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Million-dollar robbery rocks bitcoin exchange

Bitcoin Internet Payment Services, a Denmark-based exchange billing itself as Europe's biggest, was robbed of bitcoins worth more than $1 million in a theft that took place over the course of the past...

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Stun-gun-equipped iPhone case looks to generate more than a buzz

At a glance, the Yellow Jacket looks like any other iPhone case, albeit a little bulkier another of the numberless hollow exoskeletons for the most recognizable smartphone on the market. Flipping a...

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CES 2014: The product trends that matter

CES 2014: Products to watch for New Android phones, connected everything, car gadgetry and more to be on display at CES in Las Vegas Plenty of ‘connected home’ stuff Increasingly, the TV remote isn't...

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16 terrible computer pranks that could get you fired

Just because it’s April Fool’s... I know, I know – that jerk from sales deserves it. That snippy attitude last time you showed up to fix his “slowdown problem,” which was obviously just him having...

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Forget Google Glass! Get these 10 cool gadgets instead

Let’s be honest ... While it's an exciting, innovative piece of technology, Google Glass isn't really something that most of us would get much out of as yet. (Unless you're a ubiquitous tech blogger...

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Dell launches virtual storage accelerator, aims to boost SAN performance

Dell released a new virtualized storage accelerator appliance called Fluid Cache for SAN on Tuesday, designed to help customers keep data-intensive applications working quickly under load.The...

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iPhone gets 'GPS-like' geomagnetic-based app

A novel location technology is headed to the iPhone for the first time, as app maker IndoorAtlas announced its Android app's move to iOS late last week. IndoorAtlas states that its technology can bring...

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The 10 best desktop Linux distros for newbies

To Linux or not to Linux? Ah, the siren call of desktop Linux. You usually hear it just after Windows starts bullying you to restart so that it can install updates, or when you see cool screenies of...

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20 cool things you can do with a Raspberry Pi

The world of delicious Raspberry Pi The teaching aid/creativity toy/teeny little computer that is the Raspberry Pi has become more popular than its creators at the Raspberry Pi Foundation ever dreamed...

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OpenStack chair: Linux at the cutting edge of the cloud

The cloud-dominated world of modern IT is the perfect breeding ground for the spread of Linux in particular and open-source software in general, according to the man responsible for guiding one of the...

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Fantastic failures: 9 startups that sank in 2014

Back to the drawing board The statistics aren't great, are they? We're told that nine out of 10 startups -- or maybe it's three out of four, or five out of six, or even not that many at all -- will...

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MIT may have just solved all your data center network lag issues

A group of MIT researchers say they've invented a new technology that should all but eliminate queue length in data center networking.The technology will be fully described in a paper presented at the...

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Data warehouse-as-a-service startup Snowflake comes out of stealth

Stealth startup Snowflake is clandestine no longer, throwing off the wraps Tuesday morning with the announcement of a $26 million series B funding round and the rollout of a flagship product, which...

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Debian community splits over systemd, but fork still unlikely

The latest chapter in the ongoing furor over the software known as systemd threatens to split the Debian community, after a splinter group stated that it would create a fork of the well-known Linux...

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Ubuntu turns 10: A look back at the desktop Linux standard bearer

It's pronounced "Ooh-boon-too."The year of the Linux desktop is here! No, the Linux desktop is dead! Tech pundits differ, to say the least, on a lot of topics in the world of free and open source...

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Google launches fiber Internet for Kansas City businesses

Small businesses in selected neighborhoods in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri now have the opportunity to get in on Google’s fiber Internet service, the company announced today.The...

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Pi, translated: The evolution of Raspberry Pi

A brief history of PiThe Raspberry Pi has been the object of a great deal of nerdy affection since its initial release in 2012. A mousetrap-sized, self-contained single-board computer, the Pi is...

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Prominent developers pulling out of Debian as voting deadline nears

Four prominent members of the Debian community have stepped down or reduced their involvement in the project as a result of an increasingly bitter argument over the future of the widely influential...

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Debian devs vote down anti-systemd measure, sponsor steps down

Debian developers voted down a proposal that would have weakened the Linux distribution’s integration with a controversial system software package on Tuesday, in a victory for systemd supporters.The...

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The 10 mightiest supercomputers on the planet

The fastest computers in the worldIt was a familiar top 10 released by the authors of the twice-annual Top500 ranking of world supercomputers, with most entries largely unchanged from this summer’s...

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