“Crowdfunded games” and “delays” go together like two peas in a dumpster the community would like to set on fire, so it should come as no surprise that Anyway, you’ll have to wait another month to start pulling levers, cranking gears, and decrypting codes. Cyan’s Ryan Warzecha
The TV you watch perhaps has an ARM processor chip in it. So does the Amazon Echo that helps switch on the lights and air-conditioner through voice commands. That's just a microcosm of how deep ARM goes in our daily lives. ARM's low-power chip designs have revolutionized mobile devices and are now powering smart home devices, smart meters, weather sensors, medical devices, and industrial equipment. ARM chips also are inside many sensor devices used in the fast-growing internet of things market. The company set itself up for growth in IoT with its dogged focus on low-power chips since the 1990s, and that vision has paid off with SoftBank announcing plans this week to buy ARM for a stunning US$32 billion.
Some of the intrusive techniques used by security, performance, virtualization and other types of programs to monitor third-party processes have introduced vulnerabilities that hackers can exploit. Researchers from data exfiltration prevention company enSilo found six common security issues affecting over 15 products when they studied how software vendors use ‘hooking’ to inject code into a process in order to intercept, monitor or modify the potentially sensitive system API (application programming interface) calls made by that process. Most of the flaws enSilo found allow attackers to easily bypass the anti-exploit mitigations available in Windows or third-party applications, allowing attackers to exploit vulnerabilities that they couldn’t otherwise or whose exploitation would have been difficult. Other flaws allow attackers to remain undetected on victims’ computers or to inject malicious code into any process running on them, the enSilo researchers said in a report sent via email that’s scheduled to be published Tuesday.
Another major music streaming service is landing in the U.S. Starting today, French music streaming service Deezer will be available to everyone across the United States. Unlike Spotify, however, Deezer is following services such as Apple Music and Tidal by offering a free 30-day trial rather than a dedicated free service tier. After that no-cost taste, prospective Deezer fans will have to pay $10 per month for the service. Deezer already has about 6 million subscribers in 180 countries, including some in the U.S. When the company purchased Cricket’s free Muve streaming service from AT&T in early 2015 it began servicing those customers directly. Deezer is also available on
Popular media library management service Cortana support allows you to ask Plex to play specific content on your Windows 10 device such as, “Hey Cortana, play Game of Thrones.” From your legally owned content library, of course.
Dutch researchers “In theory, this storage density would allow all books ever created by humans to be written on a single post stamp,” lead scientist Sander Otte said in a statement. The research, published today in the journal
We haven’t been covering The schedule’s been somewhat unpredictable, so other outlets have taken to writing “The next Elusive Target is live!” stories. That’s not our thing. But what
Got a thirst for more storage on your PC? Seagate has heard you and Tuesday morning introduced the world’s largest capacity consumer hard drive for desktop users. Of course, "performance hard drive" may sound like an oxymoron in this age of SSDs that can easily hit 1.5GBps read speeds, but all things considered, the 3.5-inch Barracuda Pro is still fairly peppy, with rated a 220MBps sustained transfer rate. Well, for a hard drive anyway.
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The best Android keyboard keeps getting better.
In order to differentiate themselves from Tinder, dating apps are now borrowing social and privacy features from another super-popular mobile service: Snapchat. On Tuesday, Coffee Meets Bagel optimized its user-experience to give women more control over their dating connections. On the same day, Zoosk launched Lively, a brand-new dating app that uses video profiles so you can get a more accurate portrayal of your potential dates. The Coffee Meets Bagel update is now available for both
Excel does its best to handle hyperlinks such as email addresses and URLs, even though they're incredibly awkward to shoehorn into spreadsheets. If you have only a few links in your spreadsheet, no problem. But hyperlinks use memory, and lots of hyperlinks in a spreadsheet, document, or email can slow your system to a crawl, crash the open file, or refuse to open the file (usually with a ‘not enough memory’ error message). Here are tricks you'll need to keep them under control. For example, no one has the time or desire to remove dozens of hyperlinks in a single spreadsheet, one at a time. While it's a two-step process in Word and Outlook (
