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Early August Hacking News Roundup In this roundup of interesting hacking news, find out about the FBI's hacking techniques to thwart potential criminals. Also, see how an artist-hacker has successfully tampered with Teddy Ruxpin dolls and created something rather unsettling. |
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What ALM Tool Features Best Support Agile Software Development? Joe Farah details the key features necessary in application lifecycle management (ALM) tools to make them practical for agile development. At a minimum, agile-friendly ALM tools must support user stories, prioritization, traceability, continuous integration, and metrics for post-iteration analysis. |
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New Weather Supercomputers Ready for 2013 Hurricane Season On July 25, 2013, the National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, flipped the switch on two new weather supercomputers that are running an upgraded hurricane research and forecasting model designed to more accurately project storm intensity and structure. |
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Why Firefox OS May Change the Way Software Is Released Two key news items from the mobile world in 2013 were the launch of Blackberry Z10 and the announcement of Firefox OS-powered mobile devices. These devices may be different in form or factor, but they share one unintentional similarity—the locales in which the devices were first launched. |
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Why Developers Will Decide the Fate of Google Chromecast Last week's celebration of Google Chromecast has done more than simply die down. It's turned into downright speculation that even with Google's allowing developers to begin creating their own apps for it, many developers may pass. We look at what's inside the USB to see what's there—and what's not. |
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Predictive Software Helps Police Stop Crimes Before They Happen Police are attempting to beat suspects to the scene of a crime with a computer program that indicates where criminal activity is most likely to happen. It’s called predictive policing, and the software uses past statistics and continually calibrated data to predict when and where crime will strike. |
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Is the Age of Privacy Really Over? Online social connections are at an all-time high. While there are clear positives from all of these interactions, end users always have concerns about whether too much information is being extracted from them and whether the data is being appropriately shared and used. Is privacy over? |
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Researchers Create Programming Language for Quantum Computers Researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, have developed a new high-level programming language dubbed Quipper. What makes Quipper such a milestone for programming is the fact that it’s tailored for quantum computers. |
