From PC World: Plex gave its users an important security upgrade last week. The home media streaming platform announced all its users are getting free SSL certificates, enabling them to connect to their media over an encrypted HTTPS connection. The new feature is a partnership with certificate...
From CNET: Netflix announced Saturday that its service will arrive in Portugal, Italy and Spain in October, allowing Internet users from those countries to subscribe and stream a broad selection of TV shows and movies.
At launch, the company says, it will offer localized versions of its original...
A couple of months ago, I went hiking with a bunch of my friends. After we reached the end of the trail at the top, there was a platform that overlooked the lake. As any social media enthusiast would recognize, this was a prime location to get your next Facebook profile picture taken, and not losing out on this opportunity, I asked my friend to climb down the slope adjacent to the platform with my phone to help me out. After a bunch of photos...
From InfoWorld: Google yesterday switched on a feature in the Chrome beta that it said would save notebook battery power by freezing some content rendered using Adobe's Flash Player.
The option, now turned on by default in the beta -- one of three "channels" Chrome maintains -- will be...
From InfoWorld: A strand of human DNA is 2.5 nanometers in diameter, and there are 25,400,000 nanometers in one inch.
Now consider this, Micron this week announced it's producing NAND flash based on transistors only 16-nanometers in size, and each microscopic cell is capable of storing three bits...
From PC World: Acer couldn’t keep the mystery around the launch of its highly-anticipated Acer Predator 8-inch gaming tablet bottled up for too long.
The tablet could launch sometime in September, with a big event planned for Europe, said a representative at the Acer booth on the Computex show...
From CNET: Twelve years ago, with the launch of the iTunes music store, Apple changed how we purchase and listen to music. Now it hopes to shake things up again -- despite playing catchup this time around.
Apple is expected to debut a subscription streaming-music service, making it one of the...
From InfoWorld: Cisco this week announced intentions to acquire Piston Cloud Computing, its second OpenStack cloud computing buyout in less than a year.
Terms were not disclosed.
Piston Cloud was founded by Josh McKenty, the lead architect of NASA's cloud platform, which spun off into the open...
From PC World: Acer is still producing PCs, but the Taiwanese vendor is far more bullish about the Internet of Things (IoT), a market the company doesn’t want to miss out on.
On Thursday, the Taiwanese vendor held a news conference not for a new consumer product, but to promote an upcoming...
From CNET: Customers around the world will have more ways to get their hands -- or wrists -- on Apple Watch in the coming weeks.
Apple Watch will be available in Apple's brick-and-mortar retail stores in two weeks, the company announced on Thursday, ending months of speculation on when it'll...
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