Researchers developing 5G mobile technologies now have a "playground" they can visit in South Korea -- if they're not too busy attending meetings. Service provider SK Telecom opened its "5G Playground" on Thursday with partners including Ericsson, Nokia, Intel and Samsung Electronics. The same day, a group of regional standards bodies announced a series of events for "building global consensus" on 5G. They'll also "focus their efforts and leadership." Yes, meetings. One every six months. Each will be in a different part of the world, though, so at least the conference rooms will have different wallpaper. 5G is serious business. Mobile operators and device makers are counting on it to deliver the performance needed for applications like high-definition video and the capacity for billions of connected things with tiny batteries. The standard is expected to be complete by 2020, so there's a lot of work to do.
Get the spooky weekend started early with the Play Store's top new apps and games.
Halloween offers plenty of downtime if you’re staying home and waiting for trick-or-treaters, so why not try some new games? There are plenty to be had in this latest giveaway from the Also, keep in mind that updates for these apps will come from Amazon instead of the Google Play Store. When you switch phones, you’ll need to reinstall Amazon’s Appstore app and start the process from scratch.
Microsoft loves Windows 10, users upgrading from Windows 8.1 love Windows 10, and even some pirates love the new operating system. Now, Microsoft wants to make it easier for pirates—'non-genuine users' in diplomatic Microsoft-speak—to get a legitimate Windows 10 license after upgrading from Windows 7 or 8.1. Soon Microsoft will introduce “a
Many people like the idea of increasing their privacy with encryption and anonymity tools for sharing files, web browsing and messaging. The trouble is finding tools for the job that aren’t overly complex. Today’s tip will take a look at how easily you can use current privacy tools to chat with your friends in privacy and security.
The tech world got an early Halloween scare Thursday evening when the The morning after, the truth is looking murkier. Google itself has denied that Chrome OS is going away, and several other reports also claim the browser-based operating system will stick around in some form. What just happened? Let’s dive into what we know.
Pick up that ‘wrong’ number…and you could die.
In that spirit, let us light some candles, cover the mirrors, and conduct a séance of sorts to call forth the souls of operating systems past. Not so we can gaze upon their ghastly interfaces, but to see if we can learn anything from their digital carcasses and signs of a life well-lived—or not. Who knows, perhaps they bring Windows XP proved to be a hit since its inception. Sure, it took Service Pack 2 to create the operating system we call XP today, but at the operating system’s launch in 2001 the basics were already there. It’s a good thing too, as Windows XP was destined to live long past its shelf life.
What’s more immersive than surround sound? An audio system that can use the third dimension of height.
As part of a massive suite of Windows 10 news on Thursday, Microsoft The big changes inside the new build are focused on improving Microsoft's Edge Browser. In particular, Edge now lets users send videos, images and audio over a network to any device equipped with Miracast and DLNA. Using that capability, they can share things like a Facebook photo album, a YouTube video or a Pandora audio stream. However, it's worth noting that the capability doesn't extend to casting protected content (like videos streamed from Netflix) so it's not a one-size-fits-all solution for getting stuff off a PC and onto something like a Miracast TV.
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Facebook is on an aggressive push to gain users in emerging markets, and on Thursday it began tackling a new task: making money from them. With more than a billion users, the company's footprint already extends to almost every country on Earth, but the Facebook seen by users in one country can be very different from what their neighbors get. That poses a problem for the company. Differences in cellular connection speeds and phones mean that posts, photos or ads loaded in a fraction of a second on 4G connections could take minutes to load for users in remote areas. It's an annoyance for users and a problem for Facebook as it tries to sell ads.