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Lees meerThe man who gave us our first Robotic Overlords ROTM Victor Scheinman, whose 1960s work in robotics created the “robot factory” we see today, has died in California aged 73.…
Lees meerWindows Update silently did the deed, added a few security fixes for .Net Framework too Microsoft has quietly excised Windows 10 free upgrade offers from Windows 7 and 8, aka the GWX.exe .…
Lees meerChipzilla updates dev environment for Thing connectivity Intel has quietly released Version 2.0 of its IoT Services Orchestration Layer toolkit on the world.…
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Lees meerThe *nix desktop quit being awful in March, and reckons it's on the road to 'good' Gnome's developers have let version 3.22 “GUADEC” (the name of its primary European conference) loose on the world.…
Lees meerTells devs: 'errors are a feature, not a bug'. Google has refined the security controls available to enterprise Gmail users by automatically killing OAuth 2.0 tokens for Apps when users change passwords.…
Lees meerIndia's decided the Andaman Islands need proper internet India's government has decided to build a submarine cable between the city of Chennai and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands.…
Lees meerSoftware that detects government tests, where have we heard that before? The idiot box is smarter than it seems: a spat has broken out between America's Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Consumer Technology Association about the energ…
Lees meerStay in incognito mode to get secure texting Google has launched its new mobile messaging app Allo today in a bid to challenge Facebook's stronghold in instant messaging.…
Lees meerAnd Bill Gates approves Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have promised at least $3bn in funding for a medical initiative to cure, prevent or manage all known diseases by the end of the century.…
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Lees meerIANA transition threatens to become focus of dysfunctional Congress The transition of the internet's critical technical functions from the US government to non-profit organization ICANN, planned for next week, remains under threat thanks to an ongoi…
Lees meerGrowing demand for greater oversight of how snoopware is obtained by cops A handful of US cities are banding together in an effort to change the way police acquire and use surveillance technology.…
Lees meerCupertino giant told to cough up equivalent of a rounding error on its financial sheets Apple has been found guilty of patent infringement and told to pay $3m in damages.…
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