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Friday, March 14, 2014

All New HTC One Cases Appear Online

The all new HTC One is probably the worst kept secret this year so far, we have seen numerous photos and videos of HTC’s new flagship Android smartphone.

Now accessory manufacturer Spigen has listed cases for the all new HTC One on their website, as you can see from the photo below, the case features spaces for the dual cameras on the back of the HTC One.

The updated HTC One will come with a 5 inch full high definition display that has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, the handset is powered by quad core 2.3Ghz Snapdragon 801 processor from Qualcomm.

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

President Obama, Gap shopper, bought for his family

In town to headline a pair of Democratic fundraisers, President Obama stopped by a Gap store in New York City to pick up some gifts to bring back home while also commending the clothing chain for increasing its minimum wage.

The president told a sales associate in the nearly empty store that he was shopping for his wife and two daughters when he made the unannounced stop Tuesday afternoon.

After a quick scan of the options, Obama settled on a stack of sweaters. The employee recommended a V-neck, but the president was concerned.

China releases satellite images of possible Malaysia jet crash site

A Chinese military agency on Wednesday released satellite imagery of large pieces of debris floating in the South China Sea along the planned flight path of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet with 239 on board, news agencies in Beijing reported.

The images were captured early Sunday, a day after Malaysia Airlines flight 370 was last heard from on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, China's State Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense said, the Associated Press quoted the New China News Agency as reporting. Bloomberg and CNN also carried reports citing the Chinese government.

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Nasa seeks coders to hunt asteroids

US space agency Nasa is seeking coders who could help prevent a global catastrophe by identifying asteroids that may crash into Earth.

Its Asteroid Data Hunter contest will offer $35,000 (£21,000) to programmers who can identify asteroids captured by ground-based telescopes.

The winning solution must increase the detection rate and minimise the number of false positives.

Scientists are increasingly calling for help to make sense of vast data sets.

New software to catch ‘spying’ apps

Computer scientists have developed a new software that shows whether an app has accessed private data to spy on the user.

Apps on Web-enabled mobile devices can be used to spy on their users, so researchers from the Saarland University in Germany claimed to have developed a new software to track malicious activity by apps.

In late-July 2013, the Russian software company “Doctor Web” detected several malicious apps in the app store “Google Play”, researchers said.