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Western Digital Red Pro WD4001FFSX 4TB Review (Page 1 of 11)

In the modern Protestant church, you may notice worship style vary vastly between congregations of different denominations. Now, for those among us who do not attend church, or are not familiar with this stuff, let me start you off with some technical jargon. In the 'high church' model, which you can see in such as the Lutheran tradition, places a lot of emphasis on liturgy. These practices originates from the Catholic Church, which, during the...

Gigabyte Force M63 Review (Page 1 of 4)

During the first few weeks of starting in my job, one of the biggest things I learned was the SOLID principles of programming. Each of the letters stands for a certain principle, so I started from the beginning. The first letter S stands for Single Responsibility Principle, or SRP. In essence, SRP states every class should only have one responsibility. This responsibility should be completely covered by the class. By focusing on a single concern...

Exploit allows Asus routers to be hacked from local network

From PC World: A vulnerability in Asuswrt, the firmware running on many wireless router models from Asustek Computer, allows attackers to completely compromise the affected devices. Malicious hackers, however, need to launch their attacks from within the local networks served by the vulnerable...

Box moves forward with IPO, hoping to raise $187 million

From CNET: Data-storage service Box is back on track with its initial public offering after months of delays.

The company on Friday filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission indicating that it could offer as many as 14.4 million shares when it goes public. The company has yet to...

iPhone 6, 6+ Finally Are Available SIM-Free in U.S.

From DailyTech: Released in Sept. 2014, the 4.7-in. Apple, Inc. (AAPL) iPhone 6 and its bigger, faster 5.5-inch counterpart, the iPhone 6 Plus, have long been available in Europe and other regions SIM-free. But in the U.S. many of the iPhones 6/6+ units sold have been locked to the networks of AT&T...

Yahoo's U.S. share on Firefox quadruples after deal

From InfoWorld: Mozilla's deal with Yahoo has quadrupled the search provider's usage by those running Firefox in the U.S., but the browser's users still prefer Google, according to data from an Irish analytics company.

Data provided to Computerworld by StatCounter showed that Yahoo's search engine...

Samsung's ludicrously fast PCIe SSD uses almost no power in standby mode

From PC World: If you think laptops packing solid state drives (SSDs) are fast now, just wait until you see a notebook rocking Samsung's new SM951 MLC flash SSD introduced during CES. Samsung's latest SSD ditches SATA for the PCIe (M.2) interface, similar to other SSDs we saw hit store shelves in...

Sprint battles back by adding 967,000 customers

From CNET: Sprint's latest promotions appear to be paying off as the company added close to a million customers during its fiscal third quarter.

On Thursday, the carrier announced preliminary results for the quarter that ended December 31. Sprint said it added 967,000 new customers -- a number that...

Saygus's "Super Smartphone" Offers 320 GB of Storage

From DailyTech: There's a certain amount of pent-up demand among music fans for high-capacity storage portable music players (PMPs), if the residual demand for the defunct iPod Classic 160 GB edition is any sign (the defunct PMP regularly goes for $200-$250 USD used on eBay, Inc.'s (EBAY) auction...

Microsoft opens Office for Android tablet preview to all comers

From InfoWorld: Microsoft today opened its preview of Office for Android tablets to all eligible comers, expanding the sneak peek from the invite-only beta it first offered in November.

The requirements for using the preview were also slightly changed. Microsoft added the recently released Android...