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FireEye acquires Invotas for faster incident response
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arted out with an end-point protection product, has been seeking to expand the range of security products and services it offers as cybersecurity has become a growing concern for companies.</p><p>Invotas, based in Alexandria, Virginia, has a single product, its Security Orchestrator. The platform is designed to take in information from a range of security products from different vendors and automate responses when an incident is detected.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3028963/fireeye-acquires-invotas-for-faster-incident-response.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here</a></p></section></article>
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It begins: Microsoft starts 'recommended' rollout of Windows 10
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 16:57:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<article> <section class="page"> <p>Many users of Windows 7 and 8.1 will start seeing a more aggressive push to upgrade to Windows 10 in the coming days, as Microsoft starts to roll the new operating system out as a recommended update which will automatically download. </p><p>Microsoft said the rollout of Windows 10 as a recommended update will happen in phases starting Monday. Users who have their computers set to automatically download and install recommended updates will start to see an installer for the new operating system pop up prompting them to upgrade their computer. </p><p>Although the Windows 10 updater will automatically download to those computers, users will have the final say on whether they want to actually upgrade their machine to the new operating system. People who update to Windows 10 and end up disliking it can roll back to their previous OS up to 31 days after the upgrade.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3028957/windows/microsoft-starts-recommended-update-roll-out-for-windows-10.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here</a></p></section></article>
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This online tool can show you how much Trump dominates election coverage
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 16:06:37 -0800</pubDate>
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<article> <section class="page"> <p>Unstructured data is notoriously tricky to analyze using traditional methods, so it's tough to suss out trends from "messy" sources like news articles and social media. That's <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2973436/big-data/why-big-data-isnt-always-the-answer.html">quickly changing</a>, however, and on Monday, OpenText launched a timely example that's focused on the 2016 U.S. presidential elections.</p><p><a href="http://www.electiontracker.us/">Election Tracker '16</a> is an interactive online tool that lets anyone visually monitor, compare and discover new insights about election coverage from 48 major online news sources.</p><p>The tool automatically scans hundreds of online media publications from around the globe for sentiment and trends, generating summaries of stories about the race. It organizes them by categories including news agency, candidate, topic and tone.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3028895/this-online-tool-can-show-you-how-much-trump-dominates-election-coverage.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here</a></p></section></article>
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Windows 10 Mobile Build 10586.71 edges closer to the final release for older phones
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 15:51:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<article> <section class="page"> <p> Microsoft released cumulative update 10586.71 for Windows 10 Mobile beta testers on Monday, which Microsoft executives said prepares the OS for a broad deployment to older phones.</p><p> Officially, Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 10586.71 contains nothing but bug fixes, including performance and reliability improvements, upgrades to the Edge browser, and power improvements as well, said Gabe Aul, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Engineering Systems Team, in a <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/02/01/announcing-windows-10-mobile-insider-preview-build-10586-71/">blog post</a>. Microsoft rolled out a similar rollup update on July 29.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3028774/windows/windows-10-mobile-build-1058671-edges-closer-to-the-final-release-for-older-phones.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here</a></p></section></article>
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Say goodbye to the socks: Evernote's getting out of e-commerce
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 15:20:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<article> <section class="page"> <p> Two and a half years after Evernote announced that it would offer a suite of branded products through its own online retail store, the productivity company is walking away from the business of selling products like socks, messenger bags and wallets. </p><p> As foreshadowed by a <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/3010256/internet/is-evernote-getting-out-of-the-retail-business.html">series of sales and app changes last year</a>, the current incarnation of the Evernote Market -- a hub for people to buy branded swag and connected tools for the popular note-taking software -- will be no more come Wednesday.</p><p> In its place will be a page that directs people to a handful of products made by partner companies that are tightly integrated with Evernote's service and were previously sold through the Market. Users will still be able to buy the ScanSnap Evernote Edition scanner, Adonit Jot Script Evernote Edition stylus and Evernote-branded Moleskine notebooks that are designed to work with the notetaking software. </p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3028784/tech-events-dupe/say-goodbye-to-the-socks-evernotes-getting-out-of-e-commerce.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here</a></p></section></article>
