The e-commerce giant is reportedly in talks with service providers to incorporate their TV and movie offerings into Amazon’s streaming-video service.
Perhaps fearing its own computers didn't emit enough eye-searing green, Lenovo showed up at DreamHack in Jönköping, Sweden, on Friday to announce it's partnering with Razer on a new line of gaming hardware—desktops, laptops, peripherals, you name it. The pair unveiled a prototype of their first “Lenovo Razer Edition” product, a gaming desktop expected to launch in Q1 2016. Here's another product render: (Click to expand)
Microsoft’s Find My Device in Windows 10 doesn’t do a whole lot right now. There isn’t a way to have your tablet make a sound, lock itself, erase data, or anything like that. Instead, you can only find out where its last known general location was. Nevertheless, if you want to try this feature out here’s how to turn it on.
How many more times must we hear another lousy song about love? The genre is wildly over-represented, so let me suggest an alternative for your Spotify playlist: songs about Microsoft. From the blues to country to hop-hop to punk, we’ve collected the best songs about Microsoft. You’ll need a subscription for Spotify to listen to the embedded tracks below, but even a free subscription will do. I emphatically suggest you opt in, because you’ll be surprised by how good some of these are. Just use headphones when listening to these around the kids—many include explicit lyrics.
Take a break from tradition (and the stress of shopping) and spend some quality time with these unusual films with links to the holidays.
In Windows 10 you’ve got tons of choices for desktop programs, and apps from the Windows Store can be useful too. But there are still probably a few key webpages you turn to every day instead of a desktop program or modern UI app. Wouldn’t you love to have those key sites available to you on the Windows 10 Start menu? Here’s how to do that. Microsoft Edge in Windows 10 has pin-to-Start functionality built-in.
Sony said its PlayStation 4 will deliver game streaming to PCs and Macs, shortly after a third-party app promised to offer similar functionality. The addition of the functionality will also take the PS4 closer to rival Xbox, which launched the streaming of Xbox One games to Windows 10 PCs and tablets on the home network. The feature is seen by many gamers as extending their opportunity to stream games to a variety of devices, and not be tethered to their TV sets. "Some people asked if we plan to provide Remote Play function to PC, and yes, we are indeed working on an official application for PC/Mac. :D," Shuhei Yoshida, president of Worldwide Studios at Sony Computer Entertainment,
Microsoft has updated several of its security tools to remove two digital certificates installed on some Dell computers that could compromise data. The updates apply to Windows Defender for Windows 10 and 8.1; Microsoft Security Essentials for Windows 7 and Vista; and its Safety Scanner and Malicious Software Removal tool, according to postings
A bug affecting some VPN services can be used to figure out a computer's real IP addresses, including those of BitTorrent users, which could pose a huge privacy and possibly a legal risk. The vulnerability affects those services that allow port forwarding, according to VPN provider Perfect Privacy, which A successful attack requires a couple of conditions to be met: the attacker must be on the same VPN network as the victim, who also has to be lured into connecting to a resource controlled by the attacker.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has hit rock bottom. After years of working to lower the cost of hobbyist and educational computing, founder Eben Upton says it can go no further: At just US$5 The $5 Zero follows the wildly successful Raspberry Pi A, B and 2 computers, which cost $20 to $35. But despite the staggeringly low price, the Zero still has many of the same features, and runs about 40 percent faster than the Raspberry Pi 1. At the heart of its 65 x 30 millimeter circuit board is a Broadcom BCM2835 application processor, the same as in the Raspberry Pi 1, with a 1GHz ARM11 core. The board holds 512MB of RAM, and the operating system is loaded from micro-SD card.
What better way to celebrate Thanksgiving Holiday than to binge-watch all your favorite holiday movies!
A secret U.S. spy court has appointed a five-member panel of advisers as part of the reform of the surveillance of the National Security Agency. The presiding judges of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review have jointly designated five persons to be eligible to serve as an amicus curiae, or friend of the court, according to a notice on the FISC website. The appointments have been made under the USA Freedom Act, the reform legislation that was signed into law on June 2 by President Barack Obama. The panel consist of four lawyers and a professor of law, and does not include technology experts, although the USA Freedom Act provides for a panel of experts at the FISA court to provide guidance on matters of privacy and civil liberties, communications technology, and other technical or legal matters.
Google continues to receive a steady stream of requests to delist specific search results as a result of a controversial European court ruling. The company said Wednesday it The court's ruling allows people to ask search engines to delist results to content that is inadequate, irrelevant or not in the public interest, the so-called "right to be forgotten." The search engine can decide whether to scrub the results or not based on the circumstances. Google provided some anonymized examples of how it handled certain requests.
These phones attenuate the input signal so that it doesn’t exceed a level that can cause permanent damage to the listener’s ears.
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.