'Always Connected' Windows 10 Arm PCs Arriving from HP, Asus

From eWeek: The wait is nearly over for PCs that are powered by Qualcomm's Arm-based Snapdragon mobile processors and can run full versions of Windows 10.

Nearly a year after first announcing that Windows on Arm PCs were in the works, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard and Asus officially took the wraps...

Amazon Prime Video comes to Apple TV, finally

From The Verge: It's here at last: the Amazon Prime Video app is now available for the Apple TV. The app arrives six months after Apple CEO Tim Cook said it would arrive “later this year” and with just days to spare in 2017. The iOS app was just updated to 5.0 as well, adding iPhone X support and...

Microsoft, ESET Work With Law Enforcement to Disrupt Gamarue Botnet

From eWeek: Microsoft and security firm ESET announced on Dec. 4 that the companies have been cooperating with international law enforcement agencies for more than a year to disrupt a sprawling botnet, known as Gamarue.

Gamarue—a crime kit that is known on Internet underground marketplaces as the...

Facebook just made VR better -- by adding Microsoft Windows

From CNET: With a new beta update available today, Facebook is intentionally letting you break the immersion of its Oculus Rift virtual reality headset so you can do a heck of a lot more in VR. You'll have your full Windows 10 desktop, spread across as many virtual monitors as your graphics card can...

Google Blocks YouTube on Amazon’s Echo Show and Fire TV

From ExtremeTech: The cold war between Google and Amazon appears to be heating up today. After a series of disagreements over how Amazon is accessing YouTube content, Google has pulled the plug on YouTube access for Amazon’s Echo Show and Fire TV devices. Google says YouTube won’t come back until...

Lyft gets an investment — from an Uber investor

From Recode: A large Uber shareholder has made an investment in chief U.S. rival Lyft, part of the latest twist in the entangled web of ride-sharing deals.

Lyft said on Tuesday that Fidelity, the giant mutual fund, would participate in an expanded financing round that now values the company at $11...

NCIX Files for Bankruptcy After Restructuring Attempts

From AnandTech: NCIX filed for bankruptcy last Friday after closing down its last walk-in retail store. The exact reasons why the company had run out of money are not disclosed officially, but chatter indicates that NCIX spent too much on retail stores and too little on improving the efficiency of...

AMD quietly downgraded some Radeon RX 560 graphics cards

From PC Gamer: Customers who buy a Radeon RX 560 graphics card may get a bit less than they bargained for. That's because some cards are now shipping with fewer compute units and stream processors than originally advertised when AMD launched the Radeon RX 560 in April.

When the Radeon RX 560 first...

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