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Gmail now searches attachment text, homework hoarders rejoice!

Gmail has constantly improved its search technology, but there’s something you couldn’t do until recently: search inside attachments. Sure, you could find an attachment if you knew the filename or some keywords from the message. If someone sent you a

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Microsoft issues security patches for Flash vulnerabilities in Windows 8 and Internet Explorer

As promised, Microsoft is issuing a security patch for a Flash vulnerability on Windows 8 in Internet Explorer 10. Though the operating system has yet to see its official public release, researchers testing the RTM version found a bug that

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Top 10 Secret Features of iOS 6

Apple released iOS 6 this week, bringing a handful of new features to iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches. While they defined many of the flagship features, several were left unsaid. These are our 10 favorite secret features in iOS 6.

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The Free Internet Will Be Just Fine With Do Not Track. Here’s Why.

The ad industry says that Do Not Track will destroy the free Internet. We love the Internet and would be pretty upset if it died, so we looked deeper into this claim. Advertisers make this argument all the time, and

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Microsoft Internet Explorer Zero-Day Vulnerability

Microsoft is investigating public reports of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8, and Internet Explorer 9. Internet Explorer 10 is not affected. Microsoft is aware of targeted attacks that attempt to exploit this vulnerability.

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Apple’s iCloud goes titsup, email evaporates for unlucky 1%

Apple’s iCloud online storage service has been on the blink for 15 hours according to its status page. Fanbois relying on Cupertino’s idiot-tax outfit to provide their email have been unable to send or access messages for more than half

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How Microsoft’s human resources culture drove away talent

Performance assessments are, of course, an important aspect of a healthy company. In order to maintain fighting weight, an organisation must honestly assay its employees’ contributions and cull the dead wood. This is tournament play, after all, and the coach

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Researchers create super-efficient microbial fuel cell, dream of selling excess electricity

Recycling wastewater to generate energy has turned up noses before, but researchers at Oregon State University have developed a microbial fuel cell that can create 10 to 50, or even 100 times more electricity per volume than similar technologies. After

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No excuses: It’s time to turn on two-step Google Authentication

Your Google account holds your e-mail, apps, music, books, documents, cloud storage, credit cards and more. It’s time to protect that stuff with more than a simple password. If you’ve been watching the wider tech world over the past couple

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Wozniak: Cloud computing trend is ‘horrendous’

The risks of cloud computing will be “horrendous”, Steve Wozniak said last night, in a statement that will set eyeballs rolling at Apple – the company he co-founded with Steve Jobs. The bearded designer of the Apple II is prone

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