweil. "The neocortex can ignore facts, then abstract the abstract facts again and so on. This process has to go through the brain to train intelligence ".
An essential element of this information processing Kurzweil "modules" identified in the brain that are responsible for this hierarchical information processing. The neuroscientist Henry Markram, the simulated with his "Blue Brain Project" parts of a rat's brain - its ultimate goal is the simulation of a complete human brain - have shown that the brain's modules, which consist of about 100 neurons whose internal wiring in itself not change over time, says Kurzweil. "The connections between these modules undergo changes greatly when the brain learns. These modules that are analogous to loud Kurzweil hidden Markov models, "are able to recognize patterns. In order to sort these patterns hierarchically, they combine with other modules, "as people do when reading letters to them to form words. In this way, learning the brain, Kurzweil.
Kurzweil, 64, the daily swallows about 150 pills a day in order to experience "the full flowering of the biotechnology revolution", is regarded as something of a personalized faith in progress of Silicon Valley. For more than twenty years ago produced the futurist and inventor books in which he describes what will happen in the next decades to humanity: programmable nanobots in our bloodstream, software downloads for human consciousness - and, finally, the "singularity" , the point at which no meaningful predictions about technological developments are possible.
That the life-prolonging drugs futurologist not only in his books promoted, but they also sold in an online store has, however, brought him severe criticism. When asked whether he had any concerns so that damaging his scientific reputation, Kurzweil responds: "Well, if you" Fantastic Voyage ", you will find approximately 2000 scientific citations. From recognized scientific journals. All we are suggesting is actually quite conservative. We do not recommend controversial agent such as human growth hormone. In short, there are a lot of scientific evidence. But many of my critics have not read the plain. "
Black Friday: strong online business, less passing trade
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The start of the holiday shopping season in the U.S. retail market is down this year comparatively mau, however the booming online business. As the business association ShopperTrak announced on Sunday, were the so-called Black Friday after Thanksgiving though far more people in the shops on the road than in 2011. But this time, the Americans gave information to the Association with $ 11.2 billion from about 1.8 percent less money.
Nokia's camera-chief goes
Damian Dinning, head of Nokia's camera department, is leaving the company at the end of this month. He will continue working for the car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover, in the section "Connected Cars".
Samsung cares about maladministration in working conditions in China
Samsung responded to the allegations by China Labor Watch, in the works of manufacturing partners in China there are significant deficiencies in working conditions. The South Korean electronics giant shows in a statement that they have already been examined in September in four weeks with a total of 65,000 employees, 105 suppliers. 121 auditors should ensure that companies comply with Chinese laws and Samsung's own conduct. While no cases were found in which people were employed, who were younger than 18 years old. However, there have been some cases in which people had to pay more overtime than the rules allow. Also, there was punishment systems for staff, which appeared late or not in place.
Microsoft is considering store network in Europe
After the success of Apple stores rival Microsoft is considering the expansion of its stores in Europe. Microsoft have already talked with property owners in the UK, the Financial Times wrote. Next year
c't Digital Photography 1/13 now on newsstands
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Large sensors, bright fixed focal lengths, powerful camera processors - High-end compact cameras have now reduced the distance to quality system and SLR dramatically. But who are they? They are now a serious alternative to mirrorless system cameras? This question answered by a recent c't Digital Photography, which is laid out as of today in the magazine trade, but also can be ordered online. Eleven cameras - seven and four Compact Mirrorless - occur in issue 1/2013 to today, including the compact Samsung and Sony EX2F RX100. In a twenty-page comparison test for facing the camera system Nikon 1 J2, G5 Panasonic, Samsung NX20 and Sony NEX-F3.
"Gangnam Style" most watched YouTube video of all time
Until Saturday night, about 805 million people have clicked the video of South Korean rapper
iMac clone announced from China
Rahway company from China brings an iMac clone on the market which is the original Apple's strikingly similar. The reports the Chinese news site Shanzhaiben. The case is at the narrowest point of 0.9 cm while nearly twice as thick as that of the new iMac, and also about 2 inches lower, at first sight, but both devices are distinguished only by the lack of Apple logo. The all-in-one clone enthroned as Apple on a stand made of aluminum, which has a round hole as a cable guide. USB ports can be found at the bottom and the right side of the housing.
