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Sony Hunts for Hardcore Gamers With New Vita Handheld
2/22/2012 3:11:40 PM TechNewsWorld
Sony officially launched its PlayStation Vita handheld gaming console in the United States on Wednesday, a week after it was made available online in a premium bundle. The WiFi-only version of the console is available at $250; the 3G/WiFi version goes for $300. Several games have been made available, and Sony on Wednesday added apps for Netflix, Flickr and LiveTweet to the mix. The apps are available at no charge. View More...
Can Software Predict Repeat Offenders?
2/22/2012 5:42:00 AM IEEE News Energy
Criminologist Richard Berk’s algorithms are getting better and better at it View More...
Will Microsoft Open a Branch Office in iPad Land?
2/22/2012 12:49:21 PM TechNewsWorld
A sighting "in the wild" of Microsoft Office for the iPad set speculative tongues wagging Tuesday, even as the Redmond crew denied the existence of the app. The software's interface contained elements of Microsoft's only app for the iPad, OneNote, and its Metro interface found in the company's mobile operating system Windows Phone 7 and its upcoming Windows 8 OS, according to the report. View More...
EUV Lithography Gets Some Competition
2/21/2012 8:09:00 PM IEEE News Energy
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Estimates from foundry giant TSMC suggest electron-beam lithography could be cheaper and just as fast View More...
When in the Cloud, Trust - but Verify
2/22/2012 8:00:00 AM TechNewsWorld
Quite a lot has been written about the importance of due-diligence in a cloud environment. Sometimes the importance of security and compliance-related vetting in the cloud is easy to justify, like when you're evaluating an off-premises public cloud hosted at a new service provider. Other times, executives might take some convincing. View More...
Shell to buy Cove Energy for $1.6 billion
2/21/2012 7:00:00 PM IET News - Energy

Shell has made an agreed £992.4 million ($1.6 billion) bid for Cove Energy, offering a full price to open up a new gas frontier for the Anglo-Dutch oil major in East Africa.

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WordGrinder: Good, Old-Fashioned Text Editing Power
2/22/2012 8:00:00 AM TechNewsWorld
If you spend endless hours at a keyboard crunching words, avoiding distractions is essential. Sometimes, the worst offender in causing distractions comes from all the bells and whistles in the word processor itself. That is where WordGrinder comes to the rescue. In today's Linux world of GUI-filled desktops, using a text editor that runs within a terminal window may seem like a big step backward. View More...
Is Anonymous Plotting a Power Play?
2/21/2012 6:34:57 PM TechNewsWorld
The United States National Security Agency has cautioned that the Anonymous hacker community might be able to cause a limited power outage through a cyberattack. NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander has warned of the potential attack during meetings at the White House and in other private sessions. View More...
Sebastian Thrun Will Teach You How to Build Your Own Self-Driving Car, For Free
2/22/2012 7:57:00 AM IEEE News Energy
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Learn how to program an autonomous vehicle from Sebastian Thrun, the AI expert and Google researcher, at no cost (robotic car not included) View More...
NRC Asks Owners of 11 Westinghouse Fueled Nuclear Plants to Check Their Computer Models
2/21/2012 3:49:00 PM IEEE News Energy
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Models may not have properly taken into account the aging of nuclear fuel in accident scenarios View More...
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