An anonymous reader writes “Wine 1.6 has been released for running Windows applications on Linux and OS X. Wine 1.6 ships with 10, 000 changes in the past year and has many new user features like a Mac graphics driver, Direct3D improvements, and 64-bit ARM support.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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One in every thousand or so babies born today will suffer from Down Syndrome, a genetic disorder caused by the presence of a third copy of chromosome 21 that results in learning disabilities, a heightened risk of bowel and blood diseases, and a severely heightened risk of dementia later in life. But a radical new genome treatment method could hold the key to turning off that extra chromosome 21 like a light. Read more…
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Scientists May Have Found a Genomic Off Switch for Down Syndrome
The ink has barely dried on Samsung’s last SSD announcement and the South Korean manufacturer has already made it obsolete by orders of magnitude. This 2.5-inch enterprise-class SSD isn’t for us regular Joes, but if you thought the company’s EVO 840’s 540MB/s was zippy, hold on to your desk chair . The newly announced NVMe SSD XS1715 reads data at a mind-numbing 3, 000MB/s . Hitting these absurd numbers isn’t without a caveat, though, as this SSD won’t run on a SATA-6 port — it requires a PCIe hook-up. When these speed demons do arrive, they’ll be available in 400GB, 800GB and 1.6TB sizes. Oh, and we want one. For business. Filed under: Desktops , Samsung Comments
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Unless you’re constantly messing around with your iPhone’s settings, most people don’t dig into the Accessibility features in iOS unless they need to solve a specific problem. That said, there’s actually a few great features hidden in those options that everyone can make use of, even if you don’t need them. Read more…
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Sweetening the deal of its cloud-based Office 365 suite , Microsoft will start bundling a year of Xbox Live Gold with any purchases of Office 365 Home Premium or Office 365 University made before September 28. You can then pick up an Xbox Live code as you’ve signed in during the initial Office setup. Unfortunately, the US isn’t included on the deal, but the majority of Europe, plus regions of Asia, as well as Australia and Canada are all involved. Alongside the recent promise of two free games a month , Microsoft’s made this bundled subscription a pretty tempting proposition. Filed under: Gaming , Internet , Software , Microsoft Comments Via: TNW Source: Microsoft Office , Microsoft (German)
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New Office 365 subscriptions get 12 months of free Xbox Live Gold (but not in the US)
After spending over a year thumbing through applications, ICANN has inked agreements for establishing the first new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). Those that made the cut this round were the Arabic word for web or network (. شبكة ) , game in Chinese (. 游 戏) , and the Russian for online (. онлайн) , as well as website (. сайт) — as ICANN notes, these gTLDs will be the first to use non-Latin characters. Also coming out of the ICANN47 meeting for internet overlords is a bit of bad news for Amazon. A committee recommended that the retailer should not be given control of the .amazon domain, likely due to confusion the suffix could create with the Amazon region in South America. ICANN may see fit to go against the recommendation, but if Amazon’s history with objectionable applications is anything to go by, it’s looking like yet another $185, 000 down the drain. Filed under: Internet , Amazon Comments Via: The Verge Source: ICANN , Wall Street Journal
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Aurich Lawson OAKLAND, CA—The last time the Oakland Police Department (OPD) saw me was on May 6, 2013 at 6:38:25pm. My car was at the corner of Mandana Blvd. and Grand Ave. , just blocks away from the apartment that my wife and I moved out of about a month earlier. It’s an intersection I drive through fairly frequently even now, and the OPD’s own license plate reader (LPR) data bears that out. One of its LPRs—Unit 1825—captured my car passing through that intersection twice between late April 2013 and early May 2013. I have no criminal record, have committed no crime, and am not (as far as I know) under investigation by the OPD or any law enforcement agency. Since I first moved to Oakland in 2005, I’ve been pulled over by the OPD exactly once—for accidentally not making a complete stop while making a right-hand turn at a red light—four years ago. Nevertheless, the OPD’s LPR system captured my car 13 times between April 29, 2012 and May 6, 2013 at various points around the city, and it retained that data. My car is neither wanted nor stolen. The OPD has no warrant on me, no probable cause, and no reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing, yet it watches where I go. Is that a problem? Read 73 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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According to a source of Dutch site Tweakers.net , which has been spot on with a previous Dell leak , a new laptop known as the M3800 is set to join Dell’s Precision range of fun-hating workstations. An Intel Core i7-4702MQ ( Haswell ) processor will reportedly power the M3800, with an 2GB NVIDIA Quadro K1100M card taking care of graphics. It’s expected to come with up to 16GB of RAM, a 1TB hard drive or 512MB SSD, and two options for the 15.6-inch screen: a 3, 200 x 1, 800 resolution or standard 1080p panel. The workstation is said to measure 18mm (around 0.7 inches) at its thickest point, and tip the scales at 2kg (70.5 ounces). Integrated docking found on other Precision models is apparently not in the M3800’s feature set; it’s also missing an Ethernet port, so hard-lines will need to be connected via a USB intermediate. Tweakers.net lists an expected price range of $1, 699 to $1, 999, but now comes the part where we wait for the M3800 to go official and see how correct all this leaked info is. Filed under: Laptops , Dell Comments Source: Tweakers.net
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Report: Dell Precision M3800 workstation to launch with 3,200 x 1,800 display option
vikingpower writes “How a phone manufacturer making a somewhat successful come-back can shoot itself in the foot: Marc “van Hauser” Heuse, who works for German technology magazine Heise, has discovered that immediately after setting up an email account on Blackberry 10 OS, full credentials for that account are sent to Research In Motion, the Canadian Blackberry manufacturer. Shortly after performing the set-up, the first successful connections from a server located within the RIM domain appear in the mail server’s logs. (Most of the story in English, some comments in German.) At least according to German law, this is completely illegal, as the phone’s user does not get a single indication or notice of what is being done.” (Here’s Heise’s article, in German.) Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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theshowmecanuck writes “According to the Montreal Gazette, ‘The owner and operator of a well-known ‘real gore’ website is charged with corrupting morals for posting a video allegedly depicting the murder of student Jun Lin by Luka Magnotta. Magnotta, 30, is currently in custody charged with first-degree murder in the death of the 33-year-old Chinese international student, who was killed in Montreal in May 2012. The victim’s severed limbs were then mailed to political parties and elementary schools, and his torso found inside a discarded suitcase.’ A news interview with the detective in charge of the case, airing on CTV as I type this, says he believes the web site hosts a lot of racist content and unimaginable violence. You should note that Canada has less free speech than in America (we have ‘hate crime laws’), but there will likely be some arguments in this vein. The charge against the operator is quite rare and no-one so far remembers it ever being used before.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Gore Site Operator Arrested For Posting Video of Murder