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• Microsoft's Sway app will now save your hard work from deletion

  23-01-2016 16:29
  
  Users of Microsoft's new Sway presentation app can now rest easier knowing their work won't get accidentally deleted, thanks to a set of new features the company released Friday.
  When people go and delete a Sway that they're working on, it's sent to the service's Recycle Bin, where it can be recovered for 30 days, rather than disappearing forever right off the bat. It's good news for people who put hours of work into creating presentations using Sway, only to have them disappear in th
  
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• Google's $1B to Apple for iOS search rights was a steal

  23-01-2016 16:25
  
  Google paid Apple $1 billion in 2014 for the right to be the default search provider on iOS devices, including iPhones and iPads, according to a report by Bloomberg Thursday.
  "Is that a steal? Absolutely," said Will Stofega, an analyst with IDC, in an interview today. "Given as much as Apple has captured the high end of smartphones, [iOS users] are the people with more money." And so they're of great interest to any search provider whose revenue depends on ads, like Google.
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• Security Recruiter Directory

  23-01-2016 16:23
  
  Looking for a qualified candidate or new job? CSO's security recruiter directory is your one-stop shop.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Most Americans support smart gun adoption, survey finds

  23-01-2016 16:22
  
  Nearly 60% of all Americans who'd be interested in purchasing a gun are willing to buy a smart gun or childproof gun -- one that only functions in the hands of an authorized user, a new survey has found.
  The web-based survey of almost 4,000 people, conducted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, found that 59% would buy a gun that used fingerprint detection or wireless technology to limit its use.
  In addition to overall support, the survey found that four in 10 gun owners and
  
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• Last call for Windows 7: Microsoft's transitional list includes over 100 Skylake PCs

  23-01-2016 16:19
  
  A Windows 7 PC running Skylake: If this is your dream, you'll have over 100 systems to choose from in the list of PCs from Dell, HP, Lenovo, and NEC that Microsoft published Friday.
  It’s all part of a plan Microsoft outlined last week to push customers to Windows 10 through a list of modern PCs that can be configured with either Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. 
  But there’s a catch: OS support for the new systems runs out on July 17, 2017, when the systems must be migrated over t
  
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• The evolution of the Macintosh

  23-01-2016 13:57
  
  The Evolution of the MacintoshImage by ComputerworldThis year marks the 32nd anniversary of the arrival of Apple’s Macintosh computer -- the Mac -- which has evolved substantially, especially over the past decade. From only 128KB of memory in the first Mac to 16GB in the current Mac Pro, Apple has continually redefined its products from design and aesthetics to functionality and productivity. The Mac now accounts for 7.5% of the declining PC market, with sales continuing to outperform sale
  
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• The Westport Independent review: It's about ethics in journalism

  23-01-2016 13:00
  
  The story goes that in the 1890s, William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer led the United States of America to war—not as generals, nor presidents nor members of congress, but as newspaper owners. Hungry for ever-more-outrageous stories, the New York World and the New York Journal exaggerated and outright-fabricated stories of trouble and rebellion in Cuba until the US military was forced to intervene.
  At least, that’s how the story goes. It’s a piece of history that's half
  
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• Why open source is the 'new normal' for big data

  23-01-2016 00:40
  It's no secret that Hadoop and Apache Spark are the hottest technologies in big data, but what's less often remarked upon is that they're both open-source.Mike Tuchen, a former Microsoft executive who is now CEO of big-data vendor Talend, thinks that's no coincidence."We're seeing a changing of the guard," he said. "We expect the entire next-generation data platform will be open source."The platform he's referring to is an expanded Hadoop ecosystem, in which the whole stack is open source. "It's
  
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