Adobe is preparing to “decommission” its Adobe Flash Player software and turn off its download links to current and older versions of the software on Sept. 23, at least to large organizations. It’s not entirely clear whether Adobe means to kill off Flash entirely. The Adobe representatives were not immediately available for comment. A large warning at the top of the page, however, states that “This page and the download links will be decommissioned on Sep 29, 2016.” Adobe also recommends that personal users who wish to download the Flash Player do so via
The FBI may have paid a small fortune to unlock an iPhone 5c used by the San Bernardino shooter. But a security researcher has demonstrated a way to do it for less than US $100. Sergei Skorobogatov at the University of Cambridge used a technique known as NAND mirroring to bypass the passcode retry limit on an iPhone 5c. Using store-bought equipment, he created copies of the phone’s flash memory to generate more tries to guess the passcode. Skorobogatov detailed the whole process in a
The companies behind some of the top Android Wear watches are heading for the bench. LG, Huawei, and Motorola aren’t planning a new smartwatch in the final months of the year, according to a
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This analog/digital hybrid only looks like a classic wall clock.
Safer passengers and healthier drivers might be among the outcomes of a new trial by a German software company and a Japanese telecommunications operator. NTT, the Japanese co-inventor of a sensing fabric used in health-monitoring clothing, is pairing up with business software developer SAP to collect and process real-time data on drivers' heart rate and alertness. SAP already sells a real-time analytics tool, Vehicle Insights, for processing data from connected vehicles. In the trial with NTT it will add information from NTT's IoT analytics platform to the database, allowing the analytics system to look for -- and perhaps act on -- links between drivers' state of health and other vehicle telemetry.
Self-driving cars are raising hopes that we’ll get a lot done when we don’t have to drive anymore. According to a University of Michigan The average U.S. driver spends an hour a day in their car, but the study concluded that for 62 percent of Americans, freeing up that driving time won’t make them any more productive. And the findings suggest riding in a self-driving car may be a white-knuckle nightmare of nerves, car sickness, unsafe seats and flying gadgets.
If you want to keep prying eyes away from your conversations, then these are the apps that you need to get.
When I reviewed With Fire TV devices, Amazon splashes its own Prime and Instant videos across the home screen and often gives itself top billing in search results. Other services, such as Hulu and HBO, get second-class treatment—you need to open each app individually. As a result, using the Fire TV can feel like Amazon is putting its own business goals—selling a la carte video rentals and pushing Prime subscriptions—ahead of its users’ needs.
Building a gaming PC on a $500 budget is all about compromise. Unlike with high-end PC builds, you simply But which hardware? How badass a gaming PC can you truly achieve for $500? That’s what this article is all about. I’ve spent the last several days researching all the configuration variables and have finally settled on a $500 gaming PC setup that I’d recommend. To be clear: I didn’t actually build this PC, so you won’t find performance benchmarks at the end. But if you handed me $500 in cash today (is my boss reading this?) here’s the rig I’d build, complete with justifications for each and every part.
Gmail service for users of the Google for Work cloud-based productivity suite was down for over 12 hours on Wednesday, apparently affecting users in a number of countries including the U.S. Google reported early Thursday that the problem was resolved for the vast majority of affected customers, and it would be working individually with the rest of them. It said it would provide a more detailed analysis of the incident to customers once its internal investigation is completed. The company first acknowledged the problem on its
