Friday night topic: Should we all be paranoid now?
I just finished reading Walter Kirn's article in The Atlantic about mass surveillance and privacy issues, entitled If you're not paranoid, you're crazy. Kirn explores the extent to which advertisers and governments have been collecting and using data on our habits—the things we already know—and asks whether freedom is compatible with today's tools of surveillance and the ways they're wielded.
The issue isn't just about government. He also considers how constant surveillance alters our everyday ...
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G.Skill intros DDR4 SO-DIMM kits with capacities up to 64GB
G.Skill is probably best known for its RAM, which we regularly recommend in our system guides. The company has now announced something a little different: 64GB memory kits for your laptop (or mini-PC), spread across four SO-DIMMs. Overkill much?
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Google Fiber apologizes for World Series outage, credits service to KC market
I've written about how Google Fiber has slowly been rolling out here across the Kansas City metro area, including here at my place. The service has largely been excellent so far, and it seems to have built a solid reputation among its customers. But then the other night happened.
The Royals were playing in Game 1 of the World Series, and early in the game, Google Fiber was hit with a major outage across the metro. It didn't affect me since ...
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Report: Google to fold Chrome OS into Android
When Google unveiled the Pixel C running regular Android, it seemed like a shot across the bow of the browser-centric Chrome OS. The Pixel C may be just the beginning of an Android-powered notebook era, if a report from the Wall Street Journal proves true. According to the WSJ's sources, Google plans to combine Chrome OS and Android into a single operating system.
The end of Chrome OS won't come overnight, the paper's sources say. Google is expected to show off an early version of the combined OS sometime in 2016, but a formal unveiling wouldn't ...
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Review roundup: Apple TV shows future promise
Some early reviews of the new Apple TV are out, and the general response to Apple's latest spin on the set-top box appears positive. We took a gander at some of the reviews and summarized them for your pleasure. The zeitgeist seems to be that the Apple TV isn't perfect right now, but it appears to have a ton of future potential.
At first blush, the Apple TV impresses. The reviewers we surveyed found the initial setup process quick and painless, and the touchpad-enabled remote received universal praise. ...
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Microsoft will make Windows 10 a recommended update in 2016
Microsoft really wants users to upgrade their PCs to Windows 10. Really. In a post on the Windows Blog, Windows and Devices head Terry Myerson said that the reservation-system update process for Windows 10 has worked well so far. To get Windows 10 on more PCs, though, Microsoft has streamlined the manual upgrade process, and it'll soon begin pushing out the final version of Win10 to Windows Update.
To start, the reservation method of requesting a Windows 10 upgrade is dead. Myerson says that interested PC owners can instead begin the upgrade straight from the notification app that shows up on Windows 7 and ...
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Report: Batman: Arkham Knight still isn't the port the PC deserves
Just as Warner Bros. Interactive and Rocksteady promised, Batman: Arkham Knight made its triumphant return to the PC yesterday in its long-promised patched form. Some recent user reviews of the re-released game are in, and they're not pretty.
The release notes for yesterday's patch don't get into too much detail, but they contain some interesting tidbits nonetheless. On Windows 7 systems, Warner says Batman: Arkham Knight may constantly page data back to the disk, and ...
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Early deals of the week: a hopped-up GTX 970 for $280 and more
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Microsoft's Arrow launcher personalizes the Android experience
Microsoft has taken a shot at Android home-screen launchers from time to time, like the Cortana public beta. This time, the merry band of tinkerers at Microsoft Garage has churned out Arrow Launcher, an Android home-screen replacement that adapts itself based on how it's used. Arrow Launcher aims to put the stuff that's most important to a user front and center.
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OnePlus X trades flagship-killer specs for style and affordability
OnePlus is best known for its "flagship-killing" phones like the OnePlus 2 that sell for wallet-friendly prices. Its next device, the OnePlus X, sets aside that spec obsession for a focus on style and design. This all-metal-and-glass phone will cost just $249 unlocked.
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