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New dating app used your Instagram's #2015bestnine to create your dating profile
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 15:15:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<article> <section class="page"> <p> Toward the end of last year, a new meme surfaced on Instagram to help users find and share a grid of their nine most-liked Instagram pictures. Now that same service thinks Instagram users can use those nine photos to find a hot date.</p><p> <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/that-2015bestnine-instagram-craze-was-a-trojan-horse-for-a-d?utm_term=.ktDVMqgbn#.vpEZNEqwY">BuzzFeed</a> is reporting that the company behind the <a href="http://2015bestnine.com/">#2015bestnine Instagram meme</a> has released a new dating app called <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nine-meet-instagrammers-through/id1069968118">Nine</a>. This app relied on the #2015bestnine meme going viral to drive the number of early sign-ups to a then-mysterious app to “match with other Instagrammers.” Except it wasn’t clear that it would be a Tinder-style dating app.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3028083/ios-apps/new-dating-app-used-your-instagrams-2015bestnine-to-create-your-dating-profile.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here</a></p></section></article>
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US must make 'additional effort' on Safe Harbor, EU Commissioner says
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<article> <section class="page"> <p>The European Commission has outlined the areas in which it wants further concessions from the U.S. before a new Safe Harbor agreement on trans-Atlantic data transfers can be reached.</p><p>"We are close, but an additional effort is needed," European Commissioner for Justice Vĕra Jourová said Monday evening. There is still a need for binding commitments from the U.S. government, with additional safeguards on access to Europeans' data by U.S. public authorities and independent oversight in the area of national security, she said.</p><p>The original Safe Harbor agreement, under which businesses transferred the personal information of European Union citizens to the U.S. for storage and processing, was invalidated by the Court of Justice of the EU last year.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3028779/us-must-make-additional-effort-on-safe-harbor-eu-commissioner-says.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here</a></p></section></article>
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Turn a barebones PC into a graphics powerhouse with AMD's new FirePro server GPUs
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 14:50:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<article> <section class="page"> <p> If you have an under-powered PC but need the horsepower to see high-definition video or edit intense graphics, AMD has your back.</p><p> AMD's new FirePro S7150 and S7150 x2 GPUs, which sit in servers, can deliver "virtualized GPUs" to client devices and remote desktops. A virtual GPU mimics the functionality of a GPU on local hardware, and users can run graphics, engineering or even VR applications on virtual desktops.</p><p> The virtual GPUs on remote desktops can do everything regular GPUs can do on a computer, AMD claims. The processing load of virtual GPUs is handled by the FirePros in servers.</p><p> Virtual desktops are becoming popular in businesses that are looking to reduce spending on PCs and secure data in centralized servers. Some examples include architectural firms, which are using CAD/CAM on remote desktops, and hospitals, which use it for medical imaging.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3028663/hardware/turn-a-barebones-pc-into-a-graphics-powerhouse-with-amds-new-firepro-server-gpus.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here</a></p></section></article>
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'Big bets' cost Google parent Alphabet $3.6 billion in losses last year
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<article> <section class="page"> <p> Alphabet, the parent company of Google, racked up $3.6 billion in losses last year through investments in "big bets" such as self-driving cars and Internet balloons.</p><p> The company was known to be spending heavily on these items but revealed actual figures for the first time Monday when it broke out results separately for its core Google business and for big-bet investments, which it also calls moonshots.</p><p> The losses for those items were much higher in 2015 than in 2014, when they totaled $1.9 billion. And they brought in just $448 million in revenue last year.</p><p> Still, Alphabet says it stands to reap rich rewards in the long term if any of those big bets pays off. They also include its investments in smart thermostat company Nest, Google Fiber, and medical science, including efforts to build a smart contact lens that measures glucose levels.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3028641/data-center-cloud/big-bets-cost-google-parent-alphabet-36-billion-in-losses-last-year.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here</a></p></section></article>
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Google may be ready to seize full control of Nexus devices
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<article> <section class="page"> <p>It was bound to happen sooner or later: Google is reportedly ready to take the reins back on Android, and it’s starting by cracking down on its Nexus smartphone program.</p><p>The Information <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/google-signals-apple-like-direction-for-nexus-phones">reports </a>that Google plans to “effectively reduce the level of involvement of hardware partners that make the phones with Google” and that it will go directly to its partners to source components for its future devices, as it did with devices like the <a href="http://www.greenbot.com/article/3012675/android/google-pixel-c-review.html">Pixel C</a>. This means shutting out manufacturers like Samsung, Motorola, LG, Huawei, and HTC, all of whom have worked with Google in the past on Nexus devices. </p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3028127/android/google-may-be-ready-to-seize-full-control-of-nexus-devices.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here</a></p></section></article>
