From PC World: Over two dozen HP laptop models have been secretly recording users’ keystrokes, possibly by mistake, according to a Swiss security firm.
The keylogger is found within the PCs' audio driver software and has existed since at least Dec. 2015, the security firm Modzero said in a Thursday...
From InfoWorld: It's the end of the line for Intel's Itanium chip, a troubled processor family that spawned many product delays and bad blood between HP and Oracle.
Intel on Thursday started shipping its latest Itanium 9700 chip, code-named Kittson, in volume. It's the last of the Itanium chips...
From CNET: The social media app and "camera company" behind Snapchat is a cryptic one. Hell, if you're over the age of 35, you probably don't even know how it works.
And while we got a sense of its performance in over the past two years through its Securities and Exchange Commission filing for its...
From PC World: Cable companies can deliver very fast broadband service because the coaxial cable they use offers so much more bandwidth than the twisted-pair cable that DSL service relies on. And the cable companies will happily rent you the equipment you need, on top of the fee they charge you for...
At a couple of events with my colleague Jonathan Kwan and our friends, a fairly pointless debate keeps popping up. The debate started with one our friends saying golf is not a sport. Since debating is quite fun, we went with it, arguing golf is a sport. This all boiled down to a dumb argument on how we define what a sport is. The main point of contention was whether there is enough physical exertion in golf to constitute it as a sport. As one...
From CNET: The wireless carriers can't stop talking about the next generation of wireless technology, which promises to be faster, more responsive and able to handle connected devices without breaking a sweat. T-Mobile has committed to building out a nationwide 5G network before anyone else, and...
From InfoWorld: Low-cost smartphones like the Moto G5 introduced a few months ago are shipping with soon-to-be-outdated chips from Qualcomm, which has announced successor chips.
Qualcomm on Monday introduced the Snapdragon 630 and 660, which are massive upgrades to chips used in low-cost...
From PC World: In the age of high definition video streaming, you can't get very far with 200MB of mobile data. That appears to be the reason T-Mobile quietly killed its Free Data for Life program on Sunday.
Originally introduced in 2013, Free Data for Life gave tablet users 200MB of free data for...
From CNET: The e-commerce giant on Tuesday revealed its newest device, the Echo Show, it's first smart speaker with a built-in screen. The new device was announced just weeks after Amazon presented the Echo Look, its first Echo with a built-in camera.
CNET in April reported that Amazon was likely...
From PC World: For the umpteenth time, Dell Technologies has reiterated that PCs are important to the company, and it won't quit the market.
But PCs occupied only a few minutes of CEO Michael Dell's opening keynote at Dell EMC World in Las Vegas on Monday. PCs are the engine that keep enterprises...
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