Amazon's Fire TV and the battle for the living room, why cord cutting won't work for sports fans, the new HTC One phone, and Cortana versus Siri versus Google Now.
With a California startup getting $7 million in funding to produce virtual-reality films, the number of companies clamoring to make VR movies is growing. Is this really the future of film?
Home routers and other consumer embedded devices are plagued by basic vulnerabilities and can’t be easily secured by non-technical users, which means they’ll likely continue to be targeted in what has already become an increasing trend of mass attacks. Computer OSes have advanced considerably from a security standpoint over the last decade, with their creators strengthening code and adding a variety of protections. However, routers, modems, wireless access points and other “plug-and-forget” devices have lagged behind as their makers lacked strong incentives to secure them. As a result, those devices can now pose a significant threat to the online security of users, contrary to the long-held belief that connecting a computer through a home router is better than exposing it directly to the Internet.
Russia’s vKontakte social network is stridently out of tune with copyright laws, according to three major record labels that are suing the company alleging it deliberately facilitates large-scale music piracy. Sony Music Russia, Universal Music Russia and Warner Music UK reached out several times to vKontakte in recent months but the alleged infringement continued, so they filed three separate lawsuits in the Saint Petersburg and Leningradsky Region Arbitration Court alleging violation of Russian copyright laws,
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Microsoft’s Digital assistants are somewhat like real assistants: They can provide you a list of their skills, but only after working with them for some time can you better assess their talents. And so it is with Cortana: Without actually giving Microsoft your data, you can’t quite know for sure how it will shape up. A list of” interests” that Cortana monitors.
Mixing snazzy materials with an old-school retro design, Wellograph looks like a smartwatch—but its features are all about step counts, heart rates and wellness.
