Many years ago, I helped run a soccer camp for elementary school students. On the last day, everyone went outside and competed against each other -- albeit in a friendly way, since the score was not officially kept -- to see who can individually get the most goals into the net guarded by other leaders. Since there was a wide variance of skills between players, obviously the bigger and more skilled kids did the best, while the little ones who were...
When you were younger, did you ever ask for a gift for Christmas? Whether it was from Santa or from your parents, you probably had some sort of wish list. As for myself, my parents always let me choose something I wanted. I know this approach takes the surprise out of the gift, but at least they knew it was something I actually liked. However, sometimes I think I was just a bit too excited for some gifts, and once I received them, I would use the...
From ComputerWorld: Juniper, a major manufacturer of networking equipment, said on Thursday it found spying code planted in certain models of its firewalls, an alarming discovery that echoes of state-sponsored tampering.
The affected products are those running ScreenOS, one of Juniper's operating...
From InfoWorld: Microsoft SmartScreen, the phishing and malware filtering technology built into Internet Explorer, Edge and Windows, has now been updated to block Web-based attacks that silently exploit software vulnerabilities to infect computers.
Such attacks are known as drive-by downloads...
From PC World: Microsoft delved deeper into providing software for Android on Thursday with the launch of Microsoft Apps, a new application that gives users of Google's operating system a one-stop shop to find apps like Word, Cortana and Bing.
Users download the app to their devices, and can then...
From CNET: Apple Pay and Samsung Pay, the competing mobile-payments services, will go head to head next year in the world's biggest smartphone market.
Apple and Samsung said Thursday they had secured separate deals with the China UnionPay bank that will enable their customers in China to add credit...
From InfoWorld: Microsoft reneged on its promise of unlimited OneDrive for Business storage for all organizations, announcing Wednesday that only premium Office 365 subscribers will get access to limitless cloud storage.
While the company never officially said that every paying organization using...
From PC World: Budget PC builders, here's your holiday bonus: Motherboard maker Asrock has just released its “Sky OC” BIOS for its Skylake motherboards, so even folks without pricier CPUs can overclock their chips.
In a blog post on Wednesday, the company called the BIOS "an alternative for users...
From CNET: Riot Games has already told fans that they'd be improving League of Legends with a series of major updates next year, but that's not the only change planned.
On Tuesday, the Californian games studio quietly announced that it was now completely owned by Tencent, an economic giant from...
From ComputerWorld: Microsoft today restarted distribution of Windows 10 previews by delivering the first new build since the November upgrade of five weeks ago.
The new version, identified as build 11082, was offered to Windows Insider participants who have selected the "Fast" ring, or delivery...
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