From PC World: At Venturebeat, Evan Blass of @evleaks fame procured what is says is an official render of Google’s next smartphone, which is widely expected to be unveiled at an Oct. 4 event in San Francisco.
The Pixel will be the smaller of a pair of phones, with the larger dubbed the Pixel XL...
From CNET: Federal authorities have charged an ex-Verizon employee with selling phone records. Daniel Eugene Traeger pleaded guilty to a felony count of unauthorized access to a private computer. From 2009 to 2014, Traeger sold call records and location data to an unnamed private investigator.
Over...
From CNET: Roku just made choosing a new streaming player five times more difficult, and at least five bucks cheaper than the competition.
The giant-killing company's products routinely slay the likes of Amazon, Google and Apple in our reviews and in sales. My go-to pick for streaming Netflix...
From PC World: Google’s much-anticipated hardware event on October 4 may have more in store than some new Pixel phones and Google Home pricing. A report from Android Police speculates that Google will use the moment to unveil its highly rumored merger of Chrome OS and Android into one hybrid...
From CNET: The internet giant is getting hit with lawsuits, a day after it disclosed a massive hack in which at least 500 million user accounts were swiped.
The hack exposed users' names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, encrypted passwords and, in some cases, security questions and...
From InfoWorld: Microsoft finally acknowledged yesterday that it has fixed the bug that breaks certain kinds of print jobs. The problem was created by a security patch issued on Aug. 9, and in the intervening six weeks the company offered a rat's nest of partial fixes, preferential treatment, and...
It is interesting that some people who are really into computer hardware and electronic devices are also car enthusiasts. Our Editor-in-Chief, Jonathan Kwan, is one example. Although he has a pretty nice mid-size sedan as his daily driver, that does not stop him from checking out new cars just for reference for future car purchasing. There are three cars he is particularly interested in: The BMW 340i xDrive, Mercedes-AMG C43, and Lexus IS350...
From InfoWorld: With Oracle now trying to get back on track with advancing enterprise Java, the company is seeking rapprochement with factions that had sought to advance the platform on their own. The two groups involved are mostly amenable to patching up the relationship.
Oracle's Anil Gaur, group...
From CNET: Apple's long-rumored answer to the Amazon Echo smart speaker is now being tested in secret in the homes of Apple engineers, according to a report this morning from Bloomberg. The report, which cites sources familiar with the matter, also says that the device includes built-in cameras...
From PC World: Samsung Electronics may have some comfort after its debacle with faulty batteries in the Galaxy Note7 smartphone.
The South Korean company reported Thursday that about 500,000 devices, or half of the recalled Galaxy Note7 phones sold in the U.S., have been exchanged through its...
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