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Vaio confirms its Windows Phone will be launched this week
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<article> <section class="page"> <p>Sony spinoff Vaio Corp. will launch a phone based on Windows 10 Mobile this week, following <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2979526/windows-phone-os/acers-slick-jade-primo-is-the-first-windows-10-pc-phone.html">Acer</a> into the suddenly hot market for third-party Windows phone hardware.</p><p><a href="http://news.mynavi.jp/news/2016/01/18/367/">Mynavi.jp reports</a> that Vaio will be holding a press conference to announce the new phone on February 4. Executives from both Microsoft and Vaio are expected to attend, including Takuya Hirano, the president of Microsoft Japan. A spokeswoman for Vaio in the United States confirmed the announcement, but declined to provide further details.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3028125/windows/the-latest-windows-phone-rumor-points-to-a-new-one-from-pc-vendor-vaio.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here</a></p></section></article>
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Bluetooth wireless range, speed to continue improving
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<article> <section class="page"> <p> Soon, turning off the heat and lights before leaving your house could be as simple as turning a key in a Bluetooth-equipped lock.</p><p> This scenario may be possible with the latest Bluetooth wireless technology, which could start appearing in products next year. With the improvements, devices will be able to communicate directly over a longer range and at faster speeds than with current technology.</p><p> The range and speed of Bluetooth will continue to increase in coming years as the markets for home automation and IoT grow, said Mark Powell, executive director at standards-setting organization Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG).</p><p> The upcoming Bluetooth protocol—which will be released in the second half this year—will quadruple the wireless range and double the speed of the current technology. Bluetooth-SIG members involved usually develop chips in parallel, but it takes a few months until they start appearing in devices, Powell said.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3027988/bluetooth/bluetooth-wireless-range-speed-to-continue-improving.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here</a></p></section></article>
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Tired of telemarketers? Now you can turn the tables on them with this clever bot
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 13:07:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<article> <section class="page"> <p> You're on every do-not-call list and you've tried opting out, but still the telemarketers keep pestering you. What's a consumer to do? Just ask the Jolly Roger Telephone Company.</p><p> That's what Roger Anderson did, though in his case it was a matter of creating the company first. <a href="http://gizmodo.com/todays-hero-made-an-ai-that-annoys-telemarketers-for-as-1756344562">Reportedly</a> a frustrated telecom professional himself, Anderson did just that, and now it's on hand to help phone owners at their wit's end.</p><p> In a nutshell, Jolly Roger Telephone offers a bot that's designed to waste as much of a telemarketer's time as possible by making the caller think there's a live human reacting to their spiel. In fact, it's just a software robot equipped with clever algorithms to string them along for as long as it can.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3028541/privacy/tired-of-telemarketers-now-you-can-turn-the-tables-on-them-with-this-clever-bot.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here</a></p></section></article>
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Facebook's latest News Feed overhaul puts stories you want to see at the top
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 13:07:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<article> <section class="page"> <p>Facebook knows everything about you, from who your friends and family are to what you like and where you’ve been. It even knows the posts you draft but never publish. Combine all that information with the power of the like button, which signals to Facebook that a post should be shared more widely, and the network should know exactly what to show in your News Feed every day. But it doesn’t—not even close. The Facebook News Feed algorithm can be infuriating. It won’t show me all of my best friend’s posts, which I obviously want to see, but it will surface a photo someone I barely know has liked. </p><p>That’s about to change. Facebook knows that it <a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/2935435/facebook-will-now-update-your-news-feed-based-on-time-spent-on-a-story.html">hasn’t perfected the News Feed</a>, so it’s making some tweaks that will take more than just likes, comments, and shares into account when showing you News Feed stories.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3027983/software/facebooks-latest-news-feed-overhaul-puts-stories-you-want-to-see-at-the-top.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here</a></p></section></article>
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<title>This bird could be a drone's worst enemy</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 12:35:00 -0800</pubDate>
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Quick start to meetings saves money, improves efficiency for Intel
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Ant Simulator game canceled after devs blow Kickstarter funds on strippers and booze
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 11:08:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Samsung's Android browser now supports ad blockers</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 11:03:00 -0800</pubDate>
