Google begins removing Google+ integration from its services
Like so many weeds in my herb garden, Google+ has long been deeply rooted in many of Google's services. Now, just as I've weeded my herb garden, Google is disentangling Google+ from its other properties. In a blog post, vice president of Streams, Photos, and Sharing Bradley Horowitz says Google will make more changes to Google+ in an effort to improve the service.
Horowitz says Google is responding to its users' complaints – it's "heard that it doesn’t make sense for your Google+ profile to be your identity in all the other Google products you use." Google plans to break Google+ features out into several ...
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Radeon R9 Fury X voltage scaling results are underwhelming
TechPowerUp's "W1zzard", who makes the wonderful and ubiquitous GPU-Z software, has taken it upon himself to overclock AMD's R9 Fury X card and report back on its voltage scaling. He accomplished this feat after struggling to add Fury X voltage monitoring and controls to GPU-Z, which he describes as no easy task.
The card was first tested at its 500-MHz stock memory clock, with stock fan speeds. The power limit was set at +50% to avoid throttling. Battlefield 3 was the testing title of choice, running at 4K resolution. W1zzard worked upward in 24 mV steps from stock, recording the maximum stable GPU clock speed at each step. He eventually found ...
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Razer purchases Ouya's software platform and technical team
Razer has purchased Android game console maker Ouya's software assets, app store and games library. Ouya's software development and technical staff will be joining Razer, as well. The company plans to relaunch Ouya's software platform under the name Cortex for Android TV, and it plans to publish games and other Android TV content under the Ouya name. Financial details of the deal weren't disclosed.
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95% of Android phones vulnerable to Stagefright MMS exploit
Joshua Drake, a researcher from Zimperium's zLabs, is about to drop a bombshell at the upcoming Black Hat conference: details of an Android remote code execution exploit that could use a single MMS message to crack as many as 950 million phones, or roughly 95% of all Android handsets, according to statements Drake provided to Forbes. The attack is called Stagefright, named after Android's system-wide media playback component, where the vulnerabilities lie—and which various messaging apps use to display multimedia content. zLabs even goes so far as to call this "the worst Android vulnerability in the mobile OS['s] history."
Depending on the messaging app in question, a victim may not even have to view the booby-trapped MMS. Drake told Forbes that Google's Hangouts allows for a fully silent attack on a vulnerable handset—the exploit triggers before a notification is even issued. ...
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The TR Podcast 181: In which we avoid talking about Skylake
Duration: 1:33:52
Hosted by: Luke McCready
Co-Hosts: Scott Wasson, Jeff Kampman, and Ben Funk
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Co-Hosts: Scott Wasson, Jeff Kampman, and Ben Funk
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In this episode, we welcome a couple of fresh faces to the podcast: our new host, Luke McCready, and TR contributor Ben Funk. Scott showed off his shiny new microphone , ...
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Asus' X99-M WS mobo makes for bite-size workstation builds
Asus has officially released its X99-M WS microATX motherboard. This pint-sized workstation board plays host to both Core i7 and Xeon E5-2600 Haswell-E CPUs. Four DIMM slots handle up to 64GB of RAM, and ECC RAM support is available if you're using a compatible Xeon CPU. Four PCIe slots (three x16 and one x1) make dual-SLI and CrossFire setups possible.
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Samsung's SE370 FreeSync displays wirelessly charge your phone
Have a phone with Qi wireless charging built-in? Samsung's latest displays take advantage of a natural place for such a charging station—the monitor stand. Its SE370 23.6" and 27" monitors let you charge your Qi-compatible phone while you work by placing it on the base of the display. As a bonus, these monitors have AMD's FreeSync tech baked in.
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Valve closes Steam password reset security hole
Some Steam accounts were stolen during the period from July 21 to July 25 due to a security flaw in the service's password reset procedure, Kotaku reports. The hole, which Valve learned of on July 25, allowed an attacker to reset a Steam account's password without a security code using only the account's name. Valve claims it has since closed the security hole.
