News tagged with software tool

Hacker thieves targeted Anonymous allies: Symantec

Anonymous on Monday gave mixed reactions to a US computer security firm's report that backers of the notorious hacker group were suckered into downloading software that steals online banking information.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Facebook co-founder unveils Asana productivity software

Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz unveiled his highly anticipated new company, a developer of software that aims to help people work more efficiently.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Mozilla resists request to remove Firefox tool

Mozilla, the non-profit developer of the Firefox Web browser, is holding off on complying with a government request to remove a software tool meant to circumvent federal efforts at curbing Internet piracy.

Technology / Internet

created May 06, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 20

Improved method for protein sequence comparisons is faster, more accurate, sensitive

Lightning fast and yet highly sensitive: HHblits is a new software tool for protein research which promises to significantly improve the functional analysis of proteins. A team of computational biologists led by Dr. Johannes ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 25, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Google refines searches for pictures and news

Google on Monday unveiled software tools that let people search the Internet using pictures or chronologically organize results of queries for news.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

With 'Google Earth' for Mars, explore the red planet from home

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new software tool developed by the HiRISE team in the UA's Lunar and Planetary Lab allows members of the public to download high-resolution images of the Martian landscape almost instantaneously ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 29 | with audio podcast

FBI contacted phone monitoring firm about software

A senior executive at a technology company that makes monitoring software secretly installed on 141 million cellphones said Thursday that the FBI approached the company about using its technology but was reb ...

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 7

Open-source software designed to minimize synthetic biology risks

A software package designed to minimize the potential risks of synthetic biology for the nation's defense and security is now available to the gene synthesis industry and synthetic biology community in an open-source format.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Software tool helps tap into the power of graphics processing

Today's computers rely on powerful graphics processing units (GPUs) to create the spectacular graphics in video games. In fact, these GPUs are now more powerful than the traditional central processing units (CPUs) - or brains ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 17, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

iPhone goes nuclear

A fission reaction in a nuclear reactor? There's an "app" for that! An iPhone "application" or software developed by the University of Utah's Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute to look at medical ...

Technology / Software

created May 06, 2010 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New software quantifies leaf venation networks, enables plant biology advances

Plant biologists are facing pressure to quantify the response of plants to changing environments and to breed plants that can respond to such changes. One method of monitoring the response of plants to different ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Google adds language translation to Android smartphones

Google on Thursday released free software that lets smartphones based on its Android operating systems be used as language translation tools.

Technology / Software

created May 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New software helps researchers find meaning in massive scientific data sets

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the biggest challenges today's scientists face is sorting and making sense of the massive amounts of data produced by advanced scientific instruments and supercomputers. In response ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 24, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Jury orders SAP to pay Oracle 1.3 billion dollars

A US jury has ordered German business software giant SAP to pay US rival Oracle 1.3 billion dollars in damages in a record-setting copyright infringement award.

Technology / Business

created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Concerns grow over children using tablet computers

Electronic tablets like the iPad are a revolutionary educational tool and are becoming part of childhood, but should be watched carefully so that overuse doesn't lead to learning or behavioral problems, experts ...

Technology / Other

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Programming tool

A programming tool or software development tool is a program or application that software developers use to create, debug, maintain, or otherwise support other programs and applications. The term usually refers to relatively simple programs that can be combined together to accomplish a task, much as one might use multiple hand tools to fix a physical object.

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