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The first version is available for PC and Mac with mobile support arriving oon, the company says.

and change the passwords at once it even displays little progress bars at the bottom to show you how the work is progressing.

On Android, we should note, things are a little easier thanks to support for autofilling logins. ios and Windows phone,

sadly, don allow for this.)You can try the new features for yourself, for free. Dashlane users can sign up for early access,

#Youku Tudou One Of China s Leading Streaming Video Sites Launches Its First Hardware Line Youku Tudou, already one of China largest streaming video

sites, is moving into hardware as well. The company said that its first three devices Wifi router, smart TV box,

and 15.6-inch Android tabletill be available next January. To provide content for those devices,

will eventually start using Alibaba Aliyun operating system, which includes online shopping connected to the e-commerce giant sites,

and services reach all Internet enabled screens in the forms that our users want, and offer a seamless experience across devices.

Youku Tudou decision to enter the hardware business comes at a time of rapid growth for China streaming video market.

Youku Tudou agreements with different hardware and software companies (including Aliyun and Xiaomi) is interesting

Though the Chinese government closely monitors what is shown on TV channels it has so far been more flexible with online video.

There he led the company strategic software initiatives in open source, Internet of things, and wearables verticals. As a result, he has experience in large-scale wireless systems,

#Coolchip Technologies Is Redesigning The Humble Computer Fan If there one part of a PC that doesn get enough love, it the fan.

These small plastic spinning pieces cost almost nothing and keep hundreds or thousands of dollars of advanced technology from cooking itself.

The only time anyone talks about a computer fans is when we notice them doing their jobs. can go on Youtube without them winding up,

tablets and even some laptops are designed to use small enough amounts of power than they can dissipate heat without blowing a bunch of air all over everything.

and achieve 35-40 percent greater thermal performance than traditional PC fans. That impressive, but not something that most consumers would be aware of or care about.

Among PC gamers, this could be huge. An enthusiast gaming rig typically has one CPU and one to four graphics cards, each

of which generate enough heat to warrant one of Coolchip fans. Anyone with a PC built for maxing out their games

or software would notice the noise reduction from switching to fans this quiet. Apparently I not the only one to notice that.

Onstage, Sanchez noted that Coolchip has partnered with Cooler Master to bring its technology to market as aftermarket add-ons early next year

and Microsoft consulted with the startup to make quieter fans for the Xbox One games console,

As data centers move from big PC processors to large networks of ARM chips, there will likely be even more individual chips to keep cool.

And Device Sandboxes Incoming Blackphone the post-Snowden pro-privacy Android smartphone joint venture between secure comms company Silent Circle and phone maker Geeksphone has confirmed it will be adding an app store

The feature will be powered by Canadian company##Graphite Software#s OS-level virtualization software. Speaking to Techcrunch back in October Blackphone cofounder Jon Callas indicated an app store was incoming detailing a plan##to expand its##hardened Android OS to include a curated app store experience#offering third party apps##it##has selected

and vetted/reviewed for potential security concerns. The Blackphone device and startup business is an attempt to consumerize the hard problem of security

and privacy within a familiar-looking Android##wrapper and by bolting on multiple third party services to put##secure alternatives for essentials such as##cloud storage within easy reach (as well as bundling up the cost of their initial subscription in with the phone).

Adding its own privacy-focused store to the OS is therefore a natural next step#given it will expand the utility of the device

However it s also##a trade-off given that running third party software introduces more security risks.

An early mover the firm has seen increased competition from younger firms like Dropbox and older companies like Microsoft and Google.

The San francisco-based lender will provide software that allows brands to offer small loans to their consumers,

and funded by ex-Skype employees and IMBOX. me backed by ex-Nokia President and CEO Olli Pekka Kallasvuo to name but a few.

because modern companies use an increasing amount of specialized tools for specialized services like Trello for Task Management Github as a Code Repository and Google docs for online collaboration.

#We ve built a type of search engine that indexes every tool/service you connect with Chatgrape (so far we ve got Github Bitbucket Google Drive Google Calendar

#In a demo given to me over Skype and in my own testing I could grok immediately how much time this feature alone could potentially save.

