Netflix Hikes Prices on Top Plans

From PC Mag: Bad news, Netflix members: prices are going up.

Netflix's most popular plan, Standard—which offers HD-quality streams and lets you watch on up to two devices at a time—is increasing $1 to $10.99 a month. The company's Premium plan, which offers Ultra HD quality and allows four...

Western Digital Offers World's First 14TB Hard Drive

From PC Mag: Every time more terabytes are added to a hard drive, data centers rejoice as it means they can fit more storage into their already packed to bursting server farms. So Western Digital shipping the world's first 14 terabyte hard drive will be music to their ears. But it's not just more...

Samsung Will Make $4B More Off the iPhone X Than Its Own Galaxy S8

From ExtremeTech: If mathematicians are collectively devices for turning coffee into theorems, as Alfréd Rényi once remarked, phone patents and purchase agreements are devices for turning patents into gobs and gobs of cash. Devices and technologies are so intertwined, it’s not unusual to see...

Former Intel CEO Paul Otellini passes away

From TechCrunch: Paul Otellini, who presided over Intel during some of its most prosperous years, passed away today at the age of 66. The company announced the news in a press release.

Otellini joined the company in 1974, eventually rising to the position of CEO in 2005. Those were the salad days...

Yahoo Revises Massive Data Breach Impact from 1B to 3B Users

From eWeek: On Oct. 3, Yahoo now part of Verizon's Oath business unit, publicly disclosed that all of its users were impacted by a data breach in August 2013. Oath estimates that information on three billion users was stolen by attackers in the breach.

The three billion figure for the data beach is...

Couple Pleads Guilty to Stealing $1.2M From Amazon

From PC Mag: Erin Joseph Finan and Leah Jeanette Finan from Muncie, Indiana, have proved it is possible to steal over a million dollars worth of goods from an online retailer. But we are also about to see the consequences of carrying out such a huge fraud and getting caught.

As the BBC reports, the...

Equifax ex-CEO blames breach on one person and a bad scanner

From CNET: Equifax's former CEO is blaming many of the company's mistakes on a single person, and it's not himself.

Richard Smith, who was Equifax's CEO for 12 years before stepping down on Sept. 26, faced questions from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Tuesday, as Congress members...

AMD Announces Polaris-based Embedded Radeon E9170

From : Today AMD is announcing the Polaris-based Radeon E9170 series, the latest entrant to their embedded graphics offerings. Sporting Radeon-class hardware and long-term support, these embedded products look to markets such as digital signage, casino games, medical imaging, and thin clients, as...

Instagram adds polling stickers to Stories

From The Verge: Instagram is making its Stories a little more interactive with a new polling feature that users can add with a “poll” sticker.

Adding polls is similar to any other sticker on Instagram: just drag and drop it onto your image in your story, and you’ll automatically be presented with...

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