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  • HTC announces flagship One M10 under a different name on April 11

    HTC announces flagship One M10 under a different name on April 11

    Spanish resource 4gnews announced a fresh batch of information about upcoming flagship smartphone HTC One M10, also known under the code name HTC Perfume. As we mentioned earlier, HTC One M10 will probably skip the MWC 2016. Source confirms this information, and according to new data, the announcement will take place not even in March…

  • February 10 in history: start Adobe Photoshop, the chess computer Deep Blue, the premiere of the Pentium III processor

    February 10 in history: start Adobe Photoshop, the chess computer Deep Blue, the premiere of the Pentium III processor

    10 February 1990, Adobe released the first version of Photoshop for the Apple Macintosh. Initially, the program called Image Pro, and was supported by Thomas Knoll, but in 1988 it was bought by Adobe Systems and was renamed in Photoshop. The first commercial version was called Barneyscan XP, it was released in 1989 and comes…

  • Crooks Don’t Need a Fancy Skimmer: They Can Just Tap an ATM’s Network Cable

    Crooks Don’t Need a Fancy Skimmer: They Can Just Tap an ATM’s Network Cable

    Not all ATM attacks need an elaborate skimmer. There’s a new kind of crime doing the rounds, which involves hijacking the ethernet cable of an ATM to gather your card information. Krebs on Security reports that NCR—the technology company that makes many of the pay-points and ATMs you use every day—has issued a warning about…

  • New York’s Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant Is Leaking, But You Shouldn’t Freak Out

    New York’s Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant Is Leaking, But You Shouldn’t Freak Out

    Buchanan New York’s Indian Point Energy Center, a three-unit reactor power plant, reported yesterday afternoon that radioactive tritium has been detected in groundwater testing wells near the facility. Three groundwater monitoring wells surrounding the plant have reported radioactive samples. Despite the discovery at the site, the risk to the public in this instance is low:…

  • A New Bill Could Stop State-Level Encryption Bans

    A New Bill Could Stop State-Level Encryption Bans

    Some very important people think encryption is a very bad thing, which could have serious ramifications at all political levels. But at least a pair of Representatives want to stop such rumblings from becoming a problem at the state level. The Verge reports that Representatives Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Blake Farenthold (R-TX) will today propose…

  • iRobot is Selling Their Military Robotics Division to Focus On Cute House Cleaners

    iRobot is Selling Their Military Robotics Division to Focus On Cute House Cleaners

    Robot manufacturer iRobot announced on Thursday that they would be selling off their military line of robots to Arlington Capital Partners to be spun off into a new company, in order to better focus on the growing market for home robotics. iRobot is famous for their home cleaning robot, the Roomba, as well as the…

  • Toshiba introduced smart glasses Wearvue TG-01 for business

    Toshiba introduced smart glasses Wearvue TG-01 for business

    Toshiba introduced smart glasses Wearvue TG-01. The model focuses not on regular users and on the business environment and manufacturing. By design, this gadget can come in handy in factories, logistics centers, railway companies, airports, medical centers, retail stores and the like. Wearvue Toshiba TG-01 are worn like normal glasses, the weight of the gadget…

  • A Chinese Consortium Plans to Buy Opera—for $1.2 Billion

    A Chinese Consortium Plans to Buy Opera—for $1.2 Billion

    How much would you pay for an unpopular browser? If you were a group of Chinese companies you’d probably think somewhere in the region of, oooh, $1.2 billion ought to do it. The Financial Times reports that the Norwegian browser company has received an offer of $1.2 billion for its takeover. The potential deal is…

  • Golden layout Samsung Galaxy S7 appeared on the photo

    Golden layout Samsung Galaxy S7 appeared on the photo

    Spanish resource Pisapapeles shared interesting photos of the upcoming smartphone Samsung Galaxy S7, which has not yet been officially presented. Note that the photos are realistic demo layout created for manufacturers of covers and promotional materials, not polnofunktsionalnyi smartphone. Nevertheless, they provide an opportunity to review the design, including confirmed by the almost complete absence…

  • How to Watch Super Bowl 50 Online 

    How to Watch Super Bowl 50 Online 

    It can be a pain in the ass to stream live sports, but this year’s Super Bowl 50 will be easy to watch on February 7, even without a cable subscription. This is a fantastic innovation, because it means cordcutters will spend less time agonizing over how to watch the Denver Broncos play the Carolina…