The PC market will weaken even further this year and Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8.1 OS will be unable to reverse the drop in shipments, IDC said on Thursday.
When we last left Tom Williams and his team of young engineers, they were busy bringing monster 1960s-era rocket engines back to life. That work continues to pay dividends, but Williams and the propulsion systems team at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, have a wide variety of projects in the works at the moment. Their latest? 3D printing rocket components from scratch and firing them.
A video of the hot-fire test from last week, courtesy NASA.
The test shown above, which occurred on August 22, involved an entire 3D printed injector plate—the largest 3D printed component NASA has ever tested. It delivered enough fuel and oxygen to produce 20,000 lbs of thrust (about 89 kilonewtons), a bit more than you can get from an F-15's Pratt and Whitney F100 turbofan running at full power.
Of course, NASA's 3D printing doesn't have much in common with the kind of home 3D printing I've spent the past few weeks experiencing. While I've been faffing about with thermoplastics and fused deposition modeling, NASA has been busy forming metal powders into solids with a technique called direct metal laser sintering (referred to as DMLS or just MLS). For last week's test, NASA had a contractor build a duplicate of a conventionally machined injector—a structure that introduces fuel and oxidizer into a rocket's combustion chamber.
Researchers have made it easier to exploit a five-month-old security flaw that allows penetration testers and less-ethical hackers to gain nearly unfettered "root" access to Macs over which they already have limited control.
The authentication bypass vulnerability was reported in March and resides in a Unix component known as sudo. While the program is designed to require a password before granting "super user" privileges such as access to other users' files, the bug makes it possible to obtain that sensitive access by resetting the computer clock to January 1, 1970. That date is known in computing circles as the Unix epoch, and it represents the beginning of time as measured by the operating system and most of the applications that run on it. By invoking the sudo command and then resetting the date, computers can be tricked into turning over root privileges without a password.
Developers of Metasploit, an open-source software framework that streamlines the exploitation of vulnerabilities in a wide array of operating systems and applications, recently added a module that makes it easier to exploit the sudo vulnerability on Macs. The addition capitalizes on the fact that all versions of OS X from 10.7 through the current 10.8.4 remain vulnerable. While the bug also affected many Linux distributions, most of those require a root password to change the computer clock. Macs impose no such restrictions on clock changes thanks to the systemsetup binary.
"The key with your career and life story is to weave in your upbringing, achievements, and what are your true values and beliefs, your ups and downs, and your mission," says Tappin. "Throughout the story you should be bringing out the true you and your personality."
Tappin says you need to tell this story in two to five minutes. Think of it sort of like an elevator pitch to help you connect with others.
Your story needs to incorporate:
1. The start point: My quest, my destination.
2. My achievements and failings
3. My values: Inspiring leadership, do the right thing, adventure, team.
4. My beliefs: “There is always a way.”
"To make this concrete, I would like to use a real-life example, and share with you the longer version of my own story," he says. "It is partly written in note format to indicate how you should shift it about and pick out the appropriate elements for the occasion."
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Everyone hates annoying sales calls, but one British man grew so tired of them he came up with a way to actually make money with every ring, according to the BBC.
Lee Beaumont paid £10 (about $15) to set up a premium phone number — known as an 0871 line in Britain — so every time someone called, they had to pay roughly 20 cents, with his cut being ~11 cents.
Writes Joe Kent in BBC:
He said: "I don't use my normal Leeds number for anyone but my friends and family."
Once he had set up the 0871 line, every time a bank, gas or electricity supplier asked him for his details online, he submitted it as his contact number.
With his new number, he made nearly $500 and ended up reducing his usual 20-30 calls to only 13 in the last month.
Genius? Maybe. For the rest of us in the U.S., of course, there's always the Do-Not-Call registry.
Two security researchers blew by Dropbox's security features, gained access to private user files and published a paper that explained how they did it.
Their goal was to get Dropbox to create an open source version of itself, which means that anyone could look at its code and verify that the service is secure.
"Dropbox will/should no longer be a black box," the researchers, Dhiru Kholia of Openwall and Przemysław Wegrzyn of CodePainters, wrote in their research paper.
There's a few interesting things about this Dropbox take-down. One is that, after Dropbox was hacked about a year ago, it added security features to protect users and make Dropbox more appealing to paying customers like enterprises.
