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Katy Perry took the stage at the Grammy Nominations Concert Live to perform her Grammy nomination Song of the Year, Roar, on Friday night. However, the performance was pre-taped. Watch Katy Perry rock it out with one of her singles in the video below! Be sure to tune into the 56th Annual Grammy Awards on CBS on January 26, 2014!

Um aplicativo malicioso circulou pela Play Store e pela App Store nas últimas semanas. Chamado InstLike e oferecendo seguidores e curtidas no Instagram, o app foi responsável pelo roubo de informações de pelo menos 100 mil usuários da rede social de fotografias, depois de ter sido baixado entre 100 mil e 500 mil vezes no Android e ser o 145º mais baixado no iOS.

A tática do aplicativo não é das mais novas. Logo na tela inicial, login e senha eram pedidos, e quem não desconfiava, logo digitava as informações e dava o aval ao invasor para curtir e seguir outras pessoas. Uma espécie de “ecossistema” de zumbis foi então criada graças ao InstLike: as contas controladas pelo programa curtiam automaticamente fotos marcadas com #instlike_com e ainda seguiam umas as outras.

Não bastasse o roubo de contas, o app ainda cobrava por um número maior de curtidas e de seguidores…

The VGX site has inadvertently revealed that Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition is real, but it will only be coming to Xbox One and PlayStation 4. IGN discovered the game a few days ago when a listing for the game appeared on Amazon Italy. The publication said it was coming to next generation consoles, but sadly it appears as though it’s skipping the Wii U. Tomb Raider: The Definitive Edition should be shown tonight at the VGX awards.

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Former Wall Street Journal reporter Jessica Lessin got some attention when she left the newspaper six months ago to start a new online news venture, and this week she launched the project, known as The Information: a subscription-only technology and business news service that costs $399 a year and has no free content or “leaks” in its paywall. The hardness of the wall and the price surprised many — given the experiences of some other new-media outlets that tried and failed with a hard paywall model — but Lessin said in an interview she is convinced she can build a sustainable business based on that approach.

“People talk about this type of paywall is good or bad, but it really depends on the content. If you look at what Paul Carr (of NSFW Corp.) is doing, it’s great, but I think he would agree that no one is going…

The Semantic Web may have failed, but higher intelligence is coming to applications anyway, in another form: Cognition-as-a-Service (CaaS). And this may just be the next evolution of the operating system.

CaaS will enable every app to become as smart as Siri in its own niche. CaaS powered apps will be able to think and interact with consumers like intelligent virtual assistants — they will be “cognitive apps.” You will be able to converse with cognitive apps, ask them questions, give them commands — and they will be able to help you complete tasks and manage your work more efficiently.

For example your calendar will become a cognitive app — it will be able to intelligently interact with you to help you manage your time and scheduling like a personal assistant would — but the actual artificial intelligence that powers it will come from a third-party cloud based cognitive platform.

We are delighted to announce an affiliation with the website QUEEN IZABEL GOULART (QIG), a superb resource relating to our Brazilian supermodel in the Russian Federation.  It has always been the goal of izabelgoulart.net to raise the profile of Izabel Goulart within the English-speaking community, and now we have a direct link with the largest country in the world, and they speak Russian too! QIG tell us that izabelgoulart.net is “the best source all over the internet”, and  is already helping us to promote the Izabel Goulart Fans Diabetes Research Fund. QIG has a strong team, with a membership of over 200 and a good media collection.  We are looking forward to working together with our friends to develop our partnership.

The official VGX Awards website has been updated to inform you what to expect when the awards show makes its debut this evening. The VGX site says that there will be three unannounced premieres shown off at the event. We already know that Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime will be demoing a previously announced game for the Wii U in the first hour of the show. Any guesses as to what the three unannounced world premieres will be?

• Our first secret world premiere – We cant divulge all of our secrets, but trust us, you’re going to love this one.
• Secret world premiere #2 – Another all-new game, brought to you by VGX.
• Another awesome world premiere – We’ve got some of this year’s biggest trailers – only at VGX.