Facebook announces Antivirus Marketplace

Summary: Facebook has partnered with five companies (Microsoft, McAfee, TrendMicro, Sophos, and Symantec) to provide improved security for its users. That includes free antivirus solutions for six months. Facebook today announced the Antivirus Marketplace, or just The AV Marketplace for short. The news is two-fold: the social network giant has partnered with Microsoft, McAfee, TrendMicro, Sophos, and Symantec to provide its users with access to full version antivirus software...

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Build-Your-Own "Ultimate" Adobe Photoshop CS6 PC

Summary: Photoshop is a big, heavy application that, when pushed hard, can bring even a high-end system to its knees. For hardcore graphics designers, a dedicated piece of kit is essential. Without a doubt, the single most-requested feature here on Hardware 2.0 in the ‘Build-Your-Own PC’ category is for an “Ultimate” Photoshop system. Now that Adobe has officially launched Photoshop CS6, it’s time to take a look at this new release and prepare a hardware package that does it justice. It...

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Move Over, Boys! Studies Show More Women Are Becoming Hardcore Gamers!

Stereotypically, they have taken on the role of the disapproving girlfriend, arms folded, eyes rolling, as the boys huddle around a glowing television, gripping controllers as they go into battle. Women, however, are no longer an enigma in the hardcore gaming community. In fact, professional women are dedicating hours a week to video games – comprising 42 per cent of gamers, according to the Entertainment Software Association. As the Star Tribune reports, that statistic includes...

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MacBook Pro 2012 could feature Liquidmetal technology

Summary: But there are potential obstacles to constructing a notebook chassis from Liquidmetal, the primary being how the material handles heat. The blogosphere just won’t let go of the idea that Apple is on the verge of using Liquidmetal technology in one of its products. Last week it was the iPhone 5 that was going to get the Liquidmetal treatment, and now it’s rumored to be a feature of the MacBook Pro 2012 refresh. SlashGear reports that Apple could cast the chassis...

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Should we allow Facebook access for actively serving military personnel?

Summary: The wife of an active-duty soldier learned of his death, not through the military’s very carefully thought-out death-notification procedure, but over Facebook. A few days ago, we became aware of a very sad story. The wife of an active-duty soldier learned of his death, not through the military’s very carefully thought-out death-notification procedure, but over Facebook. CBS News: Wife of Fort Carson soldier learns of his death on Facebook Death is a fact of life in the military, as it is in other very dangerous jobs, like...

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A 4 year Old Kills His Father Because Of A Game Console!

The daily “Asharq”, quoting police Jizan (south), said that a child aged four and seven months, took his father’s pistol and shot him on the brow bone, killing him instantly.The newspaper said the child had asked his father to buy him a PlayStation, but he came back without the valuable game console.The child grabbed the gun when his father got rid of it and shot...

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Abortion clinic seeing thousands of copycat hacking attempts

Summary: Ever since a hacker was arrested for stealing 10,000 database records from the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), the abortion clinic is now seeing thousands of copycat hacking attempts.Last month, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), Britain’s largest abortion provider, saw 10,000 database records stolen by 27-year-old hacker James Jeffery, who was thankfully arrested the day he planned to release the data. Last week, Jeffery was sentenced to 32 months...

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Anonymous hacks Formula 1

Summary: Anonymous has hacked and executed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against official and fan-created Formula 1 websites. The group is protesting the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Bahrain.The hacktivist group Anonymous yesterday performed a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against Formula 1’s main website (formula1.com), which is operational again today. The group also hacked and defaced a Formula 1 fan site ( f1-racers.net), which is still not operational today....

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