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Latest News - February 2015
- Lenovo Now Facing Lawsuit After Hooking Customers With Superfish Adware
- $199 'Pebble Time' Color E-Paper Smartwatch Launches Via Kickstarter
- No More Fap! Google Bans Sexually Explicit Content From ‘Blogger’ Platform
- Apple To Revamp Genius Bar, Add 'Concierge' Service For Streamlined Support And Repairs
- AMD Carrizo APU With Excavator Core Architecture Targets Higher Efficiency, Longer Battery Life
- Downtown Detroit Will Soon Be Home To Super-Fast ‘Rocket’ Fiber Internet Service
- It's Not Half-Life 3, But Valve Will Display SteamVR Hardware Next Week At GDC
- Softcard-Powered Google Wallet Coming To AT&T, T-Mobile And Verizon Smartphones
- Google Now Brings Voice Commands For Oft-Used Smartphone Settings In Lollipop
- Windows And Linux More Secure? Mac OS X And iOS Top List Of Most Vulnerable Operating Systems
- Lenovo B50 All-in-One 23-Inch Multi-Touch Desktop Review
- YouTube Kids Vaults Onto Google Play And iOS App Stores
- Lavasoft And Comodo Allegedly Employing Vulnerable 'Superfish' Style Code
- As More Carmakers Flock To Android Auto And CarPlay, Toyota Says 'No Thanks'
- Pebble’s Color E-Ink Smartwatch Leaked Ahead Of Tomorrow’s Announcement
- Apple Invests $1.93 Billion In Two European Data Centers Fully Powered By Renewable Energy
- Gemalto Confident Its SIM Products Are Secure Following Infiltration By NSA And GCHQ
- LG Carpet Bombs Mid-Range Smartphone Market With Joy, Leon, Magna, And Spirit
- NVIDIA Bows To Vocal Minority, Will Reactivate Mobile GPU Overclocking In March Driver Update
- Amazon Offering Xbox One, An Extra Controller And Three Games For $349
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All News for February 2015
Lenovo had a rough go of it over the past few weeks. First, news broke that Lenovo had installed Superfish (widely regarded as adware) on some of its notebooks. As public outcry mounted, Lenovo offered a public apology and provided customers with instructions for removing Superfish. But all the negative publicity...
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Pebble is launching a new Kickstarter campaign, and the star this time around is its new Pebble Time smartwatch. In a nascent market that is seeing the rise of LCD and OLED-powered smartwatches running the Android Wear operating system (the much-hyped Apple Watch is still two months away), the Pebble Time forgoes...
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Google has a message for users of its Blogger platform -- clean up your content or take a hike. No, Google isn't suddenly interested in typos and other elements of grammar, but it does want to eliminate the bulk of sexually explicit images and videos. The exception to posting nudity is if the content offers what...
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In addition to launching new products like its forthcoming Apple Watch, the Cupertino outfit is also keeping busy by making changes on the service side of the equation. Specifically, Apple is getting ready to revamp its retail store Genius Bar experience with an initiative called "The new Concierge," a fancy sounding...
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AMD first started dishing out details on Carrizo, the successor to Kaveri, during the closing months of 2014. AMD is claiming that Carrizo, which is still built on Global Foundries’ 28nm Super High Performance (28SHP) process node like its predecessor, will nonetheless deliver huge advances in both performance and...
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Dan Gilbert, majority owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, is no stranger to making bold claims. After LeBron James left the Cavs to sign with the Miami Heat several years ago, he made a personal "guarantee that the Cleveland Cavaliers will win an NBA Championship before the self-titled former 'King' wins one," a...
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Valve has a slew of products it's planning to showcase at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, California, next week. Among the items it will bring to GDC is a previously unannounced SteamVR hardware system, presumably one that's not part of the Oculus Rift ecosystem, which at one point could have...
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Google may have been one of the first to bring a wireless, mobile payment system to modern smartphones using NFC technology, but it was Apple that made the technology surprisingly easy-to-use and widespread courtesy of Apple Pay and Touch ID. When it comes to contactless payment made using American Express...
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For all the hand-wringing following the debacle with Samsung’s smart TVs, the voice command really is a useful tool. Google has been working to improve voice commands in Android and, at long last, it appears to have added some excellent new voice commands to Android. Sadly, it looks like the new commands work only in...
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Conventional wisdom in years past was that hackers didn’t bother to exploit Apple’s OS X operating system because its relatively insignificant market share didn’t warrant wasting resources to exploit it. The reasoning was, why bother with OS X when Windows was pushing over 90 percent of the worldwide OS...
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All in one systems are all about balance. Attempting to cram an entire PC’s worth of components into the back of what amounts to a slightly wider-than-normal display can be an iffy proposition. Pare down the specifications too much and you wind up with a limp machine that’s obsolete by the time you get it. Jam in too many high-performance...
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News broke last week that YouTube was going to follow in the footsteps of Netflix and offer a family-friendly version of its streaming service for kids, and the report turned out to be true. The YouTube Kids app is now available to download from Google Play and Apple's App Store, the two most popular mobile platforms in the world.
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It hasn't even been a full week since we first learned of 'Superfish', and yet it's already beginning to feel like it's a subject that just won't die. But that's for good reason, though, as its effects are wider-reaching than we originally realized.
In case you've been sleeping since this debacle began, let's catch...
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Google is engrossed with self-driving cars and Apple has reportedly assembled a super team of engineers to build an electric vehicle to take on Tesla. Whether or not either venture makes it into the mainstream is something we won't know for at least several more years, but in the meantime, both companies are also...
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Late last week, we brought you news that Pebble is set to launch its next generation smartwatch on Tuesday. Perhaps the most interesting bit of information (other than the fact that the smartwatch is supposed to be thinner and a bit wider) is that the device will feature a color e-ink display.
As is typically the...
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Environmental stewardship may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Apple, but it’s certainly becoming a large part of the company’s self-perception under CEO Tim Cook’s leadership. Today, Apple announced that it will soon build two data centers in Europe to support its online services in the...
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As we reported on late last week, the world's largest SIM card maker was broken into digitally as part of a joint operation between the United States' NSA and United Kingdom's GCHQ. The attack, which began back in 2010, gave these agencies unparalleled access to the global smartphone network, ultimately enabling them...
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LG Electronics is planning to showcase a quartet of mid-range handsets at "exceptional prices" during Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona next month, the company announced. The four phones include the Magna, Spirit, Leon, and Joy, each of which will incorporate LG's "premium design elements and user...
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NVIDIA pulled the rug out from under overclockers through a recent driver update that disabled the ability to goose its GeForce GTX 900M Series mobile GPUs past their stock clocks, creating a whirlwind of criticism in the process. Having heard the collective outcries of overclockers, and perhaps looking to avoid a...
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Microsoft seems to like the number $349. During the run-up to Christmas, Microsoft cut the price of its Xbox One (sans Kinect) from $399 to $349. As a result, sales soared and the Xbox One was able to outsell Sony’s PlayStation 4 for two months straight. For a brief two-week period, Microsoft reset the Xbox One’s...
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If you're looking to score some free tickets to the biggest mobile event of the year, and you also happen to be using the Windows 10 preview, Microsoft would like to help. Well, if you're lucky enough to be chosen from a huge pool of people, that is.
In one of the more unique giveaways Microsoft's held, all someone...
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Not even a week after Yandex filed a complaint against Google for its anticompetitive practices, a San Jose judge dismissed a lawsuit that focused on similar accusations.
In this lawsuit, Google was ultimately accused of being anticompetitive. This accusation stems from the fact that the company bundles many of its...
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