Apple News: Three Products Will Be Crushed By The iPad Mini
According to a few reports and sources which says that Apple is going to introduce the iPad Mini (like iPad but a smaller tablet size) on October 10th in a great media event and I hope the date is correct. A lot of you see that it is a very useless move from Apple to release the iPad Mini.. But iPad Mini is beginning to look a lot like an iPad Mini Christmas.
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Technology News: SHA1 crypto algorithm underpinning Internet security could fall by 2018
A widely used cryptographic algorithm used to secure sensitive websites, software, and corporate servers is weak enough that well-financed criminals could crack it in the next six years, a cryptographer said. The prediction about the SHA1 algorithm, posted recently to a hash function mailing list sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is based on calculations its author and fellow cryptographers admit are rough.
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Programming News: SHA–3 extensions for Ruby and Node.js
A few days ago, NIST announced the winner of the SHA–3 competition: Keccak (prounced [kɛtʃak], ketchak). The researchers who authored Keccak released a reference implementation in C. We’ve created Ruby and Node.js extensions for Keccak. Our extensions utilize the code from the official reference implementation and come with a extensive suite of unit tests. But note however that I do not claim to be a security expert. Feel free to review the code for any flaws.
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Photography News: Depth of Field in Floral Photography
Nearly every person who has held a camera has been drawn to and experienced the pleasure of photographing a flower. Most photographers however, or so I have found, deem a flower shot to be a ‘cop out’ shot. Flowers are pretty and so a photo of one will be pretty right? wrong!
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