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Latest News - February 2017
- Vizio To Pay $2.2 Million Fine For Tracking, Selling Customer TV Viewing Data Without Permission
- Facebook And Google Fight Fake News Surge In France With Filtering Software
- Lenovo ThinkPad P Series Notebooks Crank Out Xeon And Kaby Lake Muscle, Quadro GPUs, 4K Displays
- Google Maps Android Redesign Makes Traffic Info And Commute Times Easily Accessible
- Apple, Google, Facebook Among 97 Companies Fighting Trump’s Immigration Policy
- LG Watch Style Packaging Leaked Ahead Of Google’s Rumored February 8th Android Wear 2.0 Debut
- AMD Ryzen Might Officially Support Windows 7 Unlike Intel's Kaby Lake
- Robot Overlords To Displace 250,000 Human Workers In UK By 2030
- Triggered: Google Super Bowl Commercial Sends Google Home AI Assistants Into A Tizzy
- 50 Shades Of Red? Verizon And T-Mobile Into BDSM With Uncomfortable Super Bowl Twitter Feud
- Lenovo Launches Yoga A12 Android Convertible With Sleek Halo Keyboard
- NVIDIA Unveils New Quadro Pro Graphics Cards Powered By Potent Pascal GPUs And Beastly GP100
- Lady Gaga’s Super Bowl Halftime Show To Fly In Face Of The FAA With Hundreds Of Drones In The Sky
- Google Ordered To Release Foreign Emails To Comply With FBI Data Request
- Windows XP And Vista Users Beware: Gmail Ending Support For Chrome 53 And Older By December 2017
- HP, Epson, Canon And Brother Printer Users Punked By ‘Flaming Botnet' - We Told You So
- Fallout Shelter To Make Jump From Mobile To Windows 10 PCs And Xbox One Consoles
- Apple Offers Students Tempting Bundle Of Final Cut And Logic Pro For $199
- AMD Ryzen Processor Lineup Leaked Sporting 17 SKUs With 8, 6 And 4 Cores Versions
- Elon Musk Is Boring: Tesla CEO Offers First Glimpse Of Los Angeles Tunneling Machine
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All News for February 2017
Vizio has agreed to pay a $2.2 million fine after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and New Jersey Attorney General busted the company for using its internet-connected Smart TVs to automatically track the viewing habits of 11 million customers on a continual basis. The information gleaned from customers was then...
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The battle against fake news is being waged not only in North America, but on the European front as well. Google, Facebook, and a group of French news media outlets recently launched initiative “Cross Check” to squash fake news in France. The program is in response to the upcoming presidential election in...
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If you’re a fan of ThinkPad P Series, and have been looking for follow-ups to the P70, P50 and P50s, Lenovo is ready to deliver with a comprehensive refresh. So today, we present to you the ThinkPad P71, P51 and P51s.
The ThinkPad P71 is the biggest and baddest monster of the bunch, strutting its stuff with a...
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Google Maps on Android is getting a makeover. The app will now incorporate three easily accessible tabs on the bottom of the home screen to help users find a nearby restaurant, catch the next bus, or keep an eye out on their commute.
The “Places” tab will include a curated list of restaurants for the user’s current...
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It didn't take long after President Trump's presidential inauguration for decisions to be made that impacted a lot of people in one fell swoop. That couldn't be more true than with the recent executive order to temporarily bar entry into the US for a series of predominantly Muslim countries, including Syria, Iraq, and...
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There is a rumor going around that Google will unveil its Android Wear 2.0 platform for wearables on Wednesday, February 8. As we get closer to that date, there is a fresh leak of a wearable that might be running Android Wear 2.0. Pictures showing the retail packaging for LG's upcoming LG Watch Style show what the...
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Enthusiasts are eagerly awaiting the arrival of AMD’s new Ryzen processors, which are scheduled to hit store shelves early next month. While we won’t find out all of the juicy details surrounding Ryzen until closer to launch, one bit of good news leaked out over the weekend that should be music to the ears of...
