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XBox One: Microsoft Rethinks

Purchasers of used games rejoice! The backlash against the XBox One plans to limit sharing of games/ used games as well as the MUST be connected is being DROPPED! CNN Article "Reacting to "feedback from the Xbox community," Microsoft is appearing to reverse course and change two...

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'Apps act' would make privacy disclosures mandatory

With more than 1.5 million apps now available for Android phones and Apple's iPhone, a congressman is proposing a law that would require mobile app developers to let users know what an app's privacy policies are when it comes to information being shared and the length' The bill, H.R. 1913, also bein...

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That was quick: Adobe's Creative Cloud already pirated

Photoshop Creative Cloud Adobe's Creative Cloud platform, which moves its Creative Suite applications from "perpetual license" to subscription-based payment plans, was designed to reduce piracy. Unfortunately for Adobe, that effort doesn't appear to have succeeded. According to tech site Peta...

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Meet Google's 'Project Loon:' Balloon-powered 'net access

Project Loon's network of balloon communicate with special ground stations. Google has officially announced "Project Loon," its plan to connect the entire world to the Internet that uses a decidedly 19th century technology: Balloons. According to a post on the official company blog: Google sa...

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Yes, we saw the John McAfee video

No, we're not posting the YouTube link or video here - and we ask that you refrain from posting it as well. Sorry, folks. That one video, while amusing, breaks just about everything in the Community Guidelines. In the meantime, if you truly just want to know how to uninstall McA...

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Heart of Blue Gold – Announcing New Bounty Programs

Today is an inflection point for Microsoft, as well as the security industry. For the first time ever, Microsoft is offering direct cash payouts in exchange for reporting certain types of vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques. We are making this shift in order to learn about these issues earli...

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BlackBerry Z10 incurs 'critical' security warning

The BlackBerry Z10 in white. BlackBerry has issued a security advisory notice to those who have bought its flagship Z10 touchscreen smartphone -- the first BlackBerry 10 device to launch following the company's bid for revival, back in February. The advisory, which was issued last w...

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Huawei Ascend P6: Meet Huawei's new, super-skinny smartphone

Earlier this year, Huawei impressed us with its super-skinny Ascend P2, but now the up-and-coming Chinese firm is looking to wow us a second time with the Ascend P6, a similar Android smartphone with a few hardware tweaks. Huawei is fond of crafting creepily thin phones, and the P6 is no exce...

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HTC finally shows off 3.5-inch Desire 200

HTC has unveiled the long-rumored Desire 200. The device, which is designed for customers on a budget, comes with a 3.5-inch display and runs on 3G networks. The inside is similarly budget-friendly, boasting a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 processor and 4GB of onboard memory. The device has jus...

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Fast fiber: Apps coming at 70 percent the speed of light

In the movie "Iron Man 3," the titular hero struggles in what appears to be a rinky-dink backwater town to find an Internet connection fast enough and big enough to crunch data to find the terrorist villain. The town looks to be Nowhere, U.S.A., but we're told, it is actually Chattanooga, Tenn. Know...

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Yahoo reportedly eyeing two more acquisitions

Yahoo may be looking to continue its spending spree with the acquisitions of a couple of app makers. Yahoo has reportedly offered to pay $30 million to $40 million to buy Xobni, AllThingsD reported Monday, citing "numerous sources" close to the company. Xobni, which is "inbox" spelled backwards, off...

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AMD to launch its first ARM chip

Advanced Micro Devices is dipping into the ARM world. The chipmaker announced Tuesday that it plans to develop its first ARM chip starting next year. Codenamed "Seattle," the chip is being touted by AMD as the industry's first 64-bit ARM processor from a major chipmaker. AMD said that...

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How to tighten up Win FW?

Hi, I'm on Win7. How do I tighten up my firewall to enhance security? Best Wishes, Amit

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Is cable holding back superfast broadband adoption on purpose?

The cable industry insists that it's ready and able to compete with Google Fiber when it comes to delivering ultra high-speed broadband. Indeed, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts last week showed off a 3Gbps cable broadband connection at the industry's annual trade show in Washington, D.C. That's three time...

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Chinese supercomputer tops the charts -- two years early

The performance of the systems on the Top500 list continues to improve exponentially. (Note that it's a logarithmic scale on the vertical axis, with each line marking a tenfold improvement.) The three series of dots here represent the total performance of the top 500 systems at the top, the performa...

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Google plans to wipe child porn from the Web

Photos and videos of child pornography on the Web have multiplied at an alarming rate over the past few years. In 2011, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said it received 17.3 million images and videos of suspected child abuse, which is four times more than 2007. Google h...

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Purdue students charged with switching prof's keyboard to improve grades

Who understands the importance of performance better than an engineer? Yet the pressures that come with performing to perfect levels can cause some engineers to cut corners, even obfuscate. How tragic, then, that three apparently bright (or not quite so bright) young things studying en...

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Linksys PLEK500 Powerline AV2 Gigabit Network Adapter Kit review

With the Linksys PLEK500 Powerline Adapter Kit, the speed of home powerline networking has been turned up a significant notch. This is the first adapter kit that supports the latest HomePlug AV2 standard. This standard, in theory, offers the speed cap of up to 1.5Gbps. The kit, however, doesn't qui...

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Star Trek in your sitting room! Ultimate home office... which will set you back £30,000

Is this the office of the future? It may look like a prop from the latest Star Trek movie but they it is in fact a state-of-the-art home-office work station. Office of the future: Right now this home office from MWE Labs will set you back £30,000 but Microsoft has already started usin...

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Yahoo FOUGHT against NSA's PRISM but lost and was forced by secret court to join

Yahoo's top lawyers had a courtroom showdown with the National Security Agency after it had demanded information on certain foreign users without a warrant, but the tech giant lost and was forced to hand over the data, it was revealed today. Court documents obtained by the New York Timesshow t...

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Win7 Standard user account?!

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Hi, I'm looking into Standard User Account in Win7. What are the pros and cons of using the standard user account instead of an administrator account for daily use, both security wise & comfort wise? Will apps like WSA and browser update in a standard user account as the account restricts...

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CNET Reviews: Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4

We've still got about five months before the new Xbox One and PlayStation 4 launch in North America, and already blood has been spilled. From Microsoft gathering an arguably more impressive stable of exclusive games, to Sony revealing the lack of restrictions on PS4 games and a $100 lower price -- e...

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Facebook, Microsoft release NSA stats to reassure users

Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna and Facebook General Counsel Ted Ullyot, in this file photo. Facebook and Microsoft today became the first Internet companies to disclose the total number of legal orders they receive for user data, including ones from the National Security Agency...

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Insignificant bug keeps encrypted disks unlocked after ejecting in OS X

Apple's CoreStorage disk encryption technology has a small bug that will keep a disk unlocked, even after it has been unmounted from the system. In OS X Lion, Apple introduced a drive management technology called CoreStorage. When enabled, CoreStorage will create a "logical volume group" out of one...

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Creating an iPad experience -- on four wheels

The largest, most expensive mobile device in most people's lives is not a smartphone or a tablet. It's their car. As microprocessors, GPS, and wireless have invaded the automobile, carmakers have begun to obsess about apps and interfaces that make such gadgetry work. Here's a closer look at the desi...

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