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Lees meerThought-to-be-lifeless hell-ball actually has a rich inner life NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) craft has found evidence that Sol's innermost planet is tectonically active.…
Lees meerLizard also set to char Windows XP and Vista by ending support The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox development team has decided enough is enough and will stop supporting Windows XP and Vista in March 2017 and also bin Firefox OS.…
Lees meerSELECT * from users where too_stupid_to_live=”YES” Two years after it first arrives for Linux and OS X, Facebook's "osquery" developer kit is now available for Windows.…
Lees meerStandalone product to stay, but if you want it in Office 365, change your subscription Microsoft's rationalisation of enterprise messaging continues, with Redmond putting its Yammer Enterprise offering on the end-of-life list.…
Lees meerRed Planet to become Elon-gated community SpaceX founder Elon Musk has laid out an audacious multibillion-dollar plan to send colonists to Mars.…
Lees meerIt's gonna spell bad news for all of us The host of the first presidential debate on Monday night, Hofstra University in New York, may have broken the law and could be in line for a huge fine.…
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Lees meerEnjoy the sounds of a thousand heads at Verizon slamming into a thousand desks Yahoo!'s embattled mail service was dealt another blow Tuesday when an outage hit users worldwide.…
Lees meerGive us back our steenkin' cartridges The Electronic Freedom Foundation has written to HP Inc demanding it reverse its attempt to prevent any third-party ink cartridges or refilled cartridges from working in its Officejet Pro printers.…
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Lees meerWall St-beating PaaS for Big Data firm touts crazy performance claims iguazio’s Data-as-a-Service Enterprise Data Cloud converges different storage access protocols and use cases behind an access abstraction layer and claims to out-perform Amazon an…
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