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Microsoft's unboxing video offers plenty of dazzling jargon, details of 'bonus' features and yet another reverse-ferret Protests over the Xbox One’s always-online functionality have been heard loud and clear. A one-liner has stuck around the  games  industry for a while now. What is Microsoft 's successor to  Xbox  360? The Xbox 180. Such has been the runup to the release of the  Xbox One , which has featured more reverse-ferrets than a mirrored petting zoo – and all of them self-inflicted. Thursday brings another, but this time wrapped in the more interesting news of what exactly gamers will get for their investment of £429 – outlined in that most modern of formats, the "unboxing video". If you can't spare a few minutes of your life to watch big-budget QVC, fear not. The headline change here is the  inclusion of a chat headset , because back in June Microsoft announced customers would have to buy it separately. The newly packed-in he...

Money for nothing? Well, not quitebut close! Google’s AdSense is a revenue-sharing opportunity for small, medium and large web sites that places ads for goods and services that are relevant to the content of your site, targeted to the people who frequent your pages. In turn, you get paid a small amount when the ad is either displayed on your page, or clicked on. We'll show you some good ideas that added to your own, will help increase your AdSense revenue. Steps Creating an Ad Unit 1 Sign into your AdSense account . Go to  AdSense , and click on  My ads  in the upper left. Create a new Ad unit. In the main screen area, under  Content > Ad units, click the +New ad unit  button. 2 Name your ad unit . This can be any name that suits you, but many find creating a standard naming format helps them manage large amounts of data. For example, using [target site for the ad]_[ad size]_[ad dat...

The Chinese symbol for sushi means celebration. Here, Japanese chef  Makiko Sano  invites Cook to a DIY-sushi celebration with friends. Dishes include stuffed Japanese shisho leaves, 'treasure in a box' and a Spanish take on maki rolls.

The extremely secure email service used by Edward Snowden has closed – with the owner implying he is under pressure to release user data. So where should you turn now for encrypted email? The (unencrypted) writing's on the wall ... Lavabit, the email service, has abruptly shut down. Photograph: Demotix/Alex Milan Tracy/Corbis What was  Lavabit ?  It was an extremely secure  email  service, set up by a group of programmers in Texas in 2004. Are normal emails not secure?  Not really. On Gmail, for instance, you may notice an ad at the top of the page that has been personalised by scanning the contents of your inbox. Google points out that "no humans read your email in order to show you ads", but that's discounting the NSA , which can nose around almost anywhere it wants,  as you may have heard . What made Lavabit different?  A key selling point was something called "asymmetic encryption", which came with the "enhanced" and the ...

A lower court misinterpreted the rules for allowing an injunction, Apple's lawyer argues A U.S. District Court judge made mistakes when she rejected Apple's request for a sales injunction against rival Samsung Electronics in a multimillion-dollar patent infringement case, Apple's lawyer argued before an appeals court Friday. After a jury found in August 2012 that Samsung had infringed six Apple design and utility patents, Judge Lucy Koh of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California incorrectly held Apple's patents to a "rigid" standard for determining whether to ban the sale of six Samsung smartphones, said Apple lawyer William Lee, arguing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Koh wrongly decided that each of the six patents in question needed to be the driving functionality for consumer interest in Apple's products before she could issue a sales injunction, Lee said. That reasoning would make it diff...

Tired of living paycheck to paycheck? You may want to take a look at these professions that could give your bank account a little more padding. If your savings account looks like it needs some inflating, it may be time to find a higher-paying career that could help give your financial situation a boost. Luckily, there are plenty of great careers in a variety of fields that pay an average of $30 or more an hour. But if you think that $30 an hour doesn't sound very impressive, in annual salary terms it translates to more than $60K - not too shabby after all.* The reason for the good pay? High demand for the highly skilled, says Mike Palumbo, founder of The Palumbo Company, a professional recruiting and consulting company in Fairhope, Ala. "These careers all have training in a specific skill. It's not just any skill, but a skill that is in demand. Until we have computers that can take blood from your arm, hammer a nail, or consult with you on a complex tax issue...