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When you think about protecting your computer against trojans, worms, and other malware, you probably think of companies like ESET and Symantec. After all, it’s their hard work and software that prevent the millions of digital threats in the wild from making mincemeat of your computer — right? Turns out that there’s another crew on […]

With millions already playing with the Windows 8 developer preview, it’s hard to imagine that this month marks the second anniversary of Windows 7 on retail shelves. Widely considered to be “what Vista should have been,” initial sales of Windows 7 were very strong, and that momentum has continued to this day. Windows 7′s global […]

If you are running a HTC Android smartphone with the latest updates applied, chances are your personal data is freely accessible to any app you have given network access to in the form of full Internet permissions. This vulnerability isn’t a backdoor or some inherent flaw in Android, it is instead HTC failing to lock […]

With the advent of HTML5 and WebGL, the move away from Adobe Flash and instead pumping out interactive entertainment directly in the browser has begun. We’ve already got HTML5 video, multiple 2D game engines are appearing that output to HTML5 and Canvas, and 3D is also making big gains pushed forward by several engines alongside […]

If you’re like us, you have a love/hate relationship with iPhone 5 rumors. Yes, there’s always a few months before any Apple product is announced where the Internet is a flurry of “what ifs” and speculation about what the new product will entail. We love hearing all the iPhone 5 rumors because it gives us […]

A Princeton grad student named Noah Jafferis has invented a flying carpet, of sorts. Rather than a magic lamp (or one’s imagination) this flying carpet is kept afloat using ripple power, something similar to how a skate or ray travels through the water. As a movement system the flying carpet design is interesting because it […]

Canonical has been pushing out regular releases of its own flavor of a Linux distribution Ubuntu as an alternative to paying for and using Windows. But that doesn’t mean the organization won’t embrace its rival’s operating system when it benefits users, and that’s exactly what has happened with regards to Ubuntu One. If you look […]

Google’s got an event lined up for October 11th and they’re going to unveil something — and there’s a darn good chance that something will be Ice Cream Sandwich. The next version of Android is supposed to launch in the next month or two and unify the OS across the varying screen sizes you now […]

Listen up, space nerds; there’s a Twitter contest taking place that might actually tickle your fancy. @NASA is holding one of its infamous tweetups. A tweetup isn’t just some event where you meet other space enthusiasts at a local bar and talk about the latest developments at NASA. No, these NASA tweetups actually take place […]