The Rampant, Risky Babbling of Android Apps

Eurecom researchers recently developed an Android app that can monitor the network traffic of other apps to alert users of suspicious or malicious activity. With more than 1.2 million applications in the Google Play store, there are multiple programs for performing a particular task. That can make choosing an app a chore for users, they noted in a report released last month.

Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82076.html?rss=1

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Apple vs. Lenovo: Lenovo's Coming-Out Party

If there is one vendor on the planet that has the capability to fight Apple -- on paper, it is Lenovo. Lenovo this week will hold its annual Lenovo Tech World event in China, showcasing the company's new breadth. While it would be easy to position this as the U.S. against China, Lenovo is actually far more of a multinational company, with executives balanced between the U.S. and China.

Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82089.html?rss=1

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Hands-On: Dell Launches Venue 8 3000, Venue 8 7000, Venue 11 7000 With Core M, Tablets At Dell World

Dell just launched a trio of new tablets at its Dell World conference, currently taking place in Austin, Texas. One of the tablets, the sleek and ultra-thin Venue 8 7000, we’ve already shown you, because it was first unveiled by Michael Dell at IDF a couple of months back. But the other two are brand-new products that target...

Source: http://hothardware.com/news/Dell-Launches-Venue-8-3000-Venue-8-7000-and-Venue-11-7000-Series-Tablets-At-Dell-World/

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High court weighs Calif. effort to ban sale of violent video games to minors

Several Supreme Court justices strongly questioned during an animated argument Tuesday whether California's attempt to bar the sale of violent video games to minors could possibly meet constitutional muster.

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Origin EON15-X review: You'll find a desktop CPU in this laptop, and that's a good thing

It’s time to go Glengarry Glen Ross on dual-core processors in gaming laptops. As in, hey dual-core processor, I’ve got some bad news for you from downtown: Mitch and Murray said you’re fired because gaming laptops should go to closers. And yes, dual-core, you can’t close the deal on high-end gaming laptops anymore.

That’s why we have Origin PC’s EON15-X here. It’s a closer.

What makes it a closer? The desktop-grade Core i7-4790K CPU powering it. Yes, that’s none other than Intel’s Devil’s Canyon CPU. While most mobile gaming quad cores struggle to crack the 3GHz barrier, the Core i7-4790K in the EON150X cruises along at 4GHz and will Turbo up to 4.4GHz.

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Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro Hands-On Video Review: A Flexible, Capable Ultrabook

Lenovo's Yoga 3 Pro 2-in-1 ultrabook has made a bit of a splash as of late, from appearing in a number of holiday shopping-infused TV spots, to flash prank comparisons tricking unwitting mall shoppers into thinking they got framed for busting up a MacBook Air laptop. It's with good reason that Lenovo is making an effort to amplify interest

Source: http://hothardware.com/news/lenovo-yoga-3-pro-hands-on-video-review-a-flexible-capable-ultrabook/

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New iPad Battery Life

The new iPad has the same battery life as the iPad 2. This may strike some as peculiar because the iPad 3 has a new more highly-powered battery. However, although the battery does carry more juice, this is offset by the new features of the iPad 3 which require more power, for example the high-definition Retina display and the 4G connectivity. That said, the new iPad battery life is still perfectly reasonable and is suitable both for casual at-home use [...]

Source: http://tabletbuzzblog.com/new-ipad-battery-life/

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Smartphone use makes cellular networks' collapse a real possibility

The first thing to go might be your smartphone's connection to YouTube, with videos becoming increasingly choppy and then one day just failing to download. In your impatience, you decide to scout out the latest posts in the Twittersphere, except that, too, is temporarily down. Your e-mail is stal...

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Recover a stolen laptop, or prepare for the day your laptop is stolen

Sylvia Chepkurui asked, “Can I recover my stolen laptop using the serial number?”

Probably not, but having the serial number gives you at least some chance of recovery. Without it, even if the police find your laptop in a stash of stolen property, you would have no way of proving it’s yours.

And no, booting the computer, entering your password, and showing your files won’t work—unless it’s recovered in the first few hours after the theft. Stolen computers’ hard drives are almost always wiped clean of any record of the lawful owner.

[Have a tech question? Ask PCWorld Contributing Editor Lincoln Spector. Send your query to answer@pcworld.com.]

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How to extend the life of your laptop battery

Siddhartha Raval asked how to take care of a laptop battery so that it lasts a long time.

Batteries don't last forever. Like everything except diamonds and viral tweets, they eventually wear out. But with proper care, a laptop battery can still carry a sufficient charge until you're ready to move on to a better laptop.

But it's a tradeoff. Taking the best care of your laptop battery just may be more of a hassle than it's worth.

[Have a tech question? Ask PCWorld Contributing Editor Lincoln Spector. Send your query to answer@pcworld.com.]

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Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2690760/keep-your-laptop-battery-healthy.html#tk.rss_laptopcomputers

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AMD Radeon graphics run Witcher 3 just fine, unless Nvidia HairWorks is enabled--and that's OK

Despite suffering from occasional sub-30 frames per second stuttering on consoles, the PC version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt earned our stamp of approval for its gorgeous visuals, graphics settings galore, and far-superior-to-console frame rates. But even though the game ran at a fairly consistent 60fps at 1080p with mostly maxed-out settings on our reviewer’s GeForce GTX 970, we didn’t want to settle the issue there.