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The world is a rapidly changing place and that will always be the case. Unfortunately for our friends in the U.K. who might be working in a public sector job, change could precede unemployment. That's because there is a push to replace nearly 250,000 public sector workers in the U.K. with robots over the next 15...
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You can always count on Super Bowl commercials causing a few laughs (along with some uncomfortable moments) and Super Bowl LI over the weekend was no exception, though not all of the giggles were as intended. One of the came when Google ran an ad for its voice-activated AI speaker called Google Home. The 60-second ad...
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There are certain uncomfortable moments that trigger an awkward feeling in your belly. One of them is walking in on your parents when they're doing the horizontal mambo. While perhaps not quite on that level, it feels a little weird watching two wireless carriers go back and forth on Twitter in a feud over the erotic...
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When we see new convertibles announced these days, they’re usually running Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system. However, Lenovo is bucking that trend with its new Yoga A12 — a new convertible constructed of aluminum and magnesium running Google’s Android operating system.
Lenovo is aiming the Yoga A12 at the...
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The same awesome architecture that powers NVIDIA's latest generation graphics cards can now be found throughout the maker's entire professional Quadro line for the desktop with top to bottom solutions. We're of course talking about Pascal, the game-changing architecture that made playing titles at a 4K resolution on a...
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Given how popular drones are nowadays, it's becoming more common to see them put to use in new and imaginative ways. Unfortunately, folks don't always know where and when it's safe to fly them. In some cases, users might know, but still disregard the rules put in place for safety in the skies, and instead just take...
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Can the FBI access your email if it is on a foreign server? Google was recently ordered by a United States judge to release emails stored on foreign mail servers to the FBI. The communications are possibly related to a domestic fraud case.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Rueter in Philadelphia ruled that transferring...
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Gmail is ending support for Chrome browser versions 53 and earlier by the end of the year, Google announced in a blog post. Normally Google would not bother announcing such a thing, but in this case it made an exception because of the impact this could have users who are still clinging to Windows XP and Windows Vista...
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Just yesterday, we posted a story concerning printer security and how we should take it more seriously given IoT botnets that are swooping across the globe (namely Mirai), along with the sensitive data and documents these machines are custodians of. Today’s printers have relatively potent processors, complex operating...
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What's that sound? Oh, it's just the collective sound of Fallout fans who'd rather not game on mobile platforms letting out a collective "Finally!". That's right: Bethesda's super-hot mobile game based on the Fallout universe, called Fallout Shelter, is coming to Xbox One, as well as Windows 10 PCs. Sorry, PlayStation...
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It is no secret that students and teachers have to shell out a lot of cash for school supplies. Education customers, however, can now get a major discount on some rather tempting video and music editing software. Apple is currently selling its “Pro Apps Bundle for Education” for $199.99 USD.
According to Apple the...
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AMD boss Dr. Lisa Su recently confirmed that Ryzen, the company's highly anticipated next generation CPU architecture, will launch to retail in early March. Up to this point AMD has been tight lipped about the processor lineup that will comprise Ryzen, though a Chinese-language website is posting what it says is a...
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Elon Musk is boring. No, he really is. The brilliant business magnate just released a first glimpse of his boring machine that he intends to use to tunnel under the streets of Los Angeles.
Late last night Musk tweeted an image of a large boring machine with the cutting head unattached with the caption “Minecraft”...
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Earlier this week, we brought you news of an upcoming variant of Windows 10 that is reportedly destined for low-cost machines. Today, an early build of that SKU, Windows 10 Cloud, leaked to the internet in ISO form.
For anyone brave enough to try out Windows 10 Cloud, which is available in Windows 10 Build 15019...
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Just a couple of weeks ago, we wrote about the Israeli security firm Cellebrite, and how it suffered a major data breach. After the information began to trickle out, it seemed like no real damage was done. Cellebrite itself said that what leaked was an old, irrelevant backup. A new discovery, however, questions that...
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