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(click image for slideshow) Apple continues to target competitor Samsung with patent-related lawsuits. It has filed a new motion in California that claims the Galaxy S4, Samsung's flagship smartphone, violates five of its patents. Two of those patents pertain to voice search. The motion is an amendment to an existing patent claim. Apple and Samsung are locked in bitter legal battles ...
Amazons Kindle Worlds lets fan fiction writers sell their stories

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US fears irrational hackers

are getting more worried that focusing on "rational" attackers such as the Chinese might be a dangerous way to go, and the country needs to fear the irrational types more. For years now the US national security experts have believed that "rational" super powers like China or Russia were their main adversaries. But now there are growing concerns that extremist groups, rogue ...
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Teenage Indian hacker gets paid by US organization for dropping off college

An Indian immigrant is set to become the most accomplished hacker in US as he is being paid for dropping college studies and engaging himself in Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial environment.

Diwank Singh Tomer, 19 has enrolled himself with the Facebook's first investor and the co-founder and former CEO of PayPal, Peter Thiel, who is paying 100,000 dollars to 20 teenagers to launch a business of their own, ABC News reports.

Tomer, who is designing an interactive learning environment with funding from the Thiel Foundation, had dropped out from an Indian University after continuing only for less than a month when the computer science major realized that he can launch a startup to help people learn to code while learning coding basics himself.

Tomer said that he believes that dropping out is an important part of the growing up process, adding that instead of promoting students to ask questions, traditional Indian schools force the students to only appear smart.

The unconventional entrepreneur also said that people learn best when they have access to mentors and the ability to learn in a way that suits them.

The Thiel Foundation mentors the young entrepreneurs during the two year fellowship as they pursue advance studies and practices in everything from robotics to fashion but does not entitle them to join school or get employed during the period without special approval from the foundation. ...