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Coinhive shutting down

Coinhive has just made public that they will be shutting down their service on March 8th. Coinhive has become infamous the past year as the...
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Nearly Half of UK SMBs Believe a Cyberattack Could Close Their Business

44% of decision makers are spending a day each week dealing with cybersecurity issues 64% say workload demands result in mistakes that put...
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Scientists make 'bug-eye' camera

A digital camera that functions like an insect's compound eye is reported in the journal Nature this week. It comprises an array of 180 small lenses, which, along with their associated electronics, are stretched across a curved mounting. The prototype currently has few pixels, so its images are low-...

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What the brain of Google's self-driving car sees

A new image of what Google's self-driving cars see when it makes a left turn has appeared online. And it bears a striking resemblance to the view the Terminator sees in the classic sci-fi films. The latest shot was tweeted by Idealab's found, Bill Gross and shows the car's 360-degree field of view...

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How i can be shure that stylepix website contain malware/virus ? It is a commercila website and there is video on youtube ! webroot showme this alert  !!!      stylepix at http://hornil.com/en/products/stylepix/   regard's 

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Microsoft frames Skype in Outlook.com inboxes

Microsoft is delivering Skype to Outlook.com users' inboxes. A preview, which combines the video chat and messaging service with the tech giant's free e-mail service, is being introduced now to users in the U.K. and will be rolled out to users in the U.S. and Germany "in the coming weeks."...

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Cnet Review: The gorgeous HTC One is a winner

[As HTC's new flagship smartphone, the HTC One is packed to the rafters with top-notch components and technologies including some of the latest processing gear from Qualcomm. In addition to being state of the art, the successor to 2012's HTC One X is lovingly crafted from premium metals, leaving no...

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Dell XPS 18 review: A massive tablet that doubles as an AIO desktop

If three examples of the same thing marks a trend, then we're almost guaranteed to see more systems like the Dell XPS 18. Like the Sony Vaio Tap 20 and the Asus Transformer AIO, the XPS 18 is a hybrid of the all-in-one desktop and the large-format tablet. In practical terms, that means this is an al...

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Samsung Galaxy S4 shootout versus HTC One, iPhone 5

[Samsung has absolutely stuffed its Galaxy S4's 13-megapixel camera with settings and modes, but none of that matters if the phone's image quality can't stand up to the hype. And so, here is a smartphone shootout between the Galaxy S4's top Android rival, the HTC One, and another beacon of smartphon...

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Looking for a new case for your GS4? Here are CNET's current top choices.

iPhone owners have always had a variety of cases and covers to choose from, but the Samsung Galaxy S3 and S4 are among the few ultrapopular Android smartphones that have spurred cottage industries of cases and covers. In boiling down the best of what's currently out there, I tried to provide a good...

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Living with Chromebook: Can you use it to actually get work done?

In the first part of our Living with Chromebook series, I outlined the initial hardware and account setup required to use a laptop running Google's Chrome OS. In this second installment, the focus is on productivity. For my long-form Chromebook test-drive, I'm spending most of my computing time with...

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The fastest Android gaming tablets-CNET Labs delves deep to find out

The development of new chips that deliver zippier performance, smoother gaming, faster Web surfing, and longer-lasting battery life will soon make their way into new Android tablets. While the chips themselves -- and the high-end tablets that will house them -- have yet to be released, we have it on...

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Curl power! Paper-thin phone that folds itself over to show you've got a call

Researchers have unveiled a shape shifting paper thin mobile phone that curls up when a call is received. It contains 'smart memory' wires in a thin plastic display. When a current is applied to them, they contract, causing the display to curl. The handset, dubbed the morephone, was built by a Canad...

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Take creative photos with the HTC One

One of my favorite features on the HTC One is its camera. Beyond the picture quality, which is great, HTC really went the extra mile to pack in a bunch of cool software extras. Two of these extras that really caught my eye are called Sequence Shot and Zoe, and you can see them in action in the above...

