On December 9, Windows XP users with upgrade module will receive WGA Notifications, which will warn them of using pirated versions of the system. In the world, this program has already polhoda. It is expected that all users of WGA Notifications will appear in a few months.

Upon detection of counterfeit Windows its functionality is limited. The system only regularly informs the user about it. It also changes the desktop background to black and, although it can change the background every hour chornityme addition, in the lower right corner vyvodytymetsya message from exile to information about buying a legal version of Windows.

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The British company - producer of peripheral devices Datel Design & Development has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, reports IGN. The lawsuit, which is sent to the court of the Northern District of California, Microsoft is accused of violating antitrust laws.

The reason for claims against Microsoft was a firmware update the Xbox 360 console, which was held in October. After this update stations stopped offering third-party memory cards, including Datel.

Datel representatives argued that thereby Microsoft fights unfair competition. The lawsuit states that the firmware update to the memory card Mach Memory, which produces Datel, were one hundred percent compatible with the Xbox 360, and their use is not causing the crash. Thus, they cost the same as the production of memory cards and Microsoft - 39,99 dollar. However, the amount of memory cards Memory Mach amounted to 2 gigabytes, maps and Microsoft - 512 megabytes.

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Employees in the Intel Research Laboratory Pittsburgh (USA) believes that by 2020 the need for a computer keyboard and mouse no longer as open documents, enter text and surf the Internet can be thought by forcibly implanted in the brain chip.

For this purpose, as writes GZT.ru, scientists are trying to find ways to read hvylevu brain activity and convert it to a variety of devices - mobile phones, televisions, computers and so signaling the brain carried out by special sensors implanted in the bark of the brain .

To this end, Intel studying blood flow changes in different brain regions depending on word of a man thinks or what the image is trying to present. Typically, the brains of different people are equally sensitive to the same words or images. For example, if two people see a bear or hear him growl, neuronal activity chart for them will be identichn ymi.

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