IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (TechSpot) 9/10/2014

Spotify Free users can now watch a video ad and get 30 minutes of uninterrupted listening in return

Streaming music service Spotify is going visual. The company on Monday announced they’re getting into the video business by launching a pair of video advertising products targeting a slice of its 30+ million free users around the globe.

Google engineers make major advancement in automatic object recognition

Recently a group of Google engineers took top score in a number of categories at the annual ImageNet computer vision competition for their work with automatic image detection. The researchers have developed a new detection technology that can automatically identify large numbers of objects within an image with much greater...

Motorola's Turbo Charger claims 8 hour battery life from a 15 minute charge

Motorola has quietly unveiled a new charging accessory that promises to deliver eight hours of battery life from a 15 minute charge. The Motorola Turbo Charger uses Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 2.0 technology to pull off the feat but you’ll need to meet a very specific set of criteria to realize...

Tech deals: 480GB SanDisk Extreme Pro $260 (40% off), Xbox One Kinect bundle w/ Live & games $500

It may not be quite as fast as Samsung's 850 Pro, but the SanDisk Extreme Pro is among the quickest SATA SSDs around and it's available for a healthy discount on Amazon today with the 480GB model fetching $259.99 (40% off, $0.54/GB)...

HP's Stream Windows notebook targets Chromebooks, priced higher than expected

HP’s Stream, the budget-friendly notebook set to lead Microsoft’s price assault on Chromebooks, was officially unveiled earlier today. The AMD-powered machine was supposed to arrive priced at an attractive $199 but that is apparently no longer the case.

The latest Chrome build features a built-in password generator

Google looks as though it is gearing up to take on third party password managers like 1Password, Dashlane and LastPass. In the latest version of its Chrome Canary build, the company has added a handy password generator integrated directly into the browser.

Amazon slashes Fire Phone price to 99 cents on contract

Amazon on Monday dropped the price of its recently released Fire Phone down to just $0.99. It’s a familiar narrative that likely indicates what we’ve been hearing all along – Amazon has had a hard time selling their inaugural handset.

eSports is not a real sport according to ESPN president

Competitive gaming, or eSports, is bigger than ever. Valve recently partnered with ESPN to air coverage of The International Dota 2 Championships back in July with $10 million in prizes up for grabs. Even still, however, eSports aren’t thought of as a real sport according to ESPN president John Skipper.

Newcomer captures high score in arcade classic Donkey Kong

1,141,800. That’s the final score that Robbie Lakeman was able to achieve during a recent late-night session of Donkey Kong that sent the enthusiast community into a tailspin.

The TI-84 Plus: A 10-year-old calculator that still monopolizes the education market

In this day and age, when smartphones have wiped out the need for devices like wristwatches, cameras, and more, the TI-84 graphing calculator, first released back in 2004, stands as an exception, as it continues to sell even today. In an article titled The unstoppable TI-84 Plus, Matt Mcfarland from The Washington Post takes...

FBI reveals how it discovered the geographic location of Silk Road web servers

The mystery surrounding how the FBI managed to trace the geographic location of Silk Road web servers, which were supposed to be obscured behind the anonymity service Tor, has apparently been resolved.

Netflix is testing short-form content as a way to increase mobile usage

Netflix has offered a mobile app for quite some time now but let’s face it, nobody really wants to spend hours watching a TV show or movie on a smartphone (unless it’s your absolute last resort). Heck, even a half-hour show can be a bit much on your phone. But...

Intel, Fossil team up to develop wearable technology

In yet another effort to expand beyond the PC industry, Intel is teaming up with fashion retailer Fossil to jointly develop wearable computing devices.

Intel Core i7-5960X Haswell-E Review: No expense spared performance
Intel's Extreme Edition processor line is over a decade old now, starting way back in 2003 with the single-core Pentium 4 EE 3.4GHz. Fast forward to today, the chip we'll be looking at boasts eight cores, a massive 20MB smart cache, support for the latest DDR4 memory, and is accompanied...

Weekend tech reading: CPU caches explained, TCP/IP may be replaced, Milky Way is in a super cluster

Recently we discussed how caches work, what the difference is between L1 and L2, and the various design elements that determine how fast (and how effective) a CPU's cache is. Today, we're going to take one step further and explore...

Weekend tech reading: CPU caches explained, TCP/IP may be replaced, Milky Way is in a super galaxy

Intel Core i7-5960X Haswell-E Review: A True 8-core Desktop CPU

Intel's Extreme Edition processor line is over a decade old now, starting way back in 2003 with the single-core Pentium 4 EE 3.4GHz. Fast forward to today, the chip we'll be looking at boasts eight cores, a massive 20MB smart cache, support for the latest DDR4 memory, and is accompanied by the new X99 chipset.

Free Studio 6.3.9
Free Studio is an all-in-one package bundling all free multimedia applications developed by DVDVideoSoft.

Macrium Reflect Free 5.3.7167
Disk image, file backup and disk cloning for Windows.

Slim Browser 7.00.106
Tabbed multiple-site browser with built-in popup killer, skinned window frame, form filler, etc.

Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) 12.0
The new Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) enables you to manage content on any portable device with storage. For example, transfering files from Android devices to Windows machines.

Torch Browser 33.0.0.7703
Light up the web with Torch Browser. With Torch you can save media files, manage torrent files and share links. All with a click.

JPEGsnoop 1.7.0
JPEGsnoop (JPEG File Decoding Utility) is a free Windows application that examines and decodes the inner details of JPEG and MotionJPEG AVI files. It can also be used to analyze the source of an image to test its authenticity.

Uninstall Tool 3.4.0
Uninstall Tool is a fast, secure and convenient way to remove unneeded applications and system components. Great, powerful and reliable alternative to standard Windows removal program.

Popcorn Time Beta 3.2
The original Popcorn Time allows you to watch movies and TV shows online for free, anytime, anywhere.

Wine 1.7.26
Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs.

Intel Processor Identification Utility 5.00
Download the official Intel Processor Identification Utility

Driver Genius 14.0.0.345
Find the latest drivers for your computer. One click to update all drivers.

Notepad++ 6.6.9
Free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.

SMPlayer 14.9.0
SMPlayer is a free media player for Windows and Linux with built-in codecs that can play virtually all video and audio formats. It doesn't need any external codecs. Just install SMPlayer and you'll be able to play all formats without the hassle to find and install codec packs.

Light Alloy 4.8.3
Light Alloy - is a compact multimedia player. It supports all popular multimedia formats. It is very easy in use but at the same time has lots of configuration settings. Player is optimized for quick launch and minimum load of the system resources.

SeaMonkey 2.29
Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple.

WinScan2PDF 2.64
WinScan2PDF is a very small (~40k) and portable program that allows you to scan documents and save them on your computer as a PDF by using any installed scanner.

AkelPad 4.9.0
AkelPad is an open source editor for plain text. It is designed to be a small and fast.

SRWare Iron 37.0.2000.0
Iron is designed to be an alternative to Chrome and other Chromium based browsers with emphasis on privacy and security.

NetworkLatencyView 1.25
NetworkLatencyView is a simple tool for Windows that listens to the TCP connections on your system and calculates the network latency (in milliseconds) for every new TCP connection detected on your system.

WinAudit 3.0.8
WinAudit is an inventory utility for Windows computers. It creates a comprehensive report on a machine's configuration, hardware and software.

ReclaiMe Free RAID Recovery 2360
Recovers RAID parameters to image file, or the array parameter set.

WinBin2Iso 2.62
This small program converts BIN CD images to ISO images. Files over 2GB are also no problem. When it comes to a quick convert, is exactly the WinBin2Iso conversion tool that you need.

FileZilla for Mac 3.9.0.5
FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows with a lot of features.

PlayOn 3.10.2
Never Pay Outrageous Cable Bills Again. Free Movies, TV Shows, Live Sports and more.

Atom 0.125.0
A hackable text editor for the 21st Century.

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Tuesday, September 9, 2014

IT News Head Lines (TechSpot) 9/10/2014

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