Apple quietly dumps the original iPad Mini

From ComputerWorld: Apple quietly stopped selling the original iPad Mini, the 7.9-in. tablet that debuted in 2012.

The smaller sibling to the 9.7-in. iPad no longer appears on Apple's online store, a fact first reported by 9to5Mac.com earlier Friday.

The iPad Mini had been superseded by a pair of...

Fingerprint sensors on their way to more smartphones

From PC World: Fingerprint authentication will become a lot more common on smartphones of all prices as sensors get cheaper—and Google’s integration of the technology in the next version of Android will make it much easier for app developers and service providers to make use of them.

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PlayStation 4 to get 1-terabyte treatment in July

From CNET: Sony has confirmed that it will offer a 1-terabyte edition of its PlayStation 4.

The new 1TB PS4 Ultimate Player Edition will launch in select European and PAL territories starting July 15, Sony said in a blog post published Monday. PAL is the video standard used across most of the world...

SilverStone Tundra TD03-E Review (Page 1 of 4)

Taking a short trip down memory lane, I could still remember the days when I was still in elementary, and would be ecstatic when the teacher announced there will be group projects in the class. This was a time of exploring the computers at school, and doing online activities to find out more information about the material we were learning about. The first project I was assigned in my Grade 4 geography class was a project about the different types...

Seagate Laptop SSHD ST500LM000 500GB Review (Page 1 of 10)

Sometimes, combining two ideas together create an absolutely ingenious solution. Other times, you end up with something so pointless, it gets you simply nowhere. The camera phone is a prime example of an ingenious solution. As the saying goes, "The best camera you have is the one you have with you." With the popularity explosion of the mobile phone in the last two decades or so, integrating a camera onto it revolutionized the world in more than...

Microsoft, Google, Mozilla team to build a faster Web

From InfoWorld: Web apps and pages may soon get a speed boost to rival the performance of native desktop and mobile applications, thanks to a new standards initiative from Microsoft, Google and Mozilla.

The work, WebAssembly, provides a way to compile the source code for the programmatic parts of...

Lyft pays New York $300K to settle lawsuit

From CNET: Lyft's yearlong tussle with New York State lawmakers ended Thursday when the ride-hailing service agreed to pay $300,000 in penalties to settle a lawsuit alleging it illegally operated in the state.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and former State Superintendent of Financial...

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