A large hardware reseller obviously handles different internal data than say a large furniture manufacturer. We aim to have at least five large enterprise customers by summer 2015

#Mesosphere Announces First Data center OS And $36m In Funding Mesosphere, the commercial entity built on top of the open source Apache Mesos project,

announced some major milestones today, starting with $36m in Series B funding along with the early release of

what they are calling the first data center operating system. The round was led by new investor Khosla Ventures with additional funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Fuel Capital, SV Angel and other unnamed investors.

Besides the funding though, the bigger news was the announcement of their first data center operating system (DCOS.

This is a new kind of operating system that operates on the scale of the entire data center, which means instead of controlling a single machine,

the operating system sits on top of the data center and enables administrators to treat all of the resources in the data center as a single, virtual entity.

and lets administrators spin servers and software up and down as needs require much more quickly than with current methods.

The virtual machine allowed you to make the best use of your resources on a single machine

Because today applications tend to work across multiple servers, no matter how many ways you break down a single machine resources,

What more, this ability to virtualize the entire data center dramatically speeds up the time it takes to spin up server clusters from days or weeks to hours or even minutes

and drop resources from a library to the command line panel. This gives administrators the ability to start multiple instances of any software in the library very quickly.

The library includes popular open source products by default such as Apache Spark Apache Cassandra, Apache Hadoop and Google Kubernetes,

or customers can add internal software packages. DCOS is compatible with several versions of Linux including Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu,

and Coreos, as well public cloud infrastructure services from companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Finally, you can use it with private cloud infrastructure services including virtual machines, bare metal and Openstack.

Administrators can also set up triggers with a scheduler tool so that when certain conditions are met, the system will automatically run a predefined set of commands.

For instance, administrators could run a set of commands based on cost so the job would only run

lingerie and adidas lines through a large touch screen display on the shop floor. It goes beyond just the boutique scene:

An Ugg store in D c.-area mall Tysons Galleria now enables customers to browse touch screen catalogs

While the use of open source for networking is a more recent phenomenon, it is no less important.

A major industry transition to open source for software-defined networking (SDN) is under way, and users and vendors stand to benefit.

it did catalyze massive interest in software and open source within the networking world. Things like APIS and Devops tools became relevant to network engineers,

and open source movements emerged to fulfill the need for increased automation and flexibility as organizations moved deeper into the cloud.

Most recently the conversation has shifted to how open-source policy frameworks can hide the complexity of networking

It now about innovating at the speed of software. While some of these open-source technologies are still maturing

Networking vendors have moved aggressively to support open-source orchestration, network controllers and even software-based appliances to drive higher levels of interoperability.

Originally a collaboration between Rackspace and NASA, the Openstack cloud computing software platform is the most prominent open-source project to emerge in recent years.

Openstack serves as an open source network orchestrator that lets users describe what they want from a network through a set of logical network abstractions.

This project, led by the Linux Foundation, focuses on the control and management of network resources,

Critical portions of OVS are included now directly in the Linux kernel, and it has become an important building block in extending the network into the operating system.

Open source projects have performed also significant work on open protocols, including: Openflow. Now managed by the Open Networking Foundation,

Openflow kicked off the SDN movement in 2008 by promoting the idea of programmability in switches.

Opflex was designed to offer a highly scalable architecture that works across a broad range of hardware devices to enable multivendor innovation.

For example, the Open Compute Project was formed to help drive low-level innovation in open hardware and software.

using open source to define an intent-driven policy language that can help application developers easily describe networking requirements.

Vendors haven always been quite so supportive of open source networking. Some networking vendors initially viewed the rising tide of open-source projects as a threat.

and around open source projects even as they look for synergies with their own product lines. The industry is now going through the process of deciding on

so it up to vendors to meet those customer requirements by filling in any gaps in their own distributions of the open-source software.

Testing and quality control in open source also may not be up to the network vendor standards for enterprise-ready products.

Indeed, many open source projects have been year awayfrom being operationally ready for a long time. However the consensus-driven process behind open-source projects moves much faster than that of traditional standards bodies like the IETF.

