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  • Scientists use Kinect to astronauts “weigh”

    Researchers believe with the help of Microsoft’s Kinect, the mass of an astronaut in weightlessness to accurately measure. This should astronauts be easier to their body condition to keep an eye on. As astronauts for extended periods of time in weightlessness condition, they lose up to 15 percent of body mass because of the lack…

  • Root allows full Android interface on the Motorola Motoactv possible

    Developers have managed to get the Motorola Motoactv of a full Android installation. The fitnessapparaatje running on Googles mobile OS, but has an interface that is focused on fitnessfunctionaliteit. In a demonstration video is shown what is possible after the rooten of the Motoactv. So, the developer has a custom launcher installed, and is it…

  • Activists deploy drones against Japanese whalers

    Activists of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society have unmanned planes used in the fight that they conduct against Japanese whalers. So people knew they are using the drones to a Japanese harpoenschip to locate. The activists launched the drone from the Sea Shepherd boat Steve Irwin. The drone knew Saturday after a trail above the…

  • Star Wars: The Old Republic draws more than 1 million players

    The source is not entirely clear, but the website of USA Today claims that the new mmog Star Wars: The Old Republic now has over 1 million members, that in addition, a slight preference for the Dark Side. On the website of USA Today is a list to find the facts about Star Wars: The…

  • ‘Avatars with firearms are no longer welcome on Xbox Live”

    According to developer Epic Games, Microsoft the rules for the use of avatars on Xbox Live-esteem. Avatars that firearms carry, as from 1 January no longer welcome. The consolebouwer however, this has not yet been confirmed. Will Kinsler, community manager of Epic Games warns fans through the forum of the studio that the Lancer and…

  • Anonymous claims to hack intelligence company Stratfor

    The website of Stratfor, a company that is active in the inlichtingensector, is cracked. The hack is incorporating lwa ist by Anonymous. In addition, a customer list would be the hackers are also a large number of credit card details in the hands. The web site of Stratfor was Saturday some time defaced by the…

  • Myst appears in 3d for 3DS

    Publisher Maximum Family Games would like to in the spring of 2012 a new version of the classic point-and-click puzzle game Myst on the market. The game is expanded with a new chapter that the Rime Age is going to be called. In the new version of Myst, made by Hoplite Research, the two-dimensional original…

  • Spamhaus warns of ddos-attacks on snmp-servers

    The British spambestrijder Spamhaus has let know that in december, ddos attacks must be processing a relatively new type of. The attackers chose an snmp-based attack where the target is flooded with udp packets. Spamhaus suggests that the shift signalled in the type of attack on his website. Instead of ‘classic’ dns amplification attacks, where…

  • Asus ceo confirms arrival Transformer tablets with Windows 8

    The ceo of Asus has confirmed that his company next year Transformer tablets will release Windows 8 to run. The Taiwanese technology company hopes in 2012 to six million tablets to be able to sell at 1.8 million this year. Asus ceo Jonney Shih told Taiwan Economic News that laptops for dataproductie and tablets for…

  • GoDaddy pulls support for antipiraterijvoorstel in after criticism from customers

    The large domain name registrar, GoDaddy said initially, its support to the controversial proposal for the stop online piracy act, but hops back after the company a large number of customers threatened to lose, including Wikipedia. Already in april, GoDaddy is known the sopa proposal to support. The proposal establishes, among other dns blocking of…

  • Bios updates indicate the arrival of AMD Phenom II X8 update

    From bios updates for ECS and Jetway motherboards is that AMD’s new processors under the Phenom II X8-line on the market. The Zambezi based cpus have relatively low clock speed. There are clues to find before the advent of the processors in the list of supported cpu’s from the Jetway HA18 motherboard, while the name…

  • Members of the European Parliament are calling for Juncker clear signals

    EU Members of the European Parliament are calling for Juncker clear signals EU Commission President Juncker today holds his second state of the Union speech. It looked better: Due to the Brexit vote, the refugee crisis and of the dispute to the economic policy atmosphere of crisis prevails. Before the speech, on the situation of…

