Thursday, February 9, 2017

Verizon might buy Charter, which just bought Time Warner Cable and other top stories.

  • Verizon might buy Charter, which just bought Time Warner Cable

    Verizon might buy Charter, which just bought Time Warner Cable
    Verizon is considering an acquisition of Charter, the United States' second largest cable company, according to The Wall Street Journal. The report says Verizon is “exploring” the idea, that the process is still early, and that a deal may not be ...
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  • That Old Phone Trump Uses for Twitter Could Be an Opening to Security Threats

    That Old Phone Trump Uses for Twitter Could Be an Opening to Security Threats
    Photo It is unclear what security measures have been put in place on President Trump’s smartphone. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times President Trump has carried his Twitter habit into his presidency. He has also brought with him another tech habit that is causing concern.Mr. Trump has been using his old, unsecured Android phone to post on Twitter since moving to Washington late last week.The president’s desire to use his old, personal smartphone raises concerns that..
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  • Galaxy S7 Nougat Update Brings Samsung Pay App To India

    Galaxy S7 Nougat Update Brings Samsung Pay App To India
    Galaxy S7 Nougat Update Brings Samsung Pay App To India The Android 7.0 Nougat update for the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 Edge in India is apparently shipping with the Samsung Pay app, which implies that Samsung will soon launch its mobile payments service in the country. Rumors from last December suggested that Samsung Pay will be introduced in India by the first half of 2017. On Thursday, Samsung started rolling out the Android 7.0 Nougat update for the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 Edg..
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  • Facebook appoints Xiaomi exec Hugo Barra to head VR business

    Facebook appoints Xiaomi exec Hugo Barra to head VR business
    Facebook has appointed Xiaomi executive Hugo Barra to lead its virtual reality initiatives, including the Oculus VR business that was acquired in 2014.The appointment was announced by company founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who said that Barra will lead all of Facebook's virtual reality efforts including the Oculus team.Facebook's decision to hire Barra as vice president of virtual reality may have been influenced in part by his exposure to the Chinese market, which is forecast by IDC to a..
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  • Apple thinks different about AI, will cooperate with others

    Apple thinks different about AI, will cooperate with others
    Apple’s alleged decision to join competitors on the Partnership on A.I. research group shows it now understands that artificial intelligence can only succeed if competitors find some ways to work together. Walled garden fail There are lots of different technologies that contribute to A.I. Machine intelligence, sensor development, voice recognition, security and biometrics, pattern matching, neural networking and so many more. The challenge is that as we witness the emergence of what seems..
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  • Windows 10 Game Mode: Free FPS boost of a few percent, with more to come

    Windows 10 Game Mode: Free FPS boost of a few percent, with more to come
    reader comments 75 Earlier this month, Microsoft confirmed that the Windows 10 Creators Update coming later this year would include a new feature called "Game Mode." Redmond is still being a bit coy about precisely what Game Mode will and won't do, but the picture has become a little clearer. We spoke to Kevin Gammill, partner group program manager for the Xbox platform, about what Game Mode was for and what to expect. The overarching goal is to make Windows 10 "the best operating system..
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  • Former Studio Ghibli talent is bringing Ni No Kuni 2 to the PC

    Former Studio Ghibli talent is bringing Ni No Kuni 2 to the PC
    Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom will release on PC day and date with the PS4 version later this year, which is a surprise considering the first game was a PS3 exclusive (but maybe we’ll get that now too).The news comes by way of an event hosted by Bandai Namco, during which I also got to see the game in motion, and goodness does it look nice. No surprise, really. Former Studio Ghibli talent is back on board with the sequel, driving its lovely animation and art direction. If the first game’s ba..
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  • Microsoft to continue to invest over $1 billion a year on cyber security

    Microsoft to continue to invest over $1 billion a year on cyber security
    TEL AVIV U.S. software firm Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) will continue to invest over $1 billion annually on cyber security research and development in the coming years, a senior executive said.This amount does not include acquisitions Microsoft may make in the sector, Bharat Shah, Microsoft vice president of security, told Reuters on the sidelines of the firm's BlueHat cyber security conference in Tel Aviv. "As more and more people use cloud, that spending has to go up," Shah said.While the number..
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