Obviously, the most important feature of an antivirus program is the ability to catch viruses—but it’d also be nice if the program was fast and lightweight, too. The team over at Soluto put together a graph that shows how many seconds some anti-viruses add to your boot time. Read more…
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Anti-Virus Boot Times Compared: Paid Options Come Out On Top
When you think about it, keeping a fridge full of drinks perpetually cold at a store is a tremendous waste of energy given the product may not be sold for days. But the only alternate solution is to somehow chill drinks at the time of purchase, which is exactly what a new refrigeration technology called V-Tex does—without the need for gallons of liquid nitrogen. Read more…
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An On-Demand Vending Machine That Chills Drinks in Just 45 Seconds
The work of photographer Mark Willis combines advanced imaging and fabrication technologies with archaeological exploration, often producing breath-taking images, 3D models, and highly accurate virtual environments from ancient sites in the U.S. Southwest. Read more…
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36-Gigapixel Image Captures Ancient Petroglyphs in Texas
mask.of.sanity writes “Researchers are closing in on a means to detect previously undetectable stealthy malware that resides in peripherals like graphics and network cards. The malware was developed by the same researchers and targeted host runtime memory using direct memory access provided to hardware devices. They said the malware was a ‘highly critical threat to system security and integrity’ and could not be detected by any operating system.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Malware Now Hiding In Graphics Cards
Time to update all your periodic tables . Read more…
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The official atomic weights of 19 elements have just been changed
Hyper-Threading has been in Intel’s processors for years. It’s the main difference between the Core i5 and i7, and that many games don’t use it explains why i5s power some serious gaming rigs. If you’ve been considering an upgrade but you’re not sure if you need Hyper Threading, this video from Techquickie will help. Read more…
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How Hyper-Threading Works (and When You Want It In Your PC)
Apple has released iOS 7.0.2, a small update addressing the security flaw that enabled users to bypass the lockscreen. Read more here . Read more…
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When Zac Vawter lost his leg in a motorcycle accident a few years ago, he thought he’d never walk like a normal person again. But today, the 32-year-old software engineer can climb stairs, wiggle his toes and stroll through parks. The only difference is that one of his legs is a mind-controlled robot . Read more…
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World’s First Fully Bionic, Mind-Controlled Leg Goes for a Walk
The latest science news out of Harvard and MIT sounds like a joke, but it’s not. A team of physicists were fooling around with photons when they managed to get the particles to clump together to form a molecule , one that’s unlike any other matter. And it behaves, they say, just like a light saber. Read more…
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Scientists Created a New Form of Matter and It’s Like a Light Saber
Mozilla announced today that, similar to Chrome, Firefox will be blocking plugins by default in a future version of the browser. However, most plugins will be available through a “click to allow” feature, at least for the time being. Flash will still be enabled by default. You can read more here . Read more…
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Mozilla announced today that, similar to Chrome, Firefox will be blocking plugins by default in a fu