This week University of Pennsylvania paleobotanist Hermann Pfefferkorn and colleagues have presented findings they’ve collected from a fossilized forest hidden under a coal mine in China for 300 million years. These findings will lend insight into the ecology and climate from the time and place that the forest was alive, before it was...

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Even though software company Symantec released a patch for its pcAnywhere program after it was infiltrated by hackers, as many as 200,000 computers are still running the infected version, including thousands that may have access to credit card and other sensitive data. These numbers are according to Rapid7, which surveyed the Net for computers...

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Hackers come in all shapes and sizes, and so do the devices they toil away on to try to gain some sort of Internet fame or just personal satisfaction. In that context, the Nook Touch isn’t exactly the place for a hotbed of hacking activity but someone has still managed to pull off an exploit that’s pretty interesting. The hack involves...

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As we march closer and closer to the biggest all-mobile show of the year all the way over Barcelona, Spain, we’ve started to see the wave of tips, leaks, and previews roll in – and while our MWC 2012 Smartphone pre-show rundown may have more devices than we know what to do with already, tablets certainly wont be left out in the cold....

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