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Google Glass kernel software goes public

OK, this is on the seriously geeky side, but if you're keeping tabs on all things Google Glass, you'll want to know that the software kernel underlying the high-tech spectacles is now publicly available. The blog Karthik's Geek Center noted Saturday that the kernel source code for Google Glass has b...

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Google spring cleaning claims Meebo Bar

Come June 6, the Meebo Bar publishing tool will get retired by Google, which says it plans to focus on projects like Google+ Sign-In and plug-ins. Meebo Bar is a JavaScript plug-in that sits at the bottom of Web pages and enables a lot of different social interaction and sharing features. Meebo also...

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Ad guy says the tracking cookie will be dead in five years

April 27, 2013 7:42 AM         If you are one of the many people horrified about the privacy-invading nature of the tracking cookie, her’s some solace: It may not have long to live. According to Paul Cimino, vice president at ad marketplace Brilig, the trackin...

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Intel confirms 'Haswell' chip intro at Computex

It's official. Intel's fourth-generation core "Haswell" processor will arrive on June 3. Expect a crush of desktops, laptops, convertibles, detachables, and tablets to ensue. "In approximately 3,337,200,000,000,000 nanoseconds, Intel will reveal all there is to know about the highly a...

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Snapzoom accessory gives smartphones a telephoto boost

If you've always wanted a pair of HD digital binoculars, you could very well get some without shelling out the big bucks. A new smartphone accessory called Snapzoom allows you to mate your smartphone camera with the optical scope of a pair of binoculars, dramatically increasing the reach of your han...

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CNET Lenovo IdeaPad Z400 Touch review: Touch shoehorned into an everyday laptop

[The future of Windows 8 laptops is clear: they'll all have touch screens. Touch technology is becoming increasingly affordable, and it's a helpful, some would say necessary, way to experience Windows 8. In the present, that still means manufacturers going through their back catalogs and popping tou...

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As Schmidt speaks of caution, Google Glass gets hacked

Within hours of Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt's revelation that apps for Google Glass will require Google's approval, a renowned hacker/developer has shattered the notion of locked-down Glass. More specifically, Jay Freeman -- aka "Saurik" -- has jailbroken it. Freeman is also the...

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I have a technical problem with my password management feature.  Webroot is not recognizing my email address, despite the fact that I repeatedly attempted to use it, but each time it was rejected as unrecognizable.   So, I sent a ticket to Webroot technical support at 9:50 a.m. eastern time.  No res...

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Group Play makes a party

Group Play is one of the most social new features on Samsung's Galaxy S4 smartphone. Open it up and it essentially turns a group of nearby Galaxy S4 phones into a network. What can you do on that network? Share photos and documents, blast music across devices like an integrated speaker system, and h...

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CNET - Samsung Galaxy S4 review: The everything phone for (almost) everyone

With the Galaxy S4, Samsung clinches its goal of global smartphone domination. The supercharged Android 4.2 Jelly Bean device may look like a toy compared with the stunning HTC One and the dapper iPhone 5. But taken together, its blazing quad-core processor, colorful 5-inch HD screen, sharp-shooting...

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Samsung Galaxy S4 vs. iPhone 5, HTC One, and BlackBerry Z10

It's been nearly 10 months since the highly successful Samsung Galaxy S3 was first released in the U.S., and in a few more days, the Galaxy S4will be sold online and in several retail stores across the U.S. With a 5-inch HD screen, a 13-megapixel camera, and either a quad- or octa-core processor (th...

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CNET - BlackBerry Q10 review: The BlackBerry for keyboard diehards

Say hello to the BlackBerry Q10, which offers a larger and more spacious QWERTY keyboard and a fresh infusion of the BlackBerry 10.1 operating system. It builds on the greatness of past BlackBerry messaging machines, yet blends this with modern smartphone software powerful enough to run multiple app...

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Telepathy One aims to compete with Google Glass

The Telepathy One is no Google Glass. And supposedly, it's not trying to be. Demonstrated at an event in New York City, the Telepathy One is a wearable headset developed in Japan, intended on being part of the very same emerging industry as Google Glass. It has a built-in camera and floating microdi...

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