For instance, it added encryption and something called "two-factor authentication" which makes users take extra steps to log into a Dropbox account.
The researchers disabled both of those protections.
More importantly, they "reverse engineered" the portion of Dropbox that runs on a user's computer. That means they looked at Dropbox's programming code. They shouldn't have been able to do that. Dropbox was written in Python using techniques that prevent reverse engineering.
There are a lot of cloud services using Python and these same techniques. This means they all could be at risk.
Ultimately, the researchers want to make Dropbox safer. They are hoping others will help them build a secure, open source method for using Dropbox. This would be freely available for Dropbox to adopt, if it wanted to.
Dropbox says that this research doesn't really put anyone's accounts at risk. A spokesperson gave us this statement:
“We appreciate the contributions of these researchers and everyone who helps keep Dropbox safe. However, we believe this research does not present a vulnerability in the Dropbox client. In the case outlined here, the user’s computer would first need to have been compromised in such a way that it would leave the entire computer, not just the user's Dropbox, open to attacks across the board."
Microsoft-owned Skype has revealed on its 10th anniversary that it is developing 3D video calling technology that could be brought to market when camera technology advances.
Jeff Gundlach says Apple is finished as a growth stock.
Appearing on CNBC this afternoon, the DoubleLine Funds CEO said he now has a neutral view of the stock after shares in the tech giant reached his goal of $500 — and he admitted that it wouldn't have even gotten to that level if not for Carl Icahn's recent comments that he was long the stock.
Instead, he said, shares will now slowly drift upward and stay range-bound in the low $500s. The stock was trading at about $495 this morning.
"All the easy money has been made," Gundlach said, adding, "It's kind of dead money."
It can be argued this is the third different position Gundlach has taken on Apple in 10 months.
Het aantal gebruikers van de anonimiteitssoftware Tor is momenteel zeer sterk aan het stijgen. De oorzaak voor de stijging is onduidelijk, maar mogelijk komt de sterke stijging door de introductie van de PirateBrowser, waarvoor Tor wordt gebruikt.
Microsoft heeft zijn SkyDrive-dienst van optical character recognition voorzien. Daardoor worden teksten in afbeeldingen herkend, die vervolgens apart worden opgeslagen. De feature is nog niet in het Nederlands beschikbaar.
Now that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has decided to retire within the year, the big question is, who on earth is qualified to run Microsoft and turn it around?
The answer is obvious: Bill Gates, says Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com's CEO and a visionary in his own right.
"There is no clear candidate with the visionary skills to turn the company around other than Bill Gates," Benioff told CNET. "He wouldn't just be a magnet for a new vision, but for a talent pool of leadership."
Benioff is really suggesting that Gates step up as an interim CEO, for no more than three years, leaving the reigns of his charitable foundation to his wife Melinda.
Benioff makes a good point. Gates probably is the best guy on the planet to do the job. You couldn't find another man on the planet that knows more about technology, healthcare issues, poverty, or education. And he's the kind of star power Microsoft needs.
But the official word from Microsoft it that Gates is saying, "no way." If he was willing, he likely would have agreed to step in as interim CEO on the day that Ballmer announced his retirement.
The general consensus among betting people is that Bill Gates is only slightly more likely to take the job than Apple CEO Tim Cook. U.K. betting pool site Ladbrokes places the odds that Gates comes back at 50-1, beat only by the odds that Cook takes the job, at 100-1.
McDonald's worker Nick Williams is one of thousands of fast food workers striking today to demand better wages.
Williams started working as a cashier at an Indianapolis McDonald's in March 2012 making $7.25 an hour — the federal minimum wage. A year later, he was promoted to line cook and was given hourly pay of $8.25.
Williams told Business Insider his take-home pay is just under $800 a month.
While his job is nearly full-time, Williams, 28, says his schedule is always capped off at 38 or 39 hours per week, making him ineligible for insurance benefits.
More than half of that goes to rent on the 2-bedroom apartment he shares with his chronically ill mother and disabled brother. The remaining $335 goes toward food, transportation and medical bills.
"I work almost every day and am eager for any shift they give me," Williams said. "I do everything I can to be a hard worker. It's disheartening when you can't even make ends meet."
Williams applied for food stamps, but was told his income was too high to qualify. Sometimes, his free employee meal at McDonald's is all he eats in a day.
