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Steven Sinofsky is all set to retire from Microsoft. The details about the “retirement agreement” were revealed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing published June 3. Sinofsky will be freed from his noncompete clause as of December 31, 2013 after that he can work for any organization/company which is competitor to Microsoft. Steven Sinofsky was the former Windows president, …
Cambridge Cognition has developed and designed a new iPad app, Cantab to help early diagnoses of dementia. It’s reported to reduce process of dementia diagnosis from three years to 10 minutes. The technology is based on testing developed at the University of Cambridge. It’s designed to be easy for use for the patients and is available in 20 languages, with options to encrypt the …
Seconds after the launch of Russia’s Missile, Proton-M, carrying 3 navigation satellites crashed onto the lands of Kazakhastan. By report, the rocket fell 1 Km from its place of launch and no injuries. A total financial loss of $20 Million is reported. The Proton-M rocket has suffered a number of failures since its first launch in 2001. A rocket carrying …
A UK based security researcher got an unexpected return that too from Facebook for his discovery of a bug that hackers could’ve used to compromise user data. Jack Whitton, a Security Researcher found a way to hack into other users’ Facebook accounts without their knowledge, simply by sending a text message to Facebook. The flaw was in a Facebook facilty …
Days after the verdict by the Supreme Court, striking out the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) as unconstitutional, an LGBT Pride Parade was embarked on, this Sunday Morning in San Francisco. It began at 10:30 a.m. and marched down Market Street. This parade was held to celebrate the Supreme Court’s declination to rule on California’s Proposition 8, a law banning gay marriage …
