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When does your browser send a "Referer" header (or not)?, (Sun, Aug 25th) 25 Aug 2013 | 06:30 am
""(note: per RFC, we spell the Referer header with one r, well aware that in proper English, one would spell the word referrer with double r). The "Referer" header is frequently considered a privacy ...
Facebook kills physical Gifts in favor of digital redemption codes 24 Aug 2013 | 08:59 pm
""Not even a year after its inception, Facebook is killing physical Gifts. According to TechCrunch, [/I]the social media giant is ending its intermediary role for sending teddy bears, wine and chocola...
Scientists set new stabilty record with ytterbium atomic clock 23 Aug 2013 | 10:13 pm
""The story of scientific advancement is rarely one of leaps and bounds. More often than not it's evolution over revolution, and the story of the so-called ytterbium atomic clock fits that bill perfec...
Report: NSA used taxpayer dollars to cover PRISM compliance costs for tech companies 23 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
""The mounting national debt? Yeah, you're probably better off just ignoring why exactly it's mounting. The Guardian is continuing the blow the lid off of the whole NSA / PRISM saga, today revealing n...
Judge Koh denies Samsung a retrial over Apple's invalidated bounce-back patent 23 Aug 2013 | 03:43 pm
""Now that the bounce-back portion of Apple's infamous patent 7,649,381 has been invalidated by the USPTO, Samsung was understandably pressing for a retrial or a final decision that was more in its fa...
Galaxy Tab 3 gets rebranded as 'Homeboy' for launch on LG's Korean mobile network 23 Aug 2013 | 02:32 pm
""Considering that Korea's warring giants don't get along too well, it's amusing to see LG offering a Samsung-made tablet on LG U+, the latter's domestic cellular network. The "Homeboy" is a re-brande...
DARPA's private internet and cloud for soldiers shows promise in the field 22 Aug 2013 | 07:53 pm
""Sure, we hear about DARPA's robots all the time, but they're not the only things keeping the agency busy. Take CBMEN, for example -- a DARPA project that's goal is to create a private ad-hoc data ne...
Google applies for location-based security patent, toughens up your smartphone while 22 Aug 2013 | 05:36 pm
"" Google's knack with location services helps us to get around, but hopefully, that same tech will serve to keep our devices safe in the future. Mountain View has applied to patent a system that modi...
NSA collected up to 56,000 emails not connected to terrorism a year, blames error 22 Aug 2013 | 01:14 am
""We can't say as though we're particularly surprised to see such numbers, but, well, at least they're finally coming to light. According to The Washington Post, newly declassified court documents hig...
Facebook opens up embedded posts to everyone 22 Aug 2013 | 12:42 am
""Now that Facebook has let media outlets try their hand at embedded posts for a few weeks, it's opened up that door to the rest of us plebeians. Everyone, and yes we mean everyone, can now embed any ...
