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Saturday September 22, 2018. 11:51 AM
Alex Jones' Infowars has found itself cut off from yet another platform. Having been booted from social media sites including Twitter and Facebook, as well as YouTube and the App Store, PayPal has now given it the elbow. The online payment service has taken exception to...
Friday September 21, 2018. 07:29 PM
Why don’t more desktop computer users use Linux? Well, software compatibility aside, there is fear of change and the unknown. For a user to switch from Windows, it must be a fairly simple affair. For years, just installing a Linux-based operating system was a daunting...
After a series of betas, the OnePlus 6 now has Android 9.0 Pie. OnePlus has released the Pie-based OxygenOS 9.0 and it's rolling out to handsets now. But while OnePlus 6 owners will be excited at the prospect of getting their hands on a stable version of Android Pie, there's ...
Three-hundred-and-one in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 on the Windows Store in the past seven days. Microsoft revealed the features that are deprecated or removed in Windows 10 version 1809, the...
We've all seen them on news websites, at the bottom of pages or lurking in side bars, those 'Promoted stories' with cheesy headlines like, 'What she looks like now will amaze you!' Well, it perhaps won't surprise you to learn that most people don't like them. A study by...
Microsoft has announced that Skype is coming to a range of Alexa devices. At its hardware event yesterday, Amazon revealed the updated Echo Show with integrated Skype, but later this year voice-activated Skype calling will be landing on other Alexa devices. The feature will...
Thursday September 20, 2018. 09:17 PM
Amazon’s surprise hardware event in Seattle today revealed a lot of new Alexa-powered devices, but it’s the Fire TV Recast that will be of most interest to a lot of users. It’s a new companion DVR that lets you watch, record, and replay free over-the-air TV programming ...
At its surprise reveal today, Amazon took the wraps off an Alexa-powered microwave, a smart plug, and a whole host of other devices. It also announced updates to its Echo Dot, Echo Plus and Echo Show products, with improved audio and the nicer, fabric look Amazon introduced...
At its surprise event today, Amazon revealed a new smart plug which lets you control home appliances with Alexa. It doesn’t actually come with an Echo -- or microphones -- built in, but that’s to be expected given it will sell for just $25 (which is pretty much on par...
Amazon hosted a surprise event today in Seattle where it took the wraps of a whole raft of Echo products. One of the weirdest devices it revealed is an Alexa-powered microwave with a built-in Dash button that will allow you to order popcorn should you run out -- prefect for...
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive -- better known as CS:GO -- is one of the most popular multiplayer first-person shooters of all time. What makes the game so great is its meager system requirements -- it can run on many computers. In other words, it isn't very taxing,...
Small businesses are just as vulnerable to cyber threats as larger ones, but often they have few resources to devote it IT security. With the launch of its next generation of Kaspersky Small Office Security, Kaspersky Lab aims to offer smaller businesses protection from...
Businesses of all sizes are dependent on wireless networks, but for smaller organizations the costs of deploying and managing a suitably fast and secure can be prohibitive. Networking specialist Linksys is launching its new Cloud Manager, a cloud-hosted Wi-Fi management...
A new report from risk rating organization SecurityScorecard finds that the retail industry is the second lowest performer in terms of application security. SecurityScorecard continually monitors more than 200,000 businesses across the world and the report compares the...
Ever since Microsoft introduced Windows 10, which allowed users more insight and control over their privacy, the concern that Windows and other third-parties gather too much information has been growing. Although Microsoft increased the transparency of privacy policies that...
Let's say you would like to leave the most anonymous comment in the world on a social network. What do you need for this? VPN? Tor? SSH tunnel? No, it's enough to go to the Internet café, create a mail address, register on the site and write your message. You coped with the ...
Working from home has long had a stereotype image of people sitting around in their pajamas drinking coffee while logged into the office computer but not doing very much actual work. But new research from remote access tool LogMeIn, shows 46 percent of UK workers feel the...
Google has expanded Android's Emergency Location Service to more people in the US, making it easier for emergency services to locate people when responding to a 911 call out. Emergency Location Service (ELS) has been around in Android for a couple of years now, and it uses a ...
Just 15 lines of code was all it took for hackers to hijack the checkout of online retailer Newegg. The month-long attack took the form of a huge card skimming operation and is believed to have been carried out by the same group that was responsible for hacking both British...
Wednesday September 19, 2018. 07:47 PM
When it comes to upgrading an operating system, home users have plenty of flexibility. Whether running Windows, Mac, or a Linux-based OS, moving to the latest and greatest should be a fairly uneventful affair. For businesses, however, bleeding edge is hardly ideal. After...
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