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博客发现微软“Bing”有漏洞 可播放色情视频
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据国外媒体报道，在微软“Bing”（必应）搜索引擎刚刚推出之际，一些科技博客就发现必应存在漏洞，可自动播放色情视频。微软比原计划提前两天推出了搜索引擎“必应”，这引起了全球关注。很多用户抱着极大兴趣体验Live搜索引擎的替代品。大多数用户认为，必应有助于用户提高搜索体验，可以更便捷地找到机票信息、普通问题的答案、网络内容的预览和更加可靠的医疗信息。《华尔街日报》:微软bing搜索前景难料
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感谢taobao的投递据国外媒体报道，美国知名财经报纸《华尔街日报》网络版今天刊文称，虽然微软新搜索引擎“必应（Bing）”有很多创新之处，但是它仍然面临不少挑战，而且前景难以预料。
在网络搜索引擎大战中，微软未能从正面直接战胜谷歌，如今它开始采用侧翼进攻的战略。这一战略的主角就是微软新款搜索引擎必应。虽然仍将根据用户的搜索项提供检索结果，但是必应的设计初衷却是希望从购物、旅行、健康和本地商业等四个方面为用户提供更加丰富的搜索体验。
Google Docs 开始支持OpenXML文档
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Google Docs刚刚更新完毕,已经开始支持微软Office 2007中的OpenOfficeXML文件,也就是docx,xlsx等x字辈的文件,结束了长期不支持新版Office文件的历史.之前,GMail曾经开始支持阅览OpenOfficeXML文件而无法进行编辑,而今天,收到的文件可以直接发往Google Docs进行处理,而早在2008年早期,Google Docs的最大竞争对手Zoho就已经支持OpenOfficeXML.
[多图]感应控制器+众多大作!微软发布会结束
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微软E3发布会于美国当地时间中午12点20左右结束，除了众多游戏得以公布外，最引人注目的其实是微软一直秘密研发的全新Xbox 360控制器——Natal。 本次发布会与以往不同，每个游戏的展示时间都不太长，前面大半的时间很紧凑，发布会的重点留给了最后的Natal控制器。新控制器与众不同的地方在于，它只是一个感应器，使用时完全不需要接触，只需要利用肢体动作和语音即可操作和控制。比如：在不同的游戏中只要模拟真实动作就可以进行赛车、足球、格斗等游戏，挥动手臂就能滚动菜单，可以在虚拟空间与朋友面对面实时交流等。[多图]诺基亚 6790 Mako 手机最新图像
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诺基亚 6790 Mako 滑盖手机即将量产,一组清晰的图像已经出现在网络上,它将采用S60系统,侧滑盖,屏幕2.4英寸,并拥有与之前的诺基亚产品截然不同的外观.从外壳上我们可以清晰看到AT&T的标识,目前已知它拥有200万像素摄像头,GPS等配置.
Nielsen开始将BT网络上的盗版视频纳入收视率统计数据
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最大的市场研究公司尼尔森可能是世界上最有名的电视节目收视率统计机构,不过为了更准确的数据,他们开始把BT网络中的盗版视频数据也考虑在内.他们惊奇地发现,澳大利亚的BT用户,包括Mininova,海盗湾, isoHunt ,TorrentReactor和Torrentz的澳大利亚访客比去年多出33.6%,而页面浏览量多出50%,过去5年,BT网站的流量不断增加.
