Samsung denies its TVs game power consumption tests

From ComputerWorld: Samsung Electronics has denied allegations that it designed its TVs to consume less energy during tests than they do in real-world situations.

The allegations, in a report by The Guardian, center on a feature Samsung calls "motion lighting," which it introduced to its TVs in...

Amazon launches managed Elasticsearch service

From InfoWorld: While Amazon Web Services made a name for itself by providing raw computing power and data storage at rock-bottom prices, the company has been moving toward providing services that do more of the heavy lifting for developers and administrators in exchange for a higher price.

Amazon...

Data breach hits roughly 15M T-Mobile customers, applicants

From CNET: Hackers stole the personal data of 15 million T-Mobile customers by going after the company that processes the wireless carrier's credit checks.

The company, Experian, said Thursday that it experienced a breach that nabbed customer data from September 1, 2013, to September 16, 2015. The...

Microsoft, Google bury the hatchet with global patent deal

From ComputerWorld: Microsoft has been pursuing a more collaborative approach under CEO Satya Nadella, working with longtime rivals like Salesforce, VMware and Apple. There hasn't been much love between Microsoft and Google, but an announcement Wednesday may signal an easing of those tensions...

Dell's new Skylake Precision laptops get smaller, thinner and faster

From PC World: Dell's new Precision 15 5000 corporate laptop takes an important cue from its cousin, the XPS 13. Arguably the best consumer laptop of the year, the XPS 13 crammed a 13-inch screen into a laptop no bigger than ones that packed 11-inch panels.

Dell does the same trick with its new...

Windows 10 inches up slightly in desktop OS market

From CNET: Windows 10 continued to grab a larger audience in September, though it seems to have lost some steam.

The latest version of Windows snagged a 6.6 percent cut of all Web traffic generated by desktop operating systems last month, according to NetMarketShare, less than 1.5 points higher...

Nexus phones, an Android laptop, and more

From ComputerWorld: As most of us were expecting, Google is launching not one but two new Nexus phones: the 5.2-in. LG-made Nexus 5X and the larger Huawei-made Nexus 6P. Unlike last year's surprisingly expensive Nexus 6, the new phones are both fantastic deals, at least on paper: $379 for the base...

Apple launches OS X El Capitan

From InfoWorld: Apple reminded Mac owners that they can download OS X 10.11, aka El Capitan, free of charge starting Wednesday.

If the Cupertino, Calif., company follows past practice, it will add El Capitan to the Mac App Store around 10 a.m. PT.

The upgrade will run on the same Macs that now run...

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