(Phys.org) —The optical fiber network that spans the globe consists of millions of miles of fibers that bring us our Internet, cable TV, and telephone services. Now researchers have shown that this global network offers ...
The US Department of Homeland Security warned Thursday that a flaw in Java software is so dangerous that people should stop using it.
Software
Jan 11, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Twitter will join the Linux Foundation as a "Silver" tier member. The announcement is paired with news that a keynote by a Twitter manager will be part of the events at the LinuxCon conference in San Diego from ...
With its "Don't Be Evil" motto, Google Inc. has always held itself to a higher moral standard.
Internet
Mar 16, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- As password systems alone prove inadequate to protect information on computers against hackers, security customers have taken the advice of vendors to step up to tokens, those online security credentials that ...
(AP) -- Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison cheered the closing of his company's $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems on Wednesday, vowing that Sun will immediately add to Oracle's profits. He said layoffs won't be as ...
Business
Jan 28, 2010
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The organization in charge of the Internet's address system is taking over a database widely used by computers and websites to keep track of time zones around the world.
Internet
Oct 16, 2011
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Archaeologists say they have discovered a new form of primitive writing in markings on stoneware excavated from a relic site in eastern China dating about 5,000 years back. The inscriptions are about 1,400 years older than ...
Archaeology
Jul 10, 2013
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. leads its industry in part because a vast army of outside computer programmers design software that only runs on its Windows operating system. Now, the company is fighting to keep those programmers ...
Software
Nov 17, 2009
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The earliest-known example of Chinese writing – written more than 3,000 years ago on the bones of an ox – has become the world's first Chinese oracle bone to be scanned and printed in 3D.
Archaeology
Mar 22, 2016
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An oracle is a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion. It may also be a revealed prediction or precognition of the future, from deities, that is spoken through another object or life-form (e.g.: augury and auspice).
In the ancient world many sites gained a reputation for the dispensing of oracular wisdom: they too became known as "oracles," and the oracular utterances, called khrēsmoi in Greek, were often referred to under the same name—a name derived from the Latin verb ōrāre, to speak.
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