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| Posted: 15 Nov 2010 06:31 AM PST  Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful: 1. The Great Cyberheist One night in July 2003, a little before midnight, a plainclothes N.Y.P.D. detective, investigating a series of car thefts in upper Manhattan, followed a suspicious-looking young man with long, stringy hair and a nose ring into the A.T.M. lobby of a bank. Pretending to use one of the machines, the detective watched as the man pulled a debit card from his pocket and withdrew hundreds of dollars in cash. More @ NYTimes 2. Microsoft breaks petaflop barrier, loses Top 500 spot to Linux Microsoft says a Windows-based supercomputer has broken the petaflop speed barrier, but the achievement is not being recognized by the group that tracks the world's fastest supercomputers, because the same machine was able to achieve higher speeds using Linux. More @ NetworkWorld3. Beyond Instant results: Instant Previews With Google Instant you get results as fast as you type, but your search doesn't stop there. Once you get results back, you choose a site to visit based on the information in each result—like the title, a snippet of text and the URL. Over time we've made steady improvements to our search results and snippets to help you pick a great page. More @ Googleblog4. Robotic mobility for the little ones 5. Sometimes We Grow Up Jono Bacon's announcement of the OpenRespect.org project was met with the usual mix of reactions, from approval to charges it is really "The Quit Picking on Ubuntu" project. More @ LinuxToday 6. Tetris may work as a post-traumatic stress disorder "vaccine" One of the more debilitating symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder is the flashbacks that force those suffering from PTSD to relive the events that caused the trauma in the first place. More @ ArsTechnica 7. New Trojan Threat Emerges Internet security specialist BitDefender has warned about the dangers of a new spying Trojan it describes as "a serious enemy" that can be used as a corporate spying tool. More @ PCWorld 8. Windows Phone 7 beats iPhone 4 and Android ... in a grilling contest 9. The curse of giftedness At the age of seven, Jeremy Sassoon was the youngest student at Britain's newly opened Royal Northern College of Music, as gifted at trumpet and piano as he was at math, football, and anything else he set his mind to. The boy prodigy was sent out, in front of the assembled press of Manchester, to hand a bouquet of flowers to the Duchess of Kent, who presided over the opening. More @ TheGlobeandMail 10. The Ten Businesses the Smartphone Has Destroyed Global smartphone sales rose by nearly 100% in the third quarter of 2010 compared with the same period last year. That allowed Apple and Research In Motion to pick up market share while large handset companies like Nokia, Samsung and LG, which do not have strong smartphone products, lost ground.More @ YahooFinance  |
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