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When Does the White House Disclose Cyber Security Vulnerabilities?Does the White House disclose cyber security vulnerabilities when they first know about them? The Heartbleed security bug that recently dominated the headlines has prompted the White House to shed some light on its policies regarding disclosing cyber vulnerabilities to the public. | 
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What Has Changed Since Support for Windows XP Was Retired?April 8 marked the end of Microsoft's official support for its most successful operating system, Windows XP. However, 25 percent of desktop operating system users still run it, and Microsoft just released a security patch that supports it. What's really changed with XP for developers and testers? | 
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Facebook App Simulates Dementia to Promote AwarenessFacebook has allowed its users to collect memories, store photos, make connections, and keep up with their social lives. FaceDementia, a new app from Alzheimer's Research UK, uses those same abilities to help others understand the challenges of suffering from dementia. | 
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Headband Provides Head Start for Mind ControlHeralded as a pivotal step toward mind control and the ability to manipulate objects with our brainwaves, the new Muse headband is at the forefront of many people’s minds—literally. What can this device be used for, and what can it mean for future development? |
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Testing Lessons from Toyota and Nissan RecallsCommon to the recent Toyota and Nissan automobile recalls is the underlying reason for the recalls—software programming errors in some of the components. Anuj Magazine examines two software testing lessons we can learn from these recalls. | 
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Linux Foundation Announces Initiative to Avert the Next HeartbleedIn response to the Heartbleed OpenSSL security crisis, one of the Internet’s biggest security breaches, The Linux Foundation announced the Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII), a multimillion-dollar collaborative project to fund and support what are deemed critical open source projects. |
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Should Non-IT Professionals Learn to Code?Globally, there has been a lot of push in the last year to generate more coding awareness among non-IT professionals. However, even for those who agree that coding is important, there are differing opinions about who should learn it. What is vital is understanding the end goal of learning to code. |
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Can Amazon Thrive in the Smartphone Market?From its start as a book seller to a one-stop shop to its leadership in complex technologies and cloud computing, the one area that the world has eagerly anticipated Amazon branching into is smartphones. And now it's official—Amazon will be releasing its smartphone later this year. | 
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