Technology

Microsoft has come under fire in the past for some of its advertising practices and pop-ups related to Windows 10, but the company isn’t planning to back down from these endeavors. The company is now pushing advertisements for what it calls the Personal Shopping Assistant for Chrome (provided you use …

The stronger OS X (now macOS) security model and lower market share used to mean it was of no interest to malware creators. It’s still not exactly a major target, but running a Mac without antivirus protection is getting increasingly risky. Case in point: A new piece of malware has …

There’s some good news for privacy-minded individuals who haven’t been fond of Microsoft’s data collection policy with Windows 10. When the upcoming Creators Update drops this spring, it will overhaul Microsoft’s data collection policies. Terry Myerson, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Windows and Devices Group, has published a blog post with …

Back in June, China debuted the world’s fastest supercomputer, the Sunway TaihuLight (pictured), with a Linpack benchmark result of 93 petaflop/s. That machine contains 40,960 locally developed ShenWei processors, each with 260 cores and roughly comparable with Intel’s Knight’s Landing Xeon Phi CPU. China also developed a 136GB/sec memory controller …

Yesterday, Mozilla, the nonprofit organization behind Firefox, announced its new “brand experience” and visual guidelines. I’m not going to argue that branding doesn’t matter — after all, people love to argue that marketing doesn’t matter, yet decades of research into consumer buying habits and how people respond to advertising have …

The saga of hacks made on Samsung’s popular SmartCam security cameras are a perfect illustration of why your network defense must start with a well-managed firewall. It has become impossible to rely on IoT device makers to create completely secure devices, and unworkable to have to keep them all up to date …

Adult coloring book apps are all the rage, and now Disney’s getting in on that action, too. The company has today released its own take on the genre with the launch of the Color by Disney mobile application, and app that lets wannabe artists practice their skills by coloring in templates featuring …

No one has really cared about ATT’s 2G network for years now, but it’s always been there if you needed it for some reason. That’s no longer the case as of January 1st, which is when ATT says it pulled the plug on 2G (EDGE) data in the US. It …

No single OS feature touches more users than Windows Update. That alone should be enough incentive for Microsoft to make sure it works nearly perfectly. But time and time again, problems crop up, sometimes for millions of users at once. Some features, like transparency and user control, have even been going …

A streaming service for stand-up comedy called Laugh.ly, which publicly launched this past August, has now closed on $2.25 million in seed funding led by New York Angels, the company announced today. Available for both iOS and Android devices, Laugh.ly is the first to offer an extensive library of comedians’ stand-up …