4th August 2007 Archive
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NBC muckraker gets hacked at Defcon
Defcon Scurries like a cockroach after being outted as undercover TV reporter
A rare moment of drama came to Defcon when a woman fled the conference after being identified in front of hundreds of other attendees as an undercover television reporter on a crusade to expose collusion between cyber criminals and federal agents. The woman, identified by conference organizers as a producer for Dateline NBC, …
Security 4 Aug 2007, 01:46
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Maths might tell us how kids learn language
How vocab grows from zero to 60,000
A psychology professor reckons he has found a mathematical explanation for the "learning spurt" children experience while learning language. How children learn language so quickly has long been debated. One explanation is the "grammar gene" or language instinct posited by Stephen Pinker which suggests children, for a limited …
Biology 4 Aug 2007, 06:02
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Half of GPS users given duff information
The robots can't be trusted
Half of those using stand-alone GPS equipment have been sent down the wrong road thanks to out of date or inaccurate information, though not all of them directly into a river. TeleNav, who make software for GPS-equipped phone handsets, hired survey-company Zoomerang to poll 500 users of stand-alone GPS equipment. Half of those …
Mobile 4 Aug 2007, 06:02
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Trade in your software, urges UK reseller
Discount licensing
Business software users are being offered the chance to trade in used software like they would a second hand car. A Staffordshire-based company is offering reductions on new software if old versions are handed in for resale. Staffordshire's Discount Licensing has started a trading scheme because its business of selling used …
Channel Register 4 Aug 2007, 09:02
