From ComputerWorld: Microsoft is warning customers that it will retire several Office application viewers in little more than four months, shutting off the spigot to the free document readers used by those without the productivity suite.
"The Excel Viewer, PowerPoint Viewer, PowerPoint 2007 Viewer...
From CNET: Bitcoin's value has been skyrocketing of late, and on Tuesday it broke the $10,000-per-coin mark for the first time, just two days after passing $9,000. The cryptocurrency was trading at $10,034 as of this writing, an increase of more than 900 percent since the beginning of the year...
From The Verge: Airbnb is globally rolling out the ability to split payments, a feature it began testing earlier this year.
With the newly implemented change, when a trip organizer requests to book a listing that allows for split payments, the reservation is marked as “awaiting payment,” which acts...
From PC Mag: If you own a HP-branded Windows PC or laptop, it may be running a new "service" that you never opted to have installed and had no idea was constantly running in the background. It's called HP Touchpoint Analytics Service, and it is being branded spyware.
According to Computerworld, the...
From CNET: AT&T is giving itself a few more months to close its $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner.
The Dallas telecommunications giant extended the deadline for the merger to April 22, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. It's the second time the company has...
From The Verge: Snapchat is now using object recognition to identify what’s in users’ photos and serve them relevant filters. So, if you take a picture of some food, Snapchat will suggest filters with slogans like “get in my belly” and “what diet?”
Snap, the company behind Snapchat, confirmed to...
From PC Mag: Don't Pokemon Go and drive. That's perhaps more obvious now than during last year's Pokemon Go heyday, when I saw plenty of drivers in Silicon Valley awkwardly flicking Pokeballs on smartphones mounted to their dashboards.
According to a working paper from two researchers at Purdue...
From CNET: Image-sharing site Imgur says 1.7 million email addresses and passwords were compromised in a 2014 breach that was only recently discovered.
Imgur said Friday it first learned of the years-old hack on Thursday from a security researcher. The security researcher has been identified by...
Recently, I got a call from a friend who lived very close and needed some help with his house. "The heat in my house is not working and the utility company told me my programmable thermostat is broken," he said. "What do you think?" Now, I am no expert in HVAC systems, but I decided to drop by to see what I could do to help. After getting to his house, I began to doubt it was his thermostat. For one thing, it is not common for thermostats to...
In the past few weeks, many movies have been released that I want to go and watch at the theaters. So far I have been successful, watching both Thor: Ragnorok and Murder on the Orient Express. I will not be comparing the movies, since they are entirely different and do not seek to accomplish the same type of entertainment. Each movie has different intentions of how to entertain. However, at least for me, both movies were successful at keeping me...
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