美军加入Twitter、Facebook
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去年11月，基于宽带和安全性方面的考虑，美国军方封杀了YouTube并推出面向军人及其家属和军方支持者的视频共享网站TroopTube，而现在美军显然改变了主意，根据美联社的报道，美国驻阿富汗军队加入了Facebook、Youtube、Twitter，将其作为宣传的工具。官员称，此举将有助于人们更加快捷的获取美军的信息。Big Ben Celebrates 150 years of Ticks [pics]
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Arguably the world's most famous clock which towers over London, marked its 150th anniversary Sunday. The clock started ticking on May 31 1859 and has continued with only occasional interruptions for maintenance, bad weather and even bird strikes ever since.The Top 6 Game-Changing Features of Google Wave
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You’ve probably heard people talk about Google Wave being a game-changer, a disruptive product, or maybe even as an email killer. But while keywords and phrases like these grab people’s attention, they don’t explain why or how Google Wave could be a paradigm-shifter.The 7 Most Bizarrely Unlucky People Who Ever Lived
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Sometimes you see people who have weird, one-in-a-million instances of bad luck, often over and over again, and you can't help but wonder if they didn't piss off a Gypsy at some point.25 Body Hacks to Supercharge Yourself
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Here are 24 body hacks we probably would be willing to try and one that we definitely wouldn't.Visions of Earth [pics]
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Brown tornado above the plains of Kansas, shuttle Endeavor over California's Mojave Desert, old school ice breaker of Belarus and other breathtaking photos featured by National Geographic magazine.Rare White Lions in South Africa (PHOTOSET)
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Lounging gracefully in the long grass in the Limpopo Province of South Africa, these majestic White Lions wait patiently for their release back into the wild. Here is a collection of photos of the lions in their natural habitat.11 Things You Didn’t Know About Steve Jobs
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What makes a great entrepreneur tick? What drives them to go the extra mile to success? These lesser know facts about Steve Jobs might just give you a clue.Megan Fox: Actors Are Kind of Like Prostitutes
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On comparing actors to prostitutes: “When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who’s not their partner. It’s really kind of gross.”Texas Blogger Jailed After Failing to Turn PC Over to Judge
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53-year-old Lyndal Harrington blogged some nasty things about Anna Nicole Smith's mother, resulting in a defamation lawsuit. The court ordered her to turn over her computer for evidence; after failing to do so, Harrington was thrown in jail. The case highlights the delicacies of today's blogging world, as people are sued for voicing their opinions.Rick Roll: The Literal Version
Ten Applications That Changed Computing
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The term 'killer app' gets tossed around quite liberally these days. Nearly every piece of software released seems to be pitched as having the potential to send shockwaves throughout the IT world.In reality, there have been precious few applications which have truly changed the computing industry over the years....Everything you ever needed to know about sleep
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Thomas Penzel studies sleep at the Charite Hospital in Berlin. He answers questions such as: how can you still be tired after eight hours sleep? Can you die from lack of sleep? Is afternoon napping a good idea? Should you wake a sleepwalker?'Earth 2100': the Final Century of Civilization?
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Planet at Risk: Experts Warn Population Growth, Resource Depletion, Climate Change Could Bring Catastrophe in Next Century.Lifehacker's Five Best Netbooks
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If you're thinking about picking up an ultra-portable laptop, this week's Hive Five is a great spot to start your comparison shopping. These are the netbooks are those most loved by Lifehacker readers.Top Ten Modern Adventurers
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From the "Real Life Indiana Jones" to the oldest man to reach the Everest Summit, a very cool list.Microsoft morphing Xbox 360 into social, entertainment hub
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Microsoft kicked off this year's E3 by announcing the long-expected motion camera and the arrival of Facebook, Last.fm, Twitter, and more on the Xbox 360.Slide Show: Top 10 New Species Discovered in 2008
via Scientific American on 5/29/09
Even as species around the globe are rapidly falling prey to extinction, and countless others are threatened, scientists are still turning up new species of plants and animals every year--thousands of them. From the longest insect to the smallest snake, a fascinating diversity of organisms has remained unknown until the past year. [More]
Chinese cave coughs up oldest known pottery
via Scientific American on 6/1/09
Researchers in China have dug up the oldest known pottery. How ancient is it? The late Paleolithic: 14,000 to 21,000 years old, according to a study published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The pieces were most likely made and used by early foragers in the Yangzi Basin in the Hunan Province. [More]
The Next Big Feature Of Xbox Live: Twitter!
via TechCrunch by MG Siegler on 6/1/09
Microsoft has just announced that some new features are coming the Xbox 360 at E3. Facebook and Last.fm integration into the Xbox Live dashboard are two of them. The game Metal Gear Solid is another. But the one they seem to be touting the most right now? Twitter!
Yes, it seems the software giant, who has made some nice moves in the gaming space, has just as big of an obsession with Twitter as everyone else. You will apparently be able to see tweets and post new tweets from the console starting soon.
