Corporate tax-dodging: not just a U.S. problem
From Gizmodo: Dental X-Rays Linked to the Most Common Brain Tumors
Cancer researchers have found that certain types of dental X-rays significantly increased the incidence of the most common type of brain tumor in the United States: meningioma. More »
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From Kotaku: Sony Thinks It’s Going to Lose Even More Money
From Kotaku: Grand Theft Auto: Iraq is no Game, It’s Just Assholes With Guns
From Gizmodo: As a Show of Gratitude for Discovering the Mac Botnet, Apple Tries Shuts Down Dr. Mac’s Virus Monitoring Servers
Dr. Mac is the security firm that discovered last week’s all-Mac botnet, something that is pretty unprecedented for the operating system. After sending Apple the findings of their research, Dr. Mac heard nothing. And while it technically has yet to acknowledge Dr. Mac at all, the fact that Apple attempted to nix the group’s monitoring servers shut down suggests it’s very aware of the situation. More »
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From Droid Life: Precision X Android App Lets You Overclock Your GeForce Graphics Card Externally
It has been years since I exited the competitive PC gaming world (Unreal Tournament series, anyone?), but from what I can tell, the industry is as big and as advanced as ever. I still remember the painful and sometimes intimidating steps it took to overclock anything on PC, yet today, companies are releasing Android apps that let you do it on the fly. Take this EVGA Precision X app that connects your phone to your GPU via Bluetooth, giving you a view of its performance and the ability to set fan speed, power limits and frequencies. Yep, I’m impressed.
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Cheers Rob!
from Droid Life
From Ars Technica: Twitter helps free kidnapped South African from trunk of his car
A South African man, whose name has not been published, was carjacked, robbed, and stuffed into the trunk of his car near Johannesburg on Sunday. The robbers, however, had overlooked his mobile phone, which he used to text his girlfriend, Lynn Peters. From there, Twitter took over.
Two armed men grabbed the driver and his Volkswagen Golf in the Honeydew area northwest of Johannesburg at about 9:00pm local time. Carjacking is a crime that is common in the country—over 10,000 such incidents occurred last year.
from Ars Technica