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Latest News - April 2015
- AT&T Lights Up Gigapower Gigabit Internet Service In Chicago ‘Burbs
- A Staggering 1500 iOS Apps Vulnerable To Disastrous HTTPS Exploit
- Google Pulls Plug On YouTube App Support For 2012-Era iOS Devices, Smart TVs And Blu-ray Players
- Relive All Of Your Embarrassing Late Night Browsing Sessions With Google Search History Download Feature
- Qualcomm Snubs Longtime Partner TSMC, Woos Rival Samsung For 14nm Snapdragon 820 Production
- HBO Threatens Paying Customers Outside U.S. Using VPNs To Access HBO Now
- Elon Musk Nearly Sold Then Struggling Tesla Motors To Google Back In 2013
- Google’s Chrome OS 42 Brings Google Now-Infused App Launcher
- Android Wear Cuts Bluetooth Leash With Wi-Fi Support, Adds Wrist Gestures For Cards
- AMD CEO Lisa Su Let Slip That Windows 10 Will Launch In July
- BMW’s Next Gen 7-Series To Let You Play 007 With Remote Control Keyfob And Gesture Control
- Google Risks ‘Mobilegeddon’ With Mobile-Favoring Search Algorithm Tweak
- Nokia Reportedly Plans To Tiptoe Back Into Smartphone Market In 2016
- Stanford And Cornell Researchers Develop Internet Troll Identification Algorithm To Auto-Clean The Riff Raff
- OnePlus One Now Available For Everyone, OnePlus 2 Flagship Coming In Q3 2015
- HBO Is Pissed About Game Of Thrones Leak, Fires Off DMCA Takedowns Notices To Pirates
- Samsung Attempting To Crack Japanese Market By Removing Logo From Galaxy S6 And S6 Edge
- Sony Plays It Safe With 5.2-Inch, Snapdragon 810-Powered Xperia Z4 Flagship Smartphone
- Russian Hacker Group APT28 Used Unpatched Adobe, Windows Exploits To Infiltrate US Government Networks
- ESPN Says Verizon’s New Custom FiOS TV Packages Violate Existing Contract
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Congratulations to residents of Chicago, who now have access to AT&T's blazing fast Gigapower broadband Internet service. Like Google's Fiber service, U-verse with AT&T Gigapower offers up to 1-gigabit per second downloads and uploads, which translates into being able to download 25 songs in less than a second.
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Another day, another story about a poor SSL implementation. According to analytics service SourceDNA, a staggering 1,500 iOS apps are bugged with a gaping HTTPS hole, allowing attackers to intercept traffic that should otherwise be secure.
The bug exists in a popular networking library called AFNetworking. If an...
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If it's been several years since you last upgraded your mobile device or other electronic gadgets, you may lose the ability to use the Google's YouTube app. In an updated support document, Google says that select devices manufactured in 2012 and earlier are affected, including Sony TVs and Blu-ray Discs, Panasonic TVs...
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Sometimes it's better to leave certain things alone -- just ask Pandora, who couldn't refrain from opening that damn box (or jar, if you want to get technical). Curiosity always tends to get the better of us in the end, and if you're curious about what terms you've searched for on Google throughout the years, there's...
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Watching the tech industry can be a lot like watching a soap opera. There's plenty of drama mixed with plot twists and scorned relationships. These things are playing out right now as Qualcomm breaks up with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and cozies up with Samsung as a chip building partner for its...
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As most subscribers will attest, the HBO Now app is pretty awesome. It's easy to use, isn't saddled with bugs, and offers access to all of HBO's content, including Game of Thrones. However, only paying customers living in the U.S. are eligible to play. Some people in other countries have found ways around the...
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Today, it's hard to fathom the idea of Elon Musk's Tesla being sold to another company. A couple of years ago, though? With tepid sales, it almost seemed certain that the company would be folding - and as we can now see, it did almost result in Tesla being sold. And to none other than Google.
This is something...
