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As Steve Ballmer said last year, Windows 8 is a huge risk for Microsoft in a lot of ways -- it will offer a new look, run on different hardware, and break backwards compatibility with millions of existing Windows apps. Source: Yahoo! News

If any of you don't have problems with overclockin you can skip reading this post. I was testing some overclocking on my old computer and after a day or two my graphick, 1 gb of ram and my hard disk failed. That's the reason i posted this post. I strongli recomennd for you that you don't...

EPCO Fights Humidity in No 2 Reactor – Workers HospitalizedTEPCO has now released to the media that more than 9 workers have suffered from heatstroke, and at least two workers were hospitalized for dehydration. The weather onsite is beginning to heat up for summer, and this will make it much...

When Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer called the new Windows his company's riskiest bet, not many knew what he meant. The reveal of Windows 8 was laying those cards out on the table: it's a belief that tablets will not only be popular but the primary way to compute. We're of the mind that, much...

Last fall, Steve Ballmer said that Windows 8 was Microsoft's riskiest product ever. He wasn't kidding. We've only seen a demo -- there's no reliable word on when it will ship, what the tablets that use it will look like, or even how much of the demo was prototype versus actual code in the...

The Mac App Store is the recently launched integrated application store for Mac OS X which brings the experience of the iPhone and iPad App Store to Apple's general purpose operating system. For the user, this promises a one-stop shop for Mac applications and easy installation and updating. But...

BEIJING, May 16 (Xinhuanet) --Turning to Japan, where new evacuations have begun beyond the 30-kilometer exclusion zone around the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant. Meanwhile, a giant barge to store radioactive water has been sent to the damaged facility to bolster stabilization efforts...

There must be a large leak," Junichi Matsumoto, a general manager at the utility also known as Tepco, told a news conference on Thursday. "The fuel pellets likely melted and fell, and in the process may have damaged ... the pressure vessel itself and created a hole," he added. Since the...

Hello everyone, Pete Voss here again, and as I previously mentioned in the Advanced Notification on Thursday, today we are releasing two bulletins to help protect customers. The bulletins address a Critical vulnerability in Microsoft Windows and two Important vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office...

It's not every day someone decides to take a helicopter ride up a 4,000m mountain in the Andes and ride a motorcycle off the top of it, but Julio Munoz doesn't appear to be an everyday kind of guy. The world-famous Chilean base-jumper is clearly crazy - but he also makes jaw-dropping...

TOKYO—A project to install air filters to reduce airborne radiation at the No. 1 reactor building of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex began Monday, in a move aimed at allowing workers to enter the building for the first time since the start of the crisis to make needed repairs...

When the Lyrid meteor shower hits full strength Friday and Saturday morning, it will mark a sort of planetary triple crown: Earth Day, Good Friday and Passover. The Lyrids are one of the oldest known showers, creating a light show usually seen easily from Earth -- and completely harmless...

Last summer at the Black Hat security conference, we announced a philosophical shift in how we refer to vulnerability disclosure, called "Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure" (CVD). Our intent was to focus on how coordination and collaboration are required to resolve security issues in a way...

! - The Japanese government is trying to calm fears about radiation levels and food safety in the region around the heavily damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility, even as it has raised the severity rating of the crisis to the highest possible level. "Radiation is continuing to leak...