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The sun has finally set on Sunrise, Microsoft’s popular calendar app. Microsoft discontinued the service on Tuesday after bringing many of its features to its iOS and Android apps, both of which have been updated. As of today, your Sunrise calendar will stop updating, the Sunrise team wrote in a farewell post. On Wednesday, Sunrise users will be logged out of their accounts. However, all of the information will still be available on the original platform—iOS, Android, Outlook—that Sunrise ran on top of. “This is definitely the end of an era,” the Sunrise team
Another solid indicator has popped up that Google’s forthcoming phones will bear Pixel branding. A The new Pixel Launcher reworks the home screen’s performance in a few noticeable ways: It replaces the omnipresent Google search bar with a pull-out tab that takes you into Google Now. There’s also a date widget that, for now at least, you can’t replace.
Cinephiles rejoice: Sony's rolling out a new system update (codenamed Shingen) to the But the biggest feature addition is HDR support, which Sony says will roll out to every single PlayStation 4 unit, including the original devices sold in 2013. If you’re not familiar with HDR, it’s a new technology that allows for richer and more numerous colors on your television. Read our
Smart door locks, padlocks, thermostats, refrigerators, wheelchairs and even solar panel arrays were among the internet-of-things devices that fell to hackers during the IoT Village held at the DEF CON security conference in August. A month after the conference ended, the results are in: 47 new vulnerabilities affecting 23 devices from 21 manufacturers were disclosed during the IoT security talks, workshops and onsite hacking contests. The types of vulnerabilities found ranged from poor design decisions like the use of plaintext and hard-coded passwords to coding flaws like buffer overflows and command injection. Door locks and padlocks from vendors like Quicklock, iBlulock, Plantraco, Ceomate, Elecycle, Vians, Lagute, Okidokeys, Danalock were found to be vulnerable to password sniffing and replay attacks, where a captured command can be replayed later to open the locks.
Smart lighting is a tantalizing idea, but many models require an up-front investment in “starter packs” that usually require an additional piece of hardware beyond the light bulbs themselves. These devices—known as a gateway, hub or bridge—often price smart bulbs out of the grasp of many potential users. TP-Link is joining a small list of smart light bulb companies offering products that are trying to change that. TP-Link recently announced the
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What’s more interesting to me though, on this anniversary, is looking at how PC gaming’s changed in that same time.
Autonomous cars need a new kind of horsepower to identify objects, avoid obstacles and change lanes. There’s a good chance that will come from graphics processors in data centers or even the trunks of cars. With this scenario in mind, Nvidia has built two new GPUs—the Tesla P4 and P40—based on the Pascal architecture and designed for servers or computers that will help drive autonomous cars. In recent years, Tesla GPUs have been targeted at supercomputing, but they are now being tweaked for deep-learning systems that aid in correlation and classification of data. “Deep learning” typically refers to a class of algorithmic techniques based on highly connected neural networks—systems of nodes with weighted interconnections among them.
Favored status for Apple iPhones and iPads on Cisco Systems networks starts Tuesday, giving users better Wi-Fi roaming, integrated VoIP calls and priority for the most important business apps. The benefits that the two companies The companies are rolling out several features on Tuesday. They’re available now to customers that upgrade to iOS 10 on devices and AireOS WLC 8.3 software on wirelss LANs. By the end of October, all current Cisco and Meraki WLANs will have the features.
The modern world has a messaging problem: There are just too darn many apps and almost no one can get away with using just one. In many ways, we’re right back where we were in the late ’90s and early aughts before apps like Adium and Digsby consolidated AOL, Google Talk, MSN, and Yahoo into one window. Making matters worse this time around, many of today’s chat apps aren’t third-party friendly. Even if a chat platform doesn’t like third parties, many do have web apps, and that’s where a useful new Chrome app called This Chrome app brings all those different messaging services into one place on your desktop with a tab for each. It’s not like the days of old where all your messaging contacts were in one list regardless of platform, but it still works. Since this is a Chrome web app it can also be pinned to your taskbar or launched from the Start menu independent of the Chrome browser.
Dubbed "Geneva," the new skill works with any connected GE or Monogram appliance, including refrigerators, dishwashers, wall ovens, ranges, laundry and more.
The most well-stocked arsenal of productivity tools won’t help you get a single thing done if you can’t overcome your own inertia. That’s why a number of developers have started gamifying their apps. Study after study has shown that adding game mechanics to activities motivates participation and increases engagement. No wonder then that productivity apps have been eager adopters of these techniques. Here are four that put the fun in getting things done. The only thing more challenging than managing email overload is deciding on the best method to do so. While there are many effective techniques and assistant apps, each has its own learning curve.