Amazon Echo, the e-commerce site’s ambitious, but flawed voice-controlled Bluetooth speaker is now available for pre-order in the US. The device had a soft launch earlier this year, and was only available by invite only. After a few months and some much-needed improvements to the Alexa-powered device, that barrier to entry has finally lowered. If you live in the US, Amazon is now accepting pre-orders for the device, which runs
Lenovo has made good on its promise to release a Compute Stick of its own to compete with Intel by announcing the ideacentre Stick 300. Labeled as an affordable personal computer that fits in the palm of your hand, Lenovo’s first stick PC can practically turn any display into a computer for media consumption, web browsing, video calls and more. All the ideacentre Stick 300 needs to hook up to
If you’ve been experiencing stuttering or lagging playing the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight, don’t rip off your Bat Cape in anger just yet: it may be fixable with a simple tweak. As it turns out, the caped crusader’s latest outing has launched with a 30FPS limit, which can be removed by editing the settings file located in the directory folder below: “STEAM_INSTALL_FOLDERBatman Arkham KnightBmGameConfigBmSystemSettings.ini” Once you’re in there,
1. Download the tools While Microsoft Windows doesn’t have that much in common with the version of Linux that runs on the Raspberry Pi, it doesn’t mean Windows users are at a disadvantage. This is because the types of applications that run on Windows are just as diverse, and it’s an operating system that can lend itself to so many different uses, that the do-everything attitude behind Windows is just
Android M release date, news and features It’s been a whole year since Android Lollipop was announced at IO 2014, so it’s about time Google took to the stage and announced its successor – and thankfully it’s done just that. Say hello to Android M, the latest mobile platform from Google, where thousands of bugs have been squashed and a new layer of polish and quality has been applied. We
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By Sarah N. Lynch and Joseph Menn WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – U.S. securities regulators are investigating a group of hackers suspected of breaking into corporate email accounts to steal information to trade on, such as confidential details about mergers, according to people familiar with the matter. The Securities and Exchange Commission has asked at least eight listed companies to provide details of their data breaches, one of the people said.
It is up to the United States to create conditions to resume regular talks on cyber security, China’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday, as the two countries began three days of high-level meetings in Washington. Cyber security has long been an irritant in relations between China and the United States, despite robust economic ties, worth $590 billion in two-way trade last year. An attack on the U.S. government’s Office of
The agency that houses the U.S. Constitution and other important historical documents has found signs of unauthorized computer activity similar to the recently disclosed hack of federal employment records, according to a report on federal technology publication nextgov.com. The National Archives and Records Administration found signs that files were moved around, although there was no evidence that hackers took administrative control of its computer systems, nextgov.com said in its report
By Euan Rocha WATERLOO, Ontario (Reuters) – BlackBerry Ltd shares fell on Tuesday on uncertainty about what drove growth in the company’s crucial software segment in the first quarter. Shares were off 1.1 percent after jumping in premarket trading as BlackBerry earnings report touted a 150 percent increase in software and licensing revenues. BlackBerry said two licensing deals, with Cisco Systems Inc and a second, unnamed company, made “significant contributions,”