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Google released an update for Chrome OS late last week. Chromebook users have had the weekend to form an opinion of the new Launcher, which has Google Now integration and improved typed and voice search functionality. So far, the reaction to Chrome OS 42 is mixed.
Comments posted on Google’s Chrome Releases blog...
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If you’re at all interested in the wearables, things are really starting to get interesting as Apple has entered the fray with the Apple Watch and numerous vendors in the Android Wear camp release compelling designs to eager tech geeks. The wearables market is about to get even more competitive thank to a new software...
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Sometimes, you just have to wonder if accidental leaks are not so "accidental", as they can drum up a lot of attention. Take, for example, AMD's Lisa Su, who let it loose during a financial call last week that Windows 10 is expected to release at the end of the July. Her exact words were: "What we also are factoring...
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It's crazy to think what kind of technologies will be commonplace in vehicles within the next 10 or 20 years. Whereas power windows, cruise control, and more recently satellite radio were all once cutting features, today's generation of car buyers may wonder how we ever got by without such amenities. Likewise, the...
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On Tuesday Google will change an algorithm in its search function that will give preference to websites that are deemed "mobile friendly" for searches run via cellular devices (searches run via browsers on computers and tablets will be unaffected). This change by the search behemoth is widely expected to have a more...
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Nokia finalized a sale of its mobile phone business to Microsoft last year for $7.2 billion, and though it was reported that Microsoft negotiated the rights to use the Nokia brand on mobile products for the next decade, by November of 2014, Microsoft released its first Lumia handset without the Nokia label. Less than...
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It's said that a single bad apple can ruin the whole bunch, but Internet trolls are even worse. They not only ruin what could have been an engaging discussion on an interesting topic with intelligent individuals, but they often manage to go undetected until that moment when all hell breaks loose. And then the ban...
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OnePlus turned a lot of heads last year when it announced the OnePlus One, a $299 (16GB) or $349 (64GB) off-contract handset with high-end hardware and features. The only problem was, you needed an invite to get one. Fast forward to now, a year after the phone's debut, and the OnePlus One no longer requires an invite...
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HBO has in the past taken a rather nonchalant approach to piracy, even at times taking the surprisingly refreshing viewpoint that millions of illegal downloads can be viewed as a "compliment of sorts" and that it comes with the territory of "having a wildly successful show on a subscription network." The thing is, if...
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Samsung's Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge — the very essence of HOT hardware in the smartphone space today — will go on sale in Japan this Thursday (April 23) without the company's logo on the devices, and will instead sport the monikers 'Docomo Galaxy' and 'au Galaxy', named after their Japanese telecom...
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Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. We won’t blame you if you have a serious case of deja vu when you first lay your eyes upon the new Sony Xperia Z4, because it’s a dead ringer for its Xperia Z3 predecessor. If you think that HTC caught a lot of flak for its lazy (design wise) upgrade from the One M7 to One M8...
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According to US-based security research firm FireEye, a Russian group it dubs APT28 is responsible for attacking a number of different government agency computers through exploitation of previously unknown vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash and Microsoft Windows.
To exploit a vulnerable system, attackers took advantage...
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Well, it sure didn't take long for the complaints to roll in. On Friday, we reported that Verizon would begin allowing FiOS TV customers to pick and choose channels on an a la carte basis, which is a great thing. Interestingly, the Canadian CRTC last month announced that beginning in 2016, cable providers would be...
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These days, you can’t seem to escape reports of major corporations being “taken down” by phishing schemes (“Hello, Sony”) or ordinary spam. Valve doesn’t want its hugely popular Steam digital distribution service (or its users) to fall victim to such attacks, so it’s taking a rather unusual step to help weed out...
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Many 3D printers in the consumer space create plastic objects by manipulating PLA or ABS filament. However, plastic isn't the only material these gadgets work with -- we've seen 3D printers use everything from delicious pancake batter to makeup materials. Well, go ahead and add fabric to the growing list of...
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