Tech.It.2.Me->{By.Anton.Perez}

I read an article wherein researchers from Princeton University cooled down memory to -58 degrees F which allowed them to examine the encrypted contents of the memory for as long as 10 minutes.  Microsoft, however, says its unlikely. 

To be clear, encrypted data here is data that gets encrypted by apps like Vista’s BitLocker or Mac OS X’s FileVault.  In any case, it’s an interesting read. 

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Yahoo! recently implemented a new feature called “sign-in seal,” which pretty much is like what banks and credit card websites have already been using, but smarter.  The feature, basically, is meant to help prevent phishing attacks. 

It is apparently smart enough in that it spans browsers and survives cookie deletions by way of cookie-like Flash shared objects…props to Yahoo! for making it much “smarter.”

Read more about it on Yahoo!.

Google is really a juggernaut, innovative, technology-making machine.  It’s Google Maps website now includes The Weather Channel to give consumers more info.  Is that awesome or what?!

To use the feature, simply click on the Google Maps’ My Maps tab and select The Weather Channel feature to begin exploring.  Below are some screenshots.

For $300, you can get a humanoid toy robot that can recognize spoken words and be controlled remotely.  It has 17 motors that allows it to walk, somersault, and do karate chops.

The Guinness World Records recognizes it as smallest humanoid robot in commercial production; i-Sobot went on sale in Japan, in white, and the U.S., in black, this fall and is set to arrive in Europe next year.

Read more via Yahoo! News.

Interesting…an undisclosed number of Seagate’s Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 units have shipped with a virus that steals passwords to online games, such as World of Warcraft.  Identified as Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah by Kaspersky Labs, the virus also deletes similar viruses and can disable virus detection software as well.

The virus, which was loaded onto the Maxtor units at a sub-contract manufacturer’s location in China, is sending stolen passwords back to a server that’s also located in China.

Not good.  Read more at eWeek.