Symantec warns searching for Conficker may end with infection

The worm that everyone is talking about right now is Conficker, poised to potentially cause chaos on April Fool’s Day, it is becoming quite a well known term. Its coverage and the warnings about it have led many to search for information on Conficker, but security vendor Symantec is warning that trying to find out [...]
Publication date: 2009-03-27

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Joshua Silver

Almost 25 years ago, when Joshua Silver was a professor at Oxford University, he formulated an idea to bring eye glasses to disadvantaged populations by eliminating the necessity of an optician. Today, his invention is being worn in more than 10 countries, including African villages. Soon, the poor of India also will be sporting Silver’s [...]
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Keychain dongle allows for emergency tracheotomies

In the beautiful German love film The Princess and the Warrior, the heroine, Sissi, is hit by a truck. Her throat crushed, she can neither speak nor breathe when a mysterious benefactor, who accidentally caused the truck to crash into her to begin with, crawls under the truck under which she’s trapped and uses a [...]
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Fingerprint door lock adds remote for extremely lazy homeowners

After some major shopping, trying to unlock your front door with your arms full can be a tricky task at best. If you are like me, most times you end up dropping your door keys to the ground along with a few expletives to boot. Now if I had this door lock, I would not need to worry [...]
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