Estimate is based on HBO Now’s iTunes app-store rankings; could increase as Apple's exclusive ends.
Someone hacked through yet another fiber optic cable in the San Francisco Bay area early Tuesday morning, continuing a rash of incidents that have disrupted Internet traffic and vexed law enforcement officials. The latest attack occurred at around 4.30 am Pacific Time near the town of Livermore, about 50 miles east of San Francisco. Someone climbed down a manhole cover there and cut through several fiber optic cables, according to
Microsoft quietly updated its Office 2016 Preview apps for early adopters over the past two weeks with a slew of new features the company The new features let people who have installed the public beta of Microsoft’s forthcoming productivity suite update try out real-time collaboration capabilities that will be rolling out more broadly later this year, along with other changes that make it easier to find particular functions and gather contextual information about what they’re working on. Word 2016 now has support for Live Typing, which allows desktop users to see the edits their colleagues are making to a shared document in real time. It builds on a feature unveiled last month that let users see where colleagues were working within a document, but didn’t immediately show the words they added. Similar features should be coming to other Office apps with future updates, so that people can work in real time on Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations.
The nationwide retailer is expanding its connected-home inventory online and in hundreds of brick-and-mortar stores.
Linux users install most of their software directly from a centralized package repository managed by their PPAs depend on the Apt package manager created by Debian. Due to their success, it’s no surprise Debian’s new project leader
Microsoft’s end of support for Windows XP is having its desired effect, with Windows 8.1 pulling ahead in usage share. While Windows 8.1 overtook XP last year
Google recently upped Gmail’s personalization game with a string of new themes to customize your inbox background, as well as a revamped set of emojis. The new updates are available only to free Gmail users and are not yet available to Apps subscribers. Top of the list for the new updates are hundreds of new high-resolution theme photos. Google says many of the new photos were uploaded by “fellow Googlers,” but if you don’t like any of those you can still upload your own photo. Gmail also has a few new tools to augment your background image. Beyond switching between light and dark inbox text, you can also add a blurring effect or a vignette affectation that darkens the image from the corners and moves inward.
Microsoft has been promising an LTE version of its Starting Friday, Microsoft will sell the Surface 3 with 4G LTE to business customers through Deutsche Telecom in Germany and O2 in the United Kingdom, following a quiet launch in Japan a couple weeks ago. Spain’s Movistar and France’s Orange Business Services will follow shortly after. As for retail sales, the Surface 3 with 4G LTE is coming to the United States (on T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless), France, Germany, and the United Kingdom in the “coming weeks.” In the United States, these models will cost $100 more than their non-LTE counterparts, at $599 with 2 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage, and $699 with 4 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage.
ESPN columnists and on-air personalities Michael Smith and Jemele Hill to be celebrity DJs on the streaming-music service.