Cloud computing may raise privacy and security concerns, but this growing practice–offloading computation and storage to remote data centers run by companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo–could have one clear advantage: far better energy efficiency, thanks to custom data centers now rising across the country.
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Microsoft’s new antimalware solution, Microsoft Security Essentials, is now available for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. Ars puts MSE through its paces and finds an unobtrusive app with a clean interface that protected us in the dark corners of the Internet.
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Twenty years ago, a scientist at IBM gave birth to the nanotechnology movement, with a tiny movement of his own. On September 28, 1989, IBM Fellow Don Eigler used a custom built microscope to jiggle an atom; less than two months later, he was able to spell out the letters IBM using 35 xenon atoms.
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With exciting new web techniques like open APIs and mashups comes some inevitable security issues. Luckily, there’s usually a solution, though it can require a little more effort from developers.
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The Twittering Billy hack replaces his existing brain with an mbed Microcontroller, wiring it up to his motors so we have control of his movements, an SD card so he can store lots of audio files, and the mbed’s Ethernet interface to the internet. What might be surprising is that Billy is not connected to [...]
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer visited Silicon Valley on Thursday for his annual meeting with top venture capitalists to talk about Microsoft product strategy. This was his first visit to Silicon Valley since announcing the search partnership with Yahoo in July.
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Numerous people have reported problems with their RAID setup on the Tom’s Hardware forums (in the Storage section), sharing difficulties in set up or management. It’s a pity that, for most people, a RAID is an unnecessary exercise.
100px-RAID_1.svgRAID—a Redundant Array of Independent Disks—is basically bunching a group of disks together, telling your computer to consider [...]
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Many of you have probably heard that we’ve released ASP.NET Ajax Preview 5 on Codeplex, and it’s available here. Aside from all the cool updates to the codebase, Preview 5 also includes some updated samples, as well as support for UpdatePanel when using ASP.NET 3.5 SP1.
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