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• Google gets into Quantum Lolcats
• Woe never ends for Renesas
• Google serves up tat
• NATO goes nuclear on cyber option
• Apple faces firestorm over celeb hacking
• Apple’s iWatch delayed – report
• Tech VCs flock to London
• Windows XP refuses to die

Google gets into Quantum Lolcats Posted: 03 Sep 2014 01:49 AM PDT Search engine Google has decided that it wants to get into the business of working out if cats are potentially alive or dead. It has created a research team led by physicist John Martinis from the University of California Santa Barbara to build new quantum information processors based on superconducting electronics. more»

Woe never ends for Renesas Posted: 03 Sep 2014 01:46 AM PDT Japanese chipmaker Renesas is still in trouble and might have to make even deeper cuts to its organisation. The outfit has just finished a restructuring and is focusing its business on the automotive and industrial sectors and has pulled it back into the black after years of losses. more»

Google serves up tat Posted: 03 Sep 2014 01:44 AM PDT Search engine Google has come up with a novel way of getting people to update their browsers to something a little more recent. Users of browsers which can remember the use of shoulder pads and Duran Duran are suddenly getting served up search results which are just as old. more»

NATO goes nuclear on cyber option Posted: 03 Sep 2014 01:43 AM PDT NATO is going to revise its treaty so that a cyber attack on one of its members will count as a hostile threat for all of them. The plan is that when President Obama meets with other NATO leaders later this week, they are expected to ratify the idea that a cyberattack on any of the 28 NATO nations could be declared an attack on all of them, similar to a ground invasion or an airborne bombing. more»

Apple faces firestorm over celeb hacking Posted: 03 Sep 2014 01:41 AM PDT It appears that the Tame Apple Press are finally giving up on Jobs' Mob and admitting that the leak of racy celebrity photos was actually caused by a security fault on Apple's iCloud. Earlier this week it looked like Apple was going to avoid any mention in the hack as the press insisted that such an attack on the iCloud was impossible because it had this magical thing called "encryption." Apple even went as far as denying that the iCloud was breached by hackers who posted nude pictures of celebrities. more»

Apple’s iWatch delayed – report Posted: 02 Sep 2014 07:27 AM PDT Manufacturers on high tech island Taiwan are reporting that Apple's iWatch is unlikely to see the light of day until 2015. Speaking under terms of anonymity to Taiwanese wire Digitimes, the vendors say there's still a way to go because components are still in their engineering verification stage and then has to undergo production verification testing. more»

Tech VCs flock to London Posted: 02 Sep 2014 07:07 AM PDT DN Capital is going to create a $200 million VC fund based in the Smoke and will invest o software digimedia, mobile apps and e-commerce firms. But it's not the only VC firm to set up shop in London. Tech investments worth around $1.4 billion have arrived over the last six months. more»

Windows XP refuses to die Posted: 02 Sep 2014 06:19 AM PDT Data from StatCounter Global Stats showed that Windows XP s still the world's second most popular operating system. That's despite the fact that earlier this year Microsoft pulled the plug on XP, apart from on embedded devices. StatCounter said that Windows 8.1 now has more volume than Windows 8.0 – representing 7.5 percent of OS share. more»

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