When companies claim their products are unhackable or invulnerable, it must be like waving a red flag in front of bulls as it practically dares security researchers to prove otherwise. Apple previously claimed that Macs were not vulnerable to the same firmware flaws that could backdoor PCs, so researchers proved they could remotely infect Macs with a firmware worm that is so tough to detect and to get rid of that they suggested it presents a toss your Mac in the trash situation.
The biggest e-sports tournament of the year is underway this week in Seattle— That’s a huge leap over last year’s International prize pool of around eleven million, and makes the million dollar prize for the League of Legends World Championship look paltry in comparison. It’s all thanks to the community—Valve funds The International by selling a special item called “The Compendium” which unlocks various in-game
If you missed your chance to get a real life When Bethesda announced
Microsoft says HoloLens will start rolling out to developers within the “Windows 10 time frame,” but no one really knows what that means. Over the weekend, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella clarified this just a tad in an Although the company is not ready to reveal a roll out date yet, Nadella told the BBC that we can expect to see developers get their hands on HoloLens “within the next year.” The kicker is that Microsoft will focus on developers and enterprises at first. Nadella said something similar to
San Francisco police suspect a woman got much more than a bed for the night when she booked a stay in the city through Airbnb earlier this year. Police say Jana Dominquez, a 27-year old from the nearby city of Richmond, is suspected of stealing over $35,000 in valuables from a house she rented though the site. Dominquez had full access to the house on 27th Avenue in the city’s Outer Sunset district in April this year when the theft is thought to have taken place. The victim, who rents the house though the site, kept valuables in a locked closet and office.
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The 2016 Audi TT’s engine is turbocharged, and so is the graphics on its new, all-digital ‘virtual cockpit’ instrument cluster. We’re talking 60fps, the speed PC gamers seek from their monitors—and the speed automakers need on displays to show tachometer, speedometer, and map data in real time. Nvidia knows a thing or two about delivering that kind of speed. In this case, a Tegra 3 system on a chip (SoC), with dedicated processors for video, sound, and imaging, is the roaring beast in the Visual Computing Module (VCM), which drives the 12.3-inch, 1440x540-pixel ‘virtual cockpit’ display in the TT. In another parallel to PC gaming hardware, the VCM is upgradeable. Audi will be able to swap out the component, so you needn’t be stuck with the same old graphics technology for the life of your car.
The narrative is already in place on Intel’s new Broadwell for desktop CPU: It’s the chip no one wanted. As someone who watched this story unfold, I know the truth is actually the opposite. You see, Intel’s 3.3GHz Core i7-5775C is actually something the Internet Remember that in 2012, the Internet said Intel would effectively “kill the desktop” PC because the company had no plans for a socketed CPU past Haswell. Intel’s Broadwell flanked by a Haswell, Sandy Bridge, and massive Haswell-E chip.
Some Apple mobile users have been encountering a pop-up message that is particularly difficult to close. The message appears after a user has been redirected to a different domain, usually caused by viewing a malicious advertisement, The message warns that a third-party application on the phone has caused the device to crash and includes a phone number where users can allegedly get their device fixed. Warnings such as this one are employed by technical support schemes, which convince people to call their support lines by falsely warning that their computers or devices have security or performance problems.
How well is the Apple Watch selling? Apple isn’t saying much, but that hasn’t kept Bernstein Research anaylist Mark Li from trying to find out. According to the
We might be getting our first peek at Samsung’s next Galaxy Note and Galaxy S Edge smartphones. The above rendering comes Although we can’t say for sure that the rendering is real, Evan Blass—the journalist behind @evleaks—has a sterling track record when it comes to phone rumors and scoops, and the phones depicted are in line with other tidbits we’ve recently learned.
