Wednesday, December 30, 2015

IT News Head Lines (TechSpot) 31/12/2015

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Origin PC Omega Review: Powerful mini-ITX gaming

The Origin PC Omega is a small, quiet gaming machine that comes in a few different shapes, all of which are based on Silverstone’s great line of mini-ITX SFF cases. Our review unit is built on the slim desktop design of the Silverstone RVZ01, which houses an overclocked Skylake Intel...

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Disney's prototype RC car defies gravity, drives up walls

HPI, Losi and Traxxas are among the top brands in the radio-controlled (RC) world but none of them have a product quite as impressive as VertiGo, a wall-climbing RC car from Disney Research and ETH Zurich.

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Spotify fields $150 million class-action lawsuit over unpaid royalties

Spotify is ending 2015 on a sour note (no pun intended). David Lowery, the frontman for American alternative rock band Cracker, and American rock band Camper Van Beethoven have filed a class-action lawsuit against the streaming outfit to the tune of (again, no pun intended) $150 million according to a...

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Intel completes $16.7 billion Altera acquisition, Xeon/FPGA combo chips set for release in 2016

After finally getting approval from the European Commission, Intel has completed its $16.7 billion acquisition of field-programmable gate array (FPGA) giant Altera, paving the way for the Santa Clara-based company to introduce new classes of products in the data center, Internet of Things, and intelligent systems market.

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Ford patents a Batpod-like feature for your car

Remember that scene in The Dark Knight where The Tumbler released the Batpod? As odd as it sounds, Ford now has a patent for a system that's sort of based on that same concept.

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Win a brand new Microsoft Surface Book from the TechSpot Store

Want to end 2015 with your own Microsoft Surface Book? Right now, TechSpot readers can enter for a chance to win a brand new Surface Book from the TechSpot Store. It’s the best hybrid design yet and the first laptop that’ll seriously make you consider trading in your tablet, because...

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Plextor to showcase NVMe-equipped M8Pe solid state drive at CES

Plextor, a name that some of our older readers may remember from the days of optical drives, entered the solid state drive market nearly six years ago with a pair of 2.5-inch SATA II drives. The Taiwanese company continued to refine its SSD offerings over the next several years and...

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BMW's AirTouch system lets you operate a car's touchscreen without making contact with it

With CES just over a week away, BMW has given us a taster of what it has in store for the consumer tradeshow: a gesture-controlled interface called AirTouch that lets users control a car’s communication and entertainment functions by simply moving their hands.

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2016 might see Samsung Pay expand into online payments and compete with the likes of PayPal

There’s a chance that soon you’ll be able to use Samsung Pay in the U.S., whether or not you have an S6 or a Note 5. Reuters reports that the mobile payment service will most likely become available for lower-priced Samsung phones within the next year. Samsung’s global co-general manager...

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Seabin is the innovative water pollution solution for marinas, docks and yacht clubs

A pair of Australians have launched an Indiegogo campaign for an automated marina rubbish collector dubbed Seabin. The device, which addresses the issue of ocean pollution on an introductory scale, is so deceptively simple yet ingenious that it makes you wonder why it hasn't been created until now.

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Verizon joins the rest of the world, will give you up to $650 if you switch from another carrier

As of Monday, Verizon has become the next U.S. wireless carrier to incentivize people to switch. Verizon announced that it will pay up to $650 per line if you switch away from AT&T, T-Mobile, or Sprint. In a company blog post, Verizon said that they "will buy out your contract...

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Final Fantasy's Lightning is Louis Vuitton's new top model

Video game culture, it seems, is continuously entering more areas of society. The often highly serious world of fashion is the latest to realize the commercial value of linking products with gaming, as renowned fashion house Louis Vuitton has revealed none other than Final Fantasy’s Lightning as its new model...

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New York gets first of 7,500 planned free Wi-Fi hubs

Back in November of last year, the City of New York revealed that in an attempt to adapt to twenty-first century standards, it would finally be replacing payphones with a five-borough public Wi-Fi network. Today, the dream of free Wi-Fi for pedestrians of the city that never sleeps has finally...

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Intel releases a collection of new Skylake and Broadwell CPUs

Before the end of the year, Intel has decided to quietly add a collection of new processors to their Skylake and Broadwell line-ups, two of which are for desktops, and six of which are for mobile devices.

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Microsoft working on a "breakthrough" smartphone, strongly hints that it's the Surface Phone

Microsoft’s past performance in the smartphone market hasn’t been particularly impressive. Windows phones made up only 2.6 percent of the worldwide smartphone OS market in the second quarter of 2015, a decline from 3.4 percent in 2013. But now, the Redmond company has confirmed that is working on something that...

