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Yahoo! Ups Bug Bounties after T-Shirt GateJoining the ranks of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Mozilla, and others, Yahoo! will now offer payments or so-called bounties to developers and security researchers for finding security vulnerabilities in their software and applications. This move is not without some controversy. | 
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Augmented Reality Technology Begins to Eclipse Its Gimmicky PastFive years ago augmented reality wasn't on most of our minds, but lately it's in the news almost weekly. Why the sudden interest? It's likely because the technology is actually being used to improve our lives—not just clutter them. | 
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Microsoft Pays Hacking Expert $100,000 for Finding Security Flaw For finding security flaws in its software, Microsoft paid a hacking expert one hundred thousand dollars this week, one of the largest bounties ever awarded by a major company for white-hat work. Bug bounty programs are becoming more and more common as tech companies realize their cost value. |
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Capture the Magic of Pixar in Your Next Software ProjectRecently Pixar was kind enough to publish the twenty-two rules of storytelling that its teams follow with every film it releases. And lucky for software developers, it appears that many of these rules can be applied to software development to enrich the storytelling experience for users. |
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DevOps in the News Much like configuration management, you won’t hear Brian Williams talking about DevOps on the evening news or see Matt Lauer interviewing a DevOps expert on the couch of The Today Show. However, recently in IT-related news on the wire, DevOps is a huge story. |
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Post-it Teams Up with Evernote to Take Sticky Notes DigitalGood news for people who still prefer to jot things down: 3M, the company behind the popular Post-it notes, announced a partnership with personal organization app Evernote to create software that will recognize photos of Post-its taken with a smartphone and let users read, store, and sort notes. |
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The Four Cs of Extending DevOps with Cloud AutomationCombining DevOps with a hybrid cloud architecture breaks down the traditional barriers between development, QA, and IT operations organizations and removes the silos that constrain enterprise development. Sumit Mehrotra explains how this combination makes DevOps and the cloud even more powerful. | 
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Usability's Growing Role in the Development LifecycleUsability can no longer be looked at as a time-permitting exercise in the software development lifecycle. Mukesh Sharma explains how, with users so willing to share their experiences with usability, there is no reason for testers not to take that invaluable feedback seriously. | 
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