In 2008, netbooks sparked a PC-buying frenzy as hundreds of low-power laptops were available for as little as $150. But those days are long gone, and low-cost PCs—particularly with Windows—are becoming scarce. As the overall PC market shrinks, mobile devices have replaced low-cost PCs for many users. Those who are looking for a new PC more often than not are interested in a high-quality machine; buyers of low-cost PCs are currently in the minority. It will be possible to find low-cost laptops, just not as many as in the last few years. You’ll find the best deals with Chromebooks—which are like netbooks—but they had just 2.8 percent of the overall market share through the third quarter of last year. Chromebooks have Chrome OS and are for Web-based computing.
Samsung’s gold smartwatch might be heading to our shores soon. The company While Samsung didn’t announce a specific price, it’s It’s significantly cheaper than a
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Microsoft’s Cortana virtual assistant is digging deeper into users’ email accounts in hopes of creating more useful reminders. With the latest Windows 10 Insider build, Cortana will scan for commitments that users make via email, and then offer to create a reminder. For instance, emailing “I’ll get you this report by the end of the day” to your boss will create a reminder card in Cortana’s main menu. As
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If secretive new hardware from the big dogs in PC graphics gets your mouth watering, the VRLA virtual reality event in Los Angeles was the place to be this weekend. Both Nvidia and AMD were at the event, showing off unreleased VR-related gear to attendees. The most surprising appearance came from Nvidia, which whipped out a more refined prototype of the Light Field Display prototype headset that was
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Twitter is facing the exit of key managers, even as the company struggles with flagging growth in its user base. CEO Jack Dorsey said in “All four will be taking some well-deserved time off. I’m personally grateful to each of them for everything they’ve contributed to Twitter and our purpose in the world,” wrote Dorsey in the message.
If it’s one thing this world doesn’t need more of, it’s fitness trackers. And yet, here’s HTC, the struggling Taiwanese smartphone maker, using Under Armour as the bait for it’s very first wearable device. The wearable is called the UA Band and it is the second iteration of the fitness band HTC
Like real footprints, your digital tracks leave a record of where you’ve been and what you’ve done. They show your searches, what you bought, which sites you visited, and the opinions you’ve expressed on social media. Many for-profit companies, both legitimate and criminal, can make a profit out of knowing you better. Governments also like to get into the act. So it’s a good idea to get control of your digital footprint.
Facebook is setting up a data center in Clonee, Ireland, which will be its sixth in the world and its second outside the U.S. The new data center will be equipped with servers and storage from the Open Compute Project, a Facebook initiative that shares designs as open source with other data center operators to standardize and drive down the costs of equipment. "We will outfit this data center with the latest OCP server and storage hardware, including Yosemite for compute," Facebook's Vice President of Engineering, Jay Parikh said
A years-long campaign of seemingly disparate cyberattacks against Tibetan and Uyghur activists likely comes from a single group of hackers, according to a The computer security company also concluded that the information stolen by the group, nicknamed Scarlet Mimic, would be of little interest to entities other than a nation-state. "The majority of attacks we identified were targeting Uyghurs or Tibetans or advocates thereof," Olson said. Several other security companies, including Kaspersky Lab and Trend Micro, and
The story goes that in the 1890s, William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer led the United States of America to war—not as generals, nor presidents nor members of congress, but as newspaper owners. Hungry for ever-more-outrageous stories, the At least, that’s how the story goes. It’s a piece of history that's half-truth, half-apocryphal; a story to make Hearst or Pulitzer proud. But that anyone believes it—well, that speaks to the power wielded by the media, that people could believe a newspaper led the United States to war.