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Apple wins the holidays with nearly half of all new device activations

Nearly half of all mobile device activations during the holiday season were of Apple devices according to a new report from mobile analytics firm Flurry. While impressive, it does represent a 2.2 percent drop compared to the same period a year ago.

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Origin PC Omega Review
The Origin PC Omega is a small, quiet gaming machine that comes in a few different shapes, all of which are based on Silverstone's great line of mini-ITX SFF cases. Our review unit is built on the slim desktop design of the Silverstone RVZ01, which houses an overclocked Skylake Intel Core i7-6700K and a full-sized Geforce GTX Titan X graphics card.

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RoboForm 7.9.17.5
RoboForm is a free password manager and one-click web form filler with some serious Artificial Intelligence.

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AIMP Classic 4.00.1683
Powerful audio player that allows you to listen to your favorite music with an outstanding sound quality.

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Hitachi Drive Fitness Test 4.16
Quick, reliable method to test SCSI and IDE hard disk drives, including Serial-ATA IDE drives.

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YUMI 2.0.2.0
YUMI (Your Universal Multiboot Installer), is the successor to MultibootISOs.

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Steam for Windows, Mac & Linux
One of the most complete and popular digital distribution platforms for games.

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Mozilla Firefox 44.0 Beta 4
Experience cutting edge features but with more stability.

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DriverEasy 4.9.12
Automatically Detect, Download, Backup, Restore and Uninstall Drivers. Fix your Driver Issues.

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MEGAsync 2.5.3
A handy and user-friendly software solution for all those who want to backup and share their valuable files and folders in the cloud.

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DesktopOK 4.21
Save and restore the positions of icons. DesktopOK also offers as a small but effective solution for user that have to change the screen resolution often.

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Torch Browser 45.0.0.10802
Light up the web with Torch Browser. With Torch you can save media files, manage torrent files and share links. All with a click.

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Daum PotPlayer 1.6.57875
Daum PotPlayer: It feels like the KMPlayer, but is in active development.

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R-Studio 7.8.160621
Data recovery software and undelete tool supports FAT12/16/32, NTFS, NTFS5 and Ext2FS (Linux) file systems.

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AIDA64 Extreme Edition Beta 5.60.3718
System information, system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for enthusiasts users.

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Internet Download Manager 6.25.10
Tool to increase download speeds by up to 500 percent, resume and schedule downloads.

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AnyDVD & AnyDVD HD 7.6.7.0
AnyDVD HD comes with same functionality as AnyDVD, but with additional features for full Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD support.

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Universal Media Server 5.4.0
Universal Media Server is a DLNA-compliant UPnP Media Server. It was originally based on PS3 Media Server by shagrath.

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Any Video Converter Free 5.8.7
Take videos from your computer or downloaded from the Internet and converts them into just about any format.

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Why Can't I Connect? 1.12.1
“Why Can't I Connect?” makes it easy to diagnose TCP/IP connection problems. It traces through all steps of the process and gives error codes, descriptions, and possible solutions for all TCP/IP errors.

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Mozilla Firefox for Linux 44.0 Beta 4
Experience the newest innovations in a stable environment.

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NirLauncher 1.19.66
NirLauncher is a package of more than 100 portable freeware utilities for Windows, all of them developed for NirSoft Web site during the last few years.

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MacTracker 7.5.2
Mactracker provides detailed information on every Apple, Motorola, PowerComputing, and UMAX Mac OS computer ever made.

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ChrisPC DNS Switch 3.20
Makes DNS changes more easily and lets you choose the one that fits your browsing habits from a series of alternative DNS.

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DUMo 2.3.4.26
DUMo (Drivers Update Monitor) keeps your PC up-to-date & safe by using the most recent version of required hardware drivers,

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Trillian for Mac 3.3
Trillian is a multinetwork chat client that currently supports mIRC, AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo Messenger.

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McAfee AVERT Stinger 12.1.0.1844
Stinger is a stand-alone utility used to detect and remove specific viruses. It is not a substitute for full anti-virus protection, but rather a tool to assist administrators and users when dealing with an infected system.

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Symantec Norton AntiVirus Definition Update December 29, 2015
Keep your Norton Anti-Virus updated.

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Trend Micro Update File 239 for December 29, 2015
Trend Micro's latest compilation of patterns for virus identification.

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RemoveIT Pro XT - SE 12.29.2015
Remove many viruses that other popular antivirus software cannot discover.

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VIPRE Antivirus Definitions Update File 46044 December 29, 2015
VIPRE Antivirus out to date with the latest definitions available.

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Microsoft Windows Defender Definition Update December 29, 2015
Download the latest updates or definitions for your Microsoft Windows Defender security software

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