"Because I live with family, we pool our resources for groceries, but sometimes we have to go without," Williams said. "Sometimes I come home from work and there's no food in the house."
The last time Williams treated himself to a movie, his favorite activity, was several months ago. He said he aspires to one day be able to go to the movies every weekend.
Williams recently fell ill with a sinus infection and went to a doctor. His bills totaled $600—nearly a month's wages.
Overtime is also out of the question. Part-time employees can be suspended for working more than 40 hours a week, Williams said.
Williams said he became involved in the strike after learning that his employer made $5.5 billion in profits last year.
He also learned his friend, a dishwasher at a small, locally-owned restaurant, makes a wage of $9.50 an hour — a wage he says sounded like a fortune.
"I felt completely betrayed because billions of dollars are extra and the people who work at McDonald's aren't making enough to live," Williams told Business Insider.
McDonald's CEO Don Thompson has defended his company's wages in the past.
In an interview with Bloomberg TV in July, Thompson said his company is an "above minimum-wage employer."
The striking workers are seeking a $15 hourly wage, but even that lofty increase wouldn't be enough for Williams to make ends meet.
An adult with one child needs to make $17.81 an hour working full time in the Indianapolis area to afford food, housing, and lodging, according to advocacy group Stand Up Chicago.
Williams is dubious about whether the strikes will be effective, but he isn't deterred.
"Even if my company isn't receptive, my voice will be heard no matter what," Williams said.
Payroll systems like ADP and Paychex are a necessary business evil; they're difficult to navigate and expensive. Three founders in Silicon Valley have designed a more attractive, cloud-based solution called ZenPayroll and in just eight months, they've seen a lot of traction.
The startup has processed over $100 million for the businesses that use it. Its CEO, Joshua Reeves, won't reveal how many companies are using ZenPayroll, but he says "thousands of employees are getting paid through it" and that his biggest customer represents less than 2% of that $100 million milestone.
The majority of companies using ZenPayroll are small businesses with less than ten employees. Reeves says they include bakeries, venture capitalists, law firms, hotels and churches.
ZenPayroll is backed by some heavy hitters in Silicon Valley, such as Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, Dropbox CEO, Drew Houston, Yammer founder David Sacks and Box CEO Aaron Levie. They've all contributed to a large, $6 million seed round of financing.
It appeals to small businesses who would rather use spreadsheets and cut checks then use older, complicated payroll systems. ZenPayroll offers small but frustration-saving features like the ability to e-sign documents and automate all payments. The service costs $25 per month if you have five employees, an extra $4 for employees number six through ten, and an extra $2 for every employee thereafter.
Once a business signs up, Reeves says there's a 10-15 minute setup process. Data never has to be entered more than once (i.e., you're not filling out the same paperwork or questions about your business multiple times). Bonuses, reimbursements and hours worked can be typed in below an employee's payroll information for quick, as-needed adjustments (see screenshot below).
ZenPayroll also strives to make the process more fun for employees. Rather than receive a monthly paper statement, ZenPayroll sends emails exclaiming "Cha-ching! You got paid." All pay stubs are stored in the cloud so employees don't have to hoard them offline. Once an employee leaves the company, he or she can still access all of the information. Reeves calls this a "lifetime account."
Reeves was born and raised in San Francisco. He graduated from Stanford with an electrical engineering degree in 2005 then went to work for Zazzle as one of its first ten employees. Now Zazzle employs 150 people. His other co-founders were running startups of their own, and each had their own frustrations with existing payroll systems.
They built ZenPayroll and participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2012 accelerator class. Reeves says the founders didn't pay themselves until they made sure ZenPayroll was a fully functioning system.
"There's a big shift happening toward delightful, easy-to-use software," says Reeves. "We look at Square leading that shift. Generally businesses have never gotten the best software out there. We're trying to bring that shift to payrolls."
Here's a screenshot of the ZenPayroll dashboard businesses see:
"Hit him hard," the cover reads. The text is on top of a picture of President Bashar al-Assad's face, on top of a backdrop of Syrians among the dead in the 2.5-year long civil war.
The cover comes as Western nations are said to be preparing a military response for the latest chemical weapons attack in the country, which both the UK and U.S. governments have said were carried out by the Assad regime.
There's still a great deal of skepticism out there about how big the market potential is for wearables — gadgets like smartwatches, connected fitness bands, and smart eyewear.