Many people don understand that open source takes a long time to mature. By accepting open source into the product development cycle, vendors give up some control over product delivery schedules.

If the community can agree, timelines will slip, and vendors who rely on open source for their own products will be forced to extend release schedules.

Customers may expect vendors to build and release products at the same pace as they did before,

But these initiatives are establishing new standards for software components at a much faster pace than the traditional standards process ever did.

Open source networking stakes out the middle ground between the traditional, slow-moving standards process and the rapid pace of product development and innovation possible with more proprietary designs.

so that even the most sophisticated ad blocking software can block your ads. e only work with top premium publishers,

-and-mouse game between ad blocking contributors and Secret Media. Montagnon, Julien Romanetto and the rest of the team have been flying under the radar for the past few months not to raise awareness.

But, according to an Adobe study, 26 percent of U s.-based Internet users installed an ad blocker.

#Elemental Path Debuts The First Toys Powered By IBM Watson A company called Elemental Path is developing a new line of smart toys for children

which will be powered by the super computing system IBM Watson, enabling the toys to engage in real and personalized conversations with kids,

Co-founded by Donald Coolidge and JP Benini, previously of software development shop Majestyk Apps,

which allowed them access to the IBM Watson technology, making them the first toy company to be able to tap into the system.

and tablets much more than most parents would like them to, when the benefits are not very clear,

texturized rubber similar to that of a Leapfrog tablet. On the toy front, there a big button that,

and a small piece of hardware that connects to the cloud. s a connected device,

With the IBM Watson-powered system, the toy is able to listen and respond to questions and return its answers quickly within a second or much less,

The software could be used in other applications as well including kidsapps. Based in Manhattan, the startup has a small amount of funding from friends and family,

The startup plans to add more hardware devices in the future and is working on a series of partnerships with major retail brands to sell the devices to consumers That could possibly save the American consumer a lot of time and money.

as part of ios 7. With ios 8, Apple made its so-called said ill switchactive by default, in accordance with California regulation,

for instance, will have it on be given default that they shipped with ios 8 pre-installed. Stats from last year indicated that Apple implementation of the Activation Lock were having a significant effect,

but Apple combined ios 8 adoption rate (currently at over 70 percent) and the fact that it now on by default means that the risk associated with stealing a modern ios device is even greater.

The aim is to make smartphone theft ultimately as futile as stealing a credit card, whereby a user ancellingtheir hardware renders it ultimately useless.

Smartphone theft is often theft of opportunity meaning a thief weighs reward vs. risk, including factors like how difficult it is to recoup an investment on something theye taken.

including a video game i

#Apple Will Spend $848 Million Building A Massive Solar Farm In Monterey Tim cook dropped a bit of news in a conversation at the Goldman sachs Technology and Internet conference today:

Overstock and even Microsoft, hopped onto the cryptocurrency to give customers an alternative avenue for payments. he integration with Bitnet platform will make Rakuten one of the largest e-commerce companies in the world to begin accepting bitcoin,

They weren showing a case with a direct connection to your phone over Lightning or USB

Along with printing photos as you take them or from your camera roll, itl also come with an app that brings a nifty augmented reality feature,

If we bring manufacturing of big hardware (home appliances, vehicles) within 100 miles of the most densely populated areas in the world,

I spent three years in China where companies like Foxconn built huge cities that can make any small hardware device anything that fits in a shoebox.

and the private sector together and provide access to super computers and the ORNL Manufacturing Demonstration Facility to solve the most pressing challenges facing manufacturing today.

because you can bring hardware and software to market at unprecedented rates with a much smaller amount of capital through crowdsourcing,

GNU and other open-source licenses that grant users more free rein to modify and sometimes market software while protecting attribution and creators wishes.

After graduating from university with a degree in computer science Izak created an ipad app that was inspired by his younger brother Oriel who has autism.

