Sunday, June 28, 2015

IT News Head Lines (VR-Zone) 6/29/2015

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Samsung to stop blocking Windows updates on its notebooks soon
Samsung
After it was reported that Samsung has been disabling automatic updates from Microsoft on its PCs, Samsung has now issued a statement saying they will stop blocking automatic Windows updates by the next few days. Researcher Patrick Barker had discovered earlier this week that Samsung PCs seem to run an application named ‘Disable_Windowsupdate.exe” in the...

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Archos introduces a $99 PC stick with Windows 10
Archos
After Lenovo and Intel, Archos has joined the PC stick market by launching its new PC Stick with Windows 10. As far as the hardware goes, the Archos PC stick is identical to the Intel Compute Stick and the Lenovo Ideacentre 300. We’re talking about a quad-core Intel Bay Trail Atom Z3735F chipset, 2GB RAM,...

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NVIDIA releases GeForce 353.38 hotfix driver, fixes Chrome crashes and more
GeForce
Barely days after announcing the release of the new game ready 353.30 WHQL drivers for Batman: Arkham Knight, NVIDIA has released a new Hotfix 353.38 driver that brings a few fixes. The main issues that the new driver update fixes are Chrome crashes/freezes and TDR errors. It also fixed the delay when starting or switching...

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Apple to begin mass producing iPhone 6s with Force Touch starting next month
iPhone
Bloomberg has confirmed that Apple’s next iPhone will feature Force Touch tech and that Apple is going to begin mass producing the iPhone 6s as soon as next month. According to the Bloomberg report, Apple has started early production of the new iPhone models recently. The two new models will retain the same 4.7 and...

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Oppo Mirror 5s coming next month with a 5-inch HD display
Mirror5s
A few days back, GSMArena published official renders of Oppo’s upcoming Mirror 5 smartphone. Today, some more pictures and details about the device have surfaced, including the fact that the smartphone will carry the Mirror 5s moniker. The smartphone comes with a mirror finish back that gives it a unique appeal. As far as specs...

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Rumored Samsung Galaxy S5 Neo available for pre-order already
S5
The Samsung Galaxy S5 Neo had been rumored in the recent past but so far no concrete leaks have surfaced far. However, the rumored smartphone is apparently available for pre-order in Czech Republic already. The upcoming smartphone is available for pre-order at a price-tag of $490 in Black and White color variants. One of the...

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More Meizu MX5 pictures leak ahead of launch next week
MeizuMX5
Meizu MX5 leaked pictures have shown up yet again, but this time the device has been shown off in official looking renders. All of the images leaked so far have been spy shots of the smartphone, not revealing all the details of the design. However, these new renders are quite clear and highlight the device’s...

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Sony Xperia E5663 mid-ranger to pack a 21MP Exmor RS camera
Xperia
Sony may have a very impressive mid-range smartphone in the making as an Xperia device with the model number E5663 has been spotted on multiple benchmarks with some impressive specs. The Xperia E5663 will reportedly feature a 4.6-inch display with 1080 x 1920 resolution, MediaTek MT6795 octa-core SoC, 3GB RAM, and 16GB internal storage. While...

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Google’s self-driving car now plying on public streets in Mountain View
GoogleSelfDrivingCar
Just as Google had announced recently, its self-driving cars have now started cruising the public streets around the company’s Mountain View headquarters. Previously, Google had been testing the self-driving car prototypes in a private track 120 miles southeast of San Francisco. The self-driving cars are restricted to 25 miles per hour currently on public roads....

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Vertu Signature for Bentley is a $22,800 luxury feature phone
vertu-signature-bentley
Luxury phone maker Vertu has unveiled its latest masterpiece, a custom Signature feature phone for Bentley. Vertu claims the handset’s design has been inspired by Bentley’s Mulsanne Speed. It even uses some of the materials that are used on the car, such as the carbon fiber weave and Beluga Black calf leather. In fact, the...

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Lenovo wants to resurrect the 1992 Thinkpad design
Thinkpad
Lenovo’s VP of design, David Hill has come up with an ingenious idea. He has shown a new ‘Time Machine’ render of the original 1992 Thinkpad model, complete with the multicolored ThinkPad logo, blue enter key, a seven-row keyboard, and a 16:10 aspect ratio display. In a blog post, Devon Hill has invited opinions from...

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Intel 10nm ‘Cannonlake’ allegedly delayed, ‘Kabi Lake’ to follow Skylake
Intel-
According to a recent report, Intel may delay the launch of the 10nm Cannonlake platform and instead go with the 14nm Kaby Lake family of processors to succeed Skylake. Even though Kaby Lake will launch after Skylake is launched, it isn’t going to be very different from Skylake. Based on the info available through Chinese...

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Xiaomi has no plans of entering the US smartphone market anytime soon
Xiaomi
Xiaomi Vice President Hugo Barra today made it clear that the smartphone maker has no plans of making an entry in the US smartphone soon. Barra was speaking at the Re/Code conference recently, where he laid out the company’s plans for the near future. He mentioned that Xiaomi is only going to sell accessories such...

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Alleged leaked Samsung Galaxy Note 5 case render shows an ‘S6-like’ design
Note5Render
French website NoWhereElse.Fr has come up with some leaked renders yet again, this time a case render that allegedly shows the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 design. There is no doubt that these renders don’t look very impressive, to say the least. However, these may not be completely fake either, considering the fact that the website...

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Samsung achieves battery breakthrough, claims to double lithium battery capacity
Lithiumbattery
Samsung Electronics research division has announced the development of a new battery technology that has allowed the company to double the capacity of existing lithium batteries. Samsung has managed to developer a silicon cathode material that can help coat crystal grapheme on a silicon surface to double the energy density compared to traditional lithium batteries...

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Microsoft Lumia RM-1100 with Quad HD resolution display seemingly confirmed
lumia-940-
Cross promotion network AdDuplex has confirmed that Microsoft is currently testing an unreleased Lumia smartphone with a Quad HD resolution display. The device carries the model number RM-1100 and is joined by the RM-1104 that features a 1080p 5.2” sized display. Unfortunately, the screen size of the RM-1100 hasn’t been revealed. From all the info...

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Apple could be developing a new multitouch Bluetooth remote
apple-bluetooth-remote
So hints code found inside the preview build of OS X El Capitan. Apple has already seeded a beta build of OS X El Capitan, its next update for Macs, and there’s code present in the build which hints at the possibility of Apple building a new multitouch Bluetooth remote. A new remote could also be...

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Pharrell’s new single is exclusive to Apple Music
pharrell-willaims
Apple is certainly Happy. Apple has managed to secure the upcoming single of one of the most popular artists in the music industry right now as a launch exclusive for Apple Music, its new music streaming service that is going to be launched later this month. It was reportedly previously that the company would try to bring in...

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4K 21.5 inch iMac possibly in the pipeline
imac-5k-apple
Finally some Retina love for the smaller iMac? Late last year Apple released the iMac with 5K Retina Display but the high resolution display was only limited to the larger of the two iMac models, many were waiting for Apple to give the same treatment to the 21.5 inch model as well but that didn’t...

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Apple Watch arrives in more markets next month
Apple Watch Milanese loop
July 17 to be precise. After being launched in a select few markets back in April the Apple Watch is gradually making its way to more markets across the globe, as the company irons the kinks out of its supply chain. Initially there were many reports of the device being hit with low production yields which...

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