At BI Intelligence, Business Insider's paid research service, we believe this represents a failure in imagination. The important thing about wearables isn't so much about how strange they look or seem now, but the many problems they will help consumers solve.
There are signs that some analysts and investors are starting to clue in. This month, wearables company FitBit raised a $43 million round of financing, and IDC yesterday cited wearables as a fast-emerging category that may be helping slow down growth in the tablet market. Samsung is set to launch a smartwatch next week. Expectations for Apple's rumored iWatch are reaching a fever-pitch.
Those betting big on wearable computing also believe an assorted new crop of gadgets — mostly worn on the wrist or as eyewear — will transform the way in which we interact with the rest of our devices. A wristwatch or Google Glass means you can read instant messages, take photos, or Google something without reaching for your smartphone.
But wearables won't just complement smartphones.
Wearables will help us track our time, our fitness regimes, our health, and our daily routines.
Wearables are about taking the ubiquity of the Internet one step further. An Internet connection on a fitness band or on a wristwatch may seem a strange frill now. But over time it will seem like a no-brainer feature. A multi-time zone travel watch is a much simpler proposition with an Internet connection. So is a wristband that tracks your heartbeat and loads your beats-per-minute to the cloud, where an app might help you store and analyze real-time health data.
What is perhaps most intriguing about wearables is these new purposes they will serve. Because they are designed to be worn close to the body, they'll become indispensable for monitoring vital signs. Fitness bands like the Jawbone UP and FitBit already track how active we are, our sleep quality, how many steps we take during the day. Consumers of all sorts — fitness buffs, dieters, and the elderly — will come to rely on devices like these.
There are a dizzying variety of unique-to-wearables applications, from smart eyewear for remote medical training to wearables that help parents keep their infants and kids safe.
Speculation on the future market for wearables devices is a confusing mix of skepticism and hype. But in a recent reportfrom BI Intelligence, we put hard numbers to our ideas and forecast a $12 billion market for wearable devices, led by wrist-worn gadgets.
We also analyze various growth forecasts for the wearable computing market, explore the products and prospects of each component market — including bracelets, smartwatches, and eyewear, pocket-sized and clip-on devices, and examine the various barriers to entry for each, and look at how wearables could bring along new platform wars. Subscribers also gain access to our May 2013 Google Glass forecast.
Smartwatches: Like fitness bands, they are employing wireless links — invariably, Bluetooth — to link up with a smartphone. But instead of collecting information, like most fitness bands, watches will display it. Promoters of smartwatches also highlight the fact that users will no longer have to constantly reach into their pockets for a smartphone — an action becoming more awkward as phone screen sizes grow.
"Twerk" has been added to Oxford Dictionaries Online — and the world can thank Miley Cyrus for making it happen.
Quartz broke the news on Tuesday, announcing that the Oxford University Press, which publishes the more popular Oxford English Dictionary, approved a slew of tech slang and pop culture references for its online edition.
Here's how ODO defines the verb:
twerk (v.): to dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting stance
Quartz reports the print dictionary will not include the word.
Phablet, selfie, bitcoin, emoji, FOMO, girl crush, Internet of things, jorts, srsly, vom, and derp, which we helped make happen, also made their way into the online dictionary.
Just over 155 years ago, Charles Darwin first published his theory of evolution through natural selection, which has become a foundation stone for modern society's understanding of our origins and biology in general.
Over time, Darwin's landmark theory has become accepted by scientists as irrefutable fact, but you might not know it by sitting in on some high school science classes.
In public schools across the country, some teachers continue to argue for the legitimacy of creationist theories — that humanity and our planet were intelligently "created" by some higher being — and attempt to instill doubts about evolution.
Teaching creationist ideas in science classes confuses what constitutes science and what does not. It compromises the objectives of public education and the goal of a high-quality science education."
Despite this, here are three ways creationism and intelligent design continue to make their way into public school classrooms:
1. Critics emphasize that evolution is a "theory" that can be critiqued and questioned
Texas lawmakers made headlines in 2009 when they debated the state's science curriculum standards, which then included the infamous "strengths and weaknesses" phrasing to describe how to evaluate scientific hypotheses and theories. Many science educators believed that this phrase opened the door for teachers to bring up completing "theories," such as creationism.
