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Latest News - January 2017
- UC London Researchers Discover Massive Twitter ‘Star Wars’ Botnet Lying Dormant Since 2013
- LineageOS Rises From CyanongenMod’s Ashes With Support For Over 80 Devices Including Nexus 6P
- Samsung Confirms Galaxy S8 Won’t Debut At MWC 2017 In Barcelona
- Foxconn And Apple Ponder $7 Billion U.S. Display Factory With Potential For 50,000 Jobs
- Homesick Hugo Barra Leaving Xiaomi After 3 Years To Rejoin Silicon Valley
- AT&T Hikes Phone Activation Fee To $25 In Latest Customer Fleecing
- Carnegie Mellon AI ‘Libratus’ Is Smoking Top Pro Poker Players With Tell Reads And Bluffing
- Make It So: NASA Names Newly Discovered Asteroid After Star Trek’s Wil Wheaton Aka Wesley Crusher
- Apple iPhone 8 To Reportedly Replace Touch ID With Two-Factor Fingerprint And Facial Recognition
- Google Brings Android Instant Tethering To Your Pixel And Nexus Phones
- FTC Busts Two Major Robocall Organizations Guilty Of Spamming People On Do Not Call Registry
- Nintendo Switch Won’t Run Zelda: Breath Of The Wild At 1080p For TV Mode
- Hennessey Venom GT 270 MPH, 1451 Horsepower Supercar Ends Limited Production Run
- Net Neutrality Opponent Ajit Pai Reportedly Tapped By Trump To Lead FCC
- Apple Sues Qualcomm For Extortion And $1 Billion In Back Payments
- PC Gaming Hardware Market Surges Past $30 Billion For The First Time In 2016
- Canadian Man Gets Sweet Revenge Against Laptop Thief By Remoting In And Owning Her Facebook Account
- ASUS Unveils Tinker Board, Rockchip Powered Raspberry Pi 3 Competitor With Nearly 2X The Horsepower
- Samsung Makes Galaxy S8 Official With USPTO Trademark Filing
- Facebook’s Zuckerberg Sues Hundreds Of Hawaiians For Land Rights To 700-Acre Paradise Getaway
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All News for January 2017
Like a massive army of Storm Troopers willing to follow devious commands, a pair of researchers from the University College London warn that a "large number of Twitter users are bots" that are ready to "contaminate the Twitter API stream." There are more than 350,000 in all, comprising what the researchers have named...
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CyanogenMod might be pushing up daisies, but LineageOS has picked up where the fan favorite custom ROM project left off and is starting to blossom. As promised, the developers behind LineageOS released new builds over the weekend. The initial roll out includes support for a handful of devices, though in the coming...
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Having survived the Galaxy Note 7 fiasco, Samsung is in the process of some final housekeeping (officially presenting results of its investigation into what caused the Galaxy Note 7 handsets to overheat and catch fire) before putting the matter to rest and looking ahead to what is next. We already know what that...
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It looks as though President Donald Trump may be getting his wish when it comes to bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States. It is being reported that Foxconn is looking to build a “highly automated” manufacturing facility in the U.S. that would produce display panels.
It’s expected that investment in...
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Many people in the tech industry were shocked when former Android executive Hugo Barra decided to abandon Google 3.5 years ago to take a position at Chinese firm Xiaomi. At the time, Barra said that he was ready to start a “new career chapter”, coming aboard Xiaomi as the company’s International Vice...
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Surprise! AT&T just hiked their activation fee. Customers must now pay $25 instead of $20 in order to activate a new line or upgrade an existing one.
The activation fee applies to both devices purchased with an installment agreement and devices the customer already owns. The activation and upgrade fees for two year...
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These days, machine-learning along with artificial intelligence are becoming increasingly capable, and we're seeing their use applied to things we might not have immediately expected. Case in point: last month, we talked about how AI was being used to craft the most perfect beer.
