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Latest News - June 2014
- Microsoft General Counsel, Smith Warns Of ‘Bleak’ Future, Urges Congress To Help Stop Unlawful Government Data Collection
- Montana State Health Department Hacked, 1.3 Million People Potentially Exposed
- New Features, New Apps. Better Performance And More RAM Coming To Google Glass
- Rumor: Google To Load Android On Set-Top Boxes In Bid For Your Living Room (Again)
- Microsoft Officially Unveils Their Secret Android Envy, Nokia X2 Announced
- CryTek Cancels Sequels, Allegedly Can't Make Payroll -- Are They On The Brink?
- Logitech Announces Nest Integration For Popular Harmony Remote Line
- Intel And Micron Empower New Xeon Phi Processor With Hybrid Memory Cube Technology
- Is Facebook Getting Its Mojo Back? Teens Returning To Poke, Stalk And Friend
- 3D Printer Market Continues to Gain Traction, 46% of Sales Attributed to Regular Consumers
- Xplore Technologies Uncages Bobcat, A Lightweight And Rugged Windows 8.1 Tablet
- Sprint Trumps T-Mobile’s 7-Day iPhone “Test Drive” With Monthlong Framily Plan Trial
- Here's A Glimpse Of What The Next Version Of Android Might Look Like
- McAfee Threats Report Warns Nearly 8 Out Of 10 Flappy Bird Clones Riddled With Malware
- Rumor: iPhone 6 Production Begins Next Month
- Nest Announces Developer Program To Jumpstart Internet Of Things Explosion
- How Vacuum Tubes, New Technology Might Save Moore's Law
- Over 300,000 Web Servers Still Vulnerable to the Heartbleed Bug
- Here's What To Look For As 7-Inch Tablet Prices Come Tumbling Down
- Samsung And Sprint Debut Galaxy S5 Sport, IP67 Water And Dust Resistant
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In a lot of ways, the public is resigned to the fact that almost nothing is truly "private." We're given identification numbers from birth, nearly everything about us is volunteered online, and even our mobile devices have GPS modules in them. In a lot of ways, those things are worth the hassle, and worth giving up...
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Talk about an unpleasant conversation -- officials from Montana have begun alerting approximately 1.3 million people that their personal information may have been compromised by a data breach. At present, there's no evidence that any information was stolen, however it has been confirmed that hackers infiltrated a...
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Google may be whiffing badly in terms of marketing for Google Glass, but at least there are plenty of solid updates coming out, both in terms of the actual hardware and available apps. Google noted in a Google+ post that it’s already improved battery life by 20% and increased voice search speed by 10% along with...
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Google is undeterred; after brilliantly failing to wedge itself into our living rooms with Google TV (though it’s made modest inroads with the Chromecast dongle), the company is rumored to be mounting another effort by partnering with other companies to put out set-top boxes loaded with Android. According to...
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Microsoft has today unveiled the latest iteration of its Nokia X2 smartphone, a release that could be considered one of the company's most interesting to date. The reason for that is unique: It's the first smartphone Microsoft has released since its takeover of Nokia that's featured an Android base. This is kind of...
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Crytek -- developers of the CryEngine and the hit Crysis series -- is, by all accounts, in significant trouble. Reports of problems are mounting at multiple publications as employees speak out about missed paychecks, layoffs, and multiple staff departing in the wake of non-payment. Eurogamer is reporting that Crytek...
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Earlier this month, Logitech bolstered the featureset of its Harmony Ultimate and Smart Control remotes by adding support for SONOS' wireless speaker system. Today, it's become clear that the company didn't want to risk the Harmony brand leaving our head, as it's now added support for one of the hottest products out...
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Intel today made a splash at the International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzig, Germany by revealing new details about its next-generation Xeon Phi processor technology. You may better recognize Xeon Phi by its codename, Knights Landing, which we covered in some detail earlier this year. No matter what you call...
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Last fall, a couple of reports trickled out that didn't bode too well for Facebook's future. They claimed that teens were effectively leaving the social network en masse - it was simply no longer cool, a reality heightened by the fact that so many parents also use the service. Well, as it now appears, some conclusions...
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By now, it should come as a surprise to no one, but the 3D printer market is on fire. While a year or two ago, printer options were limited, today the selection is quite vast, with cheaper, more advanced models coming out all of the time. We've even seen a couple of Kickstarter projects which have promised units...
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If you're planning to hike in the mountains or if your work takes you to locales that are off the beaten path, you may want to bring something a bit more durable than a standard tablet. That's where Xplore Technologies comes in -- the company just announced its Bobcat, a fully-rugged Windows 8.1 tablet with MIL-STD...
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The one-upmanship between mobile providers continues. Just days after T-Mobile announced its “T-Mobile Test Drive” program that lets you try out an iPhone 5s and the associated 4G LTE network free for seven days, Sprint announced a 30-day risk-free trial. You can try out Sprint’s service for a month...
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Tomorrow kicks off the first day of Google I/O, and that means lots of product and service announcements throughout the week. One of those is likely to include the next major release of Android, though not before leaked screenshots made their way to the web. A couple of new icons in the screenshots has sparked a bit...
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Flappy Bird developer Dong Nguyen has promised to bring his popular game back to app stores in August complete with a multiplayer component next time around, but if that isn't incentive enough to wait for the real deal, perhaps the risk of malware infection will push you to patience. According to the latest Threats...
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Typically with every iPhone release, the rumors trickle in months ahead of time, and the release of the iPhone 6 has been no different. We’ve heard that the iPhone 6 will come in two sizes, 4.7- and 5.5 inches, we know that it will have some health-related features thanks to iOS 8, and we’ve seen leaked photos or the new handsets....
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Who would have thought that the standard bearer of the Internet of Things (IoT) wave would be a company that makes smart, connected thermostats and alarms? Yet indeed, Nest announced the Nest Developer Program with numerous partners that should lead to a rapid proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) innovations and...
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The transistor is one of the most profound innovations in all of human existence. First discovered in 1947, it has scaled like no advance in human history; we can pack billions of transistors into complicated processors smaller than your thumbnail. After decades of innovation, however, the transistor has faltered. Clock speeds stalled in 2005...
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When the OpenSSL vulnerability Heartbleed broke cover in April, it felt like it was the only thing that mattered for an entire week. Like many news outlets, we reported on the bug from a number of different angles, and it was all for good reason: It's a severe bug, and one that the world needs to know about. Given all...
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Remember when only cheap knock-off tablets ventured into the realm of affordability? That was forever ago, and thanks to the proliferation of 7-inch Android slates that have been flooding the market, you don't have to search very far or wide to find a slate that won't kick your wallet in the gut. Just how low have...
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Samsung has made a smartphone designed for your active lifestyle, and you can only get it with Sprint. The Samsung Galaxy S5 Sport boasts IP67 water and dust resistance and is loaded with multiple health and fitness features from the likes of Under Armour and MapMyFitness. Featuring Sprint Spark technology, the Galaxy...
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Wearables in general--and smartwatches in particular--are among the hottest tech trends of today. Despite a great deal of hullabaloo over these devices, though, many aren’t quite finding them as compelling as you might think. As a result, there’s a sense that no one has yet figured out the secret sauce that makes a wearable / smartwatch...
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The cloud storage market is hotly competitive, and amid the dustup between various providers, consumers are winning. The latest win for us is that Microsoft announced that it’s slashing the cost for its OneDrive cloud storage service by a whopping 70% and offering better freebies, too. Every OneDrive user gets...
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