It’s almost Christmas, and while everyone is settling down on the living room couch to watch their twelfth viewing of Google has
Seasonal sales are one of the best parts of PC gaming, and now they’re headed to Microsoft’s game consoles as well. With the “Countdown” sale starting today, Microsoft is offering 17 days of deep discounts on Xbox One and Xbox 360 titles. Highlights from this week on Xbox One include 30 percent off
It’s time for that yearly tradition. The clock rolls over to 10 a.m. Pacific Time and then... As with the Fall sale last month, Valve is still experimenting with a new format for the Winter Steam Sale: No Daily Deals, no Flash Deals, no Community Choice. Whatever’s on sale the first day, those are the prices you’ll see straight through until January 4 when this ends. Valve pushes some deals to the front page but it’s just for discovery purposes.
It may not be ready for gift-giving this year, but come 2017 this could be the hottest item on wish lists around the world: a $300 device that enables "X-ray vision." The technology has been under development for Dubbed RF Capture, the technology senses wireless reflections off the human body and can thereby "see" the silhouette of a human standing behind a wall. From across a building, it can determine where you are, who you are, and even which hand you're moving.
Whether you have a Samsung, Motorola, LG, HTC, or Nexus, here's a rundown of all the latest news and rumors about when Marshmallow is coming your way.
Security researchers and crypto experts have spent the last few days trying to figure out the details of a recently announced backdoor in Juniper NetScreen firewalls that could allow attackers to decrypt VPN (Virtual Private Network) traffic. They believe that they found the answer: a combination of likely malicious third-party modifications and Juniper's own crypto failures. According to experts, Juniper was using a known flawed random number generator called Dual_EC_DRBG as the foundation for cryptographic operations in NetScreen's ScreenOS, but believed it was doing so securely because of additional precautions it had taken. It turns out those safeguards were ineffective.
Oculus is giving game developers early access to the final Rift virtual reality headsets ahead of next quarter’s consumer launch. The first units are shipping now, and come packaged with Rift SDK 1.0 developer tools. Oculus says developers will need both the hardware and SDK 1.0—which includes “features tied to the consumer product”—to finalize their games or apps. Oculus didn’t elaborate on what’s included in SDK 1.0, but the changes could be substantial. As
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One of the biggest announcements coming out of the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in January may have nothing to do with laptops, smartphones, or home gizmos. During the show, Ford will reportedly announce a partnership with Google to build The news comes mere days after Ford announced it would start testing its own fleet of
A decision on a request by the U.S. government for the extradition of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is scheduled for Wednesday in a court in Auckland, New Zealand. The Courts of New Zealand information service said through its Twitter account that a decision in the case will be delivered Wednesday by District Court Judge Nevin Dawson. Dotcom has held that he was running a cloud storage firm like any other, and had made efforts to remove infringing content. He and three colleagues, and two companies including the file-sharing site Megaupload, were indicted by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia in January 2012. They were charged with engaging in a racketeering conspiracy, conspiring to commit copyright infringement and money laundering, and two substantive counts of criminal copyright infringement, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
An experiment by a cybersecurity research center shows attackers are trying to find Juniper firewalls that haven't been patched to remove unauthorized spying code. The SANS Internet Storm Center set up a honeypot -- a term for a computer designed to lure attackers in order to study their techniques -- that mimicked a vulnerable Juniper firewall. The honeypot was configured so that it appeared to run ScreenOS, the operating system of the affected Juniper firewalls, wrote Johannes Ullrich, CTO of the Internet Storm Center, on Monday in a
The holidays are stressful enough. Use your Chromecast to bring a little Christmas cheer.
The fight over LTE networks using the same frequencies as Wi-Fi may be headed toward a peaceful resolution at last. Powerhouses of the wireless world that have clashed over LTE in unlicensed spectrum are now committed to creating tests for whether these new types of networks can coexist with Wi-Fi. Those tests may be ready to go in February. Powerful mobile vendors including Qualcomm and Ericsson are pushing gear that would let carriers put LTE signals on unlicensed channels now used by Wi-Fi. Carriers including Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile USA and SK Telecom want to use those technologies, which would give already licensed operators a way to boost network speed without buying more frequencies.
The FAA's new The drone registration requirement was
Security issues have long bedeviled users of Oracle's Java SE, and on Monday the FTC's efforts to address the problem finally came to fruition. Oracle has agreed to settle “When a company’s software is on hundreds of millions of computers, it is vital that its statements are true and its security updates actually provide security for the software,” said Jessica Rich, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.
Cortana for Android users are expressing their frustration after Microsoft turned off the app’s “Hey Cortana” voice activation feature on Sunday. While reviewers are frustrated that they can’t activate Microsoft’s virtual assistant using just their voice, it seems that the feature’s removal was actually done to mitigate a bug. In other words, people who wanted to talk to their phones using both “OK Google” and “Hey Cortana” weren’t able to. Running Google Now and Cortana side-by-side may seem strange, but Google’s voice-activated search can work inside any app. There’s also the matter of Cortana using Bing as its default search engine—people who prefer to use Google for finding stuff on the Web may want to have the option of using both assistants.
A live demonstration of broadcast 4K television is planned to take place in Las Vegas in January at the Consumer Electronics Show. The broadcast will utilize ATSC 3.0, the next-generation version of the U.S. TV broadcasting standard, and be sent from a Sinclair Broadcasting transmitter near Las Vegas to televisions at the show. ATSC 3.0 uses an IP data stream, so it's much more flexible than current broadcast standards. Using the system, broadcasts can simultaneously send several video streams of varying bandwidths and additional data streams. Video will be encoded using scalable, high-efficiency video coding (SHVC), which is based on the new H.265 compression and the broadcasts will also include HDR (high dynamic range) data. That allows compatible TVs to display darker blacks, brighter whites and more vibrant colors.
