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Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus

Check out this awesome animated infographic dissecting the nature and ramifications of Stuxnet, the first weapon made entirely out of code. This video was produced for HungryBeast, an Australian TV program that airs on Australia’s ABC1

Record Live HD Video With These ZionEyez Sunglasses

ZionEyez HD Video Recording Glasses. Funded via Kickstarter, these shades may look like your average pair of black plastic-framed sunglasses, but they’re stuffed with a 720p HD video camera and 8 GB of flash memory for storage of all the clips you record.

Google, Bing, Yahoo trio Search Engine introduce Schema.org for Better search result

The three top search engines, Google, Yahoo and Bing have collaborated in the hope to improve search engine results. Schema.org will assist webmasters who are looking to add markup to their pages and will create a better understanding of websites for the search engines. The motive behind the schema.org is to create and support a [...]

Layar Reality Browser running on smartphones

The Layar Reality Browser is an application being designed and developed for Android users which lets users to successfully go through the camera lens and eventually they can view and enjoy real time footage of businesses, bars, natural landmarks, historical landmarks, and lot more relevant stuff.

Microsoft Has Bought Skype For $8.5 Billion

Google and Facebook were interested in partnering with, and possibly buying VoIP company Skype, Microsoft announced that it was buying the company for $8.56 billion in cash. Last year, Skype had revenue of $860 million on which it posted an operating profit of $264 million. However, it overall made a small loss, of $7 million, [...]

Paper Phone Demo Could Hint at Future Smartphone Technology

According to ModMyi, the device is scheduled to be unveiled at the May 10th Vancouver event. Its creator, who also happens to be the director of Queen’s University Human Media Lab, says that the Paper phone is a “pocket-sized computer as thin and flexible as a sheet of paper is.”

Warning from Skype on malicious access to Skype data

Skype for Android is one of the more widely used applications on Android – on any platform for that matter. We, as consumers, generally tend to trust popular applications with our personal information and rarely seem to think twice about how that data is protected or encrypted.

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