Google’s Hangouts app has skipped over version 9 and launched 10.0 on both Android and iOS. The update includes some platform-specific features that should make chatting with friends or coworkers a little more convenient. On the Android front, the app now supports Android Marshmallow’s With direct share, you can send a link or other content right to a specific contact in Hangouts.
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Ransomware authors are not the only cybercriminals who use extortion tactics to make money from users and companies. Data thieves are also increasingly resorting to intimidation. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has received many reports from users whose data was stolen in various high-profile breaches and then received emails threatening to publicly disclose their personal information, including phone numbers, home addresses and credit card information. The ransom amount asked by the extortionists ranged from 2 to 5 bitcoins or approximately $250 to $1,200, IC3 said in
Microsoft first brought the Cortana can send phone notifications and what Microsoft calls “critical alerts” to your Windows PC with the updated version of Windows 10 Mobile. This includes items that already show up, such as regular text messages and missed call alerts, as well as notifications from other messaging apps (WhatsApp, Line, Telegram, etc.), social media alerts, and other app notifications.
Google is adding a nifty perk to its emergent Fiber cable, phone, and Internet service. The company recently announced it would add Google Cast functionality to Fiber TV set-top boxes, meaning your cable box will double as a Chromecast device. The feature started rolling out on Wednesday, but it may take several weeks before it reaches all users.
What’s going on with the That’s a respectable number for an odd-duck peripheral—though if it includes controllers packaged in with Steam Machines, it portends rather poorly for
If you want to get under Diane Bryant’s skin these days, just ask her about GPUs. The head of Intel’s powerful data center group was at Computex in Taipei this week, in part to explain how the company's Machine learning is the process by which companies like Google and Facebook train software to get better at performing AI tasks including computer vision and understanding natural language. It’s key to improving all kinds of online services: Google said recently that it's
If cyber criminals have a Holy Grail, it’s your fullz, or your full set of personal information. And they’ll go to great lengths to get it. Since 2005,
The next version of Android is still in preview, but based on what we've seen, we can't wait to start using it on our phones every day.
