The $50 Roku Streaming Stick plugs directly into an HDMI port on your TV, bringing the full Roku experience of access to 1,200 streaming channels without all those cables.
Are you a student or working in academia? Do you have to tackle loads of research papers? The Internet is full of tools that try to make this arduous task somewhat easier, and Paperpile is the newest addition to the gang. If you’re hooked on Mendeley, Zotero or ReadCube, don’t look now, but a better and slicker solution could be just around the corner. Paperpile is a reference manager that resides entirely on the Web. There’s nothing to download except a Chrome add-on, and no account is needed aside from your existing Google account. Unlike reference managers that charge you extra to cloud-host your PDF files, Paperpile makes use of cloud storage you already have—Google Drive—and with 15GB of free storage, you won’t run out of space quickly. This means that once you upload your PDFs to Google Drive via Paperpile, you can access them from anywhere. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
Swiss auto maker Rinspeed presented its vision for driverless cars in an example that makes road travel more like luxury business travel on airplanes.
OCZ Storage Solutions is starting a new chapter in its enterprise operations with shipments of a new line of solid-state drives (SSDs) that offer maximum storage capacity of 3.2TB. The Z-Drive 4500 SSDs also come in capacities of 800GB and 1.6TB. OCZ was acquired last month by Toshiba for $35 million after coming out of bankruptcy, and the new SSDs are made using the Japanese company’s latest manufacturing process. OCZ already offers 3.2TB drives through the Z-Drive R4 SSDs, but the new drives are faster, OCZ said in a statement. The 3.2TB drive is priced at $6,533, 1.6TB at $3,806 and 800GB at $2,355. The drives offers endurance of 2.5PB, and random read times of 252,000 IOPS (I/O per second) and random write times of up to 76,000 IOPS.
Flexcoin, a site that described itself as the “world’s first bitcoin bank,” has closed after it got hacked and all of the bitcoins it had placed in online storage were stolen, the site recently announced. Flexcoin was attacked and robbed March 2 of all coins in its “hot wallet”—a term that refers to bitcoin online storage—the site said in an announcement posted to its Flexcoin also said it will return to their owners the bitcoins it had put in “cold storage,” which weren’t stolen because they’re held offline.
The traditional PC industry saw its sharpest decline ever in 2013, and the sales drought is expected to continue through 2018, IDC reported Tuesday. The firm said that PC shipments fell by 9.8 percent overall last year, the sharpest drop on record. While the fourth quarter actually performed better than expected, IDC said that sales dried up in emerging markets, dipping 11.3 percent. This is evidence that tablets and phones are cutting into sales all across the world, IDC said. In total, IDC reported that 315.1 million PCs shipped in 2013, and that 295.9 million are expected to be sold in 2014, a 6 percent dip. By 2018, IDC said, the PC market should drop to annual sales of 291.7 million units.
A group of attackers managed to compromise 300,000 home and small-office wireless routers, altering their settings to use rogue DNS servers, according to Internet security research organization Team Cymru. In January, Team Cymru’s researchers identified two TP-Link wireless routers whose settings were altered to send DNS (Domain Name System) requests to two particular IP addresses: 5.45.75.11 and 5.45.76.36. An analysis of the rogue DNS servers running at those IP addresses revealed a mass-scale compromise of consumer networking devices. Over a one-week period, more than 300,000 unique IP addresses sent DNS requests to the two servers, the Team Cymru researchers said in
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Empty-handed customers of A spam message with the awkward phrase “Mt. Gox return to customers the bitcoins” in the subject line has been seen circulating, according to a Reddit The bait targets the hundreds of thousands Mt. Gox customers locked out of their accounts when the company said 750,000 customer bitcoins, plus 100,000 of its own, disappeared, likely due to fraud. The company filed for bankruptcy in Tokyo District Court on Friday, leaving customers in a limbo.
