The objective is to redistribute airflow around the home, but some say the resulting changes in air pressure can damage central heating and cooling systems.
Sometimes the biggest pain with a new PC is simply This year, try something new. Instead of leaving your Thanksgiving dinner and the warmth of family and friends behind, fire up your laptop, tablet, or smartphone and shop for deals online.
On holidays like Thanksgiving, part of the togetherness (especially with my older brother) has always included video games—especially games for our first computer, the Released in 1979, Atari intended the 800 (and its junior sibling, the 400) to serve as both advanced follow-ups to its successful Atari 2600 game console and, in the case of the 800, as a competitor to the Apple II. But the Atari 2600 held its ground, remaining commercially relevant until at least 1986, and the Apple II, well, you know. The Atari 800 was a unique hybrid of personal computer and gaming machine.
Even online anonymity and privacy need a crowd of sorts--crowdfunders, to be specific. The In a
The Fossil Q Founder is ready for the holiday shopping rush. Fossil’s first Android Wear smartwatch is now available from the You’re limited to the steel band model at this time, however. There’s another version of the Q Founder with a leather strap listed as “coming soon” and priced at $275. Along with the Q Founder, Fossil also sells the Q Reveler and Q Dreamer fitness bands, designed to put a more fashionable spin on a market dominated by companies like Fitbit.
The company says the entry-level TVs are a one-off effort and it has no plans to ditch WebOS.
Good news, gamers! AMD just The Windows drivers saw some serious improvements and contain a slick new control panel. But despite promises of performance improvements for games on Linux, little has changed on open-source operating systems. These are the same old Linux drivers with some new branding. A slide from an AMD presentation promised some serious Linux performance improvements. AMD touted performance boosts of 112 percent to 155 percent for
Grow your own organic food with the mostly automated Grove Ecosystem, which uses fish poop as plant fertilizer.
Hilton Worldwide says it has identified and removed malware that targeted card payment systems at some of its hotels over a 17 week period from late 2014 to mid 2015. The malware collected cardholder names, payment card numbers, security codes and expiration dates, the company said in a statement. The hotel chain "As a precautionary measure, customers may wish to review and monitor their payment card statements if they used a payment card at a Hilton Worldwide hotel over a seventeen-week period, from Nov. 18 to Dec. 5, 2014 or April 21 to July 27, 2015," the company said.
People who updated to the latest Windows 10 update may want to double-check their settings. Microsoft revealed Tuesday that it took the previous update (which was The bug
Paying for features that were once free is a bummer, but Pushbullet's Ryan Oldenburg explains why he had to start charging.
Well, I tried. I tried the whole “use the iPad Pro instead of my computer for a week” thing and barely lasted a day. It doesn’t fit my workflow like my MacBook Air does, so I stopped trying to force it—and that’s OK. Apple’s newest largest tablet doesn’t need to be a laptop replacement to be good, but for a $300 premium over the cheapest iPad Air 2, it does need to deliver more than just a larger screen. In some ways it does. Thanks to a faster processor and more RAM, the iPad Pro can enable a new class of applications that feel as powerful as desktop apps. Support for the Apple Pencil is limited to this iPad, so if your work includes drawing or drafting, or you’d rather handwrite notes than type them, your choice is clear: Buy this iPad Pro or wait a year to see if Pencil support trickles down to more models.
A lawsuit against Microsoft that charged it with entering into restrictive hiring agreements with other companies has been dismissed by a court in California, with the judge declaring that the employees had waited too long to file the suit. The lawsuit followed up on a class-action suit filed by hi-tech employees against Intel, Google, Apple, Intuit, Lucasfilm, Pixar and Adobe Systems, which charged these companies with engaging in an “overarching conspiracy” to fix and suppress employee compensation and to restrict employee mobility by introducing measures such as "do-not-cold-call" lists. Judge Lucy Koh of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California approved in September a US$415 million settlement between the tech workers and Intel, Google, Apple and Adobe. Intuit, Lucasfilm and Pixar had earlier settled with the workers.
Reading is one of life’s finer pleasures, especially while tippling There will be times when you’ll miss the tactile feedback that only a product crafted from ink and dead trees can provide, but the benefits of e-readers are almost too numerous to count: You can read one in the dark. You can change the font and its size. There’s no need to go to the store to buy something new to read (or to wait for it to be delivered). You can get definitions of words you’re not familiar with. The list goes on and on.
