Thursday, August 20, 2015

Dell's latest tablet is designed for war zones

If your typical day involves saving someone's life or trekking around a glacier, a regular tablet may be a bit... dainty. That's why Dell has just buttressed its Rugged series with a brand new model, the Latitude 12 Rugged Tablet. The company is pitc...

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Friday, July 24, 2015

Samsung brings 2TB solid-state drives to your home PC

You no longer have to bend over backwards to get more than a terabyte of fast, flash-based storage in your home computer. Samsung is shipping 2TB versions of its 850 Evo and 850 Pro solid-state drives, giving you as much capacity as a decent-sized sp...

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Samsung adds huge 2TB SSDs to its 850 Evo and 850 Pro families

Expensive drives double the capacity of current consumer SSDs.

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Sunday, July 19, 2015

Meet the GoPro Hero4 Session: a tiny camera with big shoes to fill

That camera you see above is the GoPro Hero4 Session, the fifth and newest member to the company's current line-up. You can't have avoided noticing that the Hero4 Session is a small black square, and not the traditional silver matchbox, or gray lump ...

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Saturday, July 18, 2015

Watch people from miles away with Nikon’s astonishing 83× 2000mm superzoom camera

Now anyone can be a paparazzo.

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Tuesday, July 14, 2015

“EPIC” fail—how OPM hackers tapped the mother lode of espionage data

Two separate "penetrations" exposed 14 million people's personal info.

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At last, the Raspberry Pi mini PC has an official case

There's no question that the Raspberry Pi is successful among the homebrew computing crowd. However, it's not what you'd call consumer-friendly -- the bare circuit board you normally get is clearly intended for tinkerers who plan to put the mini PC i...

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CloudPlayer streams your music from Dropbox and Google Drive

DoubleTwist has released a media player separate from its main product, and this one can stream music straight from various cloud services. Aptly named CloudPlayer, the app links to your Dropbox, OneDrive and Google Drive accounts all at once to acce...

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Microsoft stealthily backs away from free Windows 10 promise

We thought this would happen.

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Monday, July 13, 2015

Here’s how to get Windows 10 for free even if you don’t have Windows 7 or 8

And you'll need to take action if you want to keep getting Windows betas.

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Sunday, July 12, 2015

Watch the first full-color HD videos of Earth from space

It's no longer a challenge to get astonishingly sharp photos of the Earth from space, but video? That's another matter. UrtheCast is about to open the floodgates, however. It just released the first batch of full-color, high-definition video of Earth...

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Encryption “would not have helped” at OPM, says DHS official

Attackers had valid user credentials and run of network, bypassing security.

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LDS App: Book of Mormon Promises

Jacob Burdis has released the LDS Book of Mormon Promises mobile app that shows the promises made to us in the Book of Mormon. The promises are searchable by what we promise to do and by what God promises us. This free app is a great tool for personal study, talk and lesson preparation, or finding […]

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Planes take to the runway in a glorious 8K 360-degree video

We haven't even had a chance to fill our homes with 4K TVs and already YouTube is moving on to 8K. To get an early jump on the coming wave of mega-high resolution videos, Dubai360 says that it has posted the world's first 8K 360-degree video. World's...

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Friday, July 10, 2015

Nickelodeon is now streaming to the Roku platform

Nickelodeon announced Thursday that its popular streaming app is now available on Roku-enabled devices and televisions. The Nick App (which is already available on the App Store, Google Play, Amazon and Xbox 360) delivers full episodes of the network...

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Thursday, July 9, 2015

YouTube has an 8K video (that almost no one can watch)

The equipment to shoot it might not exactly be widespread, and the displays needed to view it at home are even less so, but 8K video has made its way to YouTube. It's a feature the outfit announced way back in 2010, but only just recently did a clip ...

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Friday, June 12, 2015

Google's making high-res video on Chrome suck less

Trying to make YouTube's new super-high-res 4K 60fps video work? Good luck with that! Not only does such video require very fast internet, but also a super-charged computer. Google's new VP9 video codec helps with the connection speed part, but to ma...

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Thursday, June 11, 2015

VR game 'SMS Racing' trivializes texting while driving

Texting while driving is against the law and it can put you and other people on the road in serious danger. That can't be understated. However, when it's your main objective when playing a virtual reality racing game, it can also be seriously good fu...

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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Mobile Apps Created by LDS Members

Below is a list of LDS mobile apps that your family may enjoy. They were created by members and are not sponsored by the Church. They are all available on public websites or App Store sites. These are the apps that were submitted in the 2014 Gospel App & Game Contest. They represent a variety […]

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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Microsoft teams up with edX to offer free online IT classes

EdX is no stranger to teaming up with tech organizations to offer online courses, and previous partners include the Linux Foundation and even Google. Now, it's Microsoft's turn to join forces with the online learning platform. The company says its co...

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