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How Oracle made its case against Google, in pictures
(credit: Aurich Lawson)
Oracle's lawyers have made their final pitch to paint Google as a copyright outlaw, and the decision is now up to a 10-person jury. The jurors are deliberating in a room on the 19th floor of the US Federal Courthouse in San Francisco. Deliberations have gone on for two days now, and the jury will return...
A single injection of anti-HIV-1 antibodies protects against repeated SHIV challenges
Despite the success of potent anti-retroviral drugs in controlling human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection, little progress has been made in generating an effective HIV-1 vaccine. Although passive transfer of anti-HIV-1 broadly neutralizing antibodies can protect mice or macaques against a single high-dose challenge with HIV or simian/human (SIV/HIV) chimaeric viruses (SHIVs) respectively, the long-term efficacy of a passive antibody transfer approach for...
Hacking group “PLATINUM” used Windows’ own patching system against it
Platinum mass & well-formed crystals from Russia. (public display, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA) (credit: James St. John)
Microsoft's Windows Defender Advanced Threat Hunting team works to track down and identify hacking groups that perpetrate attacks. The focus is on the groups that are most selective about their targets and that work hardest to...
Microsoft and Google agree to withdraw regulatory complaints against each other
Microsoft and Google have agreed to stop filing regulatory complaints against one another.
As reported by Re/code, the two companies announced...
Using the uncertainty principle against itself to gain precision
You can't beat the Heisenberg limit, but with enough math, you can come close. (credit: Focus Features)
Accurate measurement underlies a huge amount of modern technology. Atomic clocks, fiber optical communications systems, and many other types of hardware require accurate and precise measurements. The laws of quantum mechanics, on the other hand, are designed to annoy anyone...
Oracle will seek a staggering $9.3 billion in 2nd trial against Google
In a second go-round of its copyright lawsuit against Google, Oracle is hoping to land a knockout blow. A damages report filed last week in federal court reveals that the enterprise-software giant will ask for $ 9.3 billion in damages.
In its lawsuit, Oracle argues that Google infringed copyrights related to Java when it used 37 Java API packages to create its Android...
Don’t take away our rights: Small group rallies outside Apple Store against federal government
There was no loud chanting and no ear-piercing megaphone. In fact, the mood was relatively low-key at a rally outside the University Village Apple Store on Tuesday evening.
But for a small group of 15 or so that gathered to show their support for Apple, the...
Verizon’s mobile video won’t count against data caps—but Netflix does
Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam. (credit: Fortune Live Media)
Verizon Wireless is testing the limits of the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules after announcing that it will exempt its own video service from mobile data caps—while counting data from competitors such as YouTube and Netflix against customers' caps.
The only way for companies to deliver data to Verizon...
Ethics charges filed against DOJ lawyer who exposed Bush-era surveillance
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A former Justice Department lawyer is facing legal ethics charges for exposing the President George W. Bush-era surveillance tactics—a leak that earned The New York Times a Pulitzer and opened the debate about warrantless surveillance that continues today.
The lawyer, Thomas Tamm, now a Maryland state public defender, is accused of breaching Washington ethics rules for...
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