<author>Derek Walter</author>
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<article> <section class="page"> <p> Samsung is again following the lead of Apple, this time in building ad-blocking capabilities into its mobile browser.</p><p> <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sec.android.app.sbrowser&amp;hl=en">Samsung Internet</a> will let users install helper apps that block ads and other content from websites they visit, much like <a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/2984483/ios/hands-on-with-content-blocking-safari-extensions-in-ios-9.html">Safari in iOS 9</a>. </p><p> <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rocketshipapps.adblockfast">Adblock Fast</a> and <a href="http://murphyapps.co/blog/2016/2/1/introducing-crystal-for-samsung-internet-browser">Crystal </a>have already jumped on board with their own plugins to speed up Samsung’s browser.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3028599/android/samsungs-android-browser-now-supports-ad-blockers.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here</a></p></section></article>
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<title>You can play Star Citizen for free this week</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 10:57:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<article> <section class="page"> <p> Some people have spent thousands upon thousands of dollars for the privilege of playing <em>Star Citizen </em>early. Suckers. You? You get to try it for free, this entire week. Presumably because Chris Roberts and Co. hope to convince you to spend thousands upon thousands of dollars. Drug dealer rules, you know? The first hit is free.</p><p> From <a href="https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/15178-Roundup-Free-Fly-212-Patch-And-Other-Updates">the announcement</a>: “On the fence about <em>Star Citizen</em>? For the next week, we’re enabling Free Fly access to all accounts…which means that anyone can jump in to Star Citizen Alpha 2.1.2 today!”</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3028542/software/you-can-play-star-citizen-for-free-this-week.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here</a></p></section></article>
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Microsoft's Bing just called the first four primaries for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 10:54:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<article> <section class="page"> <p> In March, Microsoft said it would use its Bing technology to <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2897284/microsofts-bing-eyes-the-2016-presidential-election-after-predicting-ncaa-brackets.html">predict the outcome </a>of the 2016 presidential election. On February 1, Microsoft said that Donald Trump would win the first four primaries by an even wider amount than before. </p><p> Microsoft’s Bing predicts that Trump will win the Republican primaries in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada relatively easily, topping Ted Cruz in all four states. Hillary Clinton is expected to win three out of the first four Democratic primaries—Iowa, South Carolina, and Nevada—losing New Hampshire to Bernie Sanders. </p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3026461/data-center-cloud/microsofts-bing-just-called-the-first-four-primaries-for-donald-trump-hillary-clinton.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here</a></p></section></article>
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See Chrome’s Material Design facelift before its official rollout
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<article> <section class="page"> <p> Google’s Chrome browser will soon get a slightly new look, but users of the latest stable release needn’t wait.</p><p> As spotted by The Next Web, Chrome now offers several optional tweaks in line with <a href="http://www.greenbot.com/article/2369027/google-talks-about-the-android-l-design-and-all-the-work-that-goes-into-making-it-great.html">Google’s Material Design aesthetic</a>. These include changes to the browser’s menu and bookmarks bars, downloads page, and PDF viewer.</p><p> To enable the changes, visit the chrome://flags menu and select “Material” from the drop-down for the following items: “Material design in the browser’s top chrome,” “Enable material UI for PDF,” and “Enable Material Design downloads.” Additionally, users may preview a new Material Design settings menu by visiting chrome://md-settings.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3028612/internet/see-chromes-material-design-facelift-before-its-official-rollout.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here</a></p></section></article>
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Samsung's Galaxy S7 will be unveiled on February 21, with possible return of the microSD slot
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Microsoft woos small businesses to Office 365 with new offer
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 09:38:56 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Windows 10 usage skyrocketed in January</title>
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<article> <section class="page"> <p> Windows 10’s user share jumped in January by its second-largest one-month increase since its launch, data from analytics vendor Net Applications showed today.</p><p> At the mid-point of its first year, Windows 10 powered approximately 196 million systems, according to <i>Computerworld</i>’s calculations using Net Applications’ numbers, close to <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/3018882/windows-pcs/microsofts-new-tally-for-windows-10-200m.html">Microsoft’s current claim of 200 million machines</a>, made in early January.</p><p> The jump in <i>user share</i>—an estimate of the portion of all personal computers worldwide that ran the OS—was an impressive 1.9 percentage points, second only to the 4.8-point gain that Windows 10 recorded in August, the first full month of availability. January’s increase was almost double that of December’s.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3027909/windows/windows-10-usage-skyrocketed-in-january.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here</a></p></section></article>
