Wednesday, December 30, 2015

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

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Thecus announces ThecusOS 7.0 Beta, with a refreshed UI and more
After a while cooking in the oven, Thecus has announced the continued development of ThecusOS 7.0, with the release of the ThecusOS 7.0 Beta.
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ThecusOS 7.0 was designed on a 64-bit architecture, works with HTML5, and offers countless improvements in not only the design but performance and the user experience....

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Oculus Rift Consumer Beta (ECV7) tested, receives nothing but praise
With two Development Kits under their belt, Oculus is close to the Consumer Version of the Oculus Rift - coming in early 2016. Well, 'Chaoss86' has posted on the Oculus reddit, saying that he has tried out the Oculus Rift Consumer Beta (ECV7) headset - and had lots of positive...

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Japanese researchers develop touchable holograms
Japanese researchers at the University of Tokyo's Department of Complexity Science and Engineering have developed a new type of hologram that can be touched. While there are limitations (a handshake, for example, is impossible), you could "stroke the hand of the other side and lightly touch each other freely at...

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AVG Chrome extension had a huge security hole, patched just in time
One of AVG's Chrome addons, Web TuneUP had a security hole that your could drive a tank into, something that could potentially let websites with malicious code in their CSS take control of your PC, though only in a trivial manner.
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The exploit was originally found by Google, who reported...

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Lightning Returns patch adds support for 4K, offline mode
Over the holidays, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII got some love on PC with a new patch that adds support for extra high resolutions. Six new ones in total are now supported: 3840 x 2160 (4K), 3200 x 1800, 2880 x 1620, 2560 x 1440, 2400 x 1350, and 2160...

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Windows 10 gains in popularity, 200 million installs, 29.9% of Steam
Windows 10 is now apparently installed on nearly 200 million devices and represents a total of 28.85% of the operating systems reported by Steam's Hardware Survey. That's some astounding growth, nearly being adopted faster than Windows 7 was.
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Back in October Microsoft said that Windows 10 had already been installed...

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Intel buys a smaller rival for $16.7 billion, enters the FPGA business
Intel has just finished their acquisition of Altera, another chip designer that focuses on FPGA's, for a whopping $16.7 billion. This is one of the largest acquisitions that Intel has ever made, and is one that is designed to allow them to compete in a variety of new areas without...

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End of OneDrive unlimited storage rushed to do damage control
Microsoft's chief marketing officer Chris Capossela has stated on the Windows Weekly podcast that the end of of OneDrive unlimited storage announcement was rushed in order to do damage control.
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"The way we did communication was very rushed because a major publication was going to print something that was very...
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Endurance Mode for Rise of the Tomb Raider available December 29th

The Endurance Mode for the recently released Rise of the Tomb Raider is now available on the Xbox storefront. It's available as a standalone purchase for $9.99 or as part of the season pass for $29.99.
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What does the fabled endurance mode actually bring to the table? A much more...
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Far Cry Primal going to be brutally violent, feature mutilation

Far Cry Primal just received its official ESRB rating. The rating itself isn't so high at only Mature, though the synopsis provides some fairly gruesome details of what to expect, and it definitely isn't something you'd want your kids or younger siblings playing. We knew it was going to be...

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Plextor's M8Pe M.2 SSD has the need for speed, looks to match

Plextor is finally going to reveal the true successor to the highly successful M6e SSD, which also happened to be the very first PCIe based SSD as well. The new M8Pe will build upon that success with the addition of NVMe and a faster 4x PCIe 3.0 M.2 connection.
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Pre-installed malware on Raspberry Pi? They were asked to at least

It looks like some enterprising business people approached the Raspberry Pi Foundation with an odd business proposal, to pre-install their malware on the Raspberry Pi mini-computer.



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