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It has been more than a month since CES in Las Vegas ended, and when I came back, the first thing I was asked was what I thought the most interesting thing was. For me, it is kind of difficult to really give a single answer for a several reasons. First is the fact the show covered a wide variety of areas; each with their own cool points. There were all the hyped products like driverless cars, wearables, IoT, virtual reality, and consumer-grade...

Twitter password recovery bug exposes 10,000 users' personal information

From InfoWorld: Twitter has notified 10,000 users that their email addresses and phone numbers may have been exposed due to a bug in the website's password recovery feature.

The incident happened over the course of 24 hours on an unspecified day last week, but the company alerted affected users on...

ARM will skip modems for now, despite being a huge force in mobile

From PC World: ARM has added a wealth of wireless technologies to its arsenal, but has no immediate plans to design a modem for mobile or Internet of Things devices.

The company offers CPU and GPU designs that are widely used in smartphones and tablets. A missing piece is a cellular modem that ARM...

Smartwatches now more popular than Swiss watches, thanks to Apple

From CNET: The venerable Swiss wristwatch industry may have a smartwatch problem.

Global shipments of smartwatches outpaced those of Swiss watches in the fourth quarter of 2015, according to figures released Thursday by market researcher Strategy Analytics. This marks the first time the wearable...

Apple re-issues iOS 9.2.1 to fix iPhones bricked by Error 53

From ComputerWorld: Apple today re-issued iOS 9.2.1 to fix the "Error 53" that had crippled iPhones whose owners had replaced some parts themselves or had a third-party shop do repairs.

The new iOS 9.2.1 will only be served to users who update their iPhones through iTunes on a Mac or Windows PC...

Nvidia GeForce Now kicks off Square Enix game deal with free Tomb Raider streaming

From PC World: Sit up and pay attention, Shield owners: Nvidia’s GeForce Now, a Netflix-style game-streaming service, is bringing some big games from another top studio to its catalog. Nvidia announced Thursday that Square Enix would bring five games to GeForce Now over the course of 2016. The first...

Dell to bring new hyperscale rack architecture to mid-range customers

From InfoWorld: Dell is bringing the advantages of its enterprise-level hyperscale rack servers to a wider range of customers.

At Mobile World Congress next week, Dell will show off its new DSS 9000 hyperscale rack architecture, a server technology that allows computing and storage resources to be...

Marvell, Carnegie Mellon settle patent fight over hard drive chips

From ComputerWorld: Chip company Marvell Technology Group has settled with Carnegie Mellon University to end a long-standing patent dispute over chips used in hard disk drives.

Under the agreement announced Wednesday, Marvell has agreed to pay CMU US$750 million, with no ongoing royalty payments...

T-Mobile's latest purchase means your call won't drop when you go inside

From CNET: T-Mobile is gobbling up low-frequency radio airwaves so that video of "The Walking Dead" playing on your phone doesn't stall when you walk into your basement.

T-Mobile on Wednesday said it had acquired more of the spectrum in the low-frequency 700 MHz band as it seeks to catch up to...

Tim Cook says Apple will oppose court order rather than hack customers

From ComputerWorld: Apple's CEO Tim Cook reacted sharply to a federal court order in the U.S. that would require the company to help the FBI search the contents of an iPhone 5c seized from Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the terrorists in the San Bernardino, California, attack on Dec. 2. that killed 14...