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Apple TV just became the best box for streaming live broadcast TV
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<article> <section class="page"> <p>Channels, an app for watching live television through the new Apple TV, has received a substantial update with timeshifting support.</p><p>The app, <a href="http://www.techhive.com/article/3011950/streaming-hardware/apple-tv-gets-an-app-for-over-the-air-channels-with-the-right-hardware.html">which first launched in December</a>, works in conjunction with SiliconDust HDHomeRun networked TV tuners. Users plug an antenna into the tuner, then connect the tuner to a Wi-Fi router. This setup allows for streaming live channels to other devices around the house, using companion apps such as Channels for Apple TV.</p><p>Channels is the first app for HDHomeRun tuners to support timeshifting without complicated plugins. The app begins storing up video when users first tune into a channel, caching up to 30 minutes of programming. Users can also pause live video for up to 30 minutes. Although the app doesn’t offer full-blown DVR, it’s still useful for rewatching a bit of dialog that you missed, or pausing through the first 15 minutes of a show so you can skip all the commercial breaks.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3027447/software/apple-tv-just-became-the-best-box-for-streaming-live-broadcast-tv.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here</a></p></section></article>
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Trojanized Android games hide malicious code inside images
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Irate Comcast subscriber turns Raspberry Pi into a watchdog for slow Internet speeds
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<article> <section class="page"> <p> There’s nothing more frustrating than dealing with <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2025053/answer-line-an-obscenely-slow-internet-connection-when-youre-paying-for-a-fast-one.html">slow Internet at home</a>, especially when you’re paying a steep premium for a fast connection speed. Washington, DC-based <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/43fi39/i_set_up_my_raspberry_pi_to_automatically_tweet/">Reddit user and Comcast customer AlekseyP</a> came up with an interesting solution for this problem. Instead of wasting time calling up Comcast over the issue, he is using the power of Raspberry Pi to complain to the Internet Service Provider over Twitter under the name <a href="https://twitter.com/A_Comcast_User/">@A_Comcast_User</a>.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3027446/hardware/irate-comcast-subscriber-turns-raspberry-pi-into-a-watchdog-for-slow-internet-speeds.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here</a></p></section></article>
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Tablet sales are still shrinking—except for tablets that mimic PCs
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Microsoft's audacious Project Natick wants to submerge your data in the oceans
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 07:29:00 -0800</pubDate>
<author>Ian Paul</author>
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<article> <section class="page"> <p> Microsoft Research has a new concept that could bring data centers powering cloud services closer to roughly half of the world’s population. All it requires is a custom submarine capsule designed to go five years at a time without a visit from a technician.</p><p> The company’s R&amp;D department recently went public with <a href="http://natick.research.microsoft.com/">Project Natick</a>, a data center enclosed in a steel capsule that sits on the ocean floor. These underwater data centers are more easily deployed, reduce emissions, and save a ton of dough on cooling compared to traditional server farms, at least in theory.</p><p> Microsoft already completed its first successful mission last year. Between August and November of 2015, the company deployed its first prototype vessel, the Leona Philpot, which was named after a character connected to the <em>Halo</em> series. That first vessel contained one server rack, according to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/01/technology/microsoft-plumbs-oceans-depths-to-test-underwater-data-center.html?_r=1"><em>The New York Times</em></a>, surrounded by pressurized nitrogen to remove heat from the components.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3027934/data-center-cloud/microsofts-project-natick-wants-to-submerge-your-data-in-the-oceans.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here</a></p></section></article>
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Windows Server 2016 could cost you more than you think
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 07:22:34 -0800</pubDate>
<author>Katherine Noyes</author>
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<article> <section class="page"> <p>A few years ago, Microsoft switched from per-processor to per-core licensing in SQL Server, and it's about to do the same with Windows Server 2016. You may not be thrilled with the results.</p><p>"Microsoft’s auditors likely will have a field day with these new requirements for Windows Server, in the same way that they have used the ever-more-complex licensing rules for SQL Server to increase the company’s audit-based revenue in recent years," warned Christopher Barnett, an associate attorney with <a href="http://www.scottandscottllp.com/main/home.aspx">Scott &amp; Scott LLP</a>.</p><p>Currently, each Windows Server license allows for use of the software on up to two physical processors. Beyond the first license, there's no minimum number that must be purchased per server.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3028525/windows-server-2016-could-cost-you-more-than-you-think.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here</a></p></section></article>
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