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Windows chief Steven Sinofsky has just been confirmed to appear at the ninth D: AllThingsDigital conference next week, and the smart odds are that he'll use the high-profile event to give the public its first view of Windows 8, the next version of Microsoft's operating system. Source: Yahoo! News

The final, conference-ready code for the #decodeme challenge is here. Each year, at the AusCERT conference, Sophos publishes a challenge in the form of a T-shirt. Visit the Sophos stand and you can pick up a T-shirt for yourself. Solve the challenge and you're on your way to winning a remote...

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So basically I will be In the middle of something and my pc just dies, not so much shuts down more like a power failure, it then restarts itself. It hasnt done it during any gaming so im sure its not anything overheating, monitoring programs says all mobo/processor/graphics card are all in good...

Famous people born on this day: --> 1929, Audrey Hepburn, actress. Events on this day in history: --> 1626, Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons. --> 1715, French manufacturer debuts first folding umbrella -- in Paris, not Cherbourg! --> 1851, First of the...

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made a surprise appearance on stage this morning at BlackBerry World 2011 to announce Bing will become the default search and map provider in all upcoming BlackBerry devices. The recently released BlackBerry Playbook, for example, already ships with the Bing Map...

Barack Obama hunting down, actually finding, and then killing Osama bin Laden spurred more knee-jerk internet reactions of people thinking they'd thought of something original since Balloon Boy was in the air. So, amidst a sea of poorly executed Waldo jokes and some really truly, horrible...

'I need to sleep but Osama had to pick this day to die' A bloke called Sohaib Athar has become a twitter celebrity having unknowingly twittered the raid that looks to have finally taken out Osama bin Laden. Athar, who tweets under the name @ReallyVirtual, was peering out of his window, laptop...

A few weeks ago Microsoft Research held an event on Microsoft Campus called TechFest. We show a lot of new projects and prototypes from our labs but we keep a lot of stuff behind closed doors. Many of you have seen what the enthusiast community has been doing with Kinect – there is an...

Elephants made a bit of a splash as they soaked crowds with their trunks in Thailand to mark the Songkran water festival. In Ayutthaya province, 50 miles north of Bangkok, the animals filled their trunks to drench tourists and locals who were celebrating on the streets. The natural...

Microsoft is holding a big event for developers in September, and will probably use it to show off the first public beta of Windows 8. That means the OS will probably ship a year later, in fall 2012. Source: Yahoo! News

YouTube Friday began hosting live streams. But don't go looking for how to get your basement version of Wayne's World on the internet just yet: For now, this power is reserved for pre-approved "trusted partners," not for the kitten-on-the-keyboard masses. YouTube isn't saying just how many...

He's got energy that would put some youngsters to shame – watch an inebriated OAP get on down to a bit of Led Zeppelin. The music is provided by Led Zeppelin tribute band The Crunge, who hail from Toronto, Canada, and our dance act entertains onlookers with a number of moves. After a...

When the content team plans sessions for MIX not only do they take into account practicality and applicability, but they also are tasked with programming inspirational content. And a lot of that mind-blowing, peek into the future content comes from the big brains working at and partnering with...

DUBAI (Reuters) – Auction house Christie's will put one of the world's largest pearls on the block at its Dubai spring jewelry sale on April 20 in a nostalgic reminder of the Emirate's pearl diving past. The auction house is showcasing an array of pearls, diamonds, gems and gold jewelry ahead...

Although I'm a C# .Net Software developer I can't figure you how to make the sounds work when creating a theme. I assign my startup .wav file to the "open window" event in order to hear it without having to shutdown and startup windows. When I get things like I like them I assign "none" to the...

Ah, summer days at the public swimming pool: No running, swim at your own risk and of course, no diving. Darren Taylor clearly doesn't remember that rule: The Denver resident recently broke the "certified shallow diving record," aka, the "hurling oneself from a very great height into a pool...

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