The other Windows 8 hits some snags

Microsoft knew that the RT version of Windows 8 was going to face higher hurdles than the tried-and-true Intel version. Don’t be surprised if the other version of Windows 8 — you know, the one that doesn’t run on Intel chips — stumbles out of the gate. We got a taste of this on Friday

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Why Microsoft killed start button on Windows 8

Do you use the Start button in Windows? If not, then you’re supposedly the reason Microsoft got rid of it in Windows 8. Chaitanya Sareen, principal program manager at Microsoft, told U.K. computer publication PC Pro that data indicated a decrease in the use of the Start button. Citing “telemetry” obtained by the Microsoft Customer

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Security tokens busted in a matter of minutes

RSA has responded with a blog post describing the research as an “academic exercise” and “not a useful attack”. The security firm says the attack does not impact the one-time password aspect of its tokens (the six-digit number mentioned in the story below) but only the USB smartcard aspect, which is used to store cryptographic

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Artificial brain with billion connections

Google has done the unthinkable — the creation of an ‘artificial brain’ from 16,000 computer processors, with more than a billion connections. The team led by Google’s Jeff Dean then fed it random images culled from 10 million YouTube videos — and let it ‘learn’ by itself. Surprisingly, the machine focused in on cats. “We

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