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Dc5m United States IT in English Created at 2016-10-06 18:37 Announcement DC5m United States IT in english 87 articles, created at 2016-10-06 18:37 1 Samsung is buying A. I.-powered virtual assistant Viv -- here's why Apple has Siri, Microsoft has Cortana and Google has the Google Assistant -- (3.28/4) Samsung didn't want to get left out of the party. 2016-10-06 06:53 1KB www.computerworld.com 2 Twitter gets no love from Disney, Google, Apple Twitter's shares tank after reports that the three major companies had no interests in buying the social network. 2016-10-06 09:41 925Bytes www.cnet.com (2.15/4) 3 Actions on Google Allows Third-Party Developers to Integrate With Assistant (2.11/4) Among the many products unveiled during the launch of the Pixel Smartphones earlier this week, Google expanded its ecosystem by introducing Google Assistant and Actions on Google. Just like Siri for Apple, Cortana for Microsoft, and Alexa for Amazon, each is limited to the respective companies own devices... 2016-10-06 08:49 1KB pctechmag.com 4 Lenovo in talks to acquire Fujitsu’s PC business After gorging on the PC businesses of IBM, NEC and Medion, Lenovo sets its sights on Fujitsu,Hardware,Cloud and Infrastructure ,PC,Fujitsu,Lenovo,Cloud Computing,Cloud (2.06/4) and Infrastructure 2016-10-06 10:08 2KB www.computing.co.uk 5 Google Pixel release date, news and features Everything you need to know about the new Pixel smartphone 2016-10-06 07:24 7KB (2.06/4) feedproxy.google.com 6 Apple starts showing ads in App Store search results Apple has started shown ads in the iOS App Store for US users. Searching for popular (2.04/4) terms like "taxi," "calendar," or "to do list" delivers a banner advert for promoted apps above the search... 2016-10-06 06:21 2KB www.theverge.com 7 Spotify ads slipped malware onto PCs and Macs Ads played to Spotify listeners tried to install malware on PCs and Macs. 2016-10-06 10:27 1KB www.itnews.com (1.02/4) 8 Chrome and Firefox are blocking The Pirate Bay as a deceptive site, again (1.02/4) Deceptive it ain't,Security ,cloud computing,piracy 2016-10-06 09:44 2KB www.theinquirer.net 9 EU privacy watchdogs have questions about Yahoo's secret email scanning European Union privacy watchdogs are concerned by reports that Yahoo has been (1.02/4) secretly scanning its users' email at the request of U. S. intelligence services. 2016-10-06 09:44 3KB www.pcworld.com 10 : Phone battle hots up with matching prices Google now has its very own phones with which to take on Apple. Can it get away with (1.02/4) pricing them the same as its fruit-flavoured rival? Here's our Google Pixel vs iPhone 7 review. 2016-10-06 08:14 7KB www.pcadvisor.co.uk 11 : Battlefield 1 is out 21 October on PC, PS4 and Xbox One | New cinematic intro (1.02/4) If it's gritty World War 1 fighting you're after then check out Battlefield 1. Here's everything we know about Battlefield 1 release date, price, beta and gameplay 2016-10-06 06:36 8KB www.pcadvisor.co.uk 12 Nokia D1C and P1 specs, price and release date Nougat-powered smartphones tipped to arrive by Christmas,Phones ,Nokia,cloud computing,Mobile 2016-10-06 09:55 2KB www.theinquirer.net (1.01/4) 13 The best VPN services in October 2016 Reliable, secure and cheap VPN 2016-10-06 08:15 4KB feedproxy.google.com (0.03/4) 14 Sony’s new A6500 is an even faster version of the A6300 (0.01/4) Sony just announced the A6500 camera, a followup to the A6300 released in February and 2014’s A6000 — one of the most popular interchangeable lens mirrorless cameras ever. The new camera has a lot... 2016-10-06 10:31 2KB www.theverge.com 15 Gears of War 4 review: better safe than sorry "If you’re a fan of the series, you’ll like it. " It’s a perennial cliché in games criticism and (0.01/4) something I almost always try to avoid. It’s a lazy way to bunt on actual appraisal of the title in... 2016-10-06 09:32 2KB www.theverge.com 16 Watch Out 'Audioshield,' 'Soundboxing' Is Looking For A Fight "Soundboxing" is a VR rhythm game similar to "Audioshield," but with a major difference. Rather than rely on an algorithm to synchronize songs to the game, the "Soundboxing" community has full control over the creation of "Soundboxing" challenges. 2016-10-06 10:30 2KB www.tomshardware.com 17 Ottawa’s Titus adds Mac support to Classification Suite Make finding security solutions to Shadow IT a priority, CISOs warned Canadian firm releases latest version of data classification suite Ottawa-based Titus wants to help protect every aspect of business, and they have taken one more step toward that goal with new updates 2016-10-06 10:26 3KB www.itworldcanada.com 18 Google dealt setback in age bias case by judge interested in 'Googleyness' An age discrimination lawsuit against Google was approved as a '"collective action" by a federal court judge, allowing software engineers, age 40 or over, who were rejected for jobs at Google since August 2014 and after an in-person interview, to join the lawsuit. 2016-10-06 10:21 5KB www.itnews.com 19 I just spilled Coke all over my PC and... OMG wait what's happening!? Here I am getting ready to play some high-end video games, probably StarCraft or Counter-Strike or Age of Empires II, with some nachos and an Ice Cold Coca-Cola® by my side for sustenance and— O... 2016-10-06 10:20 2KB www.theverge.com 20 IoT Channel Chronicles: Davra Networks CEO Says The Future Lies In 'Connected-Things-As-A-Service' - Page: 1 Davra Networks touts an IoT platform built with the networking channel in mind. CRN talks with CEO Paul Glynn about what trends he is seeing in the channel around IoT. 2016-10-06 10:20 1KB www.crn.com 21 Speak, Memory When the engineers had at last finished their work, Eugenia Kuyda opened a console on her laptop and began to type. “Roman,” she wrote. “This is your digital monument.” It had been three months since Roman Mazurenko, Kuyda’s closest friend, had died. Kuyda had spent... 2016-10-06 10:15 28KB www.theverge.com 22 How much additional performance does Intel’s Kaby Lake refresh deliver? Intel's Kaby Lake has finally hit shipping systems, but what kind of improvements does Intel's first 2016-10-06 00:00 4KB www.extremetech.com 23 New Amazon Echo Dot Launches Oct 20, Get Free Ones When You Buy 5 or 10 - Deal Alert Make it a six-pack. Buy five, get one free. Or make it a twelve-pack. Buy ten, get two free. Amazon has a special discount code to use at checkout, for a limited time. The New Echo Dot launch date is right around the corner -- October 20th. 2016-10-06 10:13 1KB www.itnews.com 24 Eurocom’s Sky X4E2 Features GTX 10-Series, 4G LTE Support Eurocom unveiled a new 15.6-inch gaming laptop that supports 4G LTE connectivity, and you can equip it with new Nvidia GeForce GTX 10-series GPUs. 2016-10-06 10:05 3KB www.tomshardware.com 25 AMD turns on multi-GPU frame pacing for DX12 titles Here at TR, we've long considered multi-GPU rendering something of a false grail for graphics-performance scaling. 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