Students can access lessons and visual exercises through their own tablets or smartphones. urrently what you will find is that the special education market is fragmented extremely

While the growing affordability of tablets and platforms like Teachmate365 have provided new tools for students with special needs

The site currently displays a picture of a lizard in a top hat and monocle as well as the text 04-Plane Not Found (a reference to flight MH370 which disappeared in March) and acked by LIZARD SQUAD-OFFICIAL CYBER CALIPHATE.

It operates on a detachable Bluetooth-enabled motherboard with a built-in GPS. Weight sensors embedded within the handle let you know

There even a built-in 37-watt lithium-ion battery and a USB plug so you can power your smartphone up to six times while on the go.

It also comes with an easy-to-access laptop compartment so you can pull out your computer right before the security line.

Gil and his four cofounders Tomi Pierucci Alejo Verlini Brian Chen and Martin Diz are in Y Combinator current batch of companies

He says he was just building something he thought could have saved him some trouble one time on a trip home to Argentina. was trying to bring a bunch of electronics some ipads home to my family for Christmas.

What he needed now was understood someone who hardware. His friend and fellow Argentinian Pierucci was his guy.

He had hardware experience and a Phd in aerospace engineering. Saez-Gil figured he be a good person to spit-ball ideas with

The two brought in three other founders to the team to help with the logistics it would take to combine both hardware and software.

In a way the Google block is a bigger deal than Apple considering that Android devices are far more prevalent among users

#GIF Camera App Camoji Adds Keyboard Integration Ability To Instantly Share With Reddit In an age in

the appearance of actors on a screen could in no way substitute for one inner conflicts. That brings us to Camoji

The app can now be used directly from the smartphone keyboard, thanks to the progressive thought leadership of Apple and its recent opening up to third parties.

and connects to your phone, tablet, or laptop over Bluetooth. With that said, there are some nifty functions on the marker itself.

Towards the non-writing end of each marker case, there a small ring of blue, red or black.

#Scientists Make Energy-Generating Keyboard That Knows Who#s Typing On it Passwords continue to be a glaring weakness in digital security.

So what about tightening the security screw further by applying a continuous biometric such as a keyboard that knows who typing on it in real-time

and typing style the nonmechanical keyboard is able to generate energy to power itself and self cleans thanks to a dirt repellent coating

The low profile keys have a top electrification layer that allows them to generate charge from typing friction (aka contact electrification) so the keyboard is able to register individual keystroke data

or to harness typing friction to generate electrical charge for powering other devices he keyboard identify the force and speed at which the typer input characters.

The keyboard can identify personality in information input so that it is a high level of securityzhong Lin Wang one of the scientists involved in the research told Techcrunch. he power generated can automatically send signals to the computer

so that no power is needed for the keyboard. n a paper detailing the research project called Personalized Keystroke Dynamics for Self-Powered Humanachine Interfacing published in the ACSNANO journal the scientists argue that algorithms which can identify who is typing by analyzing keystroke timing are limited more than their hardware-based

approach of yping-induced electric signalsas the latter is also able to sense pressure as well as speed

No external power source is required for the keyboard to function thanks to its self-powering abilities.

So it is evidently a more energy-efficient alternative to tracking typing via capacitive data that could be harvested from typing on a touchscreen keyboard.

How much energy can be generated by typing on the smart keyboard? Enough to charge mall electronics at arbitrary typing speed greater than 100 characters per minaccording to the team

Then software takes over the task of finding correlation, and a step beyond that companies may turn to prediction capabilities that will tune themselves.

and software that can begin to make better use of the data the sensors are collecting.

he says SAP is one of a number of companies including IBM, Microsoft and countless startups working on making better predictions.

As Herzberg says, once you have been able to collect the data from a sensors, you can begin to build increasingly complex sets of predictions. ou can start modeling

#Microsoft Outlook Hacked In China New Report Finds Only a few weeks after Google Gmail service was blocked in China a new report from online censorship monitoring organization Greatfire. org released this morning

states that Microsoft email system Outlook was subjected recently to a an-in-the-middleattack in China.

and SMTP for Outlook were affected but the web interfaces for Microsoft webmail services were not.