While, to me, this doesn’t rank up there with last year’s announcement of Netflix streaming coming to Xbox Live, it’s a pretty nice group of features to add to make the Xbox 360 more social. But the show just began, I’m sure Microsoft has some other tricks up its sleeve.
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Almost.at: Real Time Events, As Tweeted By The People Who Are Actually There
via TechCrunch by Jason Kincaid on 6/1/09
With its real-time search and growing hordes of users, Twitter has become one of the best ways to stay up to date on current events and breaking news (assuming of course, its search function is actually working). But one of the conventions Twitter users have adopted to associate their tweets with a certain event — the hash tag — can be an incredibly inefficient way to spread what’s actually going on. This is because Twitter users have grown accustomed to tagging any tweet somehow related to an event with its corresponding hashtag, even when they aren’t actually attending. This helps spur conversation, but it becomes much harder to weed out the news from the noise, and occasionally leads to propagation of false information. Almost.at, a very slick web application built by freelance iPhone developer David Cann, may be the answer to this problem.
Built on the Cappuccino web framework, the first thing that you’ll notice is that Almost.at is sporting a very polished interface that strongly resembles a native application. The app consists of four main columns. On the far left side you’ll see a handful of different popular topics, which include breaking news stories and events. Clicking on one of these (we’ll use E3 as an example) will fill the three right columns with real-time feeds of recent content: one column for recent tweets that include the #E3 hashtag, another for rich media from Flickr, Twitpic and YouTube, and a third with relevant links that have been sent out in recent tweets.
Every 10 seconds or so, the service will pull in the latest content, so you shouldn’t ever have to manually refresh. You can also use a timeline at the bottom of the page to browse through the history of an event (for example, I could ‘watch’ this weekend’s Maker Faire as it happened, even after the fact). One small caveat though: make sure to scroll to the bottom of a column rather than the top, as Almost.at displays these new items below older ones.
Aside from its snazzy interface and real time updating, Almost.at’s appeal lies in its ability to help users differentiate between people who are at an event, and people who are just talking about it. The system behind this is pretty simple: every tweet has a ‘+’ sign next to it, and if you see a tweet from someone that seems to be actually attending event, you can click it to add them to a special ‘Followees’ list. From then on, their tweets will be displayed with a yellow background in everyone’s feed, and you can optionally choose to watch a feed with tweets that only come from Followees. At this point it’s working very well - I love being able to watch the actual E3 news as it comes in from press at the scene, rather than have to wade through the waves of fanboy spam.
Of course, this system comes with one major problem: any user can add anyone to the Followees list, which means spammers could easily add themselves. At this point there isn’t any kind of communitiy moderation system, though Cann says that one is definitely on the way (for now he’ll have to regulate spam himself). Cann is also hand picking the events that users have to choose from (the servers can only handle a few at a time), though it sounds like he may look for a way to do this automatically in the future.
If you find yourself really enjoying Almost.at, you can download it as its own standalone application. Cann says this is really just a browser window dedicated to the site, but it should allow you to keep it running for hours on end.
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Now You Also Can Call Bing 411.
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on 6/1/09
Lost in all the excitement around today’s public preview launch of Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, was the subsequent launch of Bing 411. This is a direct swipe at another Google product, GOOG-411.
Both are free and both use speech-to-text technology and voice recognition to completely automate directory assistance calls. GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) has been going for a while, and is surprisingly intuitive. It keeps adding features like nearby intersections.
Bing 411 (1-800-246-4411) gives you local business listings, as well as local traffic, weather, and movie listings. The voice is a little more obviously computer-generated than Google’s, but it also can get you a phone number, address, or directions. It also tells you how many stars the business has in average reviews. What’s more, the second time you call, it remembers your last request and you can ask for “saved searches.” It is a voice-activated Bing for local business searches.
I tried it out, and it was able to find the Trader Joe’s near my Brooklyn apartment. But it had trouble with a french restaurant, Bar Tabac, (which Goog-411 also couldn’t understand or find). If it doesn’t understand your search, it takes you to a decision tree, asking you what type of service you are looking for. I find this highly unsatisfying in voice-activated user interfaces. My suggestion for either service: if they don’t’ understand your request right off the bat, just bail and call 1800-FREE-411 or another 411 service. It will be much faster, even if you have to pay 50 cents.
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