But as wonderous as AI beer may...
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If you’re a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation, then you’re no doubt familiar with everyone’s favorite know-it-all whipping boy: Ensign Wesley Crusher. Played by venerable child actor Wil Wheaton, Wesley Crusher was at times an annoyance to trekkies, but for the most part redeemed himself over the course of the...
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Apple has received criticism for not injecting more innovation into its iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus handsets, and the same will probably be true of the inevitable iPhone 7s and iPhone 7s Plus variants. However, Apple will have an opportunity to shake things up when it releases its iPhone 8 and one of the things it...
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If you're in a situation where your phone has data, but your tablet doesn't, and Wi-Fi isn't an immediate option, things can get frustrating pretty quickly. Consider checking into a hotel, for example, which only allows one or two devices to connect to the Wi-Fi - that's a major roadblock for those with their...
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Two more robocallers have bitten the dust. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has just filed complaints against two robocall organizations that have allegedly helped to make billions of robocalls between March 2009 through May 2016. Many of the calls were to numbers on the “Do Not Call” Registry.
The two main...
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Nintendo confirmed this past week that the upcoming The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild would be the big N's final release for the Wii U, much to the chagrin of the fans who've stuck by the console since its release in 2012. Nonetheless, if Wii U owners are not planning to make an immediate jump to the Switch, it...
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The Venom GT is heading for that big supercar heaven in the sky. Hennessey announced this week that it is ending production of the extremely limited production supercar after a baker’s dozen were constructed.
The Venom GT set a Guinness World Record in 2013 as the fastest 2-seat sports car, going from 0 to 300 KPH...
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While nothing is yet official, word inside Washington is that President Donald Trump will assign GOP commissioner Ajit Pai to serve as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Pai was nominated to the FCC by former President Barack Obama and was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate in...
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The pieces to the puzzle are starting to come together. Earlier this week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hit Qualcomm with a lawsuit concerning anticompetitive practices with its licensing. The FTC specifically called out Qualcomm’s actions towards Apple, writing, “Qualcomm recognized that any competitor that won...
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In case you haven’t noticed, the PC gaming market is exploding. As we reported in the closing days of 2016, PC gaming software sales reached nearly $36 billion ($35.8 billion to be exact) during 2016, compared to just $6.6 billion for console game sales. Neither was able to touch mobile gaming revenues, however, which...
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Everyone hates a thief — especially when they strike close to home. Our personal devices like smartphones and notebooks are often targets for criminals, and one Canadian man found this out the hard way.
Stu Gale, who just so happens to be a computer security expert, had the misfortune of having his laptop stolen...
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Hot on the heels of our coverage of an in-depth guide showing you how to make your own "NES Classic Edition" with a Raspberry Pi, ASUS strikes with a DIY kit that it says is about twice as fast as the RPi 3. The DIY retro gaming arena could be heating up with more powerful options!
The Tinker Board, as ASUS calls...
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We’re inching closer to the release of the Samsung Galaxy S8, which is destined to be one for the best-selling smartphones of 2017 if we go by the performance of its predecessors. Leading up the launch, Samsung has filed for a patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) seeking...
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Grumpy old men are not the only ones yelling at others to stay off their lawns, so is Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire co-founder of Facebook. You see, when you're saddled with extreme wealth and fame, sometimes you just want to get away (hashtag-OnePercenterProbs). In Zuckerberg's case, he purchased a 700-acre...
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From the very first day of availability, Microsoft has been so determined to get Windows users to upgrade to Windows 10 that it offered free upgrades. Anyone who was rocking a copy of Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1 had an entire year to upgrade to Windows 10 at no cost, and that offer still stands for anyone who uses the...
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At long last, we have some details on why exactly some of Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 devices were prone to overheating and catching fire, including replacement handsets that used batteries from a different manufacturer. Samsung has completed its investigation and determined that irregularly sized battery packs were to...
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