The makers of Adblock Plus want to make the process of deciding which ads are "acceptable" and can bypass its filters more transparent. The company plans to create an independent board to set the acceptability criteria by early next year. German company Eyeo has run into criticism over the way it monetizes development of the open-source Adblock Plus: It doesn't block all ads by default, but allows some unintrusive, mostly text-based ads through its filters. About 70 of the largest publishers whose ads are allowed through in this way pay a fee. Users can still choose to block their ads. After discussion with users, Eyeo published the criteria for what makes ads acceptable, and when companies apply to be added to the whitelist, the merits of their cases are discussed in a public forum.
GNOME 3.18 While Ubuntu’s Unity hasn’t seen major changes in years as developers
Google announced a new version of its $35 Chromecast streamer this week, but if you already own the 2013 version, you probably don’t need to upgrade. That’s because the best part of the new Chromecast is available to everyone: It’s a revamped version of the Chromecast mobile app, with the ability to search across streaming services and view recommendations from the apps you already have. In other words, it finally solves the problem of figuring out what to watch. The new app is available now for
When Microsoft rolled out Office 2013 it included a sharing screen that let you share a document in all kinds of ways. You could share a link over email, get a sharing link, or post the document directly to a social network or blog. It offered a lot of functionality, but it was a little on the complex side, especially since there were effectively two options to share via email. Plus, you always had to jump back and forth between your document and the Sharing page in Office’s backstage view—the screen you see when you click Microsoft Word 2016
Workstation vendor Boxx said it has created its tiniest workstation yet in the Apexx 1, a PC that's less than 5-inches wide and 8.5-inches tall yet still packs up to an 18-core Xeon processor and professional-grade graphics. Boxx's take on building a tiny workstation is somewhat similar to what others have done but it's gone one step further. Most micro-towers, such as
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Nvidia on Wednesday laid out its plans to become the “Netflix of games,” with a new streaming service for its line of Shield devices that will cost $8 and starts with a three-month free trial. Called GeForce Now, the service lets players stream from a library of games to the company’s
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Google rolled out a trove of new devices at a September 29 press event, from the expected, like new Nexus phones, to confirmed rumors, like the high-end Pixel C tablet. We give you the highlights here.
On Tuesday, AMD quietly launched an updated family of AMD Pro processors for business notebooks that are based on the existing Godaveri and Carrizo chips, but with additional security and stability features for businesses. The new Pro chips include the new AMD Pro A12 chip, which runs at 3.4GHz. All of the new Pro chips are APUs, which mean that they combine both graphics as well as the CPU core. The A12 integrates 12 compute cores (4 CPU cores and 8 GPU cores), based on the Radeon R7 graphics technology running at 800MHz. What differentiates the new PRO chips from the more conventional models are what AMD calls the AMD Secure Processor, an embedded core that enables the ARM TrustZone secure environment to run on top of the chip. Theoretically, at least, the technology should supply an added layer of security to sensitive apps.