Apple 1 auctioned for record price
BT is testing broadband network with 10 Gb / s
Together with the in Threemilestone, Cornwall, UK-based company is testing Arcol British Telecommunications (BT) is a 10 Gb / s high-speed network connections over fiber. It is a method of using the BT XGPON (tens of gigabits on a Passive Optical Network) system. As it uses the same transmission fiber, which is also used Arcols normal, 330 Mbit / s is a fast Internet connection. Which suggests that BT uses an optical wavelength division multiplexing (wavelength division multiplex, short WDM).
Twitter for Mac: Retina version is available unofficial
Sharp Unveils 90-inch LCD
You read that right, 90 inches! This is equivalent to taking a screen diagonal of 2.28 meters! The NP-R90 is a display designed for public spaces reality, and has been designed to reproduce the image of a person in actual size. In addition, Sharp promises a contrast ratio high enough (700cd / m²) for viewing in brightly lit public areas.
LCD TV 1080p, NP-R90, for example, will see the actual size of a product in the shop directly on the screen. It is scheduled to be distributed on January 28 in the United States.
Lenovo smartphone champion in China in 2013
According to Gartner, whose study was cited by The Register yesterday, Lenovo will overtake Samsung in China in 2013, in terms of smartphone sales. According to the analyst, it is the result of market entry and mid-range expanding.
New version of Nokia Transport for Windows Phone 8
Nokia announced yesterday the arrival of a new version of Nokia Transport. The latter allows you to plan a trip using public transportation (53 countries and 550 cities covered).
2.5 million orders for the Nokia Lumina 920
Encouraging signs about the new Nokia Lumia seem to multiply. Although they remain to be confirmed. A few days ago, Nokia Germany indicated on his Facebook page that these terminals were out of stock at retailers.
Europe: Windows 8 is less than 1% of visits to the Web
Three weeks after its launch, which is Windows 8? As usual, AT Internet focused on visits from the new OS on the websites audited by the measurement specialist.
IT job: hiring contraction in 2012 will increase in 2013
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With slow growth in 2012 in the areas of services, technology consulting and publishing software, valued at 0.7% by Syntec Informatique, the employment situation has deteriorated over the last year.
To Enisa the 'right to be forgotten' is not so easy to get
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The proposal of the European Union to help people to get their data to be removed entirely from Google, Facebook and other sites faces some technical challenges, especially in the era of Big Data. This was said Enisa, the European IT security agency, in a document.
For Sale SCADA software vulnerabilities
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During the I Cybersecurity Forum that was held this week in Madrid, spoke specifically of the cybersecurity industry and the existence of "an interesting market for vulnerabilities" for this market, where the SCADA software is one of the most used . And ReVuln announcement only confirms what I said on Tuesday Samuel Linares, Director of Intermark Serviced Cibersecurity technolgies.
ReVuln security is a startup based in Malta that claims to have a long list of vulnerabilities related to industrial control software and prefers to sell that information to governments and other customers who are willing to pay for them rather than communicate them to vendors affected software.
The company not only ensures it is that has posted a three-minute video on Vimeo for those who doubt his words. The video shows nine-zero-day vulnerabilities have now ceased to be, that as SCADA systems ReVuln affect General Electric, Schneider Electric, Kaskad, Rockwell Automation, Siemens and Eaton.
The SCADA software runs on normal computers, but is used in critical infrastructure and other industrial plants to monitor and control industrial processes.
ReVuln ensures shown vulnerabilities allow attackers to perform remote execution of code, download files, execute commands, open pumps remotely or hijack sessions on systems running vulnerable SCADA software.
From the security firm explained that most of these products are designed to allow remote administration via the Internet and are often exposed by insecure configurations.
Along with the French company, Vupen, dedicated to finding vulnerabilities, ReVuln is of the few companies that sells vulnerability information to government agencies and other private clients, avoiding their research report to affected software vendors to prevent them solve . There is a new business is something that private investigators have been doing for many years, but usually discrete and sales agreements
Apple should buy Twitter because all your online experience "is a mess"
Internet remains the unfinished business of Apple. It is not something that only users with criteria THINK brand, but also its former employees.
Patrick Gibson, a former worker teaches the block, has published a post on his personal Tumblr that reviews the online Apple failures and failures. The article tries to justify why Apple should buy Twitter from the point of view of someone knowingly.
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