From InfoWorld: A long-promised change to the Microsoft Update Catalog finally makes it available to those who want to use modern browsers -- Chrome, Firefox, Opera -- to download individual Microsoft patches.
Prior to the weekend, searching and downloading patches from Microsoft’s huge trove...
From CNET: Samsung looks to be in the awkward position of having only itself to blame.
The troublesome batteries Samsung used in its ill-fated Galaxy Note 7 devices were tested by the company in house, claimed the Wall Street Journal on Monday.
Samsung said last week that it would permanently stop...
From PC World: The battle for barely there computing supremacy continues unabated. Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen PC makers brag about releasing the lightest 13-inch laptop ever, the most svelte MacBook ever, and the thinnest notebook of all time (though that last one apparently...
From CNET: Germany's transport minister asked Tesla on Sunday to rename the Autopilot feature on the company's vehicles.
In a letter to the company, minister Alexander Dobrindt expressed concern that the name of the feature is misleading and may encourage drivers to believe they don't need to pay...
If you know a bit of Canadian history and politics, you will realize the province of Quebec is kind of a thing of its own. While the rest of Canada speaks English, have a common law legal system, and believes in a unified country, Quebec speaks French, have a civil law legal system, and always had movement that demands political sovereignty, but still wants money from the federal government. If you think the latter point is kind of ridiculous...
If you browse the Internet enough, you will often find pictures of unbelievably big or small versions of things you can normally imagine. These things can vary from all sorts of items, whether it is food, animals, toys, or even day to day objects. However, with the way digital media is, these pictures can be altered in order to make things appear bigger or smaller when they actually are not. Uploaders often place another normal sized object into...
From InfoWorld: The cloud partnership AWS and VMware announced Thursday makes Amazon's public cloud even more attractive for enterprises by letting them take the popular virtualization platform with them.
The appropriately named VMware Cloud on AWS , announced at a press conference in San Francisco...
From CNET: The South Korean company on Thursday said discontinuing its device, which it recalled for a second time this week for battery issues, will hurt its operating profit in the mid-3 trillion won range from the fourth quarter of 2016 through the first quarter of 2017. That's about $3 billion...
From PC World: HP Inc. is cutting between 3,000 to 4,000 jobs over the next three years as part of a restructuring plan worked out by the company.
The PC and printer firm, which was created about a year ago after Hewlett-Packard was split into two companies, said in a filing to the Securities and...
From CNET: The wireless carrier's general counsel has told some reporters, including the Washington Post, that Verizon is leaning toward declaring Yahoo's huge data breach a "material event." That likely means Verizon wouldn't have offered as much money -- or made a bid for Yahoo at all -- had it...
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