  • Brazil: privatisation against the recession

    Economy Brazil: privatisation against the recession The Plan of the new Brazilian government, heads of Temer: attract foreign investment with a privatization program, and thus several billion euros in revenues. Among other things, it comes to four airports. The airport in Porto Alegre falls into the privatization program “We have to turn to the private…

  • UN: fight against IS in Libya makes progress

    Libya UN: fight against IS in Libya makes progress The fight against the terror militia in Libya is progressing according to the United Nations rapidly. Meanwhile, the British Parliament has sharply criticized the Libya Intervention by the Cameron government. Fighters of the government at the end of August in the city of Sirte The Libyan…

  • Bayer-Monsanto: Today is the day of decision?

    Company Bayer-Monsanto: Today is the day of decision? It could be the Deal of the year and the largest Acquisition, which was provided by a German group ever: The Acquisition of Monsanto, Bayer seems to be on the final straight, a decision today could fall. Bayer, Insider information suggests that shortly before the Takeover of…

  • HP ‘objects’ unauthorized access to Laserjet printers

    HP has new firmware for its Laserjet printers released that unauthorized access to the devices must be avoided. The update must be the problem ‘curb’, but it is unclear whether the leak final poem. At the end of november made, security researchers announced that Laserjet printers HP a vulnerability. Troublemakers unnoticed the firmware of LaserJet…

  • Majority of Room agrees officially against downloadverbod

    A majority of Members of parliament has is behind a movement against the proposed downloadverbod colleagues. Also a movement against the blocking of the access to piraterijwebsites received sufficient votes of the Second Chamber. Earlier this week, were Members of parliament, their motions in relation to the amendments of the copyright policy, such as state…

  • Government is Dutch via mobile alert for disaster

    The government is in emergencies raise the alarm via a system in which people through the mobile phone received a message. The service works only via 3g and 42 percent of the Dutch population has no suitable mobile phone. Despite the problems, the government has Friday afternoon decided the system, called NL-Alert nationwide. In case…

  • No American ban on use phone in car

    There is probably no prohibition on calling in the car in the United States. The influential body NTSB want to make a call in the car prohibit, hands-free, but according to the responsible minister is the problem there. Calls via bluetooth headsets and other hands-free solutions is not a major problem, argues Ray LaHood, the…

  • Report: smartphones and cloud are at risk for digital security

    Mobile devices such as smartphones and storing data in the cloud pose a risk to the digital security in the Netherlands. That is stated in a government report. The number of cases of digital espionage in the Netherlands has increased. Minister of Security and Justice Opstelten expects attacks on smartphones and cloud data will increase,…

  • Samsung: Android 4.0 does not fit on memory Galaxy S

    Samsung gives its former top model Galaxy S, from mid-2010, no update to Android 4.0. The firmware would not fit the memory of the device. By the TouchWiz skin, and providersoftware is the manufacturer of space. Besides TouchWiz and providersoftware, such as mobile tv, is the size of the software to make video calls, the…

  • Price of BlackBerry PlayBook has dropped in the Netherlands to 200 euro

    The fall in the price of the BlackBerry PlayBook, the Netherlands also reached. Recently there are a few shops that the cheapest version of the tablet for 199,99 euro offer. RIM hopes that with the fall in the price of stocks. At the time of writing, there are three different shops that the 16GB version…

  • Nokia shows ‘accidentally’ Windows Phone device Lumia 900

    Nokia has in a presentation about the Lumia 800 images shown of what is likely a larger version of the device. The Lumia 900 would be a bigger screen, and next month should be presented. On the picture that on the French blog MonWindowsPhone appeared, a Windows Phone device from Nokia in various colors. According…

  • Sony confirms prices PS Vita memory cards

    Sony has the prices published by the memorycards by the PS Vita. That fall lower than on the basis of the Us prices was expected. The largest model, 32GB will not be on the European market. At the end of november, the American GameStop, the prices of the memorycards by the PS Vita. The cheapest…