'We don't ask you for free iPhones,' the singer said this weekend, so Apple shouldn't demand free music
Hackers who breached a database containing highly personal information on government employees with security clearances had access to the system for about a year before being discovered, The The database in question contains applications for security clearances, which ask for information on all aspects of a person’s life including social security numbers, passport numbers, names of former neighbors, and information on family members. It also asks about, over the past seven years, any contact with foreign nationals and problems with drug or alcohol abuse, debts or bankruptcy, imprisonment and run-ins with law enforcement.
SourceForge is in trouble. The download-hosting site The Wine project—which makes the Wine compatibility layer for
Google will begin removing explicit images posted without the subject’s consent in a crackdown on “revenge porn” announced Friday. Amit Singhal, the senior vice president of Google Search, “Our philosophy has always been that Search should reflect the whole web,” he wrote. “But revenge porn images are intensely personal and emotionally damaging, and serve only to degrade the victims—predominantly women. So going forward, well honor requests from people to remove nude or sexually explicit images shared without their consent from Google Search results.”
Microsoft virtually requires you to own a Microsoft account to tap into the best features of the Windows ecosystem, and now it’s official: To upgrade to the latest Windows 10 preview builds—as well as the If you’re
If you’ve scored access to the This capability and other improvements are in new version, 3.1. There’s a refreshed “Now” start page that offers musical selections based on the time of day and your personal preferences. The running feature attempts to inspire your workout by keeping the music at pace with your jogging speed.
This week's Play Store highlights include productivity apps—but also plenty of fun, too.
Twitter has long been a platform for sharing cool finds, and now Twitter is hoping to make it easier to discover this stuff On Friday
The European Commission is almost ready to file final antitrust charges against Google: It has shared a redacted copy of charges with complainants and given them four weeks to provide additional evidence and comments. The Commission charged Google in April with abusing its dominant market position as a search provider in Europe.
If you had any doubt that Nokia wants to The company could still back off from its hopes and dreams, but it sure looks like Nokia’s phones will rise from the ashes in 2016. As previously reported,
The day is finally here, Chromebook users. Microsoft This is a big change for Microsoft. Microsoft still pushes Skype as a competitive advantage for Windows, noting that
For those who’ve tried it, When we tried a rough
NBA League Pass is going get a lot more flexible next season, letting basketball fans subscribe to single teams and purchase individual games. The league made its announcement on Wednesday, just before the last game of the 2015 NBA Finals. Pricing won't be revealed until next month, though it'll presumably be cheaper than the $200 per season that the NBA currently charges for all out-of-market games. For now, subscribers who want a single team or game will have to opt for the streaming version of NBA League Pass, rather than the version that's bundled with traditional pay TV packages. The NBA
I end up talking a lot about Chrome extensions and apps partly because it’s the browser I use every day, and partly because so much active development is happening on Chrome. But today I’ve got a great tool for all the Firefox users out there who open a lot of tabs at once or are tired of videos auto-playing in tabs that aren’t the main focus. The Firefox add-on