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Facebook App Simulates Dementia to Promote Awareness Facebook has allowed its users to collect memories, store photos, make connections, and keep up with their social lives. FaceDementia, a new app from Alzheimer's Research UK, uses those same abilities to help others understand the challenges of suffering from dementia. |
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Linux Foundation Announces Initiative to Avert the Next Heartbleed In response to the Heartbleed OpenSSL security crisis, one of the Internet’s biggest security breaches, The Linux Foundation announced the Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII), a multimillion-dollar collaborative project to fund and support what are deemed critical open source projects. |
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Should Non-IT Professionals Learn to Code? Globally, there has been a lot of push in the last year to generate more coding awareness among non-IT professionals. However, even for those who agree that coding is important, there are differing opinions about who should learn it. What is vital is understanding the end goal of learning to code. |
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Can Amazon Thrive in the Smartphone Market? From its start as a book seller to a one-stop shop to its leadership in complex technologies and cloud computing, the one area that the world has eagerly anticipated Amazon branching into is smartphones. And now it's official—Amazon will be releasing its smartphone later this year. |
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Data Leaks—Will Secure Programming Save the Day? 2014 is already shaping up to be another horrible year for compromised data. With all the widely publicized large-scale data leaks, there has to be a better way to secure sensitive data and applications. Secure programming, combined with more sophisticated network separation, might be the answer. |
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Google’s Project Ara Phone: Will You Accept the Challenge? What if there were a modular smartphone, an endoskeleton with interchangeable parts you could customize to your needs? Google's Advanced Technology and Projects group is working on a concept—Project Ara—that will enable users to configure their own phone according to their personal preferences. |
