If you’re like us, there’s nothing you hate more than having to go to different sites to pick up your pneumatics and abrasives. Thankfully, Amazon, that aggregator of all things with a price tag, has launched AmazonSupply, a site serving a broad range of industrial and business categories, including such favorites as fasteners, power & hand tools, fleet & vehicle maintenance and cutting tools. The site also offers up such Amazonian favorites as free shipping for Prime customers. AmazonSupply features some 500,000 plus items at present and 365-day returns. More info can be found in the press release after the break.

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Adobe’s biggest day of 2012? Go ahead, don’t be afraid to call it what it (probably) is. For starters, the outfit is introducing Creative Suite 6 to the world in formal fashion, with 14 applications either unveiled or refreshed. Photoshop CS6 is graduating from beta — seeing an update that’ll provide “near instant results” thanks to the Mercury Graphics Engine — while Content-Aware Patch and Content-Aware Move are sure to please artists suffering from the “Surely you can fix this in post!” clientele backlash. Adobe Muse is happily entering the scene for the first time, described as a “radical tool that’ll enables designers to create and publish HTML5 web sites without writing code.” (We’re still waiting for Flash to comment.)

In related news, those who aren’t up for paying $1,299 (and up) for one of the new suites can try something a bit different: monthly installments. That’s coming courtesy of Creative Cloud, an quasi-new initiative designed to harness the power of cloud-based app distribution and streaming in a way that’ll make CS6 more accessible than any of the packs that came before. You can tap into CS6’s amenities over your broadband connection for $74.99 per month, while those who agree to an annual subscription can get in for $49.99 per month. To be clear, that provides unbridled access to any CS6 tool: Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and AfterEffects, and the rest of the gang. If you’re jonesing for Photoshop alone, that one will be available for $29.99 per month month (no contract) or $19.99 per month (annual agreement). There’s no set release date just yet, but we’re told to expect the new goods “within 30 days,” and pre-orders seem to be a go. Head on down to the source links for more details on each individual aspect, and catch a promo video for the cloud-based subscription offering just after the break.

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With more on the Flashback malware plaguing many Macs, beaverdownunder writes with some explanation of how the infection grew so quickly: “Alexander Gostev, head of the global research and analysis team at Kaspersky, says that ‘tens of thousands of sites powered by WordPress were compromised. How this happened is unclear. The main theories are that bloggers were using a vulnerable version of WordPress or they had installed the ToolsPack plug-in.'”

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So, there’s still a little while to go before Intel gives Ivy Bridge a full unveiling, with official benchmarks, pricing and all those trimmings. But in the meantime, the BBC has detailed just how different this new architecture is compared to 32nm chips like Sandy Bridge and also AMD’s coming Trinity processors. Most of this stuff we already knew — like the fact that Intel has switched to a 3D or ‘tri-gate‘ transistor design — but what’s new is a direct and official boast about performance. According to Kirk Skaugen, Chipzilla’s PC chief, we can expect Ivy Bridge to deliver “20 percent more processor performance using 20 percent less average power.” Now, judging from leaked desktop and laptop benchmarks, this broad-brush claim masks some very different realities depending on what type of CPU or GPU workloads you want throw at the chip, so stay tuned for more detail very soon.

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If
you do lots of push-ups, you get stronger – but if you do a lot of mental
exercises, do you get smarter?

For most of human history, it’s accepted that you’re either born smart
or (sadly) not and that there’s no amount of Sudoku that will make you
smarter (sure you can be more knowledgable – say by educating yourself,
but not intrinsically more intelligent).

But that common wisdom may be wrong: studies show that you can increase
your smarts by improving your memory through certain types of games.

… in 2008, [Susan] Jaeggi turned one of these tests of working
memory into a training task for building it up, in the same way that
push-ups can be used both as a measure of physical fitness and as a
strength-building task. “We see attention and working memory as
the cardiovascular function of the brain,” Jaeggi says.“If
you train your attention and working memory, you increase your basic
cognitive skills that help you for many different complex tasks.”

Jaeggi’s study has been widely influential. Since its publication,
others have achieved results similar to Jaeggi’s not only in elementary-school
children but also in preschoolers, college students and the elderly.
The training tasks generally require only 15 to 25 minutes of work per
day, five days a week, and have been found to improve scores on tests
of fluid intelligence in as little as four weeks. Follow-up studies
linking that improvement to real-world gains in schooling and job performance
are just getting under way. But already, people with disorders including
attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (A.D.H.D.) and traumatic brain
injury have seen benefits from training. Gains can persist for up to
eight months after treatment.

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There’s no doubting that the cause of renewable energy is a noble one. But, ethics aside, it also gives birth to the occasional technical marvel. Altaeros Energies, a company from Massachusetts (with MIT and Harvard blood in its veins) has created one such curiosity. The prototype is a wind-turbine that doesn’t just languish on a hill-top, cutting a line in the horizon. No, this one has a helium-filled outer-section which allows it to deploy itself to 1,000 feet, where it can benefit from stronger, more consistent winds and gives nearly twice the power yields of its land bound brethren. That’s all very nice, but we just thought it looked dang cool in action.

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suraj.sun writes with these snippets from an article at Ars Technica: “Hacker group Anonymous and the People’s Liberation Front have created a data-sharing site called AnonPaste.tk, meant to host pastes of code and other messages without any moderation or censorship of the information posted. The new site, which uses a free .tk web address, allows users to set a time for the paste to expire. It claims that data is encrypted and decrypted in the browser using 256 bit AES, so the server doesn’t see any of the information included in the paste.The site says it’s taking donations in the form of WePay or BitCoins. … AnonPaste is built using open-source software called ZeroBin, created by French developer Sebastien Sauvage. According to Infoweek Sauvage has experience in creating online authentication systems for French banks, suggesting the creator knows a thing or two about encryption of data. Still, on the software’s information page, Sauvage reminds potential users that ZeroBin software can not protect against potential Javascript attacks. ‘Users still have to trust the server regarding the respect of their privacy,’ he says. ‘ZeroBin won’t protect the users against malicious servers.'”

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peetm writes “Twin brothers from England face US civil charges for allegedly defrauding investors out of $1.2m (£745,000) through a bogus stock-picking robot. The twins; Alexander and Thomas Hunter; were just 16 years old when they devised the scam — which fooled around 75,000 people, according to U.S. officials.”

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New submitter seb42 writes “Pixel Qi announces new screens that can match or exceed the image quality of the screen in the iPad3, with a very low power mode that runs at a full 100X power reduction from the peak power consumed by the iPad3 screen. Hope the Google tablet has this tech.” The claims are pretty bold, and specific: “We have a new architecture that matches the resolution of the ipad3 screen, and its full image quality including matching or exceeding contrast, color saturation, the viewing angle and so forth with massive power savings.”

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