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Sony has often struggled to break into the U.S. market with its phones, and it’s latest moves are a textbook example why. The flagship Z5, which is already several months tardy in comparison to its launch in other countries, won’t have a fingerprint sensor when it comes stateside. To make it even less attractive, the retail price of $599 and $499 is higher than what you can track down on The
Businesses are rushing toward Windows 10 as fast as they can, but they simply need more time. To accommodate them, Microsoft is trying something different: creating a transitional list of PCs built on the latest Intel
When you post on Facebook or Twitter, watch a movie on Netflix, or play an online game, a server somewhere is powering it. Most of those servers today have central processing units from Intel. The chip maker is now preparing to release a plethora of server chips in the next three months. The highest-profile chips that will come later this quarter are the Xeon chips code-named Broadwell-EP for single- and dual-socket servers. The family of processors will be the latest in Intel's family of largest selling chips for high-volume servers. No details have been yet shared, but the chips will be based on Intel's Broadwell architecture. Expect the chips to be faster and have features so data moves faster in and between servers in data centers. The chips could have more cores, DDR4 memory and faster Ethernet networking support. The predecessor Haswell-EP chips had up to 18 cores.
Major automakers plan to work with the U.S. government to try to deter hacks of connected cars before they become a major issue. To date, there haven't been any major cyberattacks on cars, but a number of security researchers demonstrated potentially serious attacks in 2015, and that has the government worried. So the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is hoping it can get the auto industry to mirror proactive safety work that already takes place in the aviation industry. The agreement has been signed by all major automakers that operate in the U.S. "Real safety is finding and fixing defects before someone gets hurt, rather than just punishing after the damage is done," U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said Friday when he announced the initiative at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
Anti-virus firm Enigma Software has released a list of cities to avoid if you don’t want your PC to catch malware. Just kidding. There’s obviously no correlation between where you live and your risk of a computer infection. Still, some U.S. cities do appear to be far more malware-ridden than others in terms of infections per capita, according to Enigma’s analysis of more than 25 million infections across 150 cities. Little Rock Arkansas, for instance, saw infection rates that were a whopping
Hackers managed to compromise payment cards used at 250 Hyatt Hotels locations in around 50 countries after infecting the company’s payment processing systems with malware. Hyatt Most of the potentially compromised cards were used at restaurants in the affected locations, but a small percentage were used at spas, golf shops, parking systems, front desks and sales offices.
Fissures in the Bitcoin community appear to be turning to chasms, with one prominent developer abandoning the cryptocurrency for good. Mike Hearn, a longtime developer who often speaks about Bitcoin to the press and in presentations, “What was meant to be a new, decentralised form of money that lacked ‘systemically important institutions’ and ‘too big to fail’ has become something even worse: a system completely controlled by just a handful of people,” Hearn wrote. “Worse still, the network is on the brink of technical collapse. The mechanisms that should have prevented this outcome have broken down, and as a result there’s no longer much reason to think Bitcoin can actually be better than the existing financial system.”
If you’re connecting to servers over the secure shell (SSH) protocol using an OpenSSH client, you should update it immediately. The latest version patches a flaw that could allow rogue or compromised servers to read users’ private authentication keys. The vulnerability stems from an experimental feature known as roaming that allows SSH connections to be resumed. This feature has been enabled by default in OpenSSH clients since version 5.4, released in March 2010, but is not present in the OpenSSH server implementation. As a result only clients are affected. The vulnerability allows a server to read information from a connecting client’s memory, including its private keys. It has been fixed in OpenSSH 7.1p2,
This weekend Amazon is celebrating its Golden Globe wins for the series This is the second time Amazon has dropped the price for Prime memberships in recent months. In September, Amazon dropped the price of Prime to $67 after taking home five Emmys for
Apple hasn't completely fixed a weakness in Gatekeeper, its security technology that blocks harmful applications from being installed. Patrick Wardle, director of research with the company Wardle found he could still bypass
Google has made it easier for users of its Drive cloud storage product to move files into exactly the right folder and store them to find later. On Thursday, the company Another new icon will let people take the files they’re previewing and add them to their Drive, which is useful for doing things like filing away content shared through a Google Hangout.
Intel's goal for 2016 is simple: try to break its reliance on PCs. That's because the PC market isn't the money-spinner it once was for the chip maker. As desktop and laptop shipments fall, so also are Intel's overall chip shipments and revenue. To be sure, the Client Computing Group (CCG)-- which deals in PC and mobile chips -- remains Intel's largest business and generates the most revenue. But Intel is pivoting to adjacent growth markets such as data centers, the Internet of Things and memory, which the company hopes will ultimately provide revenue exceeding that of PCs. Intel's Data Center Group (DCG), IoT and memory divisions generated 40 percent of the company's revenue in the 2015 financial year. That will grow even more in 2016, said Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel, during a fourth quarter earnings call on Thursday.
Let 2016 be the year of cleaner smartphones and fewer notifications!
There are two types of people: Those who’ve heard of Think of Peach as a combination of Twitter and Slack, the popular chat and productivity app many companies now use to talk shop. You can broadcast thoughts to the world, like you do on Twitter (though Peach has no character limit), but the app also feels like a room scattered with GIFs and emojis, like your office Slack channel.