AUSTIN – Information security has never been more front and center than it is now. The recent hacking of the Democratic National Committee; the implications that Russia — a sovereign country — may have been deeply involved; the potential implication it had on a national election; and the accusations, difficulty …
Read More »Apple gives indie gamers a permanent home on the App Store
Breaking into the App Store can be difficult enough, but for small-time mobile game developers it’s even more of a challenge as they go up against billion-dollar, global publishers who dominate the top charts, like Supercell, Activision Blizzard, Niantic, EA, Tencent and others who can afford to invest millions in marketing budgets …
Read More »A US ally just shot down a $200 drone with a $3.4 million Patriot missile
The MIM-104 Patriot missile is a surface-to-air system that combines an advanced radar with an interceptor missile. First deployed in 1980 as an anti-aircraft weapon, ballistic missile interception capability was gradually added and enhanced throughout the 1980s and 1990s, though its success rate in conflicts like the first Gulf War …
Read More »Google’s search quality raters can now mark results as ‘offensive’
Google uses machines to scan the web and return relevant results for your search queries. Humans don’t often get involved in that process, but there are some things machines still aren’t good at. For example, evaluating the “quality” of a source. That’s why Google has a small army of humans …
Read More »Six months in, iMessage App Store growth slows as developers lose interest
When the iMessage App Store first launched, it was touted as the next big platform for apps – a new way for developers to gain users and make money, and was followed by an initial surge of iMessage app downloads. Now, however, the excitement is fading as is the app store’s growth. …
Read More »AMD announces, details its new Ryzen 5 mainstream CPU family
Ryzen 7’s debut just under three weeks ago clearly kicked off an upgrade cycle for AMD fans and potentially some Intel converts — in the three weeks we’ve been watching, the Ryzen 1800X, 1700X, and 1700 have all maintained spots in the Top 20, and typically the Top 15. With …
Read More »New GOP bill seeks to let ISPs sell your web history to advertisers
Quick: Name five people you’d love to show all the internet traffic that has ever gone through your router. Every page you and anyone else using your unsecured Wi-Fi ever visited, every ad ever served to you from any of those pages, how long you lingered on the pages you …
Read More »FBI charges Russian spies over Yahoo hack
When the news of Yahoo’s massive hack began to break last year — we can forgive you if you don’t remember which one that is, since there’ve been so many — the company attempted to perform damage control by claiming this was the work of foreign operatives. These claims were …
Read More »Google introduces Family Link, its own parental control software for Android
Google has just one-upped Apple on mobile in a significant way: today the company today announced the launch of Family Link, an application for parents that lets them establish a child’s first Google account, as well as utilize a series of parental controls to manage and track screen time, daily limits, device “bedtimes,” and …
Read More »Rumor: Nvidia’s Volta to be built on TSMC’s ‘new’ 12nm process
Nvidia’s Pascal GPU family has been tremendously successful, but the company is already looking ahead to a new architecture, codenamed Volta. Details on the chip are scarce, though Nvidia has previously given guidance that Volta would be its first HBM2 product and would feature a stacked memory architecture. Now, rumors …
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