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14 March, 2015
Someone had to go first, so on March 15, 1985, Lisp computer maker Symbolics, Inc., registered the Internet’s first dot-com address: Symbolics.com. job searching akamai Akamai CSO takes a creative approach to finding security pros Andy Ellis, chief security officer at Akamai, doesn't try to hire perfect candidates. Here’s why. READ NOW Sunday will mark the 30th anniversary of that registration.
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History
Online censorship is rife. In many countries, notably China, citizens are prevented from accessing certain websites at the behest of their government. To help provide access to information and unbiased news, freedom of information organization Reporters Without Borders has set up mirrors to nine censored websites so they can be accessed from 11 countries that blocked them.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a game released in 2011 by Square Enix, and developed by Eidos Montréal and Nixxes for the PC version. It uses a modified version of the Crystal engine made by Crystal Dynamics and was one of the earliest games to support DirectX 11. It featured great graphics at the time (still looks good!), and it was as beautiful as light-weight: even low-budget video cards could run the game smoothly. I was curious about the rendering process, so I spent a few hours reverse-engineering the game, playing with Renderdoc. Here are the results of my investigation.
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3D,
Game,
Graphic Design,
ICT Capability,
research
13 March, 2015
A verdict saying Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke copied Marvin Gaye’s music to create their hit song “Blurred Lines” could ripple across the music industry, potentially changing how artists work and opening the door to new copyright claims. An eight-person jury determined Tuesday that Williams and Thicke copied elements of Gaye’s 1977 hit “Got to Give It Up” and ordered the pair to pay nearly $7.4 million to the late R&B legend’s three children.
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Intellectual Property
12 March, 2015
AS MOORE’S LAW has packed more and more transistors onto a single memory chip, scientists have fretted for years that electric charges that “leak” out from those tiny components might cause unpredictable errors in neighboring semiconductors. But now a team of Google researchers has demonstrated a more unexpected problem with that electromagnetic leakage: hackers can use it to purposefully corrupt portions of some laptops’ memory, and even to bypass the security protections of those computers.
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Cybersafety,
research
11 March, 2015
Why It’s Almost Impossible To Teach a Robot To Do Your Laundry
https://medium.com/matter/why-it-s-almost-impossible-to-teach-a-robot-to-do-your-laundry-2a4a3efb3775
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