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Nvidia estimates that just 13M PCs in 2016 will have the graphics capabilities needed to run VR — Few Computers Are Powerful Enough to Support Virtual Reality — VR headsets are almost ready to hit stores, but less than 1 percent of PCs will be capable of running them.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Microsoft launched an iPhone selfie app to intelligently enhance your self-portraits — Microsoft made a selfie app for the iPhone — Microsoft's newest app for iOS isn't a piece of productivity software. No, it's a selfie app. Unambiguously called Microsoft Selfie …
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Microsoft News, Forbes, Gizmodo, GeekWire, ZDNet, SlashGear, Business Insider, The Next Web, RAPPLER, Tech News Today, Tapscape, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, Engadget, Digital Trends and Neowin. Tweets: @stevekovach
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Takeover of Brian Krebs' PayPal account illustrates why authentication via static identifiers (like SSN and DOB) is highly vulnerable to identity thieves — 2016 Reality: Lazy Authentication Still the Norm — My PayPal account was hacked on Christmas Eve.| Vivienne Walt / Fortune: |
How Amazon aims to conquer India, the next “trillion-dollar market” — Amazon Invades India — How Jeff Bezos aims to conquer the next “trillion-dollar market.” The inside story. — In the blistering heat one recent afternoon, a crowd of people gathered down a narrow side street …
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What to expect at CES 2016: virtual reality demos, smart home products, wearables, drones, and more — Here's what to expect at CES 2016 next week — It's officially a new year, which means that once we've shaken off the grogginess of a cheap alcohol-induced hangover …
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| Joshua Eaton / Christian Science Monitor: |
Phasing out of SHA-1 encryption means millions of people in developing world, where use of older devices and browsers is prevalent, will be at risk from hackers — Digital divide widens as the Web adopts stronger encryption standard — On New Year's Day, a change meant to strengthen online security … | Boyd Chan / Neowin: |
Jolla announces that some of its crowdfunding backers will not receive a tablet — Jolla announces that it is unable to fulfill all Jolla Tablet crowdfunding perks — Back in November, Jolla announced that it had hit hard times after a lead investor had pulled out of its November round of financing.
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
FCC: Internet speeds tripled from 10 Mbps in March 2011 to an average of 31 Mbps in September 2014, but US still ranks only 25th out of 39 nations surveyed — U.S. says its Internet speeds triple in three-and-a-half years — U.S. Internet connection speeds have tripled over 3-1/2 years …
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| Andrii Degeler / Ars Technica: |
Yandex worker stole search engine source code, tried selling for just $28K — Dmitry Korobov has received a suspended sentence of two years in jail. — An employee of Russia's Internet giant Yandex, Dmitry Korobov, stole the source code of its search engine and tried to sell it on the black market …
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| Nathan Donato-Weinstein / bizjournals: |
Sources: Yahoo looking to sell 48.6-acre property in Santa Clara that it bought in 2006 for $106M — Exclusive: Yahoo putting huge Santa Clara development site up for sale — For years, even as Yahoo's growth stalled, executives had this message for would-be suitors of its real estate: Thanks, but no thanks.| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Some Wall Street analysts predict an end of iPhone sales growth, shrinking iPad sales, and a tough year ahead for Apple — Apple is going to have a tough year — Suddenly, things aren't looking great for Apple in the near term. — Let's briefly run down why:| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
As Microsoft and Corel battle in patent lawsuits, EFF notes the absurdity of one Microsoft design patent, for a slider — Microsoft patents a slider, earning EFF's “Stupid Patent of the Month” award — The patent is ammo in a battle between MS Word and Corel's WordPerfect.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, PC Magazine, NDTV Gadgets360.com, SiliconANGLE, TeleRead, Techdirt, WinBeta, ZDNet, Boing Boing, SlashGear, Petri, WMPoweruser, The Register and Neowin. Tweets: @harrymccracken
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