Why? Because The Witcher 3 features Nvidia’s proprietary GameWorks middleware technology—most notably HairWorks, which enables incredibly realistic hair. Social media has been full of widespread fears that HairWorks would hinder performance on AMD cards. With the PhysX-enabled Project CARS (which is not a GameWorks title) still running like crap on AMD hardware, some gamers are understandably skittish.

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Faster Forward: Xbox Kinect offers hands-free gaming in large living rooms

Microsoft's Xbox 360 video-game console got a little easier to use at 12:01 this morning. That's when the Redmond, Wash., firm began selling Kinect -- a clever accessory that takes the Xbox's controller out of the hands of gamers.

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Hands off tomorrow's Internet

We may soon see an Internet future less bright than we need.

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Apple Pay's latest US bank additions bring the total number to nearly 300

Apple has once again added more US banks and credit unions that currently support Apple Pay, bringing the total number of banks that use the payment service to nearly 200.

Today, the company added 34 new banks and credit unions in the US to its Apple Pay support list. Here are those new additions:

• 1st Financial Federal Credit Union
• Affinity Bank
• Bank of Springfield
• Berkshire Bank
• Box Elder Credit Union
• C&F Bank
• Centennial Bank
• Christian Community Credit Union
• Community First Credit Union of Florida
• Credit Union of Denver
• Denver Community Credit Union
• Education First Credit Union
• Educators Credit Union
• First City Credit Union
• First Premier Bank
• Freedom Credit Union
• NASA Federal Credit Union
• Numerica Credit Union
• Point Loma Credit Union
• PremierOne Credit Union
• Purdue Federal Credit Union
• Rivermark Community Credit Union
• Simmons First National Bank
• Star USA Federal Credit Union
• Summit Credit Union
• Synchrony Bank
• The Citizens Bank of Clovis
• UMe Federal Credit Union
• University Federal Credit Union
• Utah Power Credit Union
• Valor Credit Union
• Vermont Federal Credit Union
• WECU (Whatcom Educational Credit Union)
• WSECU (Washington State Employees Credit Union)

Customers at these banks can now use their credit card or debit card with their iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus to pay for items at retailers that also support Apple Pay, along with the Apple Watch. It's pretty easy to add your credit or debit card so that it will work with Apple Pay.

Source: Apple Pay

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Google's Driverless Cars to Leave the Nest

Google on Friday announced it will begin testing prototypes of its fully autonomous self-driving cars on public roads. The vehicles won't roam too far from their Mountain View, California, home -- but this latest phase of testing could be critical both for cultivating positive consumer perceptions, and influencing future legislation affecting the nascent sector.

Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/story/82064.html?rss=1

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Surface 3 review: This is the one worth recommending, though it’s no bargain

The Surface 3’s selling points can be summed up neatly: This is Microsoft’s basic Office machine, a cheaper alternative to the Surface Pro 3. Thanks to the new Surface’s Intel Atom chip and real Windows 8.1 (with an upgrade path to Windows 10), it offers decent battery life, with a processor sufficient to handle 1080p YouTube videos, Netflix streams, or basic games without batting an eye. 

As with any junior member of a product line, there are compromises. The biggest are its price—it not quite as inexpensive as it should be, for what you get; and the ergonomics, which make it less of a laptop replacement than the Surface Pro 3 clearly can be. 

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Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2910637/surface-3-review-a-junior-surface-pro-3-awkwardly-mixes-premium-and-low-end-parts.html#tk.rss_laptopcomputers

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Here's the first teaser trailer for the Steve Jobs movie!

That's the first teaser for the Steve Jobs movie, the one produced by Sony, written by Aaron Sorkin, Directed by Danny Boyle, and starring Michael Fassbender.

Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, the film takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.

Sorkin is best known for The West Wing, The Social Network, and most recently, The Newsroom. Michael Fassbender was young Mageneto in the last two X-Men movies. Danny Boyle directed Slum Dog Millionaire and Trainspotting, among other films.

We'll see how it all comes together on October 9, 2015. In the meantime, what do you think of the teaser?

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Apple, Yahoo Consider a Future, Despite Ties to Google, Microsoft

Apple has a deal with Google, and Yahoo has one with Microsoft. But that isn't stopping them from wondering how they might still work together.

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What to consider before buying technology this holiday season

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SILICON LABORATORIES SI INTERNATIONAL

Prime 'beachfront spectrum' for all - if Congress will help

You're probably reading this on junk. And I'm not talking about newsprint - industry woes aside, that's high-quality stuff. But if you're on a computer or an iPad, and you're not plugged into an Internet jack in the wall? Junk, then.

Source: http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=4d81747d271c682797e3f179bb8064a9

WESTERN DIGITAL VOLT INFORMATION SCIENCES

TV's future: FCC decisions on Internet access, Comcast-NBC merger approaching

America's beloved television is getting an extreme Internet makeover, and questions over what shows viewers will get online and how much they pay for them could soon be resolved by the Federal Communications Commission.

Source: http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=c661a3e47f915828af07c8157ee9705b

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