From DailyTech: Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) in June announced a new $399 USD SKU of its Xbox One console. The $50 extra bought you a 512 Gigabytes (GB) extra of storage, bumping the internal hard drive capacity of the console to 1 Terabyte (TB). Alongside the new higher capacity console, Microsoft also...
From CNET: Being rich is wonderful.
At least that's the assumption the whole world seems to make.
The wealthy are today's so-called rock stars, even though the music that emerges from their mouths can sometimes feel like a dirge played on a flute slipped up someone's nose.
This is especially true...
From Maximum PC: U.S. officials are debating whether or not to issue economic sanctions against China for its alleged involvement in various cyber crimes. According to a report in The Washington Post, the Obama Administration is fed up with China's cyber shenanigans and has drafted a set of...
From ExtremeTech: Google has set a date on when Chrome will begin automatically blocking flash ads and refusing to allow non-critical content to play by default. On September 1st, Chrome will no longer offer to play “non-essential” content. Instead, users will have to right-click on a plugin and...
From PC World: Google finally announced iOS support for Android Wear on Monday, making good on a string of rumors that have persisted since the last major Wear update and reached a crescendo last week when Huawei outed iOS support on an accidental Amazon listing. iPhone owners won’t get the full...
From Tom's Hardware: T-Mobile CEO John Legere made it known today in a blog post that the company will no longer tolerate those who "abuse" and "steal from" T-Mobile's "unlimited data" plans.
How can anyone steal data when it's supposed to be unlimited, you may ask? The core issue here is that...
From PC Mag: Any publicity is good publicity, at least for cheating site Ashley Madison.
The service has gained "hundreds of thousands" of new users in the weeks since a very public breach and dump of user data, according to parent company Avid Life Media (ALM).
"Despite having our business and...
From EETimes: Facebook helped define a low cost 100 Gbit/second optical Ethernet transceiver it expects to start deploying next year. The move is another example of ways big data centers are driving design in computers and networking.
Facebook specified a 100G transceiver using single-mode fiber it...
One thing I have noticed about elementary school is the number of hands-on projects teachers give to students. Whether they were dioramas, models, or other artwork, there were always a handful each year. As for myself, I have never been good at art, whether the visual or performance arts, yet I enjoyed the projects. I stopped playing piano when I was in grade three, and I vowed to never touch instruments again. I also recently pulled out a drawer...
From InfoWorld: Google will stop some Flash content from automatically playing starting Sept. 1, a move it decided on earlier this year to improve browser performance.
Flash, made by Adobe Systems, is still widely used for multimedia content, but security and performance issues have prompted calls...
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