From InfoWorld: If you actually remember that you bought a new Pentium 4 computer to celebrate the new millennium, great news! A settlement by Intel and HP will pay you $15.
A class-action suit filed in California alleges that "Intel manipulated the performance benchmark scores for its first...
From PC World: Wanting to spice up its PC convertibles, Acer has come out with a device that can take on five different shapes with the help of a flexible kickstand and a detachable wireless keyboard.
Like other convertible PCs, the Acer Aspire Switch 12 can be used as a traditional clamshell...
From CNET: Amazon is providing unlimited photo storage for its Prime program members, the company announced Tuesday, adding another carrot to lure consumers into its ever-expanding premium service.
This new service, called Prime Photos, is a part of its online cloud storage service, Amazon Cloud...
From DailyTech: For web developers, page basic layout work is typically done in development environments provided by companies Adobes Systems Inc. (ADBE) or Microsoft Corp. (MSFT). But actual testing of sites and your scripts for them is often done in browsers. Microsoft, the Mozilla Foundation...
From InfoWorld: As Gregg Keizer at Computerworld reports, Web usage numbers from NetMarketshare state that usage of Windows 8 and 8.1 went from 12.3 percent of the market in September to 16.8 percent, up 4.5 percent, in October -- a huge jump, by any metric. At the same time, Windows XP usage fell...
From MacWorld: The Apple Watch’s release date is still under wraps, but now we know that January and February are out of the running for the “early 2015” time frame Apple has teased.
Angela Ahrendts, the company’s senior VP of retail and online stores, told employees in video remarks that the watch...
From CNET: Tablet buyers looking for the new Nexus 9 can now purchase the Wi-Fi version on Google Play.
The Nexus 9 is available in black or white, with the 16GB edition selling for $399, £319 or AU$479, and the 32GB version for $479, £399 or AU$589, although that version is showing as sold out in...
From DailyTech: AT&T is stepping up its devices game today with the announcement of two new wearables that will grace its retail (and online) stores. Following the announcement that the Galaxy Note 4 will be on display in stores starting November 7, America’s second largest wireless carrier...
Happy Halloween! I remember back when I was in elementary school, all my friends would dress up on the last day of the tenth month. They would don the mask from superheroes like Batman or Spiderman, or put on the furry paws of animals like cats or dogs. I even remember my friend making a Blastoise (The final evolution of the first generation water starter Pokemon, Squirtle) costume. I always remember Halloween as a good day of treats, and a day...
Is there any objective measurement to the quality of art? To illustrate this point, one of my professors displayed a piece of painting on the projector screen a few weeks ago, and asked the class if it was beautiful. Unsurprisingly, in this graduate-level engineering course, most students shouted "no". I was no exception -- I said I would pay $5 if it came with a frame. As it turned out, that piece of painting in question was sold for $150...
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