The revised standard now reads that "all sides of scientific evidence" should be considered when examining "scientific explanations," a wording change that is still upsetting education advocates.
One school district's Bible class featured an "Origins of the Earth Presentation," which encouraged students to categorize interpretations of Genesis as either a "Biblical Perspective" or a "Secular Perspective." This assignment, according to the report, suggests "that anyone who doesn't embrace a creationist reading of Genesis is 'secular.'"
Additionally, two school districts hosted presentations that argued that the Earth was only 6,000-years-old.
3. Some teachers take matters into their own hands and directly tell students what they think
One chemistry teacher told the Post-Gazette, "Sometimes students honestly look me in the eye and ask what do I think? I tell them that I personally hold the Bible as the source of truth ... It doesn't in any way disrupt the educational process. I'm entitled to my beliefs as much as the evolutionist is."
He said this comes up most often when he teachers radiocarbon dating, a technique that validates archaeological finds older than 10,000 years — which the chemistry teacher says is the age of Earth according to the Bible. "I tell them that I don't think [radiocarbon dating] is as valid as the textbook says it is, noting other scientific problems with the dating method," he said.
Microsoft heeft aangekondigd dat het de opslagcapaciteit voor SkyDrive Pro-gebruikers vergroot van 7GB naar 25GB. De zakelijke cloudopslagdienst speelt met de verhoging van de beschikbare capaciteit in op soortgelijke verhogingen van Box.
Astronomers in Brazil used the European Space Agency's (ESA) Very Large Telescope to find the oldest known star that is similar to our sun.
HIP 102152 is located 250 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Capricornus and is believed to be 8.2 billion years old. Since our sun is only 4.6 billion years old, HIP 102152 gives us a preview of what our sun will look like in 4 billion years.
For one thing, HIP 102152 has very low levels of lithium. Lithium is the third element in the periodic table that was created in the Big Bang, along with hydrogen and helium. Right now our sun has just 1% of the lithium content that was available in the gas cloud that formed it. As time goes on, researchers can now be certain that stars destroy their lithium as they age, according to an ESO statement.
“For decades, astronomers have been searching for solar twins in order to know our own life-giving Sun better," lead researcher Jorge Melendez said in a statement."But very few have been found since the first one was discovered in 1997. We have now obtained superb-quality spectra from the VLT and can scrutinise solar twins with extreme precision, to answer the question of whether the Sun is special."
Physicists have been chasing antimatter technology for more than 80 years now — driven by the promise of oppositely oriented particles that explode in a burst of energy whenever they make contact with their more common counterpart. If we could tame antimatter, those explosions could be used to power a new generation of technology, from molecular scanners to rocket engines to the so-called "annihilation laser," a tightly concentrated energy beam fueled by annihilating positrons. But while scientists have seen recent breakthroughs in creating the particles, they still have trouble capturing and containing them.
The next time your parents ask you to explain (again) what a "selfie" is, give them this definition:
selfie, n. (informal): a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.
That's a selfie, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, which added the popular term to its database this week. Along with it, phablet, hackerspace, emoji, and TL;DR to name a few. Tech-speak that has gained notoriety from widespread use on social media over the last few years.
Some of these words may sound unfamilar to the untrained eye. A phablet is a phone so large that it's almost a tablet, TL;DR (too long; didn't read) refers to a story that was so long you didn't read it. Hackerspace? A place where people with mutual interest in technology can join up and share ideas. Emojis, those little cartoon icons people text with, are so integrated into our virtual lives they're showing up in music videos.
"Srsly" has also made its way to the list of official words, an abbreviation of "seriously." With a 140-character-limit on Twitter, removing the vowels has often been common practice for users. Twerk, or shaking your butt to music, has also been crowned as an official word.
In 2012, sexting, mash-up, and game changer were added to the Oxford English dictionary too. In 2010, we couldn't believe the addition of microblogging, tweetup, and hater; words we still hear on the regular.
For those who aren't thrilled about the new words on the block, it's too soon to tell if their place in the dictionary means ubiquitous usage for years to come. After all, 2009 welcomed the word "meatspace".
Swedish scientists have confirmed the existence of a new super-heavy element, temporarily dubbed ununpentium for its position at the 115th spot on the periodic table. First proposed by Russian scientists back in 2004, the new element was created by a Swedish team from Lund University. They fired a beam of calcium, which has 20 protons, into a piece of americium, which has 95 protons. For an entire second, ununpentium burst into existence, composed of 115 protons.
