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How Alan Turing Set the Rules for Computing The 100th birthday of a the polymath prompts reflection that without Turing's work, today's computers would simply not exist.
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Google Doodle Honors British Mathematician with Brain Game If you're itching to get some binary action of your own, head over to Google's homepage where the cryptic doodle honoring the late Alan Turing lies in wait for you to figure out.
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Adobe Fixes Flash Player for Firefox to Stop Crashes The update, Flash Player 11.3.300.262, was released Thursday and applies only to Firefox on Windows.
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US Judge Dismisses Apple Patents Lawsuit Against Motorola A U.S. federal judge Friday ruled that Apple cannot seek an injunction against Motorola Mobility in its smartphone patents lawsuit, tossing out the case "with...
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5 Things to Look Forward to in Apple's iOS 6 There are plenty of additions that will change, for the better, how mobile users use their iOS devices.
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Windows Phone 8, Windows 8 Metro App Ecosystem Set to Grow Analysis: If Microsoft truly fulfills its potential to unify platforms, that will give its operating systems a distinct edge and grant users a clear benefit.
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Mass Effect 3 Gets Expanded Ending Sequence; Available June 26 The free downloadable content pack is for Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3.
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New to Linux? Zorin OS 6 Makes the Transition Easy This newly updated Linux distribution aims to be 'the gateway to Linux for Windows users.'
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Verizon Gives Motorola LTE Razrs Their GSM Wings Verizon Wireless is activating GSM roaming capability for the first time on LTE handsets, turning on radios that were already built into the Motorola Droid Razr.
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Sony, Panasonic May Partner on OLED TVs Both firms are seeking something splashy after a tough year, and reports suggest they plan a partnership building OLED TV sets.
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Nintendo 3DS XL: Between a Thumbstick and a Hard Place Did Nintendo make a mistake by not including a second stick for this gaming device?
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Summer Tech Gear Blowout Here are fifteen of the coolest, most useful, or just really interesting gadgets you can get your hands on now or very soon. We got a peek at a preview CE Week 2012, starting June 25 in New York.
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Twitter Downplays Downtime A cascading bug in one of Twitter's infrastructure components, not a hacker, took down the microblogging site twice this week.
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BlueHat Hackers Stymie a Widespread Exploit Microsoft's three finalists in its hacking contest successfully detected and defeated a common exploit; a winner will take the $250,000 prize.
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Google's Revamped Data-Sharing Could Apply to Government After All Google isn't likely to track users or mine data, but apparently its privacy language doesn't actually preclude it.
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IDC Forecasts Strong Growth in Enterprise Social Software Spending Driving adoption are a push for social collaboration capabilities in enterprise applications, and employees who want software that resembles their consumer applications.
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Celebrate Alan Turing's Birthday and Check Out the Lego Turing Machine A pair of researchers have constructed a working Turing Machine out of Lego, just in time for the mathematician's birthday.
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Nintendo 3DS XL Available August 19 With Larger Screen And Improved Battery The new gaming device from Nintendo adds substantially larger screens, longer battery life to the no-glasses-required 3D system.
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Sony and LL Cool J Rap It Up with Web-Based Music Collaboration Bundle LL Cool J, Sony, and Boomdizzle Networks unveil Future Sounds My Connect Studio, a laptop-software-headphone package that lets distant musicians collaborate in real time--and never miss a beat.
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Astronomers Find Planetary "Odd Couple," Prove That Opposites Attract The Kepler telescope just keeps discovering fascinating planets--this time, it found two very close planets. How cute.
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How Alan Turing Set the Rules for Computing The 100th birthday of a the polymath prompts reflection that without Turing's work, today's computers would simply not exist.
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Google Doodle Honors British Mathematician with Brain Game If you're itching to get some binary action of your own, head over to Google's homepage where the cryptic doodle honoring the late Alan Turing lies in wait for you to figure out.
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