This YouTube video shows how the attack worked. This user then ...
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Weekend Shortbread
The Fantastic Four
- Windows Central: Leaked slides show Intel's Skylake
increased performance, could be inside Surface Pro 4
- Softpedia: Intel Skylake for notebooks will come in October
- WCCFtech: Nvidia cuts GTX 750 prices ahead of upcoming GTX 950 launch
- Forbes: Valve writer shoots down 'Mass Effect 3 derailed Half-Life 3' rumor
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Friday Night Shortbread
Eight is Enough
- Ars Technica: The Amiga turns 30
- WCCFtech: Intel Skylake slides show 10-20% CPU performance boost,
faster iGPUs and new features - DDR4 overclocked to 3800 MHz CL18
- Fudzilla: Nvidia Pascal GPU has 17 billion transistors
- VR-Zone: ASRock Gaming G10 router turns
your smarphone into a universal remote
- Windows Central: Microsoft's Cityman and Talkman
flagship Lumia phones and what you need to know
- Digital Trends: Norton users encouraged to
drop Edge browser due to lack of extensions
- GamingBolt: The biggest challenge for Gears of War
on Xbox One was maintaining 60fps - The Coalition
- Ars Technica's hands-on with the new Doom
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The TR Podcast 181 video: in which we avoid talking about Skylake
We recorded the latest episode of The Tech Report Podcast last night, and it's an eventful episode. We welcomed new host Luke McCready and contributor Ben Funk to the show, talked about Scott's shiny new microphone, examined the fortunes of Apple and Qualcomm, and discussed our parts picks for the latest TR System Guide. We also talked a lot about buffalo, for reasons. If you missed our stream last night, settle in and catch up with the YouTube version:
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Jeep Cherokee hack leads to 1.4-million-vehicle recall
The brightest-eyed proponents of the Internet of Things often seem to envision a world where everything that can have an embedded computer and a network connection of some kind should have those things. Open the door of a modern car, for example, and you're likely to find a sophisticated computer system that's absorbed functions like navigation, entertainment, and climate control into one central interface.
Dig a little deeper, and you'll find that most every onboard system, like the accelerator, brakes, steering, and engine control, are linked together using a standard called the Controller Area Network , or CAN bus. If this sounds similar to the setup of Battlestar Galactica , it kind of is—and recent events on the automotive ...
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PCWorld's Win10 review dives deep into the upcoming OS
In case you've been living under a rock, Windows 10 is coming. PCWorld senior editor Mark Hachman's in-depth review of Windows 10 is worth reading to get up to speed on the new operating system.
Hachman's review covers some familiar additions. The Start Menu has returned, and it blends in some Live Tiles from Windows 8. Virtual assistant Cortana has made the jump ...
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Deals of the week: iPads, a Dell 24" display, and a Radeon R9 290X
Happy Friday, dear readers. Let's delve into the depths of online retail once again and see what discounted gems we can find. Best Buy is holding a "Black Friday in July" sales event today, and some of their deals are actually quite good, especially on Apple products. Let's get to it.
First up, we have the 128GB version of Apple's iPad mini 3 for just $449 . The Wi-Fi only model of this slate is normally $600, but Best Buy has slashed $150 off the regular price for ...
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Google+ team kills full-screen mobile ads, hopes others will follow
Full-page ads on the Internet are like commercial breaks in TV programs—see one, and it's time to flip around and see what else is out there. On smartphones and tablets, many websites present full-page ads to try to get users to download native apps. Google has published the results of an informal study on the performance of these interstitial ads for its own Google+ native app, based on data gathered in July 2014, and the results are surprising.
The study found that only 9% of users clicked through the advertisement to head over to the the app. Just because somebody clicked through the ad doesn't mean they also downloaded the app, however: Google+ is installed on many Android phones ...
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