Day: December 10, 2013

Entertainment Film

First Trailer for the Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending Looks Good

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As reported on Wired. BY ANGELA WATERCUTTER First Trailer for the Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending Looks Good In the future, Mila Kunis is a janitor who might hold the key to the universe. And Channing Tatum is a genetically engineered former soldier tasked with coming to Earth to save her. That’s the general run-down of Jupiter Ascending, the latest sci-fi brain-buster from Lana and Andy Wachowski. And even though it sounds nuts, based on this first trailer it looks like…

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Application Culture

ZeroPoint is the malware cure that could be worse than the disease

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As reported on The Verge. By Russell Brandom SecDev’s new project could stop botnet-powered fraud for good. Should we let it? The internet is, on balance, a very hostile place. More than 70 percent of all email traffic is spam, and a fair portion of that is malware and phishing attempts. One 2012 censuscounted 1.5 billion browser-based malware attacks. A recent Team Cymru map of globally compromised computers showed nearly all of Italy lit up, with southeastern Europe glowing from the…

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SmartPhone Social Networking

Facebook Videos Now Auto-Play On Mobile, Expect Video Ads Soon

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Josh Constine FB could look a lot more like TV soon. While Vine and Instagram Video are booming, you don’t see many people natively uploading videos to Facebook. But now Facebook is bringing auto-play for native videos to all users aftertesting the feature in September. And it’s just the beginning of a huge push to put Facebook in motion. Previously, any video uploaded to Facebook directly or shared to the News Feed from…

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Android Culture

CyanogenMod 11 Screencast video recording is as easy as taking a screenshot

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As reported on Engadget. BY RICHARD LAWLER  One of Android KitKat’s new features is a way for developers to easily make video recordings with the SDK, but what about every day users? After previously demonstrating display streaming software, CyanogenMod developer Koushik Dutta has released a new beta app in the Play Store (join the Google+ Community first for access) that simplifies the process. It does require users to be on one of the latestnightly builds of CyanogenMod 11 to work, but once loaded…

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Apple

Apple’s 12 Days of digital gifts comes to the US for the first time

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As reported on Engadget. BY MARIELLA MOON Apple’s donning the Santa suit again this year to dole out digital freebies, and for the first time, iOS users in the US make it to the “nice” list. Today, the company has launched the annual 12 Days of Gifts for 2013, offering one complimentary song, app, book or movie every day between December 26th and January 6th. In previous years, US iOS users could only look on as folks from…

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