As to why this is important, the Christian Science Monitorwrites that "scientists hope that by creating heavier and heavier elements, they will find a theoretical 'island of stability,' an undiscovered region in the periodic table where stable super-heavy elements with as yet...
China is preparing to launch Chang'e-3, an unmanned probe that will soft-land on the moon, some time before the end of the year, according to state-owned news sources. China launched Chang'e-1 and Chang'e-2, unmanned lunar probes, into orbit around the moon in 2007 and 2010. Chang'e-3 is the first that will actually land on the surface, using an unspecified technique to slow the probe's speed as it approaches the moon.
"Chang'e-3 has officially entered its launch implementation stage following its research and construction period," Xinhua reported today. A specific date was not announced. The government has been saying for months that the rover will launch in December from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province; today's...
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Why Google+ Isn't Going Anywhere Anytime Soon (L2 Think Tank) Google+, which gained momentum after a successful launch in 2011 but then suffered from a slowdown in growth, is now surging in popularity, defying the predictions of many pundits who said it would fade away. L2 Think Tank Founder Scott Galloway says that's because Google has effectively integrated Google+ with its most popular products, such as Search and Gmail, which places the social network in front of Google users throughout the day.
We noted in our recent analysis that Google+ has surpassed Twitter in monthly unique visitors on PCs. Read >
Facebook Pays $20 Million Settlement In Privacy Lawsuit (Reuters) Facebook was sued in 2011, because "Sponsored Stories" shared users' "likes" of certain ads with friends without paying them or giving them the option to opt out. As part of the settlement, Facebook will also give users more control over how their content is shared. Read >
Users Take To Twitter And Tumblr During VMAs (AdWeek) During MTV's Video Music Awards, 1.1 million Tumblr users posted content with VMA-related keywords while 3 million Twitter users did the same. Read >
Computer Virus Has Affected 800,000 Facebook Users (The New York Times) A new virus that appears as a link in an e-mail or Facebook message is downloading malware on users computers that allows the perpetrator to gain access to all stored data on that person's browser, including passwords. Read >
Twitter Hires Its First Head Of Commerce (Bloomberg) Twitter has hired Nathan Hubbard, former president of Ticketmaster, as its first head of commerce. Hubbard told Bloomberg News that he's going to "go to people who have stuff to sell and help them use Twitter to sell it more effectively." In other words, Twitter is preparing for its foray into social commerce. Read >
KPN gaat het verkoopkanaal van jongerenmerk Hi herstructureren. Negen van de totaal 64 winkels van Hi worden binnenkort gesloten. Op termijn gaat KPN mogelijk alle winkels van Hi sluiten.
Audiences continue to swoon over The X-Files 20 years after it first aired, but creator Chris Carter isn't looking back — and his latest project is a collaboration with Amazon. Deadline Hollywood reports that Amazon Studios has ordered a pilot for a new Carter series called The After. It's described as a thriller that takes place at the moment the apocalypse strikes, and was both written and will be directed by Carter.
Original programming has become a fierce battleground for online companies ever since Netflix proved its mettle with a stream of quality shows this year, ranging from Arrested Development to Orange is the New Black. Amazon has gotten its feet wet by moving forward with children's shows and comedies, but as of yet...
Parallels is best known for its virtualization software that lets Mac owners seamlessly run Microsoft's Windows OS. But today the company is taking up another mission: it's attempting to bring desktop apps to the iPad in a way that's intuitive and actually useful for consumers. Many have tried and failed; dozens of iOS applications already allow users to remotely control a PC or Mac with Apple's tablet. But no clear favorite has emerged. Parallels previously gave it a shot with Parallels Mobile, an app that was quietly discontinued earlier this year. But with a new product called Parallels Access — which requires a separate $79.99 annual subscription for each computer you use it with — the company thinks it has found the right...
"Twerk" has been added to Oxford Dictionaries Online — and the world can thank Miley Cyrus for making it happen. 
Just over 155 years ago, Charles Darwin first published his theory of evolution through natural selection, which has become a foundation stone for modern society's understanding of our origins and biology in general.
The next time your parents ask you to explain (again) what a "selfie" is, give them this definition:
Why Google+ Isn't Going Anywhere Anytime Soon (L2 Think Tank) 