That is Outlook. com and Login. live. com were affected not. The attack continued for a about a day

and has stopped since the report states. Affected users were shown warning messages in their email clients that weren as immediately worrisome as those web browsers display which means that some users may not have been aware that an attack was taking place.

For example in an example screenshot Greatfire. org posted an iphone warning message says annot Verify Server Identitybut asks

which is governed by the Cyberspace Administration of China as this would be consistent with previous man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks in China. iven the dangerous nature of this attack on Outlook we again strongly encourage organizations including Microsoft

What happens when a Chinese user accesses Outlook in their email client: The attack comes within a month of China blocking Gmail

or have allowed willingly the attack to happenwrites Greatfire. org in its report. f our accusation is correct this new attack signals that the Chinese authorities are intent on further cracking down on communication methods that they cannot readily monitor. ee reached out to Microsoft for comment on this attack

a new ios software framework that lets people volunteer to join medical research studies. Researchkit lets people take tests like saying hhhto detect vocal variations, walking in a line,

Researchkit will be open source. Researchkit will be available next month, and the first five tests built with it will become available today.

With Researchkit, researchers can build out a medical testing app for ios that accessible to people far from their physical lab. Users can signup with a digital signature,

The touch screen can feel people tapping in rhythm to detect inconsistencies that may signal a disease.

coupled with a battery powered Lifi mobile unit attached to a laptop screen, allows users to roam within a room,

#Xiaomi Buys 3%Of Chinese Games And Software Giant Kingsoft For $68m Xiaomi became the world third largest smartphone company based on sales last year

Its early deals have largely been in hardware but today it announced PDF plans to put money into games and software by buying 2. 98 percent of Kingsoft for HK$527 million ($68 million).

Kingsoft started out developing PC games but today the company which is listed in Hong kong and valued at over $2 billion produces security entertainment and enterprise products too.

It already has strong links to Xiaomi whose CEO and cofounder Lei Jun is also founder and chairman of Kingsoft.

because it is a sign of Xiaomi intention to increase its focus on software and services.

Its deals to date have circled around hardware including a $200 million investment in appliance maker Midea

With a burgeoning family of hardware and smart home products including an air purifier blood test device smart TV

and requires the developers to cease all use of Apple software and destroy related materials.

This has resulted in some sites like Github getting blocked and others like Intel shutting down some of their online operations u

The HIPAA compliant Saas software has been rolled out to several paying customers in the U s. healthcare sector so far

The software weighs up demand probabilities and considers the various costs involved, meaning financial costs such as staffing

More than a dashboard This predictive core they argue sets the product apart from rival software products

The team third cofounder, Ian Christopher, brings the algorithmic expertise having worked on predictive software while at Stanford.

An ios app called Signal is a project out of Open Whisper Systems, a not-for-profit collective of hackers dedicated to making it harder for prying government eyes to get a hold of your information.

For those who want to share with their friends on Android the community organization currently has two Android apps Textsecure

and Redphone that need to be combined to do the same thing as Signal does on ios. Textsecure is the text message solution

and Redphone is encrypted the phone-call solution. The plan is to combine those two into one Android app for Signal users.

Recent security breaches and other events have prompted a number of apps to emerge that promise encrypted communications between mobile phones.

Signal code is open source. This means anyone can go to Github and use the source code to create encrypted apps.

Whatsapp recently incorporated Open Whisper System code into the Android version of its app. e want as many people as possible to have embedded the capability within their apps

and previously worked at Microsoft Research as well as other computer science researchers like Yann Lecun who are looking for better ways to teach computers how to recognize objects and speech.

and artificial intelligence projects in academic labs and at companies like Google Twitter and Intel. Facebook today is optimized launching tools to increase the speed at

One allows developers to parallelize the training of their networks using multiple GPUS simultaneously. Another improvement ensures that training the convolutional neural nets at the center of many deep learning systems can be trained 23 times faster

(or at least their results) are slowly starting to show up in a lot of the software we use every day.

And at CES last week Nvidia spent most of its keynote discussing how it uses deep learning to classify objects that a camera on a car may see in order to further its research in autonomous driving o

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