Microsoft sees a role for Kinect in health care
Microsoft thinks its Kinect motion-sensing game controller will find a spot in operating rooms and doctors offices as it already has in consumers' living rooms. The software giant, which has been...
View ArticleWindows 8 revealed
Microsoft has revealed full details of Windows 8, with an all-or-nothing approach to touch technology, writes Barry Collins in Los Angeles.
View ArticleMicrosoft: Internet Explorer 10 without Flash Player
While the legacy version of IE10 will accommodate plug-ins, the Metro won't, IE team leader Dean Hachamovitch said in a blog post last night during the company's Build conference.
View ArticleMicrosoft reveals changes to Windows 8 and answers to complaints
In a lengthy post on its Building Windows 8 blog, the company acknowledged that it's received plenty of feedback since unleashing a developer preview of the OS last month, and pledged to respond with a...
View Article10 years of Windows XP: how longevity became a curse
Windows XP's retail release was October 25, 2001, ten years ago today. Though no longer readily available to buy, it continues to cast a long shadow over the PC industry: even now, a slim majority of...
View ArticleSoftware to tell how much the picture is photoshopped
Dr. Farid and Eric Kee, a Ph.D. student in computer science at Dartmouth, are proposing a software tool for measuring how much fashion and beauty photos have been altered, a 1-to-5 scale that...
View ArticleWindows 8 beta could debut in February
If the February timeframe holds true for the beta, the RTM (release-to-manufacturing) version of Windows 8 could hit the market as early as June. The final shipping version would then see the light of...
View ArticleVLC DIRECT: Configuration Script Download
To download the configuration script just go to the following link and follow the instructions...
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Weather bureau forced to dump water data project
Audit questions $38 million bill for open source project. Australia‘s Bureau of Meteorology was forced to shut down its online water storage database in September 2013, when it realised that the open...
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China cyber crime cooperation stalls after U.S. hacking charges
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fledging cooperation between the United States and China on fighting cyber crime has ground to a halt since the recent U.S. indictment of Chinese military officials on hacking...
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