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Latest News - April 2015
- NSA Wants Your Encrypted Data And Is Pushing Tech Companies To Provide ‘Split Key’ Access
- Best Buy Promo Slices $100 Off Already Discounted Moto 360 If You Purchase $40 Android Smartphone
- Smartwatch Mania Strikes As Analysts Estimate Apple Watch Pre-orders Nearly Hit One Million Units
- Microsoft Throws U.K. Gamers A Bone, Drops Xbox One Price To £299.99
- Sprint ’Direct 2 You’ Brings In-Home Delivery And Hands-On Setup For Smartphone Purchases
- Sharp Announces Retina-Searing 5.5-Inch 4K IZGO Display With 806 PPI
- Robert Downey Jr Brings Extended 'Age of Ultron' Iron Man vs Hulk Clip To MTV Party
- Bing’s Mobile Homepage Receives Botox Injection, More Efficient Layout
- ‘Darwin Nuke’ DoS Vulnerability Discovered In iOS 8 And OS X Yosemite 10.10
- Sprint Offers Unlimited International Roaming In Select Countries
- Oops! LG Accidentally Leaks Leather-Wrapped G4 Smartphone Two Weeks Ahead Of Schedule
- Middle Schooler Charged With Felony For Using Teacher's Incredibly Insecure Network Password
- China's 'Great Cannon' Is Ultimate Cyber Weapon Against True Internet Freedom
- US Government Rejects Intel’s Attempt For Easy Xeon Processor Design Win In China
- Google X Skunkworks Lab Is Cooking Up Delicious, Next Generation Battery Technology
- BitTorrent Moves Forward With Public Beta Of 'Project Maelstrom' Secure Web Browser
- ESA Says Required 'Hacking' Makes Preserving Old Games Illegal
- US And European Law Enforcement Agencies Tag Team And Dismantle Perilous Beebone Botnet
- Migrate Your Mac To OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 Immediately To Avoid Root Backdoor
- Project Spartan Browser Comes To Lumia Smartphones With Windows 10 Build 10051
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All News for April 2015
Here we go again. This past November, the US' Department of Justice latched onto public heartstrings by saying that encryption on mobile phones could lead to the death of children, and in January, president Obama followed-up to plainly say...
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An already smoking hot deal just got even better (and will probably have people who bought a Motorola Moto 360 within the past three or four days bang their heads against the wall). On Friday, we brought you the news that both Amazon and...
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The early Apple Watch sales numbers are in, and to the surprise of not very many at all Apple's hyper-hyped new device blew the doors off the Internet on Friday, selling out the entirety of the company's initial stock in just six (6)...
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It's getting increasingly difficult to avoid the temptation to pick up an Xbox One console these days. Microsoft's moved on from forcing the second generation Kinect motion controller down gamers' collective throats, and on top of that...
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Up to this point, the wireless wars have been mostly fought with more flexible smartphone plans that either offer more data or lower prices. Sprint, however, has demonstrated an ability to think outside the box by offering to cut...
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How many pixels can you cram on a smartphone display? A whole bunch, is our technical answer. As proof of this, Sharp announced the creation of the world's first (and of course only) 5.5-inch mobile display with an Ultra HD 4K resolution...
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The gloves are off now...or, rather, they are on, and then off, and then on again. Last night Robert Downey Jr. turned up at the MTV Movie Awards with an extended heretofore mostly unseen clip from Marvel Studios' cannot-get-here-fast...
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Microsoft is looking to up its game in the mobile search engine market a bit with a redesigned mobile homepage for Bing search. The new mobile homepage will be available to both Android and iOS users and includes a handful of new features...
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It's not often that we learn of a DDoS attack that can be sourced from mobile devices, but as it happens, it's something that's possible on iOS devices not running the latest 8.3 software.
The bug isn't exclusive to iOS, however...
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You've probably read horror stories of international travelers opening up their cell phone bills only to find they owe a king's ransom instead of the typical monthly fee they're used to paying. Welcome to the world of roaming charges. To...
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It was supposed to be during a scheduled media event on April 28 that LG would show the world its forthcoming G4 handset in all its glory, but then came that awkward moment when some dude who built a following by leaking information and...
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A 14-year-old from Florida's Pasco County has learned the hard way that gaining unauthorized access to someone else's computer - no matter how easily it's accomplished - is a major offense.
While media reports not surprisingly jump to...
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We reported a couple of weeks ago that GitHub was hit with a massive DDoS attack, and given the projects that were targeted; it was widely assumed that China was behind the attack. Now, there's even more evidence of that, and it appears...
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The cyberwar and war of words between the United States and China is never-ending. When we last visited the tense relationship between the U.S. and China, President Barack Obama was crying foul over draft anti-terrorism legislation that...
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We're always hearing about promising new battery technologies, though in the end, they're always too expensive, too big, or too whatever to make it into the mainstream. Eventually that's going to change and there will be a breakthrough...
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Several months ago, BitTorrent posed the question, "What if more of the web worked the web BitTorrent does?" To answer that question, the BitTorrent team created Project Maelstrom, a specialized web browser that fetches content from a...
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The Entertainment Software Association might be a trade association that cares about the health of the gaming industry, but that doesn't mean it cares at all about preserving its rich history. That's now been proven by the fact that it...
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When is it fair to deem a botnet "complex"? Well, I think it's fair to label it as such when it requires a collection of cybercrime fighters from the US and Europe to ultimately give it its final blow.
Here's some context: "On 8 April...
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Swedish hacker Emil Kvarnhammar is reporting that an unpublished OS X API — he dubs it a "backdoor" — can be used by nefarious types to gain root access through local users without Administrator status on Mac computers that have not yet...
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Nearly two months after the first Technical Preview of Windows 10 for smartphones, Microsoft has followed up with a second build. And thankfully for Lumia fans worldwide, this latest build supports a ton more smartphones than the initial...
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If you’re having Apple Watch fatigue (pre-orders just opened up early this morning), you’ll be glad to know that there great news coming from the Android Wear camp today. Those looking to score a deal on the hottest-selling Android Wear...
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If you already suffer from motion sickness from reading while being driven, you can expect things to get worse when you read in autonomous car. Researchers from the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute are cautioning...
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