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Latest News - October 2014
- Marriott Fined $600,000 For Blocking Customer's Personal Wireless Connections
- Georgia Tech Researchers Develop Conversation Captioning App For Google Glass
- Microsoft Making DirectX 12 Official With Windows 10
- Two And A Half Geeks 10/3/14: Windows 10, Acer XB280HK, Dell Inspiron 11 and More
- Far Cry 4 Trailer Introduces Gnarly Arsenal Of Blood Spillng Weapons
- End Of An Era: IBM Pulls Lotus 1-2-3 Software Off Life Support
- Facebook CTO Says They’ll Still Mess With Your Head, They’ll Just Think About It First
- High-Powered Celebrity Lawyer Rips Into Google Demanding Removal Of Stolen iCloud Picks From The Web
- EU Regulators Bless Facebook’s $19 Billion WhatsApp Acquisition
- JPMorgan Chase HACKED, 76 Million People Exposed
- SecureDrives GSM-Equipped SSD Will Physically Self-Destruct With a Simple Text Message
- Pi Vessel Affordable Raspberry Pi Mini Computer Comes To Kickstarter
- Qualcomm LTE Direct Allows Calls Between Devices To Skip The Cell Tower
- Samsung Is Still Building Chips For Apple And Expects To Supply 14nm A9 SoCs In 2015
- Lamborghini’s Asterion LPI 910-4 Hybrid Supercar Sports Neck-Snapping 897 Horsepower, Goes 0 To 60 In 3 Seconds Flat
- Twitter Offers MIT A $10 Million Dollar Grant For Social Network Data Analytics
- Rovio To Slash Staff By 16 Percent Ahead Of Angry Birds Movie Debut
- Think Apple And Google Encryption Makes You Safe From Prying Eyes Of The NSA And Law Enforcement? Guess Again
- Tesla Has Something With A “D” Up Their Sleeve, Shares Jump As Musk Tweets Of October 9th Unveil
- Honda Leverages NVIDIA Tegra Processors For In-Car Infotainment Center
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All News for October 2014
A major pet peeve of mine while traveling is having to endure the ridiculous fees that hotels charge you to get online. A very capable home Internet connection might cost you about $60/mo, but many hotels see nothing wrong with charging...
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Many of the apps we've seen released for Google Glass have aimed to help give you find relevant information faster, or simply make whatever it is you're doing easier. But a team at Georgia Tech have taken things a step beyond, and are...
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It looks like Microsoft is really hoping to entice people over to Windows 10 considering that Windows 8 has failed to take off. With its latest announcement that DirectX 12 will be included with Windows 10, Microsoft is targeting game developers and gamers. On its DirectX developer blog...
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In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two and a Half Geeks, Dave and Marco are sans the half geek, but discuss Microsoft's Windows 10 announcement, the slick Acer XB280HK 4K G-SYNC gaming monitor, the affordable Dell Inspiron 11, our...
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As the latest Far Cry 4 trailer tells it, "The meek shall inherit the Earth my friend, but only the well-armed have a chance to survive in Kyrat," the fictional Himalayan setting that's been ravaged by war. But don't fret over your weapon...
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Technically speaking, IBM stuck a fork in Lotus 1-2-3 over a year ago when it announced the once popular spreadsheet's EOL (End of Life). IBM picked June 11, 2013 as the last day it would market the most sought after spreadsheet program of...
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Still find yourself pissed off at Facebook for potentially messing with your head when it experimented on 700,000 users without their consent? Hey, it's all good, brother -- Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer posted a set of new guidelines that...
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High-Powered Celebrity Lawyer Rips Into Google Demanding Removal Of Stolen iCloud Picks From The Web
The fallout from the recent celebgate scandal is still being experienced and Google is the latest to feel its effects. Marty Singer, an attorney for Hollywood celebrities, has demanded that Google remove all the leaked images from its...
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Telecom companies opposed to Facebook's proposed $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp, a highly popular mobile messenger service, can go pound sand. That's basically what the European Commission said by approving the deal despite the outcry...
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Add JPMorgan Chase to the list, alongside Home Depot and AT&T, of businesses hacked this year. On Thursday, the company announced that a security breach had compromised 76 million households and 7 million small businesses. The announcement follows in the wake of a disclosed attack back in...
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Passwords, fingerprints, brain scanners, and drive encryption. All great things to have, and all are items that would keep prying eyes from digging too deep into whatever is on your laptop's hard drive. But what if those things weren't...
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A new Kickstarter has launched for a product called the Pi Vessel. Developed by MSDGroup Inc, the Pi Vessel is a microcomputer for the family that features the Raspberry Pi platform and Linux operating system for an affordable price. The...
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Here's a cool prospect: Imagine making a call while on-the-go, and rather than have the transmission go through a tower, it instead goes through someone else's phone. This idea isn't new, but Qualcomm has the capability to make it a...
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Apple knows better than to cut off its nose to spite its face, as the saying goes, hence why it still contracts Samsung to build the custom System-on-Chips (SoCs) that end up in iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad. Will that relationship...
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It’s hard to imagine that the words “supercar” and “fuel-efficient” would go in the same sentence. But those are two words, among others, that are being used to describe Lamborghini’s latest concept car...
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As widespread as social media is, and as close as it is to many of our lives, there's still much to learn about it. This is especially true with regards to how shared goals are achieved, and exactly how people are using social media to...
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It's tough to fathom that Rovio could be in any kind of financial bind that would cause the company to hand out pink slips as a cost cutting measure, let alone layoff up to 130 employees, or 16 percent of its workforce. After all, this is...
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Apple is making a big deal about its encryption scheme in iOS 8 and is championing itself as a purveyor of user privacy. The way Apple chief Tim Cook explains it, Apple wouldn't be able to help law enforcement infiltrate your iPhone even...
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A single letter of the alphabet has the Internet pondering what in the world is coming next from Tesla Motors. It's the letter "D," which Tesla Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Elon Musk casually tossed in a vague Twitter post along with a...
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NVIDIA's Tegra processor is a pretty great slice of silicon to find in a tablet. But finding it in a car? Yeah, that's a reality as well. The company announced today an expansion of its automotive ecosystem in partnership with Honda...
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Samsung took a page from Apple's design portfolio when it released the Galaxy Alpha, a handset that looks like a stretched out version of the iPhone 5s, complete with metal construction. Yes, the front and back are still made of plastic...
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Buried in the details of Microsoft's technical preview for Windows 10 (look for our own discussion in short order), is a bit of a footnote concerning the operating system's requirements